Busty Babes August 2, 2005
Posted by Owen in : Website , 1 comment so farWhat are the top searches people used to find my blog? I’m glad you asked:
1. busty babes
2. iconator
3. job hunt
4. owen
5. buddy4u profiles
6. walk like an egyptian
7. e3
8. blog fun
9. buddy4u
10. cute websites
Wordpress Admin June 14, 2005
Posted by Owen in : Website , 3commentsThe WordPress admin area is really ugly and outdated. Here’s an awesome skin for it. Check it out!
524,975 people have Buddy4u profiles, what are you waiting for? May 4, 2005
Posted by Owen in : Website , 1 comment so farI finally added a user counter to the Buddy4u homepage… we have over half a million active users. At one point we had well over one million users, but the database became too large so we had to remove inactive users. I think we could have had over two million users if we didn’t have to remove anyone.
150,000 Icons! April 22, 2005
Posted by Owen in : Website , add a commentIconator.com officially has more than 150,000 icons and 300,000 registered users! Amazing! See also my previous post on Iconator’s growth.
I signed on to AIM today… April 17, 2005
Posted by Owen in : Website , 3comments… and in 10 minutes got almost 60 IMs on my b4u screenname.
Best of the best March 30, 2005
Posted by Owen in : Website , 1 comment so farWhat are the most popular searches on Iconator.com? You’ll be suprised.
I Don’t Even Know Where to Start… March 7, 2005
Posted by Owen in : Website , 1 comment so farI received this comment yesterday (unedited and uncensored) from an Iconator user:
u better get rid of anyother f*cking smartass remarks towards republicans or ill f*cking sue this website.i swear i will so dont test me…or you’ll be hearing from my lawyer!!
I don’t know… maybe the first amendment? I did a search to see which way my users leaned: Democrats vs Republicans. Looks tied to me. Browsing the political icons section shows a wide variety of different views points including someone who thinks Elmo should be the next president (we could do worse) and a lot of people who want Pedro (from Napoleon Dynamite) to be president. I think Iconator is the new face of politics… little 7kb 49×49 animated graphics summarizing one’s world-view… no matter what you believe, you can find an icon for it.
Parenting? What’s that? January 20, 2005
Posted by Owen in : Website , 1 comment so farHere’s a email I received a few days ago (I love her (misspelled) use of titillated–classic):
Hello - I am a mom of an 11 year old computer savvy girl. She and many of her classmates -all 11 & 12 year olds have profiles with you. I am shocked and horrified by what these kids are doing. The anonmomity of the computer gives these kids a lot of power to do things that are disgusting and age inapppropriate. It’s obviously not that hard to LIE and say they are 13 years old and start a profile. These kids are not monitored enough - though I TRY - so the information and the sites they create are sick, and X rated. Unfortunately with kids growing up so fast and exposed to things way beyond their scope of understanding and coping, they are titallated by what they can do. And sites like yours give them the opportunity! SHAME ON YOU!!!
It really bothers me how little parenting some parents want to do. Sending me a nasty email isn’t going to accomplish anything! What does she think I’m going to do? Stop running my website and throw away my livelihood? Ask for a credit card number and call three references to verify someone’s age (which may I add is essentially illegal to do in the United States)? C’mon! Do some parenting and talk to your kids. If they use the Internet they will do things you don’t approve of. And if they don’t talk about such things on the Internet, their friends will tell them. You can’t keep them locked up forever. Accept that the Internet has changed things and learn to accept it. Kids grow up fast these days, and there ain’t nothing you can do about it.
Ironic Blog Spam December 21, 2004
Posted by Owen in : Website, Weird , add a commentHere’s some Ironic blog comment spam that I just found on my blog:
Name: online poker | Email: pkehvzra@a562d7bef37555bf78b572857b385eb18.com | URI: http://www.************.com | IP: 216.176.52.40
Having been teaching ethics for a very long time…I’m struck by how little reference is ever made to the terrible things that have happened in the 20th Century. Ethics ought to be rooted in some idea of the way in which human nature can go wrong and produce these disasters. by online poker
Ethics. Yeah right.
100,000 Icons! December 5, 2004
Posted by Owen in : Website , 1 comment so farIconator.com officially has 100,000 icons and (almost) 200,000 registered users! Amazing! 