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# BobBuskirk.com

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- [bit.ly and Why I Use It](https://bobbuskirk.com/bit-ly-and-why-i-use-it/) - If you have not heard of bit.ly I'm sure you have seen a bit.ly link around somewhere. Bit.ly is a URL shortening service that allows you to take large URL like this: http://www.thinkcomputers.org/kingston-mobilelite-g2-usb-card-reader-with-8gb-sdhc-card-review/ and turn it into something like this: http://bit.ly/6IBH75. So what is the reason to shorten a URL? URL shortening makes it easier
- [The Hidden Tiki Bar in San Diego](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-hidden-tiki-bar-in-san-diego/) - Apparently on the west coast Tiki Bars are a big thing, especially hidden Tiki Bars! When I was in San Diego I was taken to one such hidden tiki bar and it was quite a memorial experience.
- [Possibly The Best Ramen Of My Life At Strings Ramen](https://bobbuskirk.com/possibly-the-best-ramen-of-my-life-at-strings-ramen/) - If you follow me on Instagram you know one thing about me, I love Ramen! I usually make a few trips to Ramen Bar a month. Well when I was in Chicago I wanted to check out at least one of the Ramen shop there. After doing some research it seemed that many people were raving about Strings Ramen.
- [Another Amazing Summer](https://bobbuskirk.com/another-amazing-summer/) - It seems that once it starts getting colder here in Pittsburgh I get back to blogging. Summer is finally over and I have to say that past summer was such a blast. And like any summer I’ve grown, learned new things, and most importantly learned a lot about myself.
- [Having Drinks On the 96th Floor Of The John Hancock Center](https://bobbuskirk.com/having-drinks-on-the-96th-floor-of-the-john-hancock-center/) - When I was in Chicago one of the things that I wanted to do was see the city from one of the tallest skyscrapers there. The tallest building in the city is the Willis Tower (formerly the Sears tower), but all I read was it was a tourist trap. Next is the Trump International and the Aon Center, both of which do not have observation decks. That brings us to the John Hancock Center, which is where I ended up.
- [The Primehouse Experience](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-primehouse-experience/) - While in Chicago I definitely wanted to check out a steakhouse, and believe me there is no shortage of great steakhouses in Chicago. After doing some research Primehouse ended up being my choice. It was named “#1 Steakhouse in Chicago” by Chicago magazine in 2013 and is known for its dry-aged steaks.
- [Exploring Chicago...](https://bobbuskirk.com/exploring-chicago/) - The other week I had the chance to visit Chicago. I had only been to Chicago once before when I was younger with my Dad, but we were never really in the city. So this technically is my first time visiting Chicago. I love big cities and I consider Chicago one of the big metropolis-type cities in the US. The others that I have visited would be New York and San Francisco.
- [Staying At The Mira Hong Kong](https://bobbuskirk.com/staying-at-the-mira-hong-kong/) - Back when I went on my trip to Hong Kong I had a chance to stay at The Mira. I was actually really impressed with the hotel and I had meant to write about it, but you know how that goes! The Mira is located in Hong Kong’s popular Tsim Sha Tsui area. This area is great for shopping, exploring, and you are just a few blocks from the famous Victoria Harbor.
- [How Working in an Office Has Made Me More Productive](https://bobbuskirk.com/how-working-in-an-office-has-made-me-more-productive/) - I've been working from home for the longest time. I think one of the best things about what I do that I have he ability to work from home, a coffee shop, panera, etc. This gives me quite a lot of freedom and sometimes you just don't want to be around people. Working from home does have its downsides though. I think over time that I've worked from home I developed some bad habits.
- [Seeing How A Graphics Card Is Made In Dongguan, China](https://bobbuskirk.com/seeing-how-a-graphics-card-is-made-in-dongguan-china/) - So I had told you guys that I was in Hong Kong for the first time. Going to Hong Kong was actually part of a trip put on by Zotac. We work with Zotac at ThinkComputers and they make a variety of computer products, but are mainly known for graphics cards. They were celebrating their 10th Anniversary and while most of the events were in Hong Kong, they set up a factory tour for us to see how their products are actually made.
- [Tips On Covering The Consumer Electronics Show In Las Vegas](https://bobbuskirk.com/tips-on-covering-the-consumer-electronics-show-in-las-vegas/) - It's been about a week since I've got back from Las Vegas and the Consumer Electronics show. What a crazy week it was! Back in 2015 I wrote my Guide To Surviving CES as a Journalist post and I still feel that many of my suggestions there reign true. After this year I have a few more tips to add to the list!
- [My First Time In Hong Kong!](https://bobbuskirk.com/my-first-time-in-hong-kong/) - At the end of October I had the pleasure of going to Hong Kong. While this might not be a big deal to some, many people rarely get to leave the states so I was excited when I found out I would be going on the trip. The reason I was there was that Zotac, a company who works with ThinkComputers was celebrating their 10th Anniversary and they invited select US media over to celebrate and do a factory tour.
- [Kayaking The Colorado River & Arizona Hot Springs](https://bobbuskirk.com/kayaking-the-colorado-river-arizona-hot-springs/) - Anyways back to the end of summer! I took a trip out to Vegas to visit my long time friend Johnathan. This way not your typical Vegas trip, we actually really did not party at all, but we did some adventuring. We decided to Kayak the Colorado river!
- [The Summersville Trip](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-summersville-trip/) - Ok! Ok! I know I need to wrap up these posts I've been meaning to write since summer! Let's go back to the middle of August when a group of us went down to Summersville, West Virginia! This was sort of a last minute trip I went on with my Gabe, Jess, and Mel. It was actually my first time ever going to Summersville and man did we have a blast, even though we were only there for a day and a half! Check out the video I made which kind of showcases what were were up to.
- [Suggested Plugins for Designing in Wordpress](https://bobbuskirk.com/suggested-plugins-for-designing-in-wordpress/) - Wordpress has to be the most popular platforms out there when it comes to websites. All of the sites I own run on Wordpress and most of the sites I design at Look Social are also run on Wordpress. Working in Wordpress is quite easy, but there are a few plugins that can make it even easier, especially if you are designing a website.
- [My First Time Visiting Napa](https://bobbuskirk.com/my-first-time-visiting-napa/) - More recapping of my summer! Back at the end of June I went on a really cool business trip out to Napa, California. Now for me Napa is not exactly a place a would normally go, I am not really into wine at all, but a company we work with over at ThinkComputers was having an event so I decided to go out. Since this was a tech event I got to hang out with my friend Michael, who was there representing MegaTechNews. Napa is of course known for wine, it is about an hour north of San Francisco.
- [Getting Organized With Google Calendar & Prioritab](https://bobbuskirk.com/getting-organized-with-google-calendar-prioritab/) - I have used so many different productivity tools over the years, but it seems I have settled on two which really get the job done for me. They are Google Calendar and Prioritab.
- [If You Haven’t Heard Of Casey Neistat](https://bobbuskirk.com/if-you-havent-heard-of-casey-neistat/) - I guess I was first introduced to Casey Neistat when I saw his video Make It Count way back in 2012. It is a really awesome video so if you have 5 minutes go watch it! A few months ago my friend Rob made a post about Casey’s 1-year VLOG episode so I decided to see what it was all about. After watching that VLOG episode I decided to go back to the first episode and start watching. I’m already caught up to his current VLOG episodes! I’ve watched over a year of Casey’s daily VLOG’s and I don’t plan on stopping anytime soon. So what makes Casey so interesting and keeps me watching?
- [Things I’ve Learned Running a Digital Agency For a Year](https://bobbuskirk.com/things-ive-learned-running-a-digital-agency-for-a-year/) - So it has been about a year since I started Look Social. If you did not know Look Social is a full service digital agency that does logo design, web design, social media management, internet marketing and much more. It has been an interesting year starting the company and more and less learning as I go. With ThinkComputers I really never dealt with customers, made up contracts, etc. So there was a lot of learning and I sure have made some mistakes, but that is of course how you learn. Here are some of the biggest things I’ve learned over the past year.
- [Welcome To The New BobBuskirk.com](https://bobbuskirk.com/welcome-to-the-new-bobbuskirk-com/) - If you haven't noticed I've given the blog a little face-lift! While I really loved my previous design, I had been using it for a very long time and it just seemed dated. I also wanted something with a little more functionality and worked better with social media sharing. So what you see now is the new layout and I am very happy with it!
- [The Deep Creek Trip](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-deep-creek-trip/) - Well it seems that summer is coming to an end! It seems it is this time of year when I catch up on my blogging. During all summer I am trying to get the most of out the nice days I tend to slack off on blogging about my adventures! So stay tuned for a few posts about some of the trips and adventures I went on this summer!
- [The Three Bedroom Suite At Elara](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-three-bedroom-suite-at-elara/) - Our Las Vegas Suite tradition continues! Each year at the end of a crazy and busy week covering CES the ThinkComputers crew stays in a pretty cool suite. This gives the crew a real chance to relax and just kick back. If you can remember we started with the 2 Bedroom Hospitality Suite at Vdara
- [The Most Important Thing I've Learned In The Past 32 Years](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-most-important-thing-ive-learned-in-the-past-32-years/) - Not that long ago I turned 32, it is interesting turning another year older and how much things can just change in a years time. Each year a write a post around my birthday talking about how I've changed or what I am doing differently, etc. This year I want to talk about just one
- [The QBB02 Shipment from Quarterly](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-qbb02-shipment-from-quarterly/) - It seems it's been awhile since I’ve talked about Quarterly, or blogged for that matter. It has been a very busy start to 2016, but I definitely want to make a solid effort to get this blog going again. I really do enjoy blogging and it is a good way to relax and write about
- [Spotify’s Discover Weekly Playlist is Awesome!](https://bobbuskirk.com/spotifys-discover-weekly-playlist-is-awesome/) - Over the past few years the way we listen to music has changed dramatically. For the most part I really do not have much music on my iPhone or computer. This music has been replaced by streaming services like Spotify and Pandora. They are really what I use exclusively. Over the past few weeks I
- [I Actually Took A Real Vacation...](https://bobbuskirk.com/i-actually-took-a-real-vacation/) - This past weekend I took a trip down to Naples, Florida to hang out with some friends. While I've been on many trips over the past few years they were never really vacations because I always ended up working. It is not that often I take a day off, I guess its the entrepreneur lifestyle.
- [The CES 2016 Swag Haul](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-ces-2016-swag-haul/) - Each year when I head to Las Vegas for CES I come back with much more than I came with. This is because companies love to give away swag! You know those little goodies comopanies have at their booth or suite and give to you as a thank you for coming to see them. This
- [Covering CES 2016...](https://bobbuskirk.com/covering-ces-2016/) - If you follow me on social media then you know this past week I was in Vegas for CES 2016. The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is the largest trade show in North America and it is where tech companies show off their latest products. I of course was covering the event for ThinkComputers. Covering the
- [Has Tinder Ruined Modern Dating?](https://bobbuskirk.com/has-tinder-ruined-modern-dating/) - Dating, it’s something that can be very time consuming and at the same time very enjoyable. Dating these days is a hell of a lot different than it was even 5 years ago. Dating sites and apps have made it easier to meet people and decide if you actually want to go on a date
- [How You Can Spot Fake Internet "Guru's"](https://bobbuskirk.com/how-you-can-spot-fake-internet-gurus/) - Ever since the internet was started there have been people out there ripping people off and today it is no different. Sadly, because of this when I tell people I make a living online they think I am doing some type of shady marketing or something like that. The truth is I am living proof
- [A Summer On The Water](https://bobbuskirk.com/a-summer-on-the-water/) - As it gets into Fall and Winter I am finally going to start trying to have a regular blog schedule. So expect a lot more blogging about what I have going on, business, and more in the coming months. This post is something I have been wanting to write for a while because the past
- [The #TIM09 Shipment from Quarterly](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-tim09-shipment-from-quarterly/) - Another Quarterly shipment arrived a couple of weeks ago! This is the 9th Quarterly shipment from Tim Ferriss or #TIM09. I have been subscribed to Quarterly since Tim's second box. Quarterly is a little different from the typical monthly subscription boxes. First it is every quarter and secondly you pick a curator. The curator then
- [Things I Do Differently In My 30's](https://bobbuskirk.com/things-i-do-differently-in-my-30s/) - Last month I turned 31! The first full year in my 30's has been an interesting one to say the least. I was thinking over the past few days at how I carry myself and how I do things differently now that I'm in my 30's. Here are a few things that really stand out
- [What a BUSY Summer Its Been!](https://bobbuskirk.com/what-a-busy-summer-its-been/) - You know I always say I want to keep up with my blog, but it does not always happen that way! It is the middle of August and I haven't had a new post since the beginning of June. So what have I been up to? I have been extremely busy, but that is actually
- [Wordpress 101: Plugins & Themes](https://bobbuskirk.com/wordpress-101-plugins-themes/) - Welcome to my second post in a series I am calling Wordpress 101. In my first post I went over why to choose Wordpress. Now I had thought about doing a post on how to install Wordpress, but they have that covered quite well already. Also many hosting companies like BlueHost offer 1-click installs for
- [6 Tips to Be More Effective & Feel Better](https://bobbuskirk.com/6-tips-to-be-more-effective-feel-better/) - Running your own business is not an easy thing to do and it always feels like a constant grind. With this type of work style you can easily burn out, get stressed, and just not be happy at all. Here are six tips that I have integrated into my work routine that should help you be more effective and to feel better. These of course are not just for people who run their own business, they can be used in any type of situation really.
- [Using Your Facebook Page Effectively](https://bobbuskirk.com/using-your-facebook-page-effectively/) - Social Media has really transformed how we market our content, products and services online. Many companies have full-time social media managers and entire social media divisions so it is a real thing and can generate traffic to your website and even better generate revenue. Over the past few years it has been increasingly harder to get your content in front of people on all social media, especially on Facebook. I shouldn't have to tell you that you should have a Facebook page for your business and I’ve already shown you how to build an engaging Facebook community. What I’m here to do today is to show you have to effectively use your Facebook page. Facebook actually gives you many tools to do this. So let’s get started.
- [Wordpress 101: Why Choose Wordpress](https://bobbuskirk.com/wordpress-101-why-choose-wordpress/) - Wordpress is quite known by now. If you don’t know what Wordpress is it is powering this blog! It is a content management system that was first released in 2003 and makes it extremely easy for anyone to start a website, manage content and more. Many of my previous websites were made using flat file systems or were hand-coded and that just takes a lot of time! Now every one of my websites are based off of Wordpress! So why should you use Wordpress? Here are a few reasons…
- [How Doing Meal Prep Has Helped Me Out](https://bobbuskirk.com/how-doing-meal-prep-has-helped-me-out/) - If you happen to follow me on Instagram you will see every once a while I post about doing meal prep. What is meal prep exactly? It is pre-making my meals ahead of time so I can heat them up later. Meal prep is very popular among people who are on a diet. Meal prep
- [How Having an E-mail Newsletter Has Helped My Blogging](https://bobbuskirk.com/how-having-an-e-mail-newsletter-has-helped-my-blogging/) - Lately though, I've been keeping up with it pretty well. One of the main reasons for this is because I have started an e-mail newsletter. I was never really sold on the e-mail newsletter idea, but last year I started a weekly e-mail newsletter for ThinkComputers and I recently decided to have one for the blog too.
