Archive for March 1st, 2010

Today’s Business: 2010-03-01

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Today’s Activities

  • Shower.  DONE.
  • Schedule appointment for Mom with the retina specialists in Johnstown for sometime in April, 2010. 
  • Still fignting my   current cold.

 

Log

05:00 AM: I’m up. My weight is unchanged from yesterday.  It’s still  177.0 Lbs.    

08:05 AM: Worked the   Bing Site Submissions   project, which I requested that pages from all my blogs be added to the Bing search engine index.

09:55 AM: Watched today’s episode of    Pittsburgh Today Live. 

10:00 AM:  Worked the   Yahoo Site Submissions   project, in which I requested that pages from all my blogs be added to the   Yahoo!   search engine index.

10:10 AM: Heading back to bed for a couple hours.

12:30 PM I’m back up again.

01:30 PM: Watched today’s episode of   The Young and the Restless.

04:00 PM Went   shopping.

06:00 PM: Submitted my blog sites to several more search engines.

07:30 PM: Watched tonight’s episodes of   NBC’s Nightly News    and    The CBS Evening News.

08:15 PM: Fixed all remaining posts on the    Tom’s Love Quest  blog that had title tags longer than 61 characters.  The software changes I made last week fixed all but two posts, through exclusion of redundant words in the tag.  However the final two were still a little too long, but no longer.  All excessively long titles have been shortened in this blog now.  The next task is to fix any titles that have illegal characters in them.   

09:15 PM: Removed all known illegal characters from thirty-two posts on the   Tom’s Love Quest   blog.  Next, I’ll tackle the removal of stop words from all titles on that blog.  This will take some time, as there have been 232 problems reported of this type.   

10:15 PM: Located and purchased some blank cartridges, mailers, and USB cable accessories on today’s   Internet Shopping Trip, for the NLS DTB player.

12:00 AM: Listened to a couple episodes of the   CBS Radio Mystery Theater   with   [Emmy].

12:05 AM: Okay, going to bed.  Have a great night and I’ll see you back out here later on.  Take care.

Tom Hesley

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Diary Revisions: 2010-03-01

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Today, I either added or modified the following posts in  the   Tom’s Diary   blog for improved brevity, clarity, categorization, decreased spelling errors, appearance,  and search-ability:

  • Internet Shopping: 2010-03-01
  • Shopping Trip: 2010-03-01
  • Yahoo Site Submissions: 2010-03-01
  • Bing Site Submissions: 2010-03-01
  • Today’s Business: 2010-03-01
  • Today’s Diet: 2010-03-01
  • Today’s Business: 2010-02-28
  • Today’s Diet: 2010-02-28
  • Today’s Business: 2010-02-27
  • Smart Calcium, The New Rave
  • Common Cold: 2010-02
  • NLS DTB Player
  • Quest Post Counts: 2010-02-15

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    Internet Shopping: 2010-03-01

    Monday, March 1st, 2010

    We learned today that you can buy blank cartridges and mailers for the new NLS digital talking book players.  So I shopped on the Internet as follows:

    From  American Printing House for the Blind, I ordered the following items:

    • 6 DTB 2 GB memory cartridges
    • 6 DTB cartridge mailers

    Total cost: $86.94

    From  Independent Living Aids, I purchased the following items:

    • 4 USB male A to female A cables (facilitates connecting the cartridge to a computer for book downloads)

    Total cost: $27.75

    Grand Total: $114.69

    Tom Hesley

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    Shopping Trip: 2010-03-01

    Monday, March 1st, 2010

    Waliked to CVS Pharmacy this afternoon, and purchased the following:

    • CVS extra strength pain reliever (225 gel caps) (for my  cold)
    • Canada Dry diet ginger ale (4 liters)
    • Diet caffeine-free Pepsi (36 12-Oz. cans)

    Total cost: $26.51

    Tom Hesley

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    Yahoo Site Submissions: 2010-03-01

    Monday, March 1st, 2010

    08:05 AM: Submitted all my blogs to the   Yahoo!   search engine in an effort to increase exposure and visitor traffic.  To accomplish this, I did the following:

    1. Located my Yahoo! Id, which I obtained some time ago.
    2. Then, I used this Id to log into   Yahoo’s Site Explorer.
    3. Next, I authenticated each of my four blogs in   Yahoo Site Explorer.  I opted for the XML file verification method, where   Yahoo   supplies an XML file containing security codes.  I copied the file, generated for each submitted site, to the site’s root directory.  Yahoo  then looks for the file there, and if found, this proves that I’m the owner / manager of the sites.
    4. Finally, I submitted the feed URLs for each blog.  This should get more of my posts into   Yahoo!  although it could take several weeks before I notice a sizable increase in web traffic.

     

    Tom Hesley

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    Bing Site Submissions: 2010-03-01

    Monday, March 1st, 2010

    08:05 AM: Submitted all my blogs to Microsoft’s   Bing   search engine in an effort to increase exposure and visitor traffic.  To accomplish this, I did the following:

    1. Signed up for an MSN Live Id.
    2. Then, I used this Id to log into   Bing’s Webmaster Center.
    3. Next, I authenticated each blog with Bing.  I opted for the XML file verification method, where Bing supplies an XML file containing security codes.  I copied the file, generated for each submitted site, to the site’s root directory.  Bing then looks for the file there, and if found, this proves that I’m the owner / manager of the sites.
    4. Finally, I submitted updated sitemaps for each blog.  This should get more of my posts into Bing, although it could take several weeks before I notice a sizable increase in web traffic.

     

    Tom Hesley

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    Today’s Diet: 2010-03-01

    Monday, March 1st, 2010

    Today, I consumed the following items:

    • Peppermint & spearmint tea and diet caffeine-free Pepsi throughout the day. 0 calories.
    • 08:00 AM: 3 cups V8 vegetable juice.  150 calories.
    • 03:00 PM: 5 slices of provolone cheese.  400 calories.
    • 03:00 PM: Multivitamin.  0 calories.
    • 08:00 PM: 3 cups Cheerios. 300 calories.
    • 08:00 PM: 1 cup raisins.  520 calories.
    • 08:00 PM: 2 cups organic skim mik.  160 calories.
    • 10:30 PM: 5 slices Muenster cheese.  400 calories.

    Total calories: 1930.

    Tom

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