Today it is my honor to welcome Kelly of KellyCho.com into my Honorary blogroll. Kelly, an amazingly active blogger, has honored me many times over. She has tagged me and/or backlinked me on more than one occasion and even has added me to her blogroll. She has been active on my site since pretty much the beginning. Honor calls for honor so it is my turn to return some honor back to you. Besides, I personally know that Kelly is super-psyched about all the benefits that come along with being an honorary blogroll member of my blog. Read more on that towards the bottom.

And here is the best part, the first female knighting ceremony of my blog’s history! So did you know that a female knight’s surname is a “Dame”. If you are the wife of a knight, than your surname is “Lady”, but to be a female knight you are titled “Dame”. If you didn’t already know that, you know that now

Are you ready Kelly? Tingling with anticipation and excitement? Forever waiting for this moment to come…Kelly, I knight’th thou’th Dame Kelly “Star Gazer” Cho of California.

My Honorary Blogroll is just that, a thing of honor. It is the way I can honor my readers and community with the greatest thing possible, a permanent linkback. I am constantly keeping my eye on all comments, actions, and linkback posts that involve this site. If I feel truly honored, than I return the favor by honoring you! Thank you all so much for stopping by!

*this planet that I know of refers to the planet Mercury just in case you were wondering. All jewelry discounts apply to any items purchased at a jewelry store located on the planet of Mercury. This is a limited time offer and therefor may be discontinued at anytime. I have to throw that last sentence in or else all of you readers will devise a plan on opening up a jewelry store on Mercury and then getting Kelly, Saman, & Nick incredible discounts. Thats right, I knew exactly what you were thinking

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“Uh Oh!” as my daughter would say. I was tagged to write a poem, yes thats right, me. Kelly Cho tagged me in her poetry post that was originally started by Stretsh’s meme to see how poetic bloggers are. Lets see, its been somewhere around 10+ years since I had to write a poem, so lets see if I can put something together here. This will be an original piece, and I do mean piece, by RJ “Bobs” Matthis. I definitely know I am not a poet, but lets see if I can have fun with this anyway

The PHP Tree…

From your roots that were planted by Rasmus Lerdorf
To your expanding branches fed by Coder’s hard work
Oh why do people refuse to use strtotime()?
The correct function for the job makes your app sublime

Using substr() I can return chosen partial strings
Or I will start a while() loop that returns many things
Always use a switch() statement if options are many
Too many elseif() statements will drag you down plenty

Filter the input and always escape output if User Entry
Security is most important, not just complementary
Preventing MySQL injections is a very important thing!
So always be sure to use mysql_real_escape_string()

My PHP Tree, how beautiful are your functions
Since finding you I have never felt any compunction
Using your objects & functions makes me a happy fellow
Oh PHP, you have had me ever since typing echo()

by RJ “Bobs” Matthis

So thats it, that is my poem. Basically the logicalness you would expect from a programmer, you’re just lucky I didn’t throw in some binary chains (010101010101) in there somehow. So if you are interested in sharing your poetic spirit, I would like to tag the following 3 people: Saman, 2Perfect, & Melanie

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I’m guessing MyBlogLog is getting so much traffic at the moment that all their fun little items are starting to crash. I’ve been to a couple websites and the recent readers widget is failing to load which is causing a huge delay in page loads. Because of this, I have decided to temporarily remove the widget from my sidebar.

I also noticed that even the avatars are having trouble loading. Definitely a busy day at MyBlogLog! But as some would say, traffic crashes can really be a good thing! It means you are successful.

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So I decided that I would add a few more possibilities of bringing in some income from this blog today. To me, this is just a side feature of what I am blogging for. I’m blogging for my readers and for myself. The opportunity to make money from it is just a side bonus!

Although I have added more ad links and such on my site, I think I did it in a very non-obtrusive way. If you are in single view, each post will have a google adsense banner placed at the bottom of it. On the main screen, every other ad will have a google adsense banner at the bottom. Other than that, all I did was I increased the number of monetary links in my Credits & Plugs sidebar section.

Please let me know if you find any of this to be annoying or if you have any comments or compliments about these changes at all. After all, I’m more interested in you than I am anything else.

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Shawn Knight has started up his own new version of Mr Gary Lee’s Technorati Train. This new “train” will pretty much work exactly the same with the exception of it will involve MyBlogLog communities rather than technorati favorites.

I have to participate in something like this. And you definitely should too! The number of backlinks that these train lists bring in is just phenomenal! I’m going to tag 3 blogs and add it to this list, but don’t let this stop you. I really wish I could add more than 3, but that would not be fair to who this gets passed on to. If you do not ever get tagged, feel free to start up your own branch of it, just follow the directions below. These things bring back amazing traffic and backlinks to your site.

Please feel free to use the “MyBlogLog Bandwagon” graphic I created above in your post about it. I think this quick graphic turned out pretty good!

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Here are the rules:

1) Write a short introduction about how you found this list and include a link back to that blog.

2) COPY the rules and ENTIRE list below and post it on your blog.

3) Take “My New Community Members” and move them into the “The Original Community Members” list.

4) Find 3 new blogs, join their MyBlogLog Community and add them to the “My New Community Members” section. Remember to also add the “Join the Community” link next to your new blogs. ( Example: http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/community/ReformatThis/ )

5) Join as a member to each Community listed here by clicking on “Join the Community”. The goal is that all of the new Members listed will join your community, and you should do the same!

My New Community Members
2Perfect - Join the Community
PureBlogging - Join the Community
Dietriffic - Join the Community

The Original Community Members
Shawn Knight - Join the Community
Reformat This - Join the Community
Kelly Cho - Join the Community
Ms. Danielle - Join the Community
The Man of Silver - Join the Community
Nate Whitehill - Join the Community
Leo Chiang - Join the Community
Garry Conn - Join the Community
Samanathon - Join the Community
Mr. Gary Lee - Join the Community
Feats of a Chilean Dot Com Entrepreneur - Join the Community
Jon Lee - Join the Community
Everyday Weekender - Join the Community
Bryan’s Rants - Join the Community

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