- [Tools & Services I Use to run my Business - 2015 Edition](https://bobbuskirk.com/tools-services-i-use-to-run-my-business-2015-edition/) - I get asked over and over again about the different services and tools I use to run my business. So I've decided to compile a list of everything that I use and explain some things so you know what they are all about. All of this information will be on my new Resources page and
- [Why I’m OK Being 30 and Single](https://bobbuskirk.com/why-im-ok-being-30-and-single/) - Before I get started with this posted I want everyone reading this article to read it in its entirety before you go ahead and make a comment. I am not against relationships, love, starting a family, etc. Many people I know are in love, have families and are with the right person. I am completely
- [Seeing Armin Van Buuren 9 Years Later](https://bobbuskirk.com/seeing-armin-van-buuren-9-years-later/) - All the way back in 2006 I went to see my first DJ, it was Armin Van Buuren. I took a little road trip down to Washington, DC with friends to see Armin at a placed called Fur, which is not even there anymore. Armin at the time was ranked #3 in the world, but
- [The #TIM08 Shipment from Quarterly](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-tim08-shipment-from-quarterly/) - It has been a while since I've talked about Quarterly on the blog, this is because their last shipment was actually pretty late. I did not get it until February 5th, when I was actually supposed to get it around Christmas time. Anyways Quarterly is much like those monthly box services, except it is each
- [The Palms Signature 2 Bedroom Suite](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-palms-signature-2-bedroom-suite/) - Well it looks like the ThinkComputers crew is starting a tradition. Last year we decided to stay an extra day and get a really pimp room for the last day of our CES trip. We stayed at the Vdara in their 2 Bedroom Hospitality Suite and really enjoyed it. It gave us a chance to
- [How To Throw a Good CES Party](https://bobbuskirk.com/how-to-throw-a-good-ces-party/) - The week of CES is a lot of fun and it seems like every night there are a few parties. CES parties are quite interesting because they are not like your typical party. Most of the people who work in the industry are not typically "party people" or at least not like the people who
- [A Trip Back To Beijing Noodle No. 9](https://bobbuskirk.com/a-trip-back-to-beijing-noodle-no-9/) - When I'm in Vegas I typically try restaurants that I haven't been to before, but I always seem to make a trip back to Beijing Noodle No. 9 at Caesars. If you didn't know I am a huge fan of Asian food and on top of that they actually hand-pull their noodles there. That is something you don't typically see, unless you are in New York or L.A. So Beijing Noodle No. 9 is usually on the list of restaurants I want to eat at each year.
- [Seeing Steve Aoki at Hakkasan](https://bobbuskirk.com/seeing-steve-aoki-at-hakkasan/) - While I was in Las Vegas I had the chance to check out Hakkasan. It is one of the newest clubs in Vegas and I had yet to go to it. A bunch of industry friends were getting together to go and asked if I wanted to join. Steve Aoki was playing, and while I'm
- [Dinner at Aureole Restaurant](https://bobbuskirk.com/dinner-at-aureole-restaurant/) - One thing I always like about going to Vegas is trying new restaurants. Sunday night after I got in a hardware vendor invited many members of the press to a dinner to catch up and discuss their plans for the upcoming year. I really like these type of events at CES as they are more
- [Wow! What a Vegas Trip This Year!](https://bobbuskirk.com/wow-what-a-vegas-trip-this-year/) - Each year in January I head to Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics show and every year I don't think it can compare to the year before, but this year really blew many of my previous trips out of the water. It seemed like everything fell into place this year and I did some things
- [Guide To Surviving CES as a Journalist](https://bobbuskirk.com/guide-to-surviving-ces-as-a-journalist/) - Well it is January and that means it is CES time for me. CES is the Consumer Electronics Show and it is the biggest trade show in North America. I have been going to the show and covering it for ThinkComputers since 2006 so I think by now I am a seasoned veteran and know
- [10 Things I Could Have Done Better in 2014 (And How I Plan to Fix Them)](https://bobbuskirk.com/10-things-i-could-have-done-better-in-2014/) - 2014 is coming to an end and it is time to reflect on the year I've had and look forward to what is to come in 2015. I have already listed the 10 things I kicked ass at in 2014, so it comes the time to think about my mistakes and the things I could
- [Why I Enjoy Going to CES So Much](https://bobbuskirk.com/why-i-enjoy-going-to-ces-so-much/) - It is getting to be that time of year again, where I gear up to travel to Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show. I cover CES for ThinkComputers as it is the premier event in North America to go to for technology. I posted a Facebook status about going and someone commented and actually
- [10 Things I Kicked Ass at in 2014](https://bobbuskirk.com/10-things-i-kicked-ass-at-in-2014/) - Well December means it is the month of lists. I have already gone over how I thought my year went, but I figured I would give you the list of 10 things I kicked ass this year, before I list the 10 things I could have done better. It is always good to see progress
- [The #1 Reason Why You Don't Do What I Do](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-1-reason-why-you-dont-do-what-i-do/) - I have been thinking about all of the people who have said to me, "I would love to do what you do", but for some reason they are not doing it. I am going to tell you the #1 reason you are not doing what I do and it may make you upset. Here it
- [How Did 2014 Go For Me?](https://bobbuskirk.com/how-did-2014-go-for-me/) - Looking back at my 10 Things I Could Have Done Better in 2013 post I am seeing that I was able to accomplish many of the things on the list and it turned out to be a much better year for me. Let's cover a couple and see what I did to take them happen!
- [Celebrating 15 Years of Glow with New World Punx](https://bobbuskirk.com/celebrating-15-years-of-glow-with-new-world-punx/) - The night before Thanksgiving I went to one of the best EDM shows of my life. Club Glow was celebrating their 15th birthday and what better way to do it than to have New World Punx come and play for an open to close set (9PM - 4AM). Club Glow runs EDM and Dance events in Washington, DC and has been doing so for 15 years. My first EDM even was actually a Club Glow event back in 2006!
- [Things I am Thankful for in 2014](https://bobbuskirk.com/things-i-am-thankful-for-in-2014/) - I had meant to get this post up on Thanksgiving, but I have been traveling over the holiday so I am only getting it up today! Thanksgiving is not only a time to eat food and get together with family, but it is also time to reflect and think about things we are thankful for. Here are some of the things I've been thankful for this year in no particular order.
- [Join the BobBuskirk.com E-mail Newsletter!](https://bobbuskirk.com/join-the-bobbuskirk-com-e-mail-newsletter/) - If there is one thing that I've never done with this blog is have an e-mail newsletter. I have e-mail newsletters for ThinkComputers and some of my other sites so why not have one for the blog. While there is not a whole lot going on with the blog right now, I plan on doing
- [The #TIM07 Shipment from Quarterly](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-tim07-shipment-from-quarterly/) - I have talked about Quarterly and the Tim Ferriss shipment that I am subscribed to a few times here on the blog. Well for those who don't know Quarterly is not your typical box and month service. You get a box each quarter and the box is made up by a curator that you subscribe
- [A Weekend In DC](https://bobbuskirk.com/a-weekend-in-dc/) - A couple of weeks ago my friends and I decided to take a road trip down to Washington, DC. We all planned on going to see DVBBS at Echostage, but it was also a chance to see two of our friends who recently moved down there. DC is about a 4-4.5 hour drive from Pittsburgh.
- [Panera Get Your Act Together…](https://bobbuskirk.com/panera-get-your-act-together/) - I am a pretty big fan of Panera Bread, their food is really good and somewhat healthy. Much better to eat there than go to a fast food place. I usually go there to spend the day working, mostly writing reviews for ThinkComuters or blog posts like this one. It is great to get out
- [iPhone Apps I used the Most - 2014 Edition](https://bobbuskirk.com/iphone-apps-i-used-the-most-2014-edition/) - If you are like me your phone is with you at all times. I am using an iPhone 5s as my main phone and it actually keeps me pretty productive and able to keep updated with what is going on with all of my friends. I wanted to go through some of the apps I
- [Gordon Ramsay Steak Las Vegas](https://bobbuskirk.com/gordon-ramsay-steak-las-vegas/) - If you noticed earlier in the year I did not talk about my annual trip to Las Vegas. I was so busy I really did not get around to talking about it. Of course like I said I am trying to blog more so I definitely wanted to share my experience at one of the
- [New World Punx at Echostage](https://bobbuskirk.com/new-world-punx-at-echostage/) - It has been a while since I talked about a concert or show here on the blog. Well this past weekend I went down to Washington, DC to see Ferry Corsten and Markus Schulz. When they play together they call themselves the New World Punx. I have been into Trance music for over 10 years
- [New Years in New York City](https://bobbuskirk.com/new-years-in-new-york-city/) - New Years is always a great time to go out and spend time with friends. This year I decided to do something different, I went to New York City! It was a great chance to get out of Pittsburgh and hey its New York City so why not right? We went up Sunday the 29th
- [STK Steakhouse in New York City](https://bobbuskirk.com/stk-steakhouse-in-new-york-city/) - When I was in New York City earlier this month I had to chance to have dinner at STK and I have to say it was quite good. We went to the location in the Meat Packing district, which actually happens to be the brands flagship location. There are other locations in New York City, Atlanta, Las Vegas, London, Los Angeles and Miami.
- [Dinner at Social House](https://bobbuskirk.com/dinner-at-social-house/) - If you follow me on Instagram you know one of my favorite things to go eat is sushi. When I was in Las Vegas I had a chance to have dinner at Social House and it was pretty amazing. I actually went to Social House when it was in Treasure Island many years ago. Now it is located inside Crystals at CityCenter. Social House is not strictly a Japanese restaurant it is more Pan-Asian.
- [Seeing Markus Schulz at Marquee](https://bobbuskirk.com/seeing-markus-schulz-at-marquee/) - During my trip to Vegas I made sure to see what DJ’s were going to be in town. There are always great DJ’s playing in Vegas and if the opportunity came up where I could see one I was not going to pass it up. The two big DJ’s that were playing in Vegas the
- [The 2 Bedroom Hospitality Suite at Vdara](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-2-bedroom-hospitality-suite-at-vdara/) - My recent trip to Las Vegas was mostly for business with ThinkComputers as the Consumer Electronics show was the week that I went. After booking flights I found that if I left Monday instead of Sunday I would save around $125 so staying another night in Vegas was a no-brainer. After talking to my buddy Jack about staying an extra day he said we should get an awesome suite for the last night. It sounded like a good idea and we decided on a 2 bedroom hospitality suite at Vdara.
- [Dinner at Center Cut Steakhouse](https://bobbuskirk.com/dinner-at-center-cut-steakhouse/) - It has been a bit since I updated my blog and I totally forgot to post about my dinner at Center Cut Steakhouse at the Flamingo in Las Vegas. I told my buddy Andy that I would take him out to dinner this year at CES. He wanted to go to a steakhouse and he
- [A Weekend Visiting Finger Lakes Wine Country](https://bobbuskirk.com/a-weekend-visiting-finger-lakes-wine-country/) - I have never been a huge fan of wine, it just really is not my thing. My girlfriend asked me if I wanted to go with her family to the Finger Lakes to visit wineries. While I’m not really a wine person I opted to go along as it is always good to get away.
- [Staying at Revel in Atlantic City](https://bobbuskirk.com/staying-at-revel-in-atlantic-city/) - As I said in my Time To Reset post I have been traveling over the past month. It is a great way to clear your mind and I always love exploring and going to new places. I had never been at Atlantic City before this year, but I actually really enjoy it. It is like Vegas with a beach! This last time I was in Atlantic City I stayed at the newest hotel in town, Revel.
- [Staying at Aloft Silicon Valley](https://bobbuskirk.com/staying-at-aloft-silicon-valley/) - Last month I had the chance to stay at an Aloft hotel. Aloft is Starwood's boutique hotel chain. These hotels are actually pretty cool and offer a unique atmosphere. I actually first heard of them when they made a custom playlist for Spotify a year or so ago. Since then I've always wanted to check
- [Lounge 5280 at the Denver Airport](https://bobbuskirk.com/lounge-5280-at-the-denver-airport/) - On my recent trip out to Silicon Valley I connected both ways at the Denver International Airport and had lengthy layovers both ways. The first time through I noticed a cool looking bar called Lounge 5280. Since it was early in the morning and I did not feel like I drink I did not stop
- [Summer 2014 Highlights](https://bobbuskirk.com/summer-2014-highlights/) - Well as you may have noticed I have not blogged in a while. I only really published 1 post a month for the entire summer. I hope that changes soon, but I wanted to recap some of my summer for all who are interested. I should have made posts these things as they were happening,
- [10 Things I’ve Learned In the Past 10 Years](https://bobbuskirk.com/10-things-ive-learned-in-the-past-10-years/) - Today I turn 30. It does not seem like a big deal to me, but I guess it’s one of those big birthdays sort of like when you turn 21. My 20’s are over and wow does it seem like time flies. When I turned 20 I had no clue how my life would turn
- [Buying a Product Because of Instagram](https://bobbuskirk.com/buying-a-product-because-of-instagram/) - I’m sure by now you’ve heard of Instagram and most likely have an account. If not Instagram is a simple way to take a share photos, and add some cool filters to along the way. It is a social network as well so you can follow users and see what photos they are sharing. I
- [Actually Living Life...](https://bobbuskirk.com/actually-living-life/) - If you may have noticed I have not blogged for about a month. So what have I been up to? Well plain and simple I have been living life and loving every second of it! I posted a status update on Facebook about how my life has seemed like a movie lately. Below is that
- [Work Hard, Play Hard & More](https://bobbuskirk.com/work-hard-play-hard-more/) - Well this past Memorial Day weekend was one of the best weekends of my life. I spent each day with great friends and had an all around good time. After all the fun was over I did feel a little down, but the next day I was extremely energized to work and get a lot
- [Interview: Michael Kwan](https://bobbuskirk.com/interview-michael-kwan/) - I've been friends with Michael or Kwanye as many of us call him for quite sometime. We actually met in person on one of my trips to Las Vegas for CES. Since then we have enjoyed many good times together. I've seen him make a business out of his love for writing and he's been able to do some pretty cool things along the way.
- [Time To Reset](https://bobbuskirk.com/time-to-reset/) - While at times it seems like everything is going smoothly in life there will always be and most definitely be rough patches. Sometimes when you think you have everything figured out life throws you a curve ball and like all things in life you have to deal with it. I have been through times like
- [The Importance of Having a Muse or Hobby](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-importance-of-having-a-muse-or-hobby/) - When you are running your own business work can sometimes be all-consuming. There have been many times were I felt like all I ever did was work, I was stressed out, I couldn't concentrate, it just was not healthy. Over the past year I have introduced hobbies and muses into my life which have really
- [Interview: Pat Hanavan](https://bobbuskirk.com/interview-pat-hanavan/) - Today I am kicking off my interview series with Pat Hanavan. Pat is a pretty close friend of mine. Over the past few years I have seen him be a big part of a start-up Vodka company and build an online community and destination website for Faded Industry. So let's get this interview started!
- [The #TIM05 Shipment from Quarterly](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-tim05-shipment-from-quarterly/) - I talked about getting my first Quarterly shipment a little while ago, and now I am actually on my 4th shipment from Tim Ferris, the 5th one he has sent out through Quarterly. The reason I like Quarterly over all of those other box-per-month companies is that you are able to follow actual people. If you are following someone you are into you are more than likely going to enjoy the items inside the box.
- [Upcoming Interview Series](https://bobbuskirk.com/upcoming-interview-series/) - I get asked so many different questions about what I do. These questions range from what I actually do to how I make money online. Over the past few years I have met many different people that make a living online or that work in social media. To give you guys a better idea of
- [What I Accomplished at CES 2014](https://bobbuskirk.com/what-i-accomplished-at-ces-2014/) - Each year I travel to Las Vegas to attend the Consumer Electronics Show. It is a show where many companies show off products that they hope to release in 2014 and many products actually get launched at the show so if you are into computers or consumer electronics it is a really exciting show. But why do I go to the show? Of course to see all of these products, but on top of that I am doing much, much more.
- [10 Things I Kicked Ass at in 2013](https://bobbuskirk.com/10-things-i-kicked-ass-at-in-2013/) - If you missed my previous post on the 10 Things I Could Have Done Better in 2013 make sure you check that out first so you can see what I was not so good at in 2013. As I said in that post it is the end of the year and a good time to
- [10 Things I Could Have Done Better in 2013](https://bobbuskirk.com/10-things-i-could-have-done-better-in-2013/) - Well 2013 is coming to a close and it is that time that I reflect on the year and think of the things I have kicked ass at and the things I could have done better. 2013 was actually the best year for business since I started my own business, which is good, but like
- [Increase Productivity by Going Out More](https://bobbuskirk.com/increase-productivity-by-going-out-more/) - Earlier this year if you asked me to go do something my response would have been something like "Sorry I'm too busy" or "I have too much work to do". I'm sure you've said that to someone before as well. The funny thing is that lately I have been going out a lot, yet I
- [25 Things I'm Thankful for in 2013](https://bobbuskirk.com/25-things-im-thankful-for-in-2013/) - Well today is Thanksgiving and of course that means that you should reflect and think about all of the things you are thankful for. I did this exact same post last year and had quite the list. Wonder if I am thankful for some of the same things I was last year. So here are
- [Being an Entrepreneur and Having a Relationship](https://bobbuskirk.com/being-an-entrepreneur-and-having-a-relationship/) - Last week I came across a great article at Elite Daily entitled "Why It Is Impossible For Entrepreneurs To Have Girlfriends" and after reading it, it really stuck a cord with me because I have been in many relationships that ended up not working out because "I was working too much".
