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It’s my birthday. I’m 25. Yes, that makes me a quarter of a century old. Yes, it sucks. =P
November 12, 1982:
- US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- USSR KGB-chief Yuri V Andropov succeeds Leonid Brezhnev as USSR leader
- Zaheer Abbas gets his 100th 100 in Test Cricket v India, goes to 215
- Lech Wałęsa, a Solidarity leader, is released from a Polish prison after eleven months.
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Ok, I used to get so sick of these when I was on LiveJournal.. BUT, I was tagged by Frank C over at OpTempo, so I feel it’s only fair for me to participate, since he’s helped me out so much…
(1) How Long Have You Been Blogging?
EricSocia.net is a little over a month old. I’ve had other “blogs” before then, but nothing serious at all. Mostly LiveJournal entries specifically geared towards real-life friends. This is my first “real/serious” blog.
(2) What Inspired You To Start A Blog and Who Are Your Mentors?
I first wanted to start a “real” blog because I, for some reason, felt the need to have myself heard on the internet. I’d gotten so much from the ‘net that I felt I really needed to give something back.
As for mentors; At the moment, I have to say: Ruchir, Frank C, and Courtney Tuttle.
(3) Are You Trying To Make Money Online Or Just Doing It For Fun?
I started as doing it just to have some fun, have a place to vent, and have a way to get my voice heard in the online community. But since I realized that it was even possible to make money doing this, I decided to at least try a little bit for some money here and there. AdSense is the only advertising I use right now, and probably will be for a long time to come. If nobody clicks the links, fine. If they do, great. I put them up there so there’s at least the possibility of making just a little bit of money from this.
(4) Tell Me Three Things You LOVE About Being Online
1. Learning new things, 2. Teaching other people things they didn’t know about beforehand, and 3. As I said, the possibilty of making a little bit of extra money. 
(5) Tell Me Three Things You Struggle With In The Online World
1. Trying to make money (I’ve stopped trying so hard), 2. Getting people to come back and read more of my articles, 3. Trying to keep a regular schedule to update my blog.
Now I’d like to tag; Ruchir, Court (even though he’s been tagged already), Becky, and Costa.
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Think you’ve got a good grasp on vocabulary? Do you believe you know a lot of definitions for well-known and some obscure words? Would you like to help out those in need? Then this is for you.
There is a website, FreeRice, that tests your vocabulary knowledge, while at the same time allowing you to send rice to foreign countries in need of supplies. Here’s how it works:
You go to the website, FreeRice.com. You are presented with a screen that holds a word that you may or may not recognize, with four (4) possible definitions. You click on the definition that you think is correct. If you get it right, 10 grains of rice are donated through the United Nations to help end world hunger. If you are wrong, they give you another word. There are no penalties for wrong answers. It is an absolutely wonderful idea.
So far, my best has been getting up to a vocab level of 36.
I urge each and every one of you to go to FreeRice.com, and start playing. If you give it a try, please post a comment and let me know. I’d love to know that at least some people who come here actually care about what’s happening in the world. See if you can beat a 36 vocab level.
Now, I know this post and the previous one have absolutely nothing to do with blogging, but the fact of the matter is: This post and the last one are both about things that are very important to me, and I would like to get other people involved in helping out. These are very important causes, both doing great things for the world. So please, by all means, go to these websites and play, donate, support. Do whatever you can. It may not seem like it, but these things affect everybody in the world, not just those that are receiving the help we offer. Thanks for being patient and at least thinking about helping. It means a lot to me, and I hope it means something to each and every one of you as well. 
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Well, since this Monday is the first day of XOGiving, (and also my birthday =P), the initiative that will allow consumers to spend $399 to send an OLPC laptop to a child in the “developing world,” and as a bonus, get one sent to yourself as well, I figured it’s about time to write about another development in the OLPC initiative.
According to TechNewsWorld.com, the video game company Electronic Arts has donated the rights to the game SimCity to the OLPC foundation. The game will start to be included on the nifty little laptops so that children can play it and learn about what it takes to build and manage a city, taking into account “economic and environmental consequences to their decisions.”
When I first started reading the article I wasn’t entirely sure if I agreed with this. But now, I’m starting to realize it may be a good idea after all. They may be less fortunate than us, but that doesn’t make them necessarily inferior, and so they should be able to understand the real concept of the game as more than ‘just a game.’ And if some of them don’t, then at least they have a game they can use to live out a life completely different than their own, which is fun for just about everybody. I mean, really, what else is having an online identity all about?
Am I right? Am I wrong? Half right? Half wrong? Leave your thoughts on the subject below.
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Well, I’ve officially fallen off the NaBloPoMo wagon, seeing as how I wasn’t able to update at all yesterday.. (and yet, I was able to change my theme and other settings. curious. =P)
OK, ok. So i slacked off. It happens.
In any case, I’m not too upset about it, because I feel like I’m doing pretty well other than that. And besides, I am much happier with the time i spent working on the layout and making slight adjustments here and there. I certainly feel much more comfortable with this theme. What do you think?
Also; I am now the proud owner of a BOX! Jump on over to 1000boxs.com and check it out! Mine’s the one on the third row down from the top, the pink/mauve/ish box on the left, right next to the box owned by Becky over at PreBlogging.com!! The site creator is offering the first 100 boxs for free on a first come, first serve basis, and it looks like there are still plenty left! So hurry on over and contact him with the information you want in the box and he’ll get it set up for ya.
Before i end this post, I just wanted to give some very real thanks to the people that have been actively commenting here, or giving me advice, or stumbling my posts, or even just telling me to keep going. You’ve all been awesome, and I hope to indeed keep going and continue to get better at everything as I go. I’m still sort of struggling with content, and I’m still not completely 100% certain where my focus for this blog will end up (although i have a pretty good idea) but it’s been much easier to get this far with your support. So, thanks to you all.
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