Previously I had a blogroll category called “Friends” with just 1 entry, Saman Sadeghi. Don’t let that just 1 entry fool you, I have at least 3 times that many friends

Actually, I just don’t have that many friends that blog, so instead of having that category, I decided to remove it and add Saman to where he belongs, my honorary link list. I feel that if you have a category called “Friends” and it only has 1 entry, this can fall into the “scare factor”. You know the whole this guy only has 1 friend, must not be interesting! So since that is not the case, I decided to pitch that category, I highly suggest you look that way at your site all the time, look for anything that may scare away a possible future reader.

The simple fact is I would not be blogging today if it were not for Saman. His blog captivated me so much and introduced me to this great blogging community. I do not mention Saman’s site all the time just because of how great a friend he is, its more than that, his blogging site truly does have nonstop great content. Whether it be from him, his fellow authors, or the community that has developed there, it is a very entertaining blog.

So Saman, I knight’th thou’th Sir Saman “-athon in a thong” Sadeghi of Colorado. Feel free to use the title wherever you go, even England!

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!

All members of my honorary blogroll get 20% off their purchases at a store that does not exist! 15% off all parking charges at a parking lot that does not exist and to top it all off, buy 1 get 1 free on all shoe items if I were to sell shoes, but I don’t.

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It’s already been mentioned on a couple other sites, I really need to mention it on my own
One thing you may notice on my site reviews is I may call out the fact that there is no way to navigate forward and backward through your single posts. To me, when reading blogs, I really appreciate a way to navigate through your posts without having to go back to the main page, scroll down, and than continue reading the next. To me, it just has to be easy to get to the previous or the next post. This especially makes it easy on your active Commentators to travel from post to post and keep actively commenting on your site.

I noticed that there are a good amount of great looking themes being produced these days that look great, but do not include these links. I know that a lot of bloggers out there are not necessarily coders, and may not no exactly how to add nav links in the posts easily. So I decided to create a plugin to make it very easy to do. If you are currently using a theme that does not include nav links, I highly suggest you add some. My plugin makes it very easy to do! You can even include them multiple times if you wish! If you look at my site, currently I have the links at the very beginning and at the very end (when you are in the single post view of course). Both of these link sets are generated from my newly created plugin.

This plugin also works great on themes that perhaps do have nav links coded into it, but maybe just once and you would like to have more.

My WordPress Plugin is located at this page:
Bob’s Simplistic Navigation

If you use the plugin and like it. I would love you to add a mention about it in a post with a linkback to the plugin’s page.

Thanks for stopping by today and please let me know below if you have any questions or comments about it at all. Have a great day!

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Stop the Presses!
I was going to post a different kind of announcement today, but that has to take the backseat to some exciting news! I just found out that I received my first site review! And better yet, it was by the site Nice4Rice.com. The review of my site, the photoshop chipmunk creation of my head, and the joking about my critical side can all be seen here: Reformat this Bobs.

I have found that I have really become very passionate about blogging and the overall blogging community. So to be honored with a review meant so very much to me. I’m sure my Wife could tell you that I was jumping off the walls when I found out about it. I really like Nick’s writing style and his type of reviewing that is all his own. The man focuses on the content and does a great deal of research for his reviews. I am very glad that he took notice of my site. Nick, if you ever want a review of your site, just ask….although as you know, I can be critical

So please be sure to stop by Nick’s site and Please Give Me Some Rice! By giving “rice” and participating on Nick’s site, you may end up getting noticed and getting one of these excellent reviews written about your site too!

So today marks the inaugural entry into my Honorary Blogroll. An Honorary Blogroll is something I have planned since the start of this blog. Just a way for me to say “Thank You” in the biggest way possible in the blogging world, with a sidebar linkback. I shall exercise entry into this blogroll when warranted and of course, my site’s first review is a definite yes! So without any further ado, I knight’th thou’th Sir Nick “Spud Oregon” Ramsay of Japan and congratulations, you are the first entry into this new blogroll.

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So I just spent about 10-15 minutes going through everybody who has added me as one of their favorites in technorati. Wow this Technorati Train thing really took off! This one simple train took my blog from a 350k technorati ranking to an 88k ranking last I checked.

I have to let you know though, it has nothing to do with the actual favorites themselves. As Nick “Spud Oregon” Ramsay has pointed out in his post: Technorati Favorites. Its not about the favorites, its about all the back-links that are being created by this train.

I got in on the train fairly early, so I can rest assured that my name is being spread around quite often as long as it keeps going. With the combination of that and the favorites themselves - Well - I didn’t let that stop me from still trying to be active. Why did it take me 10-15 minutes to go through all those that favorited me? Well that because I went through every user and every blog of that user. They all now have me favoriting them, not just the blog from the train, but every blog of that users. If by chance I missed you, please post a comment here to let me know. Heck that comment even comes with a free back-link

Huge Piece of Advice:
For those who have not started any Technorati Train action of their own, you really should. Look at the numbers above, it really does help. If you would like to continue the train and create your own branch, just simply follow this link: Technorati Train. It has all the directions there.

Please feel free to use the little title image above that I created in any of your Technorati Train posts.

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As I said in my last post, I recently purchased Half-Life 2 so that I could not only play it, but also play a Source Mod called Goldeneye Source. Goldeneye Source is based off of the old Goldeneye 64 game for Nintendo 64. Everything has been completely rerendered using todays graphics that Source makes possible. It is an online multi-player first person shooter.

Goldeneye Source is still currently in BETA release, but from my little playing experience I have found that it is free of defects. There are choppy connections sometimes, but I’m sure that is all related to the Server that is running at the time. I hear and read players sometimes talking about bugs they are coming across, so perhaps it is just that I am so new that I don’t notice anything wrong.

So I remember how crazy things would get when there were 4 of us playing on one Nintendo 64. Now, you can have loads more than that. I think the most that I have ever seen on one server at any given time was around 12. But most servers set their max user limit to around 20 - some even as high as 40! When you have that many people playing, it really no longer matters whether you are a novice or an expert, its just loads of online characters running around and shooting everywhere!

I have taken a few screenshots of my online adventures. Click any of the below pictures for a bigger size.

Picture 1:
As you can see, I set my user name to my URI. I’m not exactly trying to ‘advertise’ directly, but I’m more just taking advantage of the opportunity, after all, my name has to be something right? So live or die, it still displays it

Picture 2:
In this picture if you look to the bottom left you can see me changing what character I’m playing as. Currently the options are not many, basically just a few of the main from the old Nintendo 64 game. I hope this is something they continue to develop on, I really miss the “Scientist”. That was who I always played with. In fact, I was the “Scientist” one year for Halloween.

Picture 3:
And finally this picture shows the mic icon. If you have a mic, you can talk online while you hand out justice served up cold. I have not mic’d it up yet. But from my playing experience, I can tell you that cursing is a must. You will often see players changing their user names if they are currently mad about something. The other night I saw a player change his/her name to “_____ can suck my _____”. I will let you fill in the blanks.


I was never as good as some of the Dogs in Goldeneye, but man, I’m even more rusty now. I basically connect and have my behind handed to me on a shiny golden platter. I’m not going to hold that against the game though, its my aging skills. I’m very happy with where this game is going. Considering it is only BETA and is already such a great Mod, I can’t wait to see what the future holds!

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