- [10 Years...](https://bobbuskirk.com/10-years/) - Well my 10 year high school reunion is coming up and that got me to thinking, back when I was a senior in high school I worked at a grocery store and never had any money or was that happy. I was under the impression that college and getting a “real” 9-5 job would change that. Then I decided to risk everything, drop out of college and start my own business. You know what happened? I worked my ass off and built a business that not only allowed me to do the things I wanted to do, I was able to meet some of the most amazing people in my life, travel to places I never thought I would see and most importantly feel like I was actually part of something important that benefited other people.
- [Why I Decided to Live By My Own Rules and How You Can Too](https://bobbuskirk.com/why-i-decided-to-live-by-my-own-rules-and-how-you-can-too/) - Many people ask me how I got started doing what I’m doing and they story always ends up with me telling them how I took the leap of faith and dropped out of college to build my business and be able to work on it full time.
- [Stand Out with Your Own Personal Brand](https://bobbuskirk.com/stand-out-with-your-own-personal-brand/) - There are many platforms for building your own personal brand, which we will get into in a second, but why should you waste time building your personal brand?
- [Let’s Get Back to Blogging!](https://bobbuskirk.com/lets-get-back-to-blogging/) - I always say this, but damn I haven’t blogged in awhile! Each time I make some excuse like being busy, working on other projects, etc. There really should not be an excuse. This blog is a reflection of myself and as someone that should be promoting his business through his own personal brand (this blog)
- [My First Quarterly Shipment](https://bobbuskirk.com/my-first-quarterly-shipment/) - Just this week I received my first Quarterly Co shipment. Quarterly is a great startup that will send you physical items from people that you subscribe to.
- [Building an Engaging Facebook Community](https://bobbuskirk.com/building-an-engaging-facebook-community/) - Steps to build an Engaging Facebook Community. I will show you exactly how to get more likes, surge engagement and build your Facebook community.
- [Work and Getting Things Done...](https://bobbuskirk.com/work-and-getting-things-done/) - Hey blog! It’s been a while! It really has and I really need to get back into blogging. At the end of the day it is good to sit down and let the words flow out. Also I always look back at old blog posts to see what I was up to. I have been
- [A Busy Start to 2013](https://bobbuskirk.com/a-busy-start-to-2013/) - I never really expeted 2013 to be as busy as it has been, but overall it is not a bad thing. As you may have noticed I have not updated this blog in over a month! I haven't been lazy, it just has not been a priority to me. So what have I been up
- [Wicked Spoon at The Cosmopolitan](https://bobbuskirk.com/wicked-spoon-at-the-cosmopolitan/) - This year I had the chance to eat at Wicked Spoon, which is the Cosmopolitan's buffet.
- [The CES 2013 Swag](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-ces-2013-swag/) - Ah swag, you know the free stuff you get for attending conferences and events. I make this post every year after CES and I usually end up coming home with something cool. Out of all the events that I attend CES is where I know I will get the most swag.
- [Why I attend Trade Shows and Conferences](https://bobbuskirk.com/why-i-attend-trade-shows-and-conferences/) - Well it is that time of year again! Tomorrow morning I will be jumping on a plane to head to Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). If you are going to CES make sure you check on my guide on how to survive the show. Conferences and trade shows are great to go
- [Looking Towards 2013...](https://bobbuskirk.com/looking-towards-2013/) - Well today is the last day of 2012. Can you believe how fast this year has gone by? At the end of 2011 I told myself I really needed to concentrate on my business and work harder. I think I have done some things to better my business, but I did not fully accomplish everything.
- [A Guide to Surviving the Consumer Electronics Show](https://bobbuskirk.com/a-guide-to-surviving-the-consumer-electronics-show/) - I've been going to CES since 2006 and I have learned quite a lot since that first trip where I was totally clueless. This guide should help you survive CES even if you have attended the show before.
- [25 Things I'm Thankful for in 2012](https://bobbuskirk.com/25-things-im-thankful-for-in-2012/) - With 2012 winding down I have been taking a look back on the year and I have realized I really do have a lot to be thankful for. I've had some great experiences, met some amazing people and even learned a few things. Looking back there are some things and people that made my year
- [Where Did November Go?](https://bobbuskirk.com/where-did-november-go/) - Seriously is it already December? Only 1 blog post last month...I am definitely not that happy about that. So what's the deal? Well to put it simply I have been overworked, stressed and just plain busy. Although I cannot make excuses, I haven't been working as smart and effective as I should be either. First
- [So You Think it is Easy to Run an Online Business?](https://bobbuskirk.com/so-you-think-it-is-easy-to-run-an-online-business/) - If you are thinking about starting your own online business here are some things you may want to consider because it is not the easiest thing to do!
- [How To Get All Your Work Done In 2 Hours A Day](https://bobbuskirk.com/how-to-get-all-your-work-done-in-2-hours-a-day/) - Learn how to get all of your daily tasks done in just 2 hours with this simple system!
- [A Change is Needed....](https://bobbuskirk.com/a-change-is-needed/) - You know for quite a while now I have been doing the same thing day after day. Yes I do have the freedom to work from a coffee shop or Panera, I am my own boss, I can decide that I'm not doing anything on a given day, etc. I should be happy right? Don't get me wrong this past year has been one of the best in a while, but I want more. I am often getting burnt out quicker and quicker and the escapes that helped remedy this before are not as effective. So what should I do?
- [Turning my Desk into a Standing Desk!](https://bobbuskirk.com/turning-my-desk-into-a-standing-desk/) - As I've gotten older it seems I have been exercising and working out less and less. This is never good and teamed with sitting down most of the day as I work it is definitely not a good thing. It seemed I was getting more and more tired every day, and half-way through the day
- [Pages Back and About Me Updated!](https://bobbuskirk.com/pages-back-and-about-me-updated/) - One thing I did not notice when I updated the blog to this theme back in January was that the pages sort of disappeared! They were actually set by default to a "Page" template that I never setup on the theme so when you would click them they would just reload the blog. I have
- [A Week Vacation - Was it Worth It?](https://bobbuskirk.com/a-week-vacation-was-it-worth-it/) - You know it is not often I go on vacations, something I want to change very, very soon, but when it comes to going on vacations many people make up excuses for reasons they cannot go. When my buddy Adam asked me to go to Hilton Head with him for a week some of those
- [The 4th of July in Pittsburgh](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-4th-of-july-in-pittsburgh/) - For the first time in quite a few years I actually went out and did something on the 4th of July. This year I decided to go hang out with friends and try and enjoy the day. We all headed down to station square and once down there we walked across the Fort Pitt Bridge
- [Dinner at the Salty Dog Cafe](https://bobbuskirk.com/dinner-at-the-salty-dog-cafe/) - One place Adam told us we had to check out while in Hilton Head was the Salty Dog Cafe. It is located in an area called South Beach in the Sea Pines Plantation. South Beach sits on the Braddock Cove inlet, which actually makes for some nice scenery. We headed to the Salty Dog for
- [Biking Around Palmetto Dunes](https://bobbuskirk.com/biking-around-palmetto-dunes/) - The area where we stayed in Hilton Head was called Palmetto Dunes. Actually most of the island is separated into these little communities. Inside of Palmetto Dunes are many different resorts, condos and homes. One thing that was really great about most parts of the island are the bike paths. They go all over the
- [Beer Dinner at Giuseppi's](https://bobbuskirk.com/beer-dinner-at-giuseppis/) - A couple of days into the trip Adam and Tim came back with a flyer for Giuseppi's Pizza which advertised a "Beer Dinner". Just hearing the name Beer Dinner I was interested, but we came to find out it was a 4 course meal, where each dish would be paired with a beer. You can't
- [The Beach Routine](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-beach-routine/) - Being at the beach but still having a full work load can be quite stressful. You don't want to be spending most of your day inside on your laptop working and missing out on the best part of the day. I knew coming on this vacation that I needed to change my daily routine and
- [Late Dinner at Truffles Cafe](https://bobbuskirk.com/late-dinner-at-truffles-cafe/) - Our first night on the island we were totally beat. All of us drove down from Pittsburgh and had been up for quite a while. We all passed out for a few hours and when we got up it was around 9PM. Driving around the island the first place we came upon was Truffles Cafe.
- [Spending a week at Hilton Head Island](https://bobbuskirk.com/spending-a-week-at-hilton-head-island/) - If you follow me on twitter you know I am in Hilton Head Island, SC. I have actually been planning this trip for a few months with my friend Adam. September is actually the perfect time to get away from Pittsburgh, as it starts to get cold right around now. We took the 10-11 hour
- [Shooting the Sunset from the Hot Metal Bridge](https://bobbuskirk.com/shooting-the-sunset-from-the-hot-metal-bridge/) - As many of you know photography is a hobby of mine. I am no pro photographer, but I do enjoy shooting different things. One thing I've always wanted to shoot was the view down into the city from the Hot Metal Bridge. Many times I am driving across this bridge and look over and see
- [A Front Page Update to ThinkComputers](https://bobbuskirk.com/a-front-page-update-to-thinkcomputers/) - This year I have really been putting a lot of work into ThinkComputers. We are now doing video reviews and unboxings, we have community forums, a weekly newsletter and much more. One thing we never really posted much on the site was news. I just never viewed it as something important and I wanted to
- [Startup Drinks Pittsburgh](https://bobbuskirk.com/startup-drinks-pittsburgh/) - I really enjoy hanging out with people in the Startup community in Pittsburgh. It is always great to meet new people, talk about ideas and see the cool projects these people are working on. I had actually never heard of Startup Drinks before. The night before I was out and ran in to my friend
- [Turning 28...](https://bobbuskirk.com/turning-28/) - It seems like only yesterday that I was turning 27, now I am 28! Another year has gone by and lessons have been learned. It seems as I am getting older I always think back to even 5 years ago and those unforgettable experiences, meeting new friends, traveling etc. Missing those experiences really makes you
- [Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix 2012](https://bobbuskirk.com/pittsburgh-vintage-grand-prix-2012/) - The Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix is something that I have always wanted to check out. I am not all that into cars, but being able to see all of the older cars and the race was something I was not going to miss this year, especially since I live so close to Schenley Park where
- [50 Finest Casino for a Cure Event](https://bobbuskirk.com/50-finest-casino-for-a-cure-event/) - A couple of weeks ago I attended the 50 Finest Casino for a Cure Event. This event was held by Steve Persing, Andrea Bosco and Sarah Demarco. The event was a charity / fundraiser for Cystic Fibrosis. The 3 people mentioned above are part of this years 50 Finest. Each year the Western Pennsylvania chapter
- [First Sunset at Schenley Park](https://bobbuskirk.com/first-sunset-at-schenley-park/) - It seems I've been at Schenely Park a lot already this summer. I go running there at least twice a week and I have been spending a lot of time at The Porch. I mean I guess it makes sense since I do live within walking distance of Schenley Park. Since I have moved here
- [Add Features and Start New Projects for Motivation](https://bobbuskirk.com/add-features-and-start-new-projects-for-motivation/) - When you do the same thing over and over again it can get old and you can become very bored and unmotivated. This has happened to me multiple times with ThinkComputers. I spend my days either making unboxing videos, taking product photos or writing reviews. This is not bad at all, but doing it day
- [The Drake Concert](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-drake-concert/) - A few weeks ago I had the chance to go to the Drake concert. I actually had not planned on going to the concert, but I ended up winning tickets in a contest. I had two free tickets so why not right? After talking to a few people my 2 good friends Kimiko and Krissy
- [5 Things That Have Changed in the Past 5 Years!](https://bobbuskirk.com/5-things-that-have-changed-in-the-past-5-years/) - The other night I went through and read a lot of my blog posts from back in 2005-2009. If you didn't know I've been blogging since 2005! That is one thing that is great about blogging, you can go back and see what you were up to, it's like a journal. Looking back on these
- [The Porch at Schenley](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-porch-at-schenley/)
- [StartUptown Pittsburgh](https://bobbuskirk.com/startuptown-pittsburgh/) - The past few months I usually take one day a week to head over to StartUptown and work from there. StartUptown is a co-working space where many Pittsburgh technology-based startups have their offices. StartUptown says that they are "An urban campus/incubator for technology and social innovation — StartUptown is a nonprofit organization that provides collaborative
- [Refresh](https://bobbuskirk.com/refresh/) - If you haven't noticed I have not been blogging that much at all. Blogging is something that I've always enjoyed doing and I don't plan on stopping. The past few months have been a little weird for me that is for sure! For a while I was having a real hard time sleeping, well falling
- [Why is it Important to Attend Industry Events](https://bobbuskirk.com/why-is-it-important-to-attend-industry-events/) - Each year when I attend CES I am always reminded of how important it is to attend industry events. Even if there was nothing to cover at CES it is still very important to attend for many reasons, which I have listed below. Showing Face Most of the communication I do with companies I work
- [St. Pattys 2012 with Faded Industry!](https://bobbuskirk.com/st-pattys-2012-with-faded-industry/) - I don't know about you, but in Pittsburgh St. Patty's day is a party day for sure! Even if you are not Irish. There are 3 main party spots for St. Patty's day in Pittsburgh. You have Market Square downtown, Station Square and South Side. Usually you can only make it to one of those
- [Wiz Khalifa drops Taylor Allderdice](https://bobbuskirk.com/wiz-khalifa-drops-taylor-allderdice/) - Now just 2 days ago Wiz Khalifa dropped Taylor Allderdice, which of course pays homage to the high school that he went to and probably his most anticipated mixtape ever. Already the mixtape page on datpiff has over 2 million views and over 500,000 downloads.
- [Why You and Your Brand Needs to be on Google+](https://bobbuskirk.com/why-you-and-your-brand-needs-to-be-on-google/) - Google+ keeps on growing and growing, but many people and brands still have not decided to move over. Well now with Google's Search, plus Your World feature and other things they are doing to promote Google+ you and your brand better be on Google+.
- [Awesome Weekend at FITES LANFest 2012!](https://bobbuskirk.com/awesome-weekend-at-fites-lanfest-2012/) - It has been quite a while since I've been to another LAN Party besides Pittco. I always go to Pittco because ThinkComputers sponsors it and it is in Pittsburgh. My good friend Nik told me about FITES and suggested I signup as a sponsor, so I did and this past weekend I headed to Mechanicsburg,
- [Finding More Interesting Content on Google+](https://bobbuskirk.com/finding-more-interesting-content-on-google/) - I've always liked being able to find interesting and intelligent information and conversations online. I think it all started with people posting links on IRC and on forums. From there it went on to social networks. Of course MySpace was first, but when that was overrun with garbage and profiles that gave me a siezure
- [Super Bowl Commercials 2012](https://bobbuskirk.com/super-bowl-commercials-2012/) - Well I'm sure most of you tuned in yesterday to watch the Super Bowl. Congrats to the New York Giants for winning, it was actually a decent game this year. Since the Steelers were not in the Super Bowl I really was not that interested in the game, but as always I was interested in the commercials. I can't even imagine what they are charging for ad spots during the super bowl these days, but I assume it is A LOT! Companies always try to create great commercials for the Super Bowl ad spot, what better way to get people to use your service or buy your product, especially with that many people watching.
