Still No Computer
Week 5 without my laptop. Its been really boring at the apartment...
InfamousJJ has been doing an excellent job finding spare time to post up stuff while I'm without my computer. Thanks! On the bright side I still have access to the blog through the WordPress app for Blackberry, so I'll be randomly jumping in and out for now. Don't be surprised about short random blurbs from me since the BlackBerry Tour keyboard is nice, but no way to write long passages. Please do though, let me know if you see any issues as this app is in beta at the moment and has a possibility causing havok for the site. Hopefully not! *cross fingers!!! Alright other than that, everything is good in the IJ universe. Hope you all have a good hump day!
Till the next Update!
-Tanker
A Zipper Lane!
Last time I saw a Zipper Lane was on Oahu in Hawaii. How exciting is that? Anyhow, this Zipper Lane is used to block off 2 lanes of the 710 North to allow passage to the South while they fix the southbound lanes of the 710. I think California can use this form of traffic mitigation like Hawaii, instead of adding more lanes to ever-expanding freeways.
Anyhow, if you haven't noticed already, we do have a new writer, InfamousJJ. Fellow founder of Import Junkiez, we should all welcome him into the world of blogging. He's been doing good on his part so far! Hooray!
So as we chug along with a new writer, we should also expect more posts from me! You see I've got this new fangled WordPress app for my BlackBerry. iPhone users have enjoyed this thing, but now Automattic & Danaias, designer and creator of the WordPress app, has opened up the beta testing for the BB. If you got a blog and a BB, should look into it. Point your BB browser to --> altho, they do say not to use it on a main blog. So if the site crashes....blame the BB WordPress app.
Believe that is it...for now. Things are looking a little less dormant now. Heheh. I still think the site could use a spiffier theme. What do you think...hmmmm....
Slowly Getting There…
Yup. Finally was able to import most of the posts from the archived stuff, HOORAY! Import Junkiez isn't looking so empty now. I'm still missing a lot of pictures and it seems the entire user database did not make it over with tonight's random update. The main reason I wanted to update the site was because I was tired of my Blackberry buzzing non-stop with "Spam" user registrations. It is quite annoying when the spam-bots are constantly sending me fake registrations 6-10 times a day. Hopefully the registration blocker will do the trick. Anyhow, after tinkering with that I had decided to try to see if I could get my old posts back and after a couple hours I can at least say that I'm much closer to the way this blog should be looking. In the future I plan to add a decent theme overlay so we'd get something less sterile than how this page currently looks! =(
Alright bedtime...
Tankers
BTW - please register if you haven't done so already! And if you were from back in the days, please re-register. I don't think I'll be able to get my user list back =(
Lost Everything…sort of
Well. It seems the old Import Junkiez stuff doesn't want to move over to the new Import Junkiez site. What does that mean? Even though I can access my posts and manage everything over @ importjunkies, I can't get any of the stuff to move over. That's right my posts, my pics, and parts of my theme. Also stuck over at importjunkies is my member database. So those of you who had signed up on the old site will prolly need to redo it again for the new site. That's the only thing that sucks about that - thanks 1and1. Arrgh. Well, the good news is, the site seems to be running more stable and in years to come we won't worry about having lost posts and lost members. I prolly should have done the move over sooner but hey, as I said before: Import Junkiez is done on our spare time. I also prolly should have done it after I came back from the Philippines...not they day before I leave. Oh well...you live and learn, right? Well, I have to finish up packing, i just thought I'd tell you all before running off.
See you all later!
What’s Going On?!
Don't freak out to much...cause I think I'm doing most of the freaking out. Remember how I wanted to redo the site? Well, I'm kind of the in the middle of it and boy is it a learning experience - thanks 1and1. You can see the old Import Junkiez site @ www.importjunkies.com Yup, that's Import Junkiez spelled with an 's' instead of a 'z'. LoL, I guess that domain came in handy after all. Anyhow, I will start updating this site now and adding the new theme sometime soon. Well most likely not soon, since tomorrow I am off to the Philippines. So please be patient as I re-learn my admin skills for a while. *sigh* Anything else, not quite sure but hey if something comes up, I will be sure to let you guys know! Thanks again for sticking around!
Silence.
Yup, it's been quiet on the ImportJunkiez front and that's all my fault. So sorry about the long gaps in posts - if I could I would sit on IJ all day and chug out random articles if I could...
...well actually that might come to pass. You see last two weeks have been pretty busy for me at work where I would literally, wake up, go to work, stay OT, go home, eat, sleep...rinse and repeat. After about a week of that, I finally was coming upon some VAC time. You see, me and my buddies had went to Chicago this past weekend to catch the USC-ND game. Anyhow, in all the hub-bub, I had managed to break my leg. Yup, my friends, I have broken my fibula in two spots. With that, I have pretty much extended my week long VAC into a whole month off! Depending on how long this cast sticks to my leg, I will prolly be spending a lot more time online than usual...which I guess means more time for Import Junkiez!
Everyone wins. So give me a moment as I get myself situtated at home and watch the posts come...lol.
P.S. And for those of you who don't know...USC won, so it was well worth the trip! BEAT THE IRISH!!!!
A New Beginning
As you can see the site has undergone a pretty drastic change and heading in a whole new direction. What to expect? More of what was here before, but better. This site started out as an online import shop, but somehow evolved into what we have today: news bits and things of interest that appeal to the import enthusiast in me. It's not just so much about cars but the other things that surround it. Be it the models, the video games, the anime, the music, etc. All the culture wound up in my little space on the internet. Anyhow, suffice it to say this is like the 5th update to the site and again everything from the previous site was lost. Yes, I have shed a tear for the Skyline that had graced the top of the page for severeal years now, but it's time for a clean slate of sorts. Out with the old, and in with the now! So with that, I'd just like to say thanks for stopping by and try to make it a habit!