The Gaming Angel » lalawag http://www.thegamingangel.com The life and work of a GamingAngel Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:00:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Thinking back on the last couple of days http://www.thegamingangel.com/2009/02/thinking-back-on-the-last-couple-of-days/ http://www.thegamingangel.com/2009/02/thinking-back-on-the-last-couple-of-days/#comments Mon, 09 Feb 2009 01:22:19 +0000 admin http://www.thegamingangel.com/?p=18 I need to start taking pictures to add to these posts. Not of me, since I don’t really like that, but just of the things or events I write about to include here. Friday I went to Startonomics which is an all day event put together by the wonderful women of Dealmaker Media. The event was a blast of information, so much that I really had to sit an digest it afterwards. I believe the event was definitely worth going to, but I do believe they may have to include less speakers for the next one. A few speakers said incredibly interesting things, but there was no follow-up Q&A because the event was behind schedule. Julia from GamerVixens went with me and we both agree that it was a ton of information to take in. I learned that it is going to be tough to get money in this economy. Before you try and get funding you now have to have a product that is proven. I also learned some SEO tips that I pretty much knew, but had it confirmed. Xoops, GamingAngels.com prior CMS, has no ability to work with SEO, so GamingAngels is taking quite a hit in terms of SEO. That is why we are having a site re-design from the back-end to the front-end.

This morning I bought some domain names. Sean from Lalawag made the suggestion to buy your own name as a domain name. Very smart suggestion that I had never thought of. Good thing it was available. I’ll probably have it point here, but it’s a good practice. If you are making an online brand of yourself, why not have your name as a valid domain name? I know people search my name. I see it bring people to GamingAngels.com.

Which brings me to GamingAngels.com. I have not worked on the site much this weekend, like I had planned to. But with Matt’s birthday and a cousin’s wedding I guess I was fooling myself thinking I would have spare time. Matt’s birthday was Friday, but we’re going to our favorite restaurant tonight, The Bottle Inn. It was our first date and will probably be a part of our lives forever. Amazing food, amazing wine and the best staff a restaurant could ever have. I’m definitely looking forward to indulging tonight and then I’ll have to start the diet tomorrow. Why am I on a diet? Because I would like to lose about 20 pounds before E3. E3 is my goal since it will be a huge convention for networking.

Yesterday we attended my cousin’s wedding. Very interesting mix of people. Stillettos and miniskirts will not be allowed at my wedding. Nor will guns. Memo to self, don’t have a wedding at a house and not expect people to have sex in the bedrooms. Yes, people will be in the mood given enough alcohol and will not respect your house.

Today I got an overdue oil change and am waiting for the Killzone 2 beta to download. It’s taking freaking forever. I have updated one gadget blog and a news item but I have quite a few articles to put up still. Maybe I’ll do it tomorrow though. We should see a slew of NY comic con posts from two of our editors that attended the convention. April and I will be at a God of War III event this week as well as Street Fighter IV launch party. Two amazing events in one week. I can’t wait!!

Anyway, this has been far too long for me to be away from GamingAngels.com. The Killzone 2 demo is only at 60%. le sigh. I’m going back to answering emails and posting about games this week. Have a great Sunday night!

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