- [The CES 2012 Parties](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-ces-2012-parties/) - One of the best things about CES is the parties that companies throw. Las Vegas has some of the craziest and most over the top hotel rooms and suites. Many companies rent these suites out for private parties. This year there were 3 parties that were pretty memorable this year. The first party was the
- [The CES 2012 Swag Haul!](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-ces-2012-swag-haul/) - One of the best things about going to CES is getting swag, free stuff companies give out as they lure you to come check out their booth. I mean what better way for companies to get your attention then with free stuff! Also rumor has it that on the last day of the show if
- [What a Vegas Trip!](https://bobbuskirk.com/what-a-vegas-trip/) - Well as I said I was heading to Vegas for CES and I have just got back. All I have to say is what a trip! This trip seemed different than all other trips to CES. I am really not sure what it was, but it was a good feeling for sure. This year was
- [Headed to Vegas for CES 2012!](https://bobbuskirk.com/headed-to-vegas-for-ces-2012/) - As you are reading this I am most likely on a plane from Pittsburgh to Las Vegas (gotta love being able to schedule posts with Wordpress). I am on my way to Vegas for this years Consumer Electronics Show or CES as we all call it. If I am counting this right this will be
- [New Year, New Blog Design](https://bobbuskirk.com/new-year-new-blog-design/) - Well as you can see I have a new layout here on my blog! The old layout was on the site for around 3 years, which is quite a long time. Over time it had got cluttered and just seemed boring and out dated to me. Also for a time I had thought about making
- [Into 2012...](https://bobbuskirk.com/into-2012/) - Wow can you believe it is already 2012!?! It seems like 2011 flew by! 2011 was an ok year for me, I know it had its ups and downs, but the good times definitely outweighed the bad times. This yeah has been a learning year for me, by that I mean I have learned from
- [Not Blogging as Much...](https://bobbuskirk.com/not-blogging-as-much/) - Well as you may have noticed my blogging has been a little dry lately. I mean the main reasons really is that I have been super busy, but after thinking about it there are a few different reasons why my blogging has slowed down. I think the biggest reasons is all of the micro-blogging platforms
- [Tim Ferris is back with the 4-Hour Chef!](https://bobbuskirk.com/tim-ferris-is-back-with-the-4-hour-chef/) - If you follow me on twitter or Instagram you know I love food and I love cooking, that is why I am super excited for Tim Ferris's new book the 4-Hour Chef! Tim's book the 4-Hour Workweek really changed how I thought about time management and made all of my businesses more successful. I really
- [Instagram Update 11-9-11](https://bobbuskirk.com/instagram-update-11-9-11/) - Well I really am enjoying these Instagram updates, but I think instead of 1 week intervals I will be doing them every 2 weeks. It makes it easier and I can show you more photos in more of a gallery. So here is the Instagram update for 11-9-11! [nggallery id=2]
- [Some New Shows...Late 2011 Edition](https://bobbuskirk.com/some-new-shows-late-2011-edition/) - Since I have been really working my a** off gearing up for the holiday season I really have not gone out that much. Usually at the end of a long day I try to wind down and relax by watch some TV...well Hulu mostly. Through Hulu I have discovered some great new shows, going through
- [Frzy Boy Go Music Video Shoot](https://bobbuskirk.com/frzy-boy-go-music-video-shoot/) - Some of you may know that I work with a few different artists in the Pittsburgh area. One of them is Frzy, a rapper who has become a very close friend of mine. I have been helping him out with social media and other internet related things. A couple of weeks ago he was shooting
- [It's November, Time To HUSTLE!](https://bobbuskirk.com/its-november-time-to-hustle/) - "Hustle is the most important word. Ever. And that's what you need to do." - Gary Vaynerchuk Well it is getting back in to that time of year again, the holidays. This time of year for me means a lot of work. With ThinkComputers we are reviewing computer hardware and companies are releasing many new
- [Instagram Update 10-23-11](https://bobbuskirk.com/instagram-update-10-23-11/) - Well I missed my last Instagram update! This past week has been pretty insane so this week instead of 5 photos I will give you 10 covering the past 2 weeks on Instagram!
- [Schenley Park Photo Walk - Late Summer](https://bobbuskirk.com/schenley-park-photo-walk-late-summer/) - A couple of week ago I went to Schenley Park to do a photo walk. Photo walk's are always fun because they are a great way to experience a place or event. Since I've moved, Schenley Park is a 5 minute walk so I'm always over there running and taking photos. I would consider it
- [ThinkComputers First YouTube Contest!](https://bobbuskirk.com/thinkcomputers-first-youtube-contest/) - As I mentioned ThinkComputers launched our official YouTube channel not that long ago. To really get it going we have a contest running with Thermaltake where you can win 3 of their cases! You can check it out on the video above to see how you can win. Here is an excerpt from the official
- [Instagram Update 10-8-11](https://bobbuskirk.com/instagram-update-10-8-11/) - Here are 5 of my favorite uploads from Instagram over the past week! Enjoy!
- [Steve Jobs 1955 - 2011](https://bobbuskirk.com/steve-jobs-1955-2011/) - I'm sure by now you've heard that Steve Jobs passed away yesterday of cancer at the age of 56. This was shocking and sad news to many people, myself included. For those who do not know Steve Jobs co-founded Apple Computers with Steve Wozniak in 1976. Over the years he has been the visionary behind
- [The Art of Flight](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-art-of-flight/) - Back when I was in high school I was really in to skateboarding and snowboard, actually one of my first websites was a skateboarding website! After high school though I really lost interest in both skateboarding and snowboarding. I think the main reason was that I did not have that many people to go with
- [Instagram Update 10-1-11](https://bobbuskirk.com/instagram-update-10-1-11/) - Here are 5 of my favorite uploads from Instagram over the past week! Enjoy!
- [Typical Haters...](https://bobbuskirk.com/typical-haters/) - I think just about everyone has at least one hater. You know someone that has to say something negative about everything that you do, that takes the time out of their day to try and bring you down. We all know one person in our life that does this and if you are in any
- [Launched the Official ThinkComputers YouTube Channel!](https://bobbuskirk.com/launched-the-official-thinkcomputers-youtube-channel/) - ThinkComputers has really not done that much video, although we should! All of the videos on ThinkComputers prior to a month ago were mixed in with videos on my personal YouTube page. This was an issue for many reasons so I decided one to create a channel specifically for ThinkComputers and to produce more video
- [Instagram Update 9-24-11](https://bobbuskirk.com/instagram-update-9-24-11/) - If you follow me on Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus and other social networks you know I use Instagam a lot. In the past year it has replaced twitpic as my daily photo program. I really enjoy Instagram and you can create some really cool photos with it. So I have decided to share my photos
- [Logging the Hours This Week!](https://bobbuskirk.com/logging-the-hours-this-week/) - A while back I logged my hours and I came out only working 20 hours a week! This was back in 2007 so how many hours a week and I working now in 2011? Well at the end of the week we will find out! I feel like I am much more productive these days
- [Becoming Personal Again...](https://bobbuskirk.com/becoming-personal-again/) - Well the other night I went back and read every post I've ever written on this blog. I think I just wanted to look back over the past 6 years, but I noticed something. Up until a few years ago I was really being personal, talking about what was going on in my life, how
- [PodCamp Pittsburgh 6](https://bobbuskirk.com/podcamp-pittsburgh-6/) - PodCamp Pittsburgh 6 was this past weekend and it was a blast! PodCamp is a free conference that is put on to teach people about blogging, social media, podcasting and much more. I didn't attend PodCamp last year so I was interested to see what sessions there would be this year. PodCamp started on Saturday
- [10 Years Ago...](https://bobbuskirk.com/10-years-ago/) - You never think growing up that one day, one action, or one event would not only change the world, but be remembered forever. Today marks the 10 year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. It is a day most of us will never forget, I exactly where I
- [Kitchen Confidential](https://bobbuskirk.com/kitchen-confidential/) - I watch a lot of cooking shows, probably because I enjoy cooking so much. Many of the shows I watch for free on Hulu. A few days ago I was watching a show on Hulu and a commercial came on for a show called Kitchen Confidential. The show looked really funny so I decided to
- [Clique Vodka 1 Year Anniversary Party!](https://bobbuskirk.com/clique-vodka-1-year-anniversary-party/) - I can't believe it has been a year since Clique Vodka launched! Clique Vodka was started by some of my close friends and the company and vodka brand has really grown over the past year! They have gone from not being in any stores to being all over the Pittsburgh area, now moving in to
- [Turning 27....](https://bobbuskirk.com/turning-27/) - Another year and another birthday, today I turn 27. 27 is much different from 26, at 26 I was just a year older than 25, at 27 I am getting closer to 30! As I get older I have been realizing a lot, but at the same time I have seen myself make the same
- [The I Am Still Music Tour Pittsburgh](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-i-am-still-music-tour-pittsburgh/) - A few weeks ago Pittsburgh hosted the I Am Still Music Tour featuring Lloyd, Keri Hilson, Far East Movement, Rick Ross and Lil Wayne. Recently I have been working with a local rapper named Frzy and he was picked to play at the VIP tent so of course he asked me to come along. I
- [TeuxDeux: The Pefect To-Do List](https://bobbuskirk.com/teuxdeux-the-pefect-to-do-list/) - So for the longest time I had been looking for a to-do list app for my iPhone. Not only just an iPhone app, but something that I could use on my desktop or pretty much anywhere. So many of the apps that I found were not simple to do list's and have so many unnecessary features that makes things confusing and do not get the job done. A couple of months ago my friend Pat told me about TeuxDeux.
- [How I am Using The Cloud](https://bobbuskirk.com/how-i-am-using-the-cloud/) - I started using the Cloud a few years ago and now it seems I do everything on the cloud, like right now I am using the cloud to write this blog post using Google Docs. Using the cloud is such a convenience because it makes it so I do not have to have a ton
- [Hacking My Sleep - Part 2: Tweaking](https://bobbuskirk.com/hacking-my-sleep-part-2-tweaking/) - A couple of weeks ago I started to plan out how I would hack my sleep. Making it possible to fall asleep faster and easier and being able to wake up refreshed. As I said in my earlier post I've always had trouble sleeping, especially falling asleep. After doing some research I found some methods that would help me and I have been testing them over the past couple of weeks. Let's start with that I am doing...
- [Google Plus Review - A Week In](https://bobbuskirk.com/google-plus-review-a-week-in/) - It seems the buzz all around the internet for the past couple of weeks has been about Google's new social platform Google Plus or Google+. We have seen Google social things before like Buzz, which really did not catch on, but it seems many people are embracing Google+. Google+ is a social network, but what makes it different from Facebook? Well first off Google+ does not have games or 3rd party apps at this time. This means you are not getting stupid requests for apps and for people asking you to help them in Mafia Wars or something like that.
- [5 iPhone Apps July 2011 Edition](https://bobbuskirk.com/5-iphone-apps-july-2011-edition/) - If you are anything like me you carry your iPhone with you everywhere and it is more than just a phone. To me it is my way of connecting with the world when I don’t have access to a computer. There are a ton of iPhone Apps out there, but what ones am I using the most and why? Here are the top 5 iPhone Apps I use the most right now.
- [Hacking My Sleep - Part 1: Planning](https://bobbuskirk.com/hacking-my-sleep-part-1-planning/) - One of the biggest problems I've faced since I was young was being able to fall asleep. It would take me 1-2 hours or even more to fall asleep after actually going to bed. I think this is because I always have a lot on my mind and I think about what all I have to do the next day. Wasting 1-2 hours falling asleep makes me get less sleep, which is never good. Also for the past month probably I have not had a morning where I woke up and felt refreshed. It seems I wake up and I always still feel tired. This obviously affects my work so I knew I had to do something about it.
- [Some Hidden Gems in Highland Park](https://bobbuskirk.com/some-hidden-gems-in-highland-park/) - I am lucky enough to live right beside one of the biggest parks in the city of Pittsburgh, Highland Park. If you didn't know Pittsburgh has many city parks and they are great places to get away from the office. For me living right next to one is very convenient, that way I can just
- [What is Empire Avenue?](https://bobbuskirk.com/what-is-empire-avenue/) - A few weeks ago I kept on hearing about this site called Empire Avenue, then people kept on tweeting about it so I had to check it out. Empire Avenue is basically an online stock market simulation, but you are not investing in companies, but people. How it works is that you create an account
- [A Great Memorial Day Weekend!](https://bobbuskirk.com/a-great-memorial-day-weekend/) - Memorial day weekend is a huge deal here in Pittsburgh. It really marks the start of summer and the weather is usually great. For this reason many people have cookout's and there is always so much do to around the city. For the past 5 years Faded Industry has held the white party. Just like
- [Pittsburgh Bucket List Launched](https://bobbuskirk.com/pittsburgh-bucket-list-launched/) - I'm sure many of you have heard of bucket list's. They are lists of things you would want to do before you die or before you move away etc. After doing some research I found there was not really a bucket list that was specific to Pittsburgh. So I decided to make a Pittsburgh Bucket
- [Pho Thai Nam](https://bobbuskirk.com/pho-thai-nam/) - If you have been reading this blog for any period of time or you read my tweets you know I'm a huge fan of Pho. Pho is Vietnamese beef noodle soup and over the past few years has become one of my favorite foods. This past weekend I was in Philly for theGXL and it
- [My First GXL Experience](https://bobbuskirk.com/my-first-gxl-experience/) - This past weekend I made my way out to Philly to check out one of the largest LAN parties on the east coast, theGXL. I have been going to LAN parties for quite some time, but for the past few years I really have not gamed that much therefor I did not attend many LAN
- [How to Start a Tech Site Webinar](https://bobbuskirk.com/how-to-start-a-tech-site-webinar/) - I get this question all of the time, "How can I do what you do?". That question is not always the easiest thing to answer. This Thursday I will be partnering with John Chow, Stephen Fung and Gary Ng to explain how you can start a tech / review blog or site. Many people think
- [Checking out Refresh Pittsburgh](https://bobbuskirk.com/checking-out-refresh-pittsburgh/) - Refresh Pittsburgh is a is a community of designers and developers working to refresh the creative, technical, and professional culture of Internet designers and developers in Pittsburgh and the surrounding areas. I had actually never heard of Refresh Pittsburgh before my friend Kelly mentioned it to me. I'm always down to check out new tech
- [Pho Van](https://bobbuskirk.com/pho-van/) - One of my favorite types of food has to be Vietnamese food, more specifically Pho. Living in Pittsburgh there really is not a large selection of places to get Pho. I've already told you about Pho Minh, Vietnam's Pho and Lulu's Noodles. Well there is a new Pho place is town called Pho Van! I
- [Using Twitter Search to Start a Conversation](https://bobbuskirk.com/using-twitter-search-to-start-a-conversation/) - By now you have probably have heard all of the hype about Twitter. Everyone uses Twitter these days, it is sort of stupid to not use twitter if you have a company or brand. You cannot just setup a twitter account and post updates and expect to get a ton of followers and people interested
- [Check out Mac Miller!](https://bobbuskirk.com/check-out-mac-miller/) - As most of you know I'm from Pittsburgh and I try to support as many things from Pittsburgh as I can. I wrote about Wiz Khalifa a little while ago and surprisingly I'm talking about another rapper from Pittsburgh, who in my opinion is very good, especially for his age. At only 19 he has
- [My Social Media Update 2011](https://bobbuskirk.com/my-social-media-update-2011/) - So it is 2011, with all of these new social media sites springing up where can you find me? I honestly have been using the same sites for quite a long time, but if you don't know where to find me in 2011 here are some links... Twitter FaceBook Flickr YouTube (mainly ThinkComputers videos) FriendFeed
- [I Hate My Roommate Gets a Facelift](https://bobbuskirk.com/i-hate-my-roommate-gets-a-facelift/) - It has been a little less than a year since I launched I Hate My Roommate with my friend Jack. The layout we had before was very simple and we only really put the site up as something fun and considering my current roommate situation at the time. The site has got some traction and
- [Getting back in to Affiliate Marketing](https://bobbuskirk.com/getting-back-in-to-affiliate-marketing/) - I have been quite busy since the start of 2011. ThinkComputers is taking up much of my time, which is a good thing, but it has consumed me at times. I am finally starting to delegate many of the tasks off to other staff members to free up time for myself and make my life
- [AWESOME Offices - Selgas Cano Architecture](https://bobbuskirk.com/awesome-offices-selgas-cano-architecture/) - Having a great office is important for any type of business. You want your employees to be comfortable, which makes for a better work experience for them and increased productivity for you. My home office is pretty organized and some would call it cool, some of the offices I've discovered are just AWESOME! Today's AWESOME
- [Super Bowl Ads 2011](https://bobbuskirk.com/super-bowl-ads-2011/) - Well if you didn't know already the Steelers lost in this year's super bowl by a score of 31 to 25. It was a good game for sure and great to see Pittsburgh in it, but like most people I watch the Super Bowl for the commercials. With an average US audience of 111 million
- [Steelers Headed to the Super Bowl!](https://bobbuskirk.com/steelers-headed-to-the-super-bowl/) - If you have read this blog for any extended period of time you know I'm a huge hockey fan. That being said I've always enjoyed football and being from Pittsburgh you know my favorite team has to be the Steelers. It's like a sin to be from Pittsburgh and not be a Steelers fan. If
- [The CES 2011 Parties](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-ces-2011-parties/) - One of the best things about going to CES is the parties. Many companies throw parties to bring people together to promote their brand, but also to have fun. CES parties are a great way to network and meet new people because it is not often that you will be in the same room with
- [The CES 2011 Swag Haul](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-ces-2011-swag-haul/) - Each year at CES I am bombarded with a ton of swag, things companies give out to you when you visit their booth or meet with them. This year was no different, I came home with a ton of extra things I did not come to Vegas with. First let's talk about the CES press
- [My CES 2011 Experience](https://bobbuskirk.com/my-ces-2011-experience/) - Well CES 2011 has come and gone and this year was a lot of fun! If you want to see all of the coverage check out this page over at ThinkComputers. CES is always a great way to start out the year. If you don't know what CES is, it is the Consumer Electronics Show.
