An Honored Posting?
Why do spammers insist on wasting time with blogs? Well … at least this one felt it was an honor.
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Looking Back …
Who doesn’t love seeing a nice round number every once in a while? This post marks the 850th post on j2fi.net and, since it’s been a while since I’ve looked back at some of my favorite posts, I thought this would be a good opportunity to do so.
A Spam About Spam …
I don’t know why I bother reading most of the spam that hits this site. However, every once in a blue moon, I will receive a message that gives me reason to pause. Today saw another one of those messages.
Why I Will Not Call Myself a Teacher
Yesterday I received an email from someone who wanted to know why I would not call myself an English teacher, and instead use the title “language facilitator”. Here’s why.
03.1.10 | Featured, Home, Working in Japan | Jason
What’s Your Site Worth (Part V)
It seems like just last month I was lamenting about this site’s drop in valuation when something hit my Inbox this morning. It seems that all the site valuation pages out there have been wrong! j2fi.net is worth a staggering $218,863 USD!
Naturally, this figure is utter hogwash, and one reader gave me a pretty detailed [...]
Can You Hear Me, Now?
Kenji and I have had countless conversations on a number of very different topics. From attitudes of people at work, to Japan’s suicide problems, to netbooks in the workplace. Nothing is off limits. So it should come as no surprise that he and I engaged in a rather heated discussion earlier this [...]
Offline
Pills that mess with one’s head suck. Sure I’ve been frustrated as heck for the last few months but, now that I’m supposed to take some “relaxation” pills, matters have become worse. Now, in addition to being frustrated, I get to experience all kinds of other conditions: anxiety and the overpowering drive to exercise to [...]
Two Thousand Five Hundred
Over eight hundred days have passed since I started this blog, but today a nice round number graced my administration screen: 2500. This is the number of comments that currently exist on this site … 62% of which were written by people other than me.
Who was the 2500th person to leave a comment? That would [...]
What’s Your Blog Worth (Part IV)
The time of the blog may have peaked three years ago, but there’s still money to be made from the platform. The question, however, is ‘how much can you hope to gain’?
Way back in May of 2007, I had written a short little post talking about how this site was being valued at $12,419.88 according [...]
Good For a LOL
Spam is the bane of the internet, and probably older than the intangible communications platform it infests. How spammers actually turn a profit is often a subject of intense debate but, luckily, we have filters available that can weed out much of the incessant noise. That said, I do sometimes enjoy looking through this site’s [...]
More Than An Annoyance
Over the last decade or so I’ve been battling a bunch of minor problems such as insomnia, headaches, chest pain, and blood pressure. Insomnia I can usually deal with as the extra waking hours can be used to analyze things until either I fall asleep, or solve/rationalize a complex problem. Headaches have been a common [...]