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The race to 40k Gamer Points

In this battle:

I Johnux(gimPtextUrz) challenged Eric(Cadaverz) to a race to 40,000 gamer score on Xbox Live.

Eric is one of the game reviewers for the site(not this one, but GITM) He’s a gamer, likes Whiskey Puppies, & kittens.

You know me, I’m a n00b.

We are starting this with a few points under our belt, but not close to the 40,000.

Johnux starting: 9680G

Eric starting: 24866G

The Advantages

Eric: Lives WALKING distance from: Target, Best Buy, Gamestop and Blockbuster. Started with 24866G. No gag-reflex.

Johnux: Self employed, can sit at home and play games all day. Doesn’t sleep.

After this battle is completed and I’m through SLAYING ERIC, I’m hoping my popularity will be overwhelming and I will get the chance to unlock new achievements everywhere I go.

The status:




Web Influence Marks

Okay, so in my spare time I wanted to determine how much time I waste, in numbers. So I decided to give this number a title – Web Influence Marks. Or WIM for short. The higher your WIM, the more presence you have on the internet. Just take into account all of your website profiles, blogs and accounts on blog/social sites and all web sites you manage. Take it and post your WIM in the comments.

Take every site that is related to you into account for this quiz.

A: Public Profiles(myspace, digg, any profile): 10 pt each

B: Hosted Blogs(like a .wordpress.com or blogspot, even myspace and friendster blogs.): 100 points each (each BLOG, not POST)

C: Personal Blogs/Sites Related to you where you OWN the domain: see Traffic Key

D: Business/Community/Hobby sites you founded(not clients): see Traffic Key

E: Clients web sites: 1/4 the points from the traffic key

Traffic Key

Take your personal blogs and sites (from categories C & D) and check the alexa traffic rankings:

Weigh them according to this scale:

+20,000,000-10,000,000= – 100

9,999,999-5,000,000= — 200

4,999,999-1,000,000= —- 400

Anywhere in the 900,000’s= 550

Anywhere in the 800,000’s= 685

Anywhere in the 700,000’s= 850

Anywhere in the 600,000’s= 1050

Anywhere in the 500,000’s= 1300

Anywhere in the 400,000’s= 1625

Anywhere in the 300,000’s= 2100

Anywhere in the 200,000’s= 2600

Anywhere in the 100,000’s= 5000

Anywhere in the 75,000’s= 7500

Anywhere in the 50,000’s= 11250

Anywhere in the 25,000’s= 16875

Anywhere in the 10,000’s= 25500

Anywhere in the 5,000’s= 50000

Anywhere in the 1,000’s= 80000

Anywhere in the 750’s= 150000

Anywhere in the 500’s= 275000

Anywhere in the 250’s= 500000

Anywhere in 100’s to 20’s= 5,000,000

Top 10 Why are you taking this test? Give yourself 1 billion points! You own the world!

What does it add up to? Share with me in the comments!

CGI: two meanings, let’s change it!

I’m sure you all have heard the acronyms “C.G.I.” thrown about in one context or another. It stands for several things, but generally only two come to mind: Common Gateway Interface & Computer Generated Imagery. CGI to me always seems to represent Common Gateway Interface, mainly because in web development you encounter the letters CGI way more often than you would working with computer graphics packages. For instance, your cgi-bin directory at the base of most web servers. I’m not going to delve into the many definitions CGI can have or talk about which definition is more deserving of these three letters. No, I’m simply going to state that CGI should from now on only represent Common Gateway Interface and Computer Generated Imagery should be changed to Computer Generated Visuals.

Help me push the renaming to CGV and we will never have to hear “whoa sweet CGI” at the movie theaters again.

If you’d like more information about the two definitions of CGI, please visit the following links:

Common Gateway Interface

Computer Generated Imagery (soon to be CGV with any luck)