- [It's 2011 Where has Bob Been?](https://bobbuskirk.com/its-2011-where-has-bob-been/) - I can't believe it is 2011 already! It seems like 2010 went by so fast! As you may have noticed this is my first post in quite some time. I really do enjoy blogging, but a lot has happened in the past few month that has really kept me quite busy and at the end
- [The iPhone 4 So Far...](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-iphone-4-so-far/) - If you didn't know a few week ago I went out and purchased an iPhone 4. My 3G was getting really slow and I figured I could sell my 3G for about as much as I was going to spend on the new phone so I went and got the new iPhone 4. Since getting
- [Wiz Khalifa's Black and Yellow Video](https://bobbuskirk.com/wiz-khalifas-black-and-yellow-video/) - If you are from Pittsburgh then there is probably a chance you have heard of Wiz Khalifa. He is a local rapper from the area and one of the only one's that has received national airplay and in my opinion is one of most talented artist from this area. You may have heard his single
- [My iPhone 4 Buying Experience](https://bobbuskirk.com/my-iphone-4-buying-experience/) - Well I finally went out and got a new iPhone 4. My iPhone 3G has been getting slower and slower since I put the new iOS4 on it and it was just getting annoying so I went to my local Apple store to get the new phone. I went to the Apple Store at South
- [My First Consol Energy Center Experience!](https://bobbuskirk.com/my-first-consol-energy-center-experience/) - If you do not follow hockey or are not from Pittsburgh you might not even know what the Consol Energy Center is. It is a brand new arena that was built in downtown Pittsburgh and is the new home of the Pittsburgh Penguins. The Pens old building the Igloo has been there forever and was
- [ThinkComputers and Thermaltake Giveaway!](https://bobbuskirk.com/thinkcomputers-and-thermaltake-giveaway-2/) - Well over at ThinkComputers we are having another contest on our forums. Our friends at Thermaltake have provided 3 great prizes: Armor A90 PC Case,Toughpower XT 775W Power Supply, and a FRIO CPU Cooler! The contest is pretty easy, here is how you can enter... 1. Thermaltake would like you to “Like” their Facebook Page 2.
- [Some Awesome Sights from the Penthouse](https://bobbuskirk.com/some-awesome-sights-from-the-penthouse/) - It's only been about a month since I moved into the Penthouse and I've been able to catch quite a few really cool things. Since we are on the 23rd floor and above everything around us if there is anything going on we can get a food view of it. The first cool thing we
- [Turning 26...](https://bobbuskirk.com/turning-26/) - Well this past weekend I turned 26. I guess I'm starting to get old! Saying I'm 26 now does seem a little weird but I'm ok with it. Last year when I turned 25 I talked about the past 5 years of my life and how it's been such a great ride. The past year
- [Back Home and All Moved In!](https://bobbuskirk.com/back-home-and-all-moved-in/) - Well I'm back from my vacation in Myrtle Beach and I'm all moved in to my new place! That's right I've moved once again! Back in June I moved into my friends apartment, but that was only a temporary situation until the new place was ready. 2 days after I got back from vacation I
- [The Clique Vodka Launch Party](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-clique-vodka-launch-party/) - Clique Vodka was recently released and it was actually started by a group of people here in Pittsburgh! A few of these guys actually happen to be friends of mine so they invited me to the launch party for the Vodka. The party was hosted at the PPG Aquarium, which was actually a very cool
- [Awesome Few Days in Myrtle so Far!](https://bobbuskirk.com/awesome-few-days-in-myrtle-so-far/) - Wow these past few days here in Myrtle Beach have just been awesome! It has been so great to be able to relax and not have much to worry about. There are 13 of us here and being with that many people you are bound to have fun! During the day we are at the
- [In Myrtle Beach!](https://bobbuskirk.com/in-myrtle-beach/) - Wow this summer has gone by so fast it is insane! As you may have noticed I haven't updated my blog for a while. I really have meant to, but things just have been so busy and it has really been hard to sit down at the computer unless it is for work. I'm pretty
- [Connecting with People in Your Area](https://bobbuskirk.com/connecting-with-people-in-your-area/) - One thing that I've always stressed to people when going to conferences is that you should always meet new people and network. I have met some great business partners and good friends at conferences and I would have never met them if I didn't take the initiative and go up to them and introduce myself.
- [The Wait Is Over! Blog Profit Camp Opens!](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-wait-is-over-blog-profit-camp-opens/) - The wait if over! John Chow has open his Blog Profit Camp coaching program for registration. However, it’s only open for 4 days so you need to sign up now to ensure you get a seat! Blog Profit Camp is a 12-week interactive course that will show you step by step how to make big
- [1 Day Left in the CyberPower and ThinkComputers System Giveaway!](https://bobbuskirk.com/1-day-left-in-the-cyberpower-and-thinkcomputers-system-giveaway/) - I should have really announced this sooner on the blog, but I guess I just have been busy! As you all know I own and run ThinkComputers and we are holding one of the best Giveaways ever! We are giving away an entire gaming computer! That's right a full computer! The good people over at
- [Easy Ways to Bring People Back to Your Website](https://bobbuskirk.com/easy-ways-to-bring-people-back-to-your-website/) - One thing that I end up doing a lot is going to a website and really liking the content, but then totally forgetting about the website and never being able to find it again. While this is annoying to me, it can't be a good thing for the site owner. With any website I've ever
- [How to Make Big Money Bloggin!](https://bobbuskirk.com/how-to-make-big-money-bloggin/) - I've known John Chow for quite some time now, even before he started blogging! After meeting him he showed me how to make money with ThinkComputers and ever since then I've been doing it as a full time job! He really knows a lot about making money online and how to do it the right
- [A Temporary Situation](https://bobbuskirk.com/a-temporary-situation/) - Well if you didn't notice lately I have been a little behind on my blogging. This is mainly because I have been packing, moving and putting things in storage. Yeah that's right I have moved again! Not that long ago I moved into my new apartment in the city. It turns out things didn't really
- [A Fun Memorial Day Weekend](https://bobbuskirk.com/a-fun-memorial-day-weekend/) - This past weekend was Memorial Day and for most people it is a long weekend. Since I work from home it really was not a long weekend for me, but I did enjoy my weekend. As I said in an earlier in a post I have been getting out more and this past weekend was
- [The Website is Down - Sales Demolition](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-website-is-down-sales-demolition/) - Back in 2008 I talked about the Website is Down video that was going around the internet. It was extremely funny, especially if you ever worked in IT or tech support before. After watching that video a few times I really never went back to the website, but the other day I thought of it and I went back to the website to see that they had 3 new videos. Each of them are pretty funny but their latest one Sales Demolition is extremely hilarious! You can check it out below...
- [How to Turn Your Hobby Into a Business](https://bobbuskirk.com/how-to-turn-your-hobby-into-a-business/) - If you have been reading this blog for a while you probably know that before I was running ThinkComputers full time it was just a hobby. I feel very fortunate that I was able to take a hobby and turn it into a full time job. It's not often that many people get to do what they love for a living. I'm not sure if I would call myself lucky, because it did take a lot work to get where I am but I guess I feel lucky that my job really does not feel like a real job. The thing is anyone can really do what I do, and anyone can turn their hobby into a business. The thing is, it just takes WORK! I worked on ThinkComputers just for fun, without making any money for almost 4 years before I learned I could make money with it! Here are some tips that should help you turn your hobby into a business.
- [Pittsburgh's Schenley Park](https://bobbuskirk.com/pittsburghs-schenley-park/) - The other day I went for a walk in Schenley Park and realized that I had taken photos there last fall and never put them up! I actually meant to do a whole blog post on the park but I never happened so here it is now! If you live in Pittsburgh there is a good chance you have been to Schenley Park or at least have heard about it. I had heard about it before I moved into the city, but never actually went to it till last fall. One thing that I've learned about living in the city is that there are actually a lot of parks located in the city, which is really nice for people that live in the city. That way we don't have to drive 30 minutes out of the city to feel like we are out of the city in a nice park.
- [How to Work Less and Get Out More!](https://bobbuskirk.com/how-to-work-less-and-get-out-more/) - Let's face it working from home isn't the easiest thing. Some people may think it is, but remember you are your own boss, you are the person that has to push yourself to work etc. It seems every few months or so I get in some sort of funk where I am working myself to death, I am stressed all the time and I am not very happy. I guess most people would call this burning out. It's not really a good feeling and it is a hard thing to come back from. I've always have done things to help myself from not burning out, say take a day and work from a coffee shop or something similar. This works in the short term, but it is not a solution. Recently I have been reading The 4-Hour Workweek and I really dawned upon me I need to get out more, not just for work, but for fun.
- [Why Are You Not On Foursquare!](https://bobbuskirk.com/why-are-you-not-on-foursquare/) - If you haven't heard of foursquare by now you should have! Foursquare is a location-based social networking site. I have actually been using location-based social networking sites for a while now. I first started with Brightkite, which was a service where I could check in places and share my location with people. Foursquare is much the same thing except they have added a sort of game aspect to it by giving you points for checking in places and awarding badges for doing certain things.
- [Adagio Tea's IngenuiTEA](https://bobbuskirk.com/adagio-teas-ingenuitea/) - [ad#right]Since first getting into tea I have really come to enjoy it! I've tried so many different types of tea's and been to quite a few tea stores here in Pittsburgh. If you live in Pittsburgh I would suggest you check out the Teavana store in Ross Park Mall, it is a great place if you don't know that much about tea. Anyways when I first started brewing my own tea I used the Adagio Glass Mug and Infuser, which worked really well, but was a pain to clean. So I was looking around for other options and I came across the IngenuiTEA teapot from Adagio.
- [I Hate My Roommate Launched!](https://bobbuskirk.com/i-hate-my-roommate-launched/) - [ad#right]As I said in my Rethinking 2010 post I wanted to work on more projects and this is my first one. Have you ever had a bad roommate? I sure have and I realized there really isn't anywhere online to complain and rant about your bad roommate. So I decided to create I Hate My Roommate, I place where you can put your roommate on blast! I have collected a few stories from friends and I have quite a few of my own on that will be going up on the site in the coming weeks. The site really isn't there to make any money or anything like that, just something fun to do.
- [Rethinking 2010](https://bobbuskirk.com/rethinking-2010/) - This year started off just like every year with the trip to Vegas for CES. That trip is a great way to start the year and gives me great motivation, but this year I didn't seem as motivated from it. I'm really not sure why but starting in February I really started to ask myself the question, What am I doing with my life? I know running ThinkComputers is a full time job, but it just seemed like I could be doing more with my life. As I said before I started watching the Random Show and because of that I decided to pick up Tim Ferris's book The Four Hour Work Week. Wow I'm not even half way through the book and I've had a total different outlook on life. So I've decided to rethink 2010 and here are some of my plans.
- [A Look at the New Office](https://bobbuskirk.com/a-look-at-the-new-office/) - Working from home running your own company is hard to do that job when you are not very comfortable sitting at your computer every day. If you didn't know I am in Pittsburgh, PA and I run my websites out of my house. I have turned the extra bedroom into an office for. When I first moved in I had the room setup a completely different way than what it is now. Originally I had the 2 desks separated, one in each corner of the room. This really did not work at all, things just became too cramped and my desk was really cluttered. Mainly because I had my 4 external drives on the desk, which was not the best idea. Below is a photo of what my old desk looked like.
- [Things I Hate About Pittsburgh](https://bobbuskirk.com/things-i-hate-about-pittsburgh/) - [ad#right]Well if you didn’t know I’ve been living in Pittsburgh all my life. I’ve live in the suburbs most of my life but I moved closer into the city about a year ago. You really learn a lot about a city when you live in it. I’ve learned even more since living closer to the
- [4 Time Management Tips](https://bobbuskirk.com/4-time-management-tips/) - When you are working, especially when you are working for yourself and at home time management is very important! Bad time management can really make productivity go down. Many times when my time management isn't that good it seems like I never get anything done. This can be very frustrating going day after day feeling like I've accomplished nothing! This usually isn't the case because I have implemented a few simple things that really help me with time management. So what are they?
- [Vietnam's Pho](https://bobbuskirk.com/vietnams-pho/) - I've become a big fan of Pho over the past few years, from my first Pho in Vegas to finding out about Pho Minh in Pittsburgh. I was browsing the Pittsburgh Tweetup website and I noticed they had a Pho event coming up. My first thoughts were that it would be held at Pho Minh, but it was scheduled to be at a place called Vietnam's Pho. Being a big fan of Pho I was surprised I had never heard of Vietnam's Pho before. I looked it up and they even had a website! I definitely wanted to check it out so my friend Colin and I headed down for the Tweetup.
- [Have you checked out the Random Show?](https://bobbuskirk.com/have-you-checked-out-the-random-show/) - Lately I haven't had time to watch any TV or even listen to Podcast's that I would listen to on a weekly basis. One thing I always try to do is listen or watch things that inspire me or make me want to do more. Surprisingly the Random Show is one of those things. The Random Show was put together by Kevin Rose and Tim Ferris where they talk about traveling, investing, technology, health etc. Kevin Rose is the founder of Digg.com, but you also may know him from The Screen Savers back in the old TechTV days. Tim Ferris is best know for his book The 4-Hour Workweek, he also has done some pretty amazing things in his life.
- [February 2010 Thoughts](https://bobbuskirk.com/february-2010-thoughts/) - 2010 is sure going by very quickly! It is already March and it seems like it was just the new year not that long ago! This month hasn't been the best here is Pittsburgh as we've had some of the worst snow storms in recent memory as you could tell from my Snowed In post. I was extremely busy working on a new project and ThinkComputers last month so I was only able to write 6 posts, my favorite out of them would have to be the Things I love about Pittsburgh
- [Mentioned in the New York Times](https://bobbuskirk.com/mentioned-in-the-new-york-times/) - Back in January I wrote an article on ThinkComputers about this year's experience at CES, where companies were getting thrown out of hotels because they did not register with the CEA. I also reposted the article on this blog as I wanted to share my experience with all of the readers here. About a week after the article was posted I was contacted by the New York Times, they interviewed me for about 30 minutes about the article and my CES experience this year compared to last year. I was pretty cool being interviewed, I have only been interviewed 2 other times and it was by websites, not a big publication like the New York Times. Here is a quote from the article...
- [Things I Love About Pittsburgh](https://bobbuskirk.com/things-i-love-about-pittsburgh/) - Well if you didn't know I've been living in Pittsburgh all my life. I've live in the suburbs most of my life but I moved closer into the city about a year ago. You really learn a lot about a city when you live in it. I've learned even more since living closer to the city and going out more. I originally got the idea for this post from Michael Kwan who did 2 posts about the things he likes and dislikes about Vancouver. So I figured I know a lot about Pittsburgh I should let you know the things I like and dislike about Pittsburgh. This post is the things I love about Pittsburgh, but believe me there are things I dislike so stay tuned for that post as well!
- [SUSHISAMBA at the Palazzo](https://bobbuskirk.com/sushisamba-at-the-palazzo/) - When you think of Las Vegas you think huge casinos and gambling, but Las Vegas has some of the best restaurants in the county. Hell even some of the buffets are really good! I've had some of the best meals of my life in Vegas. The Rodizio Fire Pit at Rum Jungle was awesome, my monstrous shrimp cocktail and 22oz porterhouse at Envy Steakhouse was just great and the 5-course meal I had Zeffirino was simply amazing. Oncec again this year in Las Vegas I had one of the best meals of my life, definitely the best sushi of my life!
- [Super Bowl Ads 2010](https://bobbuskirk.com/super-bowl-ads-2010/) - I'm not a huge football fan, especially when the Steelers are not playing, but I did watch the Super Bowl this year. The Reason? The ads of course! Before we get into that congrats to the Saints for pulling out the 31-17 victory over the Colts, the onside kick to start the 2nd half was brilliant. According to the Super Bowl XLIV Wikipedia page the broadcast had a US audience of 106.5 million viewers and scored a Nielsen rating of 46.4 with a 68 share, the highest for a Super Bowl since Super Bowl XX in 1986.
