Wednesday, June 01, 2005

Annoyed

I use a Mac. I don't want comments from haters, I have to use a Mac for my job, that's just the way it is, and it's a laptop, so I use it everywhere.

For the last few days of attempting to view some other sites while simultaneously gaining a little foot traffic to my blog, I have experienced the spinning beach ball of death. I think I have isolated it to Blog Soldiers. OK, fine, so I won't use that one for a while. But, BlogXchange claims that I have earned 250 credits (that doesn't include the 100 credits you get for signing up which you have to jump through some hoop to actually obtain), yet I have *0* visits. That leaves me with BlogExplosion member surfing and rocketing. Rocketing makes my browsers crash, and surfing is a mandatory 30 seconds for 0.5 credits per visit. And, I keep hitting the same sites over and over again. Either I like the site and I blogroll it or I don't, stop showing me the same damn site.

Grumble.

Sorry, I'm grumpy. I haven't had my daily dose of cheese yet.

Update: I've had some cheese and figured out my BlogXchange problem. You have to click the Check button to make sure your site works properly in the frame before anyone will be able to view your site via BlogXchange. Now my views are going up like crazy. 1000 apologies to Jim at BlogXchange.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Can I have the url's for the stuff you are talking about? Im always looking for new reads (like you).

Take it easy.

Anonymous said...

Its Neil from http://www.vodkaforbreakfast.com

Doh!

Poppy said...

Hi Neil,

blogexplosion.com - create an account to log in, then search around for keywords 'surf' and 'rocket'

blogsoldiers.com - create an account, follow on-screen instructions for surfing

blogxchange.us - create an account, follow on-screen instructions for surfing

There are others, but I don't use them...