So I'm playing around with yet another video social networking site Stickam. I do like the live video chat and IMHO it has promise, although there are still quite a few bugs to work out.

Here is a quick video I uploaded for testing, it's just me playing some guitar and improvising, so please don't be too harsh :-)

These songs we're actually written, produced, and recorded one balmy Florida night, fueled by 32's of OE (Yeah, Florida sucks, no 40's!).

Okay, I must warn you, if you intend to listen to the following tracks, do not do so at work or around anyone that would get offended by "Questionable" lyrics. Yes, this music is definately NSFW!

BiggityB***s.MP3

S.M.D.MP3

FRIGID LIKE AN ESKIMO.MP3

On a chilly March afternoon last year, Que and I sat down and decided to record one of our improv sessions, I miss those days.

bAdmArk_Cant_breathe.mp4 (2.2 MB)

bAdmArk_Cheese-e_Many_beers_in.mp4 (1.8 MB) 

bAdmArk_Demons_Spawn.mp4 (1.71 MB) 

bAdmArk_Desesperado.mp4 (1.28 MB) 

bAdmArk_Dying_Day.mp4 (1.26 MB) 

bAdmArk_Empty_Resolve.mp4 (1.7 MB) 

bAdmArk_Eternally.mp4 (1.37 MB) 

bAdmArk_Father_mercy.mp4 (1.56 MB) 

bAdmArk_Green_sky.mp4 (1.82 MB) 

bAdmArk_Hide.mp4 (1.52 MB) 

bAdmArk_hollow_footsteps.mp4 (1.88 MB) 

bAdmArk_In_the_grave.mp4 (1.54 MB) 

bAdmArk_Junk_one.mp4 (1.65 MB) 

bAdmArk_Noun_two.mp4 (1.34 MB)

bAdmArk circa 2005

Since the PlateWire big-bang I've been asked by many the same question; what are your long term goals?

Easy enough, I intend to do my part in ensuring a better tomorrow for my heart and soul, my children. I do believe one person can make a difference and I have only just begun.

As a child growing up in Costa Rica, I used to talk with my aunt Alicia, she'd listen to me go on about anything and everything. One time I shared with her the fact that I felt I was destined to do something great, something that would make people happy and benefit everyone.

"Everyone has that same 'feeling', we're all born with it, because each and everyone of us is capable of changing the world. It starts with one person. You." laying her hand on my chest.

I've never forgotten that, and though it's been a bumpy road, the journey has been filled with constant adventure and experiences that make me who I am today.

Our family motto is simply "Generations". Both Heather and I were raised primarily by our mothers and rotating step-fathers. The only legacy left to us by them are bad memories and broken promises. We vehemently protest leaving our children anything but love and strength, we believe in building a family that will remain strong for Generations.

I strongly believe in PlateWire and I am confident that as it grows if we achieve capturing even 5% of drivers worldwide and out of them half significantly re-evaluate their own driving, we'd be saving countless of lives and millions of dollars! You can't say that's a bad goal to have. 

On Nov. 20th of this year when the Washington Post article went out about PlateWire, we were just getting the finishing touches on the new version, which we launched in a rushed effort to show the new features, failing to add any of the ads we had been previously running, from Text-Link-Ads and AdBrite. After a few weeks, we decided to settle on one of these two advertisers to be our exclusive ads provider, we only want to turn on ads for guests, and we are adament that ads should in no way be intrusive to the experience.

Well, to make a long story short, I spent the better part of last week attempting to contact someone at TLA, to no avail. My first choice was TLA, their reputation in the blogosphere seemed to be decent and although they required server side code (At the time they only offered ASP, and I was running ASPX; I actually spent a few hours making a server side handler for ASP.net and forwarded to them the code which I never received a thanks for, guess that should have been a clue) I thought I'd give them the first shot. After 7 days of sending emails, filling out their "Contact" form, and voicemails I heard nothing! I decided to see what response I would receive from AdBrite, bang! Immediately I received a call back, from a very helpful associate. He discussed with me my site, my goals, etc. Wow, actual service, I was honestly aghast! Well the decision made itself, AdBrite was the service to go with.

When I finally received a response from TLA, I was told "You dropped our ads without telling us", thats why they ignored me? What are we in elementary school?

On a side note; it seems that TLA was recently purchased by MediaWhiz, perhaps they forgot to sell them the magic that made them what they used to be?

Came a across a sploggers little pirate's den with code and lists of forums and blogs across the internet his little scripts are scouring and pillaging to use on advertising laden blog rip-offs.

http://216.32.81.18/blog_spammer/

Apparantely Layered Technologies the company hosting this miscreant doesnt care to do a thing about it. Oh well, this is the Wild, Wild Internet.

Here is a partial of one of the lists on the site, this one seems to be directed at dasBlog sites:

dasblonde.net, www.harper.no, www.knowing.net, www.hyperthink.net, www.vsdotnet.be