- [Snowed In!](https://bobbuskirk.com/snowed-in/) - If you live anywhere from the mid to north east part of the country this weekend should have been interesting for you. It all started Friday evening when a light snow started to fall and by late that night we had about a foot of snow on the ground and it didn't stop snowing until sometime Saturday! It was pretty crazy, seeing people try to dig their cars out and failing horribly. Luckily I didn't really have to go anywhere all weekend and I had enough food to last me so I didn't have to leave my apartment. My friends came over Friday night and were stuck here till Sunday!
- [January 2010 Thoughts](https://bobbuskirk.com/january-2010-thoughts/) - Wow it's already a month into 2010! January was a really crazy month for me as I was in Las Vegas for CES. I tried to fill everyone in on my trip, but I still have 3-4 posts to publish, so stay tuned for those. Out of the 9 posts from January my favorite would have to be My 2009 Year In Review. It is always good to look back and see what you were doing and having a blog enables you to look back. That is why I love blogging, from time to time I will go back and read my old posts to remember fun times, get new ideas, and just to look at old photos. That's just another reason to start blogging if you haven't already.
- [Backupify – Secure Your Online Life](https://bobbuskirk.com/backupify-–-secure-your-online-life/) - I use many online services and I’m sure you do too. If you don’t think you do you probably at least have a Facebook account. So you put tons of photos on there, write long notes, get tagged in photos etc. What if for some reason Facebook crashed and you lost all of those images and other important things on Facebook? This is very unlikely to happen, but it is always good to have a backup of everything. This is where Backupify comes in. It’s a service that backs up many cloud services and for a limited time (till Jan 31st) the service is free.
- [Is CES Slowly Going Away?](https://bobbuskirk.com/is-ces-slowly-going-away/) - I myself have been going to CES for 5 years now. For ThinkComputers it is really the highlight of the entire year, we really don’t attend any other trade shows. We get to see the latest technology, new products and catch up with old friends, not to mention getting to spend a week in Vegas. Something really stood out to me this year during CES…it was very small! Also this year CEA (the company that runs CES) tried to kick out many exhibitors who opted to use hotel rooms instead of paying for a booth.
- [Lenovo’s Blogger Nights](https://bobbuskirk.com/lenovos-blogger-nights/) - Another really cool event I was able to attend during CES this year was Lenovo’s Blogger Nights. This was a 3 day event hosted at AquaKnox at the Venetian. The entire event was hosted by Lenovo, but each night was co-hosted by someone else. Wednesday night was co-hosted by social media club, Thursday Night was co-hosted by Social Media Jungle and Friday night was co-hosted by GDGT. Because CES was so crazy we were only able to make it on the last night, which was Friday.
- [The 2010 PC Race For Charity](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-2010-pc-race-for-charity/) - The PC Race is one of the best events to attend during CES. Not only is it for a good cause, but you really get to network with a lot of people and hell it has the best food! Also it's probably the only place you will be able to find most of the tech media all in one place! So the way this event works is that 30 contestants all tech media see who can build a computer the quickest with the winner getting $10,000 towards the charity of their choice. Second and third place also get cash prizes for charity and everyone's computer that gets built does get donated to their charity so it is a win-win!
- [The CES 2010 Swag](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-ces-2010-swag/) - One thing that is great about going to conferences is all the free swag you get. Since I go to these events as media many companies have made up gift bags especially for media members. Another thing that I've also noticed is that the more established your site is the better swag you get! This year I really didn't want to pick up that much swag mainly because I never really use half of it and it is a pain to pack in my suitcase, but I did get quite a few useful things this year.
- [The 2010 Night Before CES Party](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-2010-night-before-ces-party/) - Everyone knows the Night Before CES Party is always the best! It’s always packed, there is a great DJ, free food and drinks and of course they have it at the best location, Palms Place. This year the party was hosted by Cooltronics, Futurelooks, and Redux. Last year we were on the 56th floor of Palms Place, but this year we were up on the 58th floor! Once again this floor only has 4 suites all of which feature 3,120 square feet of space, a pool table, full kitchen, and five 42-inch plasma TV’s. It’s the perfect place to have a party!
- [In Vegas for a Week](https://bobbuskirk.com/in-vegas-for-a-week/) - Well it’s that time of year again, off to Vegas for CES. This trip is always a lot of fun and it sure gives me a break from all of the holiday madness of the past month. It also is good to get out of Pittsburgh and the cold, although it is only around 50 degrees in Vegas it is sure a lot better than like 15-20 degrees in Pittsburgh, and there is no snow!
- [Tracking Events on Twitter](https://bobbuskirk.com/tracking-events-on-twitter/) - I have been using Twitter for quite some time now and I really did not find out its potential until a few months ago. Many people think that Twitter is just for seeing what your friends are up to or in my case seeing what I'm having to eat, but it is really a useful resource for tracking current events and things that are going on right this minute. This is really where you see the power of Twitter and why hashtags are extremely useful.
- [My 2009 Year in Review](https://bobbuskirk.com/my-2009-year-in-review/) - Wow it's 2010! Not only a new year, but a new decade! This past year was a very good year for me, there were all kinds of ups, downs, and in between's. If you have a blog you know how great it is that you are able to look back on things you have done and be able to see the good times, reflect on your mistakes, and just remember some things you may have forgot. So here is my 2009 year in review, hope you all enjoy it!
- [ThinkComputers now on Wordpress!](https://bobbuskirk.com/thinkcomputers-now-on-wordpress/) - You notice I have not updated this blog in quite sometime. That is because over the past 2 months I have been working on ThinkComputers like a mad man! ThinkComputers has been run on a flat-file system since I started it back in 2001. We used a simple PHP script to pull pages and help
- [October 2009 Thoughts](https://bobbuskirk.com/october-2009-thoughts/) - Wow what a crazy month it has been! First you may have noticed I have not updated this blog in a over a MONTH! That is way to long without an update! There is a good reason for this, if you head on over to ThinkComputers you will notice the new design. Not only did
- [Old Media Using New Media](https://bobbuskirk.com/old-media-using-new-media/) - When I was registering for PodCamp Pittsburgh 4 I noticed that 96.1's Morning Freak Show hosts Mikey and Big Bob were leading a session called, "We Do a Radio Show … But Not Really". I listen to the Freak Show in the morning and I also follow both Mikey and Big Bob on Twitter so
- [Schenley Plaza](https://bobbuskirk.com/schenley-plaza/) - As most of you know I moved to Shadyside not that long ago. Since moving I've been discovering new places and things. One of the places I've been spending a lot of time lately is Schenley Plaza in Oakland. Schenley Plaza is located between the Carnegie and Hillman Libraries and directly across from the Cathedral
- [SEO 101 with Jami Broom](https://bobbuskirk.com/seo-101-with-jami-broom/) - While at PodCamp Pittsburgh 4 this past weekend I was able to attend Jami Broom's session on SEO for Wordpress. Jami is an Internet Marketing Strategist at ClicksToMySite.com. I already know a lot about SEO, but I figured I would sit in on the session to not only learn more, but share what I learned
- [A Few Blog Changes](https://bobbuskirk.com/a-few-blog-changes/) - If you come to this blog often you know that I don’t change things up that much. Well finally I made a few changes, some of the stuff I’ve been meaning to do for a while actually, and I just never got around to it. It is always good to change up your blog from
- [PodCamp Pittsburgh 4](https://bobbuskirk.com/podcamp-pittsburgh-4/) - This past weekend I spend Saturday and Sunday at the Art Institute downtown. Well what was I doing down there? I was at PodCamp! PodCamp is a free conference that has been put together to help people learn about podcasting, blogging, social media and more. I’ve heard of PodCamp for quite a while and really
- [The 2009 Pittsburgh Penguins](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-2009-pittsburgh-penguins/) - I really does not seem that long ago that I was celebrating the Pens winning Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals and going downtown for the City of Champions parade. It was sure a short summer for the Pens and I'm so glad hockey is back! The Penguins were able to keep most of
- [Image is Everything](https://bobbuskirk.com/image-is-everything/) - I'm writing this blog post because something interesting happened this past week when I was grocery shopping. I was at Walmart walking down the snack isle looking for some stuff and I walked by a large section of Great Value chips. At first I did not realize that they were the Good Value brand because
- [September 2009 Thoughts](https://bobbuskirk.com/september-2009-thoughts/) - Another month has gone by and as always it went very, very fast. This month was more like a chill month I didn't get as much work done as I would have liked to, but I still worked pretty hard. Towards the end of the month I really started to get cold here in Pittsburgh
- [1 Sale a Day](https://bobbuskirk.com/1-sale-a-day/) - If you are anything like me you love finding a great deal online. I’m sure by now if you shop online you know about woot.com and I already talked about HoopStick, which is currently no longer offering items for sale. About a week ago my friend Brittany told me about 1saleaday.com. Which is actually exactly
- [My G20 Experience](https://bobbuskirk.com/my-g20-experience/) - If you are a Pittsburgh resident you knew that the G20 summit was here last week. If you are not a Pittsburgh resident the G20 summit was a meeting between a group of finance ministers and central bank governors from 20 economies. So basically we had 20 world leaders including President Obama in Pittsburgh for
- [Seesmic Desktop](https://bobbuskirk.com/seesmic-desktop/) - Since signing up for Twitter I had used Twhirl as my client. I really prefer using a desktop client over Twitter's website or other sites. It is nice since I'm running dual displays so I can have Twitter and other related clients on 1 screen and my work on the main screen. When using Twhirl
- [Experiencing Conferences on the Web](https://bobbuskirk.com/experiencing-conferences-on-the-web/) - Well yesterday was the 140 Twitter Conference in Los Angeles, CA. I Love Twitter and would have loved to have been at the event, but it really wasn’t worth going to for the costs involved. So I found out via Twitter that they were streaming the conference live! So all day yesterday I watched the
- [The New Workstation](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-new-workstation/) - Since moving into my new apartment in May I’ve had to make a small yet very effective change to the way I had the office setup. Originally I had my desk facing the wall where I could look out the window. This worked well for a while, but I guess I just got tired of
- [Awesome Labor Day Weekend](https://bobbuskirk.com/awesome-labor-day-weekend/) - This past weekend was Labor Day weekend and I sure took advantage of it! When you run your own business it is very stressful and being able to have an escape from all the craziness is nice. I started the weekend out celebrating my friend Cory’s birthday down at the new River’s Casino. If you
- [Sponsored Tweets - Make Money with Twitter](https://bobbuskirk.com/sponsored-tweets-make-money-with-twitter/) - By now you should know what Twitter is, but did you know you can make money from Twitter. A couple of weeks ago Sponsored Tweets was launched by IZEA, the company that has brought us PayPerPost. Think of Sponsored Tweets as a PayPerPost for Twitter. Sponsored Tweets will connect you with advertisers and they will
- [August 2009 Thoughts](https://bobbuskirk.com/august-2009-thoughts/) - Well I guess that's it, summer is over! September 1st marks the end of summer for most people, they go back to school or start getting too busy to go out all the time. Things do seem different now that it is September, but let's look back on August. August was another slow blogging month,
- [Castaways Outside Inn](https://bobbuskirk.com/castaways-outside-inn/) - Last week I headed out to Bridgeville for Pittsburgh’s second TasteCasting event! This time it was held at Castaways outside Inn, which is located right on the main drag in downtown Bridgeville. The place really isn’t hard to miss with the bright yellow awning. Castaways calls themselves a sports bar / restaurant and that is
- [Turning 25...](https://bobbuskirk.com/turning-25/) - I guess after 21 this is the next big birthday...Well I turn 25 today! Thinking back on the last 25 years of my life is crazy, just thinking that I've been alive for 25 years is crazy in itself. When you are young you always imagine what you will be doing when you are 25
- [Getting Into Tea](https://bobbuskirk.com/getting-into-tea/) - Surprisingly enough I had never had any type of tea up until last year. The first tea I had was at Pho Minh, a Vietnamese place here in Pittsburgh. I really enjoyed it and started looking into tea, and since I watch Diggnation and follow Kevin Rose on twitter, I learned about loose tea. So
- [Why Social Media Isn't Going Away](https://bobbuskirk.com/why-social-media-isnt-going-away/) - Ahh good old social media, if you want to know what exactly I'm talking about Wikipedia defines social media as online content created by people using highly accessible and scalable publishing technologies. Social media is a shift in how people discover, read and share news, information and content; it supports the human need for social
- [Make Money Online with Super-Resell](https://bobbuskirk.com/make-money-online-with-super-resell/) - The following is a paid review: I’m asked all the time by many people how can I make money online? I mean it really isn’t the easiest question to answer, especially if I really don’t know the person asking the question. Well recently I was shown a website that not only can make you money
- [July 2009 Thoughts](https://bobbuskirk.com/july-2009-thoughts/) - Wow another month that has flown by! I guess that what happens in the summer it seems like it goes by so fast! This month was a very productive one for me! ThinkComputers has really been pushing out content and our traffic has been up a lot. Since being in my new apartment it seems
- [In Myrtle Beach for a Week](https://bobbuskirk.com/in-myrtle-beach-for-a-week/) - If you follow me on Twitter you know that I’m at the beach! Finally a much needed vacation! Last year I really didn’t get much of a vacation at all, I mean I did go on the CST mountain adventure, but that was only a weekend and it was only about an hour outside of
- [3 Free Marketing Tools Your Website Should Have](https://bobbuskirk.com/3-free-marketing-tools-your-website-should-have/) - If there is one thing that everyone want's for their website or blog....it's traffic. It's great when your blog or website gets traffic. It can make you money, get you more members, or just get more people interested in what you are writing about. Many people think that you have to pay to get a
- [Pittsburgh's First TasteCasting - Melange Bistro Bar](https://bobbuskirk.com/pittsburghs-first-tastecasting-melange-bistro-bar/) - A while ago I was invited into the Pittsburgh TasteCasting group. TasteCasting is a team of people that get invited to restaurants and eateries for a complementary tasting. In exchange the team members share their experience with their collective networks of friends on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. The Pittsburgh TasteCasting group is a new addition
- [Setting the Right Goals](https://bobbuskirk.com/setting-the-right-goals/) - Setting goals is something you should always do. Goals give you direction and help you stay focused on the task at hand. The thing is people often set the wrong goals for themselves and when they do not accomplish them they tend to get discouraged and that just leads to them being unproductive. I always
- [City of Champions Parade](https://bobbuskirk.com/city-of-champions-parade/) - This was another post that I meant to get done last month, but with everything going on I didn’t have time to finish it. After the Pens won the Stanley Cup the city of Pittsburgh celebrated the victory by holding a City of Champions parade downtown. You know me being a crazy hockey fan I
- [ThinkComputers Publishes It's 1000th Review!](https://bobbuskirk.com/thinkcomputers-publishes-its-1000th-review/) - Wow just a little while ago back in December I was talking about ThinkComputers 900th review, now ThinkComputers is over 1000 reviews! Making it to review #1000 really means a lot and thinking back over those 1000 reviews it has been quite a fun ride! The site started as my senior project for school way
- [The New Apartment](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-new-apartment/) - As I said in my May 2009 thoughts post I would show you guys my new apartment! The apartment is right around the Shadyside / Squirrel Hill area right off Fifth Ave. I really like this area a lot; it is right around the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University, and Chatham College so there
- [June 2009 Thoughts](https://bobbuskirk.com/june-2009-thoughts/) - Its funny how fast time flies when you are busy and enjoying things. June when by so fast it's crazy! I really hope the summer isn't like this! I have been busy with of course ThinkComputers and adjusting to life in the new apartment, which I love. As promised I will have a post about
- [Pandora Internet Radio](https://bobbuskirk.com/pandora-internet-radio/) - If there is one thing that gets me through the long work day sitting at my computer it is music. Music puts you in a good mood and you can listen to a variety of different music depending on your mood. Sometimes I want to listen to techno when I need to get pumped up
- [Stanley Cup Champs!](https://bobbuskirk.com/stanley-cup-champs/) - That’s right, your 2009 Stanley Cup Champs are the Pittsburgh Penguins! I was so excited that we were back in the finals and now it’s unreal that the Cup is back in Pittsburgh. This series with Detroit had it’s up and downs, losing game 1 and 2 in Detroit, coming back to Pittsburgh and winning
- [Zack Morris is Back!](https://bobbuskirk.com/zack-morris-is-back/) - Ah Saved By the Bell…I like grew up on that show. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen every episode at least a few times. Zach Morris was my idol when I was growing up, I wanted to be just like him! I’m sure if you’re around my age you have seen Saved By the Bell and
- [What is Your Escape?](https://bobbuskirk.com/what-is-your-escape/) - If you have a very time consuming job or work for yourself it can be very stressful. I know at times I always have work on my mind and it seems like everything revolves around work. That can not only be stressful for you, but they people around you will notice as well. So how
- [Back in the Finals!](https://bobbuskirk.com/back-in-the-finals/) - I meant to post this last week but the move kind of put it on the back burner. As many you know I’m a huge hockey fan. Being from Pittsburgh of course I’m a fan of the Penguins, I’ve been since I was a little kid. As you might have known the Pens went to
- [May 2009 Thoughts](https://bobbuskirk.com/may-2009-thoughts/) - Wow what a crazy month it has been! I finally found a new apartment! So this month has been really crazy getting everything ready to move and still finding time to get reviews posted and maintain ThinkComputers. For that reason I barely blogged at all, which I intend to change this month once I get
- [Kanye West Calls out Twitter](https://bobbuskirk.com/kanye-west-calls-out-twitter/) - A little over a week ago Kanye West called out Twitter on his blog, complaining about someone having a fake Kanye West account. After reading his post I was like wow....what an idiot. Before I go into that here is his post... "(This spaz comes courtesy of losers making fake Kanye West Twitter accounts) I
- [My Thoughts on Star Trek](https://bobbuskirk.com/my-thoughts-on-star-trek/) - It seems like May is a good month for Movies, we have Terminator Salvation, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and of course Star Trek. I usually don't talk about movies here on the blog, but after seeing Star Trek last Friday I definitely wanted to talk about it. I really was never a Star Trek fan growing
- [Get 1000 Followers on Twitter Easily](https://bobbuskirk.com/get-1000-followers-on-twitter-easily/) - Twitter is exploding and it seems like everyone is jumping on the bandwagon. Many people think that Twitter is just an extension of Facebook status updates, but it is so much more than that. Twitter is great for meeting new people, passing around information, getting news, and it’s a great free platform to market to
- [Happy Mother's Day](https://bobbuskirk.com/happy-mothers-day-2/) - Look's like Andy Samberg and Justin Timberlake are back with a sequel to the Dick In a Box video. Just in time for Mother's Day it's called Motherlover, make sure you go watch the dick in a box video first before you watch Motherlover. Great video's that definitely make you laugh, Happy Mother's Day everyone!
