DISQUS

done in may! well, delayed congratulations but that's great. interesting you boycott bottled water. i've heard it takes 10-100x more water just to make the bottle than there is actually water inside it!

needless to say old milk jugs and one or two retired gatorade bottles make great water containers :-)

well just gettin' back into the blogsphere a bit and wanted to swing by today and say have a good one!

choco's are the best James. long time but thought i'd swing by. i've read a few of your recent posts too.

still in ireland i see. well hope all's well, hope to hear from ya soon.

Hey James,
Great idea. Not sure how long since you started this, I'm just starting to get back to a week of e-mails/comments. Well hey I hope it's going well!

I'll read up on some past posts.

Hey thanks for the invitation James, but I'm going to pass :-D I'll be reading daily of course!

***James***
Hey sounds like a great time. I can't see that far ahead but as of now my travels probably won't take me to Ireland. Maybe the Czech Republic, Europe area..

Finals week for me ends in two days. Work hard these last couple weeks bro. Keep bloggin', love reading your stuff.

Link time bro...great post.

Happy St. Patrick's Day James
Looks like you had a great time in Galaway. I didn't even get to drink any green beer! But...they did dye the Chicago River green...seriously.

Oh, well I'm actually up early to finish a Financial Accounting assignment due in 3 hours :-D

Well, I couldn't wait so I went ahead and installed them now. Leave your responses for me James!

Nice improvemnents James. I'll be implementing the Related Posts and Optimal Title later today. Thanks for posting about your improvements!

Hey James,
Thanks for the deep link, woulda never seen your marathon page. I'll read the others later, gotta go do some work at the lab, but I wanted to say great job running.

The interesting things I've learned in life are from running.

The interesting people I've met in life are runners.

The interesting thoughts I have are during my runs.

Seems like running should be required :Grin:

Lookin' really good James. Here's some replies to the comments you left me(thanks a bunch!):
·Post a comment with your Unique Visitors per Day and monthly blog revenue(must be monetized), and I'll add your blog to the revenue study.

·Men's Health magazine did an article on Dean (is that his name? the crazy mother f*cker who's trying to run 250 miles straight). the article was more of an advertisement, but i've not read the book you mentioned.

·I'll send you the pre book if you want to read it..let me know :grin:

You know...after thinking about this for a while(I read this post last night), I realized the striving for knowledge will ultimately give you power, wealth..

Well at least I think so.

Going for the free-Wii huh? I already have a post about John this month...I can't bring myself to do another! Although I'll probably break down in a week or so because Wii's are schwit.

Wow. What a difference! I can't tell you how much better your page looks now. And you have 21 readers?! That's awesome.

Sorry I am just really excited for you because this is a huge improvement.

I look forward to reading your upcomming posts James.

I'm liking the Top Commentators Widget.
The Category Cloud is a bit odd...not sure if I like it that much.

What are the "Treadless" and "Kayak" adds on here for?

I like how your "Featured Sites" blends well with the rest of your blog...wile I must say that the "Ads by Google" do not blend quite as well.

If you do a google search for "Google Adsense heat map" you'll see the right sidebar is not the best place for a high CTR(i.e. you won't get paid $100 in a lifetime).

Add a picture to your About-the-Author page.

Capitalize the Title of your blog...looks sloppy IMO being all lowercase, but if that's you're style then be consitent (e.g. all lowercase in post titles..)

I'm all about trying to help you and everyone else get the best site possible. Thanks for this great idea.

*****

And always, please continue to offer constructive criticism at Bryan-Baker Dot Com. Thanks James!

No constructive criticism post...so I'll leave it here.

BEST
Colors. Easy to read, great structure for posting comments, and besides the Ireland Google Ads...clean page.

WORST
·Advertisements cluttering posts.
·Bottom of posts has so many links!

I SUGGEST U
·Clean up the site, maybe a few advertisements, but nothing intruding. Content must come before ads.
·Remove "Yesterdays' Top 5 Links".
·Remove calendar.
·What is twitter? Remove?

in summary...clean up the ads and un-needed sidebar objects.

Keep up the great content :-D

Hey James,
First time I've heard about politics between Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. I've been following Czech politics loosely...and of course American politics are impossible to truly follow ;-)

Hope you're enjoying your post-grad. over seas. I'm a business student here in Corvallis, Oregon at Oregon State University. GO BEAVERS!

Keep posting.