I’ve got a friend that uses “lack of time” as his excuse for everything.

Q. What’s up with your new blog?
A. No time.

Q. How’s that iPhone app coming along?
A. No time.

It’s all a bunch of BS. Time is what you make of it!

I started my e-commerce site in 2004. At the time, I was still working a full-time job, and I worked from 12:30pm-9:00pm.

When I got home, I’d immediately start working on my site, and would go to bed around 2:30am.

I’d wake up around 8:30am, go to the gym, do a little last minute work, and then head off back to work.

I kept this pace up for 9 months!

Even today, I usually get up at 6:30am or so, and start working.. I don’t stop until my wife gets home at 5:30pm. After that, it’s “family time”.

If you want to succeed, you need to sacrifice something. For me, it’s a little bit of sleep. For you, it might be TV time. Whatever the case, it’s time to take a hard look, and see where time is being wasted, and use that time for something more productive.

This week’s roundup is a little different.. I’ve found myself on YouTube quite a bit lately, watching videos from my youth. Here are some of my favorites:

Sagat – Funk Dat! If you were a Beavis and Butthead fan in the 90s, you’ll probably remember this one..

Masta Ace Inc. – Born To Roll

Naughty By Nature – Everythings Gonna Be Alright

LL Cool J – The Boomin’ System

El DeBarge – You Wear It Well

I’m a car guy, always have been. I’ve owned some crazy cars over the years, but in a sign that I must be maturing or something, I’m starting to think differently now.

In the past 2 months, I’ve put 135 miles on my car! I work from home, so if I’m going out, it’s usually to grab lunch or something.

When we go out, we always take the wife’s car (Acura TL) instead of my car (Porsche Boxster). Why?

1) She hates riding in my car – The suspension is ROCK hard!
2) It’s a 2-seater, which makes it hard to go out with friends.
3) It’s a 5-speed – She can’t drive it if something happens to me.
4) Barely any trunk space, limiting what kind of stuff we can buy.

The 4 snowstorms we’ve had this season have made driving my car impossible.. Ironically, I had an SUV for 3 years, and it never snowed!

I toyed with the idea of getting a Hummer H2 a few years ago, but the gas mileage was worse than my old Ferrari. YIKES!

I’m thinking of picking up a beater 2002-2003 Subaru WRX, something that can handle the bad weather, seat four people, and still deliver some fun.

What kind of car do you drive?

Do you pay attention to your image filenames? You should, for a number of reasons!

1) SEO
Google Images is a huge source of traffic.. While 95% of people just come, find the image they want, and leave thereafter, there is that other 5% that might stick around and see what your site has to offer. I can tell you from personal experience, as we have an image that ranks #1 on Google Images and generates a TON of traffic. Not really sure how I got the top spot, but it’s pretty wild..

2) Ad Blockers
This one is a bit more interesting. I use Adblocker Plus for Firefox, and it’s an absolute godsend. But when viewing one of my sites the other day, I noticed that it was filtering out some of my affiliate ads. That’s not good! It turns out that the advertiser included the dimensions in their filename (eg. picturedesc-468×60ab.jpg), and the software is automatically any image that has typical banner/button dimensions in the filename.

A quick change of the filename, and we were back in business.

I spend all day on the web, and always see the latest viral sensations.. But I realize other people have jobs and such, and sometimes one of these gems gets by them. So I bring you the Weekly Roundup, my selection of funnies from the past week. So without further ado, enjoy!

1) Epic Beard Man

Complete with an epic parody video:

2) Hillary Duff gets engaged, and boy is she happy!
http://boston.barstoolsports.com/random-thoughts/hillary-duff-teaches-all-girls-how-to-handle-getting-engaged/

3) Toronto Raptors Mascot Eats Cheerleader

That’s all for now.. If you’ve got any you’d like to add, leave a comment below!

We all know that New Jersey sucks.. Now global warming has made our winters even worse than Buffalo! We’re about to have our FOURTH major snowstorm of the year, after getting over 40″ of snow just a few weeks ago. My back is still aching from the last round of shoveling, and now I’ve got to worry about another 12″ of snow that’s supposed to fall overnight. WTF?!

And while we’re at it, what happened to kids offering to shovel for money? All of the kids in our neighborhood are staying inside and playing PS3 or something. I’d gladly give ‘em $20 or so to clean my house..