- [Getting that Brand Recognition](https://bobbuskirk.com/getting-that-brand-recognition/) - When see you a Nike swoosh, Apple logo, or the golden arches, you instantly know what they are and what they stand for. This is brand recognition and I believe the it is very important. You should really think of your blog as a brand. You want people see not only see it as "you",
- [April 2009 Thoughts](https://bobbuskirk.com/april-2009-thoughts/) - April was an interesting month for me, I was quite busy with ThinkComputers getting things back on track and really pumping out reviews. As far as blogging goes I took it a bit easy only writing 9 posts, which is only 2 less than the month before, but I want to keep in increasing in
- [How are you Spending your Days?](https://bobbuskirk.com/how-are-you-spending-your-days/) - For most of us summer is right around the corner. Here is Pittsburgh we have been experiencing amazing weather for the past week. It just makes you want to go outside and enjoy it. I am fortunate enough to be able to have a good amount of free time to enjoy the nice weather. Although
- [Pittsburgh's NHL Tweetup](https://bobbuskirk.com/pittsburghs-nhl-tweetup/) - A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to participate in the first NHL Tweetup in Pittsburgh! Before I get into it, let's explain what a Tweetup is. I'm sure by now you are familiar with Twitter, if you are not check out my post about it. A tweetup is basically a meeting of twitter
- [How To Redirect to a Website](https://bobbuskirk.com/how-to-redirect-to-a-website/) - After posting my new Twitter background I got a few e-mails from people asking me how I made www.BobBuskirk.com/facebook go to my facebook page. It is really a really easy thing to do and when you do it you are putting your brand first which is really important. Also it makes remembering URL's really simple.
- [Sushi Too in Shadyside](https://bobbuskirk.com/sushi-too-in-shadyside/) - Sushi places are few and far between in Pittsburgh and actually finding good ones is even harder. A few weeks ago I was in Shadyside looking at apartments with my friend Sebastian and it was getting late so we decided to look for places to eat. Shadyside is a great place to find unique restaurants.
- [Making a Custom Twitter Background](https://bobbuskirk.com/making-a-custom-twitter-background/) - If you use Twitter then you should be using it as a way for people to connect with you. When people view your profile you don’t want them to see the plain boring default Twitter background. You want them to see something that catches their eye and shows them that you are interesting. That way
- [The Money Makers 2009 Edition](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-money-makers-2009-edition/) - It has been a while here since I actually talked about how I make money online. It really has not changed much since the last time I talked about it, but here is a rundown for some of the new people who frequent the blog. As you all know I run ThinkComputers, which is a
- [Getting out of Town](https://bobbuskirk.com/getting-out-of-town/) - Last week I had a refreshing break from it all. You ever wish you could just get out of town for the day, or take a day to get away from it all? Well it's been like that for me so I decided to take a day and get out of Pittsburgh. My friend Ellen
- [March 2009 Thoughts](https://bobbuskirk.com/march-2009-thoughts/) - Well as most of you have found out by now I did not sell ThinkComputers….gotcha!! Was that a good April fool’s joke or what? Anyways March was a good blogging month for me, well compared to previous months. I wrote 11 posts, which is the most since September 2008! I’m starting to get back in
- [I Never Thought the Day Would Come](https://bobbuskirk.com/i-never-thought-the-day-would-come/) - Just like the title says I never thought this day would come. I started ThinkComputers back in 2002 as just a hobby, nothing I took seriously until my second year of college. From there it became a job to me, but not really. You can't really call something you love and enjoy so much a
- [Positive Positive Positive!](https://bobbuskirk.com/positive-positive-positive/) - Don't you just hate negative people? I know that I do! Being negative is never a good thing. I hate when I'm in a negative mood and I try to get out of it as quickly as possible. When you are running your own company you need to have a positive attitude because more often
- [Crazy Mocha](https://bobbuskirk.com/crazy-mocha/) - In my never-ending search for cool, relaxing places to work at during the day I have come upon a really cool place that anyone who lives in Pittsburgh should know about, Crazy Mocha. My first experience with Crazy Mocha was at the Southside Works location on East Carson street. The first thing I noticed when
- [Into the Twittersphere!!](https://bobbuskirk.com/into-the-twittersphere/) - Hahaha if you haven't seen this video yet you have to watch it! It has to be one of the funniest Twitter-themed videos I have seen! It is so true too, because if you are on Twitter you love it and are really into it. If you are not on Twitter you tend to not
- [Your Own Personal Brand](https://bobbuskirk.com/your-own-personal-brand/) - It seems that many people are 50/50 on this subject. Many people feel that personal branding is extremely important and can help your business. Others seem to think that personal branding is not important at all and will do nothing to help your business. In my opinion personal branding is important and if done right,
- [ColorSplash iPhone App](https://bobbuskirk.com/colorsplash-iphone-app/) - I’m really not big on paid apps, but if there is one that I think is worth the money I will buy it and check it out. I was looking through my friends Flickr page and noticed a few photos titled ColorSplash and they were black and white with single objects colored in. I noticed
- [Celebrating St. Patty's In Pittsburgh](https://bobbuskirk.com/celebrating-st-pattys-in-pittsburgh/) - Well St. Patty's day really isn't until tomorrow, but the celebrations went on this weekend in Pittsburgh. There were events going on all over the city. We had planned to go to the parade, but we just went to Market Square instead. Market Square is at the intersection of Forbes Avenue and Market Street in
- [Follow Friday for March 13, 2009](https://bobbuskirk.com/follow-friday-for-march-13-2009/) - If you follow me on Twitter you might have noticed that the past few Friday's I've been telling you who I think you should follow on Twitter. Follow Friday started when someone thought it would be a good idea to give a shoutout to the people that they thought were interesting and other people would
- [What Gets You Pumped?](https://bobbuskirk.com/what-gets-you-pumped/) - Is seems that I talk a lot about motivation on this blog, and that is probably because I do! Motivation is a key thing when you are running your own business. If there is no motivation you tend to not get as much done and you definitely are not as happy. On the other hand
- [Working from Panera Bread](https://bobbuskirk.com/working-from-panera-bread/) - I have talked about working from Starbucks before and some other coffee shops, but nowhere else really. The main reason for that is that I usually want coffee when I'm working and in Pittsburgh there really are not that many places you can go, bring a laptop, and get on the internet unless you have
- [HootSuite - The Ultimate Twitter Toolbox](https://bobbuskirk.com/hootsuite-the-ultimate-twitter-toolbox/) - Twitter is growing at an exponential rate, it is everywhere now. Even celebrities are using it! You can find people like Ashton Kutcher, Britney Spears, and even Shaq. For these people Twitter is just another way for them to connect their audience and promote new projects. Actually for most of us that’s what Twitter is,
- [February 2009 Thoughts](https://bobbuskirk.com/february-2009-thoughts/) - Well if you frequent this blog you know that not much has gone on this month, check out my previous blog entry to see why. This month was a total blur to me, trying to keep up with ThinkComputers and dealing with moving and everything else really made things really stressful. I did make some
- [Where Did Bob Go?](https://bobbuskirk.com/where-did-bob-go/) - Honestly I have been asking myself that same question over and over again. Just a month ago or so I came back from CES and was really charged up to really get things going with ThinkComputers and this blog along with some other things. Well pretty much I've had the most unmotivated month of my
- [Be Productive on the Road](https://bobbuskirk.com/be-productive-on-the-road/) - When I go to conventions and even on vacation I need to have a laptop with me at all times. You never know when the site might go down and you need access to the internet to fix things. Also my sites do not run themselves so I always have to check on things and
- [Some Blog Upgrades](https://bobbuskirk.com/some-blog-upgrades/) - The other night started out as finally upgrading Wordpress to 2.7, but ended up making some big changes to the blog. The upgrade to Wordpress 2.7 went very smoothly, no real issues at all. 2.7 is such a change from 2.6, the entire dashboard and interface is different. It took me a little while to
- [January 2009 Thoughts](https://bobbuskirk.com/january-2009-thoughts/) - January was a great month for me, as always in January I headed to Las Vegas for CES. It was great to get away and I had so much fun on that trip. Coming back to Pittsburgh made me realize that I really need to seriously consider moving out to California. There is no point
- [Super Bowl Champs!](https://bobbuskirk.com/super-bowl-champs/) - Although I am a crazy hockey fan, I do enjoy watching football as well. Being from Pittsburgh we usually always have a good team so the games are a lot of fun to watch. This year the Steelers made it all the way to the Super Bowl, the second time in 3 years! Not many
- [Working From Home – No Motivation](https://bobbuskirk.com/working-from-home-–-no-motivation/) - As I always say there are ups and downs to doing what I do. I work from home, mainly working on ThinkComputers. While to some this may seem like an awesome job, I make my own hours, I’m my own boss, etc. There is 1 thing that is hard to overcome, it’s the lack of
- [In-N-Out Burger](https://bobbuskirk.com/in-n-out-burger/) - In-N-Out Burger is basically a west coast institution, so many people from the west coast are surprised that we don't have In-N-Out's here. In-N-Out burger was first opened in 1948 in Baldwin Park, California. Since then it has expanded with restaurants all over California and in Arizona and Nevada too. I was hanging out in
- [IANteract Dinner at Rum Jungle](https://bobbuskirk.com/ianteract-dinner-at-rum-jungle/) - Well as many of you know I was in Las Vegas for CES, but also Affiliate Summit West was going on towards the end of our stay in Vegas. I debated on whether to attend the show or not, but I decided against it because I was already crushed with work for ThinkComputers. I know
- [The CES 2009 Swag](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-ces-2009-swag/) - If there is one thing you always walk away with from any trade show it is swag, free goodies that companies give away when you come to their booth to look at their products. Looking back at what all I got last year I probably got half as much if not less this year. The
- [The Night Before CES Party](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-night-before-ces-party/) - One thing that is always great about CES is the parties. Every year that I’ve gone to CES I’ve attended the night before CES party. This year it was hosted by Redux, Futurelooks, and Techware Labs. They picked an awesome place to have the party too, on the 56th floor of the newly-built Palms Place
- [2009 PC Race for Charity](https://bobbuskirk.com/2009-pc-race-for-charity/) - Every year at CES I make it a point to make it to the Tiger Direct PC Race for Charity. Mainly because it is good to do something for charity and it has some of the best food out of all of the press events during CES. The PC Race is a PC building competition
- [Finally Back From Vegas](https://bobbuskirk.com/finally-back-from-vegas/) - Wow what an amazing week I've just had. If you didn't know I was in Vegas for the Consumer Electronics show. I love going to CES, not just for the show, but to just get away. When I left Vegas I was wearing at t-shirt and it was sunny, when I got into Pittsburgh it
- [December Thoughts](https://bobbuskirk.com/december-thoughts/) - December was crazy for me! It was crazy busy with reviews at ThinkComputers and just the holidays. Also a lot of my friends were home from school so I took some time out to see all of them. I only managed to pump out 9 posts, which was actually 1 less than last month. My
- [Heading to Vegas for CES](https://bobbuskirk.com/heading-to-vegas-for-ces/) - Well it is almost the end of the year that means CES is coming up! The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is North America’s largest trade show and is usually the second week of January each year, this year it’s the 8th-11th. CES is the show were electronics companies show off the new products they will
- [Pixelpipe iPhone App](https://bobbuskirk.com/pixelpipe-iphone-app/) - Well since the Pano iPhone App did so well and I got a lot of feedback on it I decided to post about another iPhone App that is quite handy. My buddy Colin told me about this app and I really like it, it is called Pixelpipe. What it allows you to is upload photos
- [ThinkComputers 900th Review](https://bobbuskirk.com/thinkcomputers-900th-review/) - Well yesterday was another milestone for ThinkComputers, we posted our 900th review! The review was of the Thermaltake Spinq CPU cooler. I can't believe that since 2002 we have reviewed 900 products! That is sure a lot of taking product photos, testing the product, writing the review, and then getting it up on the site.
- [Do it Yourself, with some help from the Internet](https://bobbuskirk.com/do-it-yourself-with-some-help-from-the-internet/) - I love the entrepreneur spirit, doing things yourself the way you want to do it. I have been thinking lately about people who have really made a name for themselves, using social networks and the internet. That’s what so great about the internet, you can reach so many people and it can really help you
- [ThinkComputers 2008 Budget Holiday Gift Guide](https://bobbuskirk.com/thinkcomputers-2008-budget-holiday-gift-guide/) - Well usually around this time of the year I am pumping out buyers guides for all different types of things. I really like doing the price is no object guides, but those buyers guides really don't fit this year as people are spending way less on holiday gifts then ever before. Because of this I
- [Pano iPhone App](https://bobbuskirk.com/pano-iphone-app/) - Since FINALLY upgrading my phone to the 2.0 software I have been checking out a lot of the apps in the app store. Not only free ones, but paid ones as well. Although I had my iPhone jailbroken before to get apps before the app store was created there are so many more now that
- [Toys for Tots Raffle and Fundraiser](https://bobbuskirk.com/toys-for-tots-raffle-and-fundraiser/) - Well it is that time of year again, the holidays. Every holiday season many people and organizations try to do something to help the needy. This year our friends over at TheTechLounge are doing something that no only helps the needy but also gives you something for your contribution. They have teamed with Toys for
- [New Setup!](https://bobbuskirk.com/new-setup/) - You would think that my computer changes all the time, but it really does not. My main (work) computer relatively stays the same and I used 2 other test machines to test out computer hardware. I do this because if something happens to my main computer it limits how much work I can get done.
- [November Thoughts](https://bobbuskirk.com/november-thoughts/) - Well November was once again another slow blogging month for me. Once again it is because of ThinkComputers, it is the holiday season so we are pumping out reviews like crazy. Also I have been working really hard on ThinkPenguins as well. I only managed to get out 10 blog posts this month, which is
- [Black Friday is Tomorrow!](https://bobbuskirk.com/black-friday-is-tomorrow/) - Well tomorrow is the day, Black Friday. It is the craziest shopping day of the year! People start heading to stores at 3-4am trying to be first in line to get the best deals of the day. Honestly it is insane, people basically killing each other for a better deal on a TV or Laptop.
- [Soulja Boy Tell Em - Personal Branding Done Right](https://bobbuskirk.com/soulja-boy-tell-em-personal-branding-done-right/) - A few weeks ago a friend of mine sent me to a YouTube video of Soulja Boy. If you don't know Soulja Boy is a 17 year old rapper. He is most known for the song Crank That, I'm sure most of you have heard it at least once. After watching the video my friend
- [A Weekend Off and Some Fun](https://bobbuskirk.com/a-weekend-off-and-some-fun/) - Well I decided to take this weekend off from work, I really needed it since I usually always work the weekends anyways. My friends and I had been planning a trip up to Penn State for a while now. A few of our friends go there and we really wanted to go to a football
- [A Great Blogging Laptop](https://bobbuskirk.com/a-great-blogging-laptop/) - One thing that is so great about blogging is that you can do it from pretty much anywhere as long as you have an internet connection. Wordpress makes things even easier, and the Wordpress App for the iPhone means you don't even need a computer to publish blog posts on your website. Although something like
- [Giving Away 3 Thermaltake Cases!](https://bobbuskirk.com/giving-away-3-thermaltake-cases/) - ThinkComputers has teamed with Thermaltake to bring you a great Holiday Giveaway! It is that time of the year, snow is on the ground and Christmas is right around the corner. We have decided to give the ThinkComputers readers a surprise. Thermaltake will be providing 3 different cases for us to give away. First is
- [Tell-a-Friend Wordpress Plugin](https://bobbuskirk.com/tell-a-friend-wordpress-plugin/) - I have seen quite a few people using this plugin on their blog so I decided to check it out for myself. If you notice at the bottom of every post is a little Tell a Friend button. If you hover over it, it will bring up a box where users can tell a friend
- [Pumped For Gears of War 2](https://bobbuskirk.com/pumped-for-gears-of-war-2/) - It’s not often I play a lot of games, mostly because I’m busy working hard on my sites. And the free time I have I usually just like to relax, we all know that some games can take up a lot of time (World of Warcraft etc.) so I normally don’t really get into games
- [Checking Out Woopra](https://bobbuskirk.com/checking-out-woopra/) - I received an e-mail a while ago asking me if I wanted to check out the Woopra beta. Having no clue what Woopra was I went on their website and discovered that it was web analytics software. Like most people I run Google Analytics on my sites for analytics and for the most part it
- [Get Out and Vote Today!](https://bobbuskirk.com/get-out-and-vote-today/) - Well today is the big day, the day you can go out and make a difference and vote! Honestly I hate politics, mainly because a lot of it is BS and it causes things like this to happen, which makes me wonder what is wrong with some people in this country. But as you are
- [October Thoughts](https://bobbuskirk.com/october-thoughts/) - Well I decided to start this type of post back up. I was doing it for a few months back in 2007, but then stopped. I think reflecting on the previous month is a great way to come up with new posts for your blog and looking at what people are actually reading can help
- [My First Game of the Season](https://bobbuskirk.com/my-first-game-of-the-season/) - As most of you know I’m a huge hockey fan! Hockey is my favorite sport and I usually make it out to 4 or 5 penguins games a year. Usually I don’t go till later in the year but my friend Brian was nice enough to invite me to the game against the Flyers, of
- [Are You Working Hard?](https://bobbuskirk.com/are-you-working-hard/) - I made a post a while ago talking about how summer is over. That means that most people are going back to school or work. For me that means it’s time to dig in and work even harder. During the summer there is less internet traffic and it’s nice so you want to go out.
- [ThinkPenguins Launched!](https://bobbuskirk.com/thinkpenguins-launched/) - As I said in an earlier post I wanted to start a Penguins blog. I love hockey and I’ve been watching the Penguins play for as long as I can remember. So over the past weekend I got to work on it since the season has started. I stuck with the “Think” theme that I
- [Seriously, Don’t Vote](https://bobbuskirk.com/seriously-dont-vote/) - Someone sent me this video on YouTube the other day. It is quite funny and definitely catches your attention. The video was made by Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way and was created to engage and inspire young people to register and vote in the upcoming election. The video includes appearances from Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Aniston, Kevin
- [Check out HoopStick!](https://bobbuskirk.com/check-out-hoopstick/) - A couple of weeks ago I saw a tweet about a site called HoopStick.com, the tweet said 500GB hard drive for $5! I was like damn I know storage is cheap, but not that cheap! So I decided to check out the site, and it was setup like that of Woot, selling one product a
- [3 Reasons Why Your Website Isn’t Making Money](https://bobbuskirk.com/3-reasons-why-your-website-isnt-making-money/) - It’s so funny how many people think you can just put a website up with a little bit of content slap some adsense on it and you will be making enough to living off of it. So many people assume that is how I make money online, when in reality adsense really does not make
- [Finally Hockey is Back!](https://bobbuskirk.com/finally-hockey-is-back/) - This weekend was the kick-off of the NHL season! The NHL decided to start the season overseas in Prague and Stockholm to bring more attention to the NHL. It seemed like a cool experience for the players and good exposure for the NHL, but I’m really not a big fan of it. For one the
- [Become Part of the Community](https://bobbuskirk.com/become-part-of-the-community/) - One great way to bring traffic to your site or blog is to become part of the community that surrounds your site. Many people know me as Bob from BobBuskirk.com, Bob from ThinkComputers, Bob from Justin.tv, or just Bob Buskirk. The thing is whatever your site is about you want to become part of that
- [The [ED]ition Contest!](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-edition-contest/) - Fellow blogger Ed Lau is having a contest, and has put together a pretty good list of prizes! We will get to them in a second! Ed’s blog is one of my favorites and is on my bookmark list (I don’t use a RSS reader). Over the past few months I have been reading his
- [Going Hard - 20 Days of Content!](https://bobbuskirk.com/going-hard-20-days-of-content/) - Well if you have been checking out ThinkComputers lately you would have noticed something new on the site for the past 20 days! That is definitely a record for us! Normally we would be posting 3-5 reviews a week, but I decided to take it to the next level and really step it up. 7
- [New Design Giveaway Winners!](https://bobbuskirk.com/new-design-giveaway-winners/) - This contest had to be the best contest I have run on the blog, probably because of the great prizes! I want to thank John Chow, Ian Fernando, and Jon Waraas for providing the prizes for the contest. We had 57 comments on the post, many people blogged about it, and we had quite a
- [SEO 101: Page Titles](https://bobbuskirk.com/seo-101-page-titles/) - SEO is a word that you probably hear a lot. SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization, which basically means improving the traffic you get from search engines, or making your website show up higher in the search engine results. There are many things you can do to make your website more search engine friendly. One
- [No Power](https://bobbuskirk.com/no-power/) - Well I have been without power for at least 2 days now. The outer bands from Hurricane Ike ran through Pittsburgh a few days ago bringing with them some very heavy wind storms. These wind storms knocked out the power of course but also downed many trees, which was evident the next morning when I
- [Contest Reminder!](https://bobbuskirk.com/contest-reminder/) - I just wanted to remind you that the New Design Giveaway ends this Friday! So if you still want to enter you better do it quick! You can enter by replying to the giveaway post (1 entry), subscribe to the RSS feed via e-mail (1 entry), and if you write a blog post about the
- [Some New Gadgets](https://bobbuskirk.com/some-new-gadgets/) - Well things are really starting to pick up over at ThinkComputers. We are moving up to at least 5 reviews / articles a week, but I’m pushing towards new content each day. Hopefully I don’t wear myself out by trying to keep up this schedule. I always like checking out new technology that’s why I
- [Should You Start a Blog?](https://bobbuskirk.com/should-you-start-a-blog/) - People ask me all the time what is the easiest way to get started online. I usually tell them to start a blog. With services like Blogger and Wordpress.com you can easily start a blog without any major knowledge of the internet or computers. Also bloggers are not a small group anymore, blogging has become
- [Hulu Launches Fall Lineup](https://bobbuskirk.com/hulu-launches-fall-lineup/) - Last week Hulu announced their Fall Premier Linup. If you do not know Hulu is a website that offers free ad-supported streaming video of TV shows and movies from NBC, Fox, and others. The video quality is actually really good too, definitely better than YouTube quality. I found out about Hulu back when it was
- [Summer is Over](https://bobbuskirk.com/summer-is-over/) - Well that’s right summer is over! For some of you this is not a big change and for others you will be going back to school and work. The end of summer for me signifies the time to start working hard again. Right around the corner is the holiday season and that means tons of
- [The Evolution of My Desk](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-evolution-of-my-desk/) - Even since I got my own computer I’ve always had a “workstation”. I always liked having a workstation instead of just a regular desk. When you have a good working environment you tend to get a lot more work done and it is sure nice to be working on a nice clean desk then a
- [3 Things Every Website Should Have](https://bobbuskirk.com/3-things-every-website-should-have/) - When you are making a website there are things you should always have setup. Whether it’s a website or blog, whether is a professional site or just a personal blog. Last night I was going through in my mind the 3 things I think every website should have. There are many features you can add
- [Lulu’s Noodles](https://bobbuskirk.com/lulus-noodles/) - A few weeks ago I got a chance to get some Pho again, but this time it was not at Pho Minh. This time we decided to check out Lulu’s Noodles. Lulu’s is located on Craig Street, which is right between the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. Unlike Pho Minh, Lulu’s is a
- [Go Hard](https://bobbuskirk.com/go-hard/) - So many people think that it is easy to make a living online. Even though a good amount of people do make a living online they did not get there by being lazy and only working a few hours a day. Almost anyone who has a successful business has worked their ass off for it.
- [Facebook Hits 100M Users!](https://bobbuskirk.com/facebook-hits-100m-users/) - Wow I thought having 2000 users on a website was an accomplishment, but can you even imagine 100 million! That is just crazy! I can’t imagine how hard it is to manage all the data for all of those users, not to mention scale the site that has that many users. I really was not
- [Unique Blog Designs 1 Year Anniversary Contest!](https://bobbuskirk.com/unique-blog-designs-1-year-anniversary-contest/) - Being so busy with my own contest and my 24th birthday I didn't even realize that it was Unique Blog designs 1 year anniversary! I can remember back when I met Nate and they were first starting the company. He would always tell me about his 12-16 hour days and working in the cramped apartment.
- [Turning 24](https://bobbuskirk.com/turning-24/) - Well last Thursday was my birthday and I turned 24. I know 24 is not that old, but it sure felt different then turning 23. I guess this time I really thought about what I have done so far in my life and that it has been 5 years since I graduated high school. Also
- [New Design Giveaway!](https://bobbuskirk.com/new-design-giveaway/) - One of the main reasons I did the new layout on the blog was to revitalize it. I really was not updating the blog or really caring about it. Well that is going to change as you can see already! To help bring more traffic to the blog I am having a contest! Contests are
- [Friends in Business](https://bobbuskirk.com/friends-in-business/) - If you are in any business there is one thing for sure, it is good to have friends within that business. I’m not sure I would be doing what I am doing without some of the people that I have met in this business. You cannot be in business alone and by yourself. In my
- [Get a Free $500 John Chow Review](https://bobbuskirk.com/get-a-free-500-john-chow-review/) - My good friend John Chow is running a promotion with Yaro Starak since he has relaunched his Blog Mastermind program. Blog Mastermind is probably the most comprehensive course on blogging that you can find online. The course is a 6 month course that when you have completed it you shouldn’t have a problem making a
- [CST Mountain Adventure](https://bobbuskirk.com/cst-mountain-adventure/) - This past weekend a group of about 10 of us from CST headed up to Laurel Mountain to go camping. I really haven’t gone many places this summer and I have been working pretty hard so it was good to just get away, although I did bring my laptop and EVDO card. Luckily for me
- [The New Layout](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-new-layout/) - Well you should notice a big change here on the blog, we have a new layout! I’ve had the MistyLook theme on here for way too long. Although it was very functional it was just getting old and when you are looking at the same theme for a long time you get bored of it.
- [24 Hour Business](https://bobbuskirk.com/24-hour-business/) - If you run a website or your own company it is always on your mind. I find myself thinking about work when I'm at the gym, when I'm driving home, and even before I go to bed. Even though thinking about work is a good thing if you are always thinking about work it can
- [Some New Gear](https://bobbuskirk.com/some-new-gear/) - As I always say I love reviewing computer hardware and electronics. That is why I really enjoy working on
- [12seconds.tv – Video Twitter?](https://bobbuskirk.com/12secondstv-video-twitter/) - A couple of days ago I saw a few twitters about people saying they had posted their first 12seconds video. I wondered what 12seconds was so I decided to check it out. It is a video sharing site, but the thing is you can only make videos that are 12 seconds long. Just like how
- [Make Money with Performancing Ads](https://bobbuskirk.com/make-money-with-performancing-ads/) - The popular blogging community Performancing.com has started a new ad network called Performancing Ads. What is unique about Performancing ads is that it is a marketplace for 125 x 125 ads only. The 125 x 125 ad placement has becoming extremely popular with blogs like TechCrunch, JohnChow.com and other large blogs. Almost all blogs now
- [Grilled Shrimp](https://bobbuskirk.com/grilled-shrimp/) - One thing that people always assume is that I eat out a lot, I’m really not sure why that is because I rarely eat out. I work from home so it really is a pain to drive somewhere to eat and fast food is really bad for you too. I really do enjoy cooking and
- [John Chow’s Market Leverage Affiliate Challenge](https://bobbuskirk.com/john-chows-market-leverage-affiliate-challenge/) - It looks like John Chow and Market Leverage have teamed up again to bring you another contest. All new Market Leverage members to sign up through the contest have the chance to win an iPod Touch and $200 Market Leverage American Express Rewards Card. They are doing the contest much like the Top Affiliate Challenge.
- [Review Number 800](https://bobbuskirk.com/review-number-800/) - Well if you head over to
- [Being Transparent](https://bobbuskirk.com/being-transparent/) - All of the time you see these big companies like Microsoft and Google and you wonder what goes on there? Or what is it like at the Google campus? Many companies do let you in on what is going on, but some do not. I really like that many companies let you see what goes
- [TweetBeep Your Twitter Alert System](https://bobbuskirk.com/tweetbeep-your-twitter-alert-system/) - I’m sure a lot of you have heard of Google Alerts. It will allow you to be notified if a specific keyword comes up in Google results. It is really cool to see what other sites are linking to you and to see who is talking about you. I have alerts for
- [Crazy Weather](https://bobbuskirk.com/crazy-weather/) - Since moving in to my new apartment I have noticed its location is great for watching storms. I have already caught a few storms on video. From my porch I am able to watch storms roll right in, it is pretty cool. Here are some pictures of some the storms and other weather over the
- [The Website is Down!](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-website-is-down/) - This video has been going around the internet for a few weeks now and it is hilarious. I came upon it when one of my friends made a twitter post that said, “...Salesforce.com was on the right testicle”. I asked him what the hell he was talking about and he showed me the video. If
- [Thoughts on the Top Affiliate Challenge](https://bobbuskirk.com/thoughts-on-the-top-affiliate-challenge/) - If you follow affiliate marketing, John Chow’s blog, or Shoemoney’s blog you have probably heard of the Top Affiliate Challenge. The Top Affiliate Challenge is an online reality show that takes 12 internet marketers, divides them into 3 teams, and then it is up to the teams to make money promoting real affiliate products. Each
- [Some New Review Products...](https://bobbuskirk.com/some-new-review-products/) - As I said in my previous post things have been really busy lately at ThinkComputers. That means we have a ton of products in to review. While CPU coolers and motherboards are not that exciting we do get some cool things in to review. Here are 3 of the more interesting items we have received
- [A Week off from Blogging](https://bobbuskirk.com/a-week-off-from-blogging/) - Well as you may notice it has been a while since I have updated the blog. Believe me I’m not going to quit blogging, but I just needed a break. I hate it when I go through my bookmarks and see that sites have not updated in a while, so to my loyal readers I’m
- [50 Best Website’s and How They Make Money](https://bobbuskirk.com/50-best-website’s-and-how-they-make-money/) - Time has listed their 50 best websites of 2008. Now reading through the lengthy list of sites will maybe give you an idea for a new site, but do these sites make money? Valleywag went through the list and found out how each site makes money online, very interesting. No surprise that Google Adsense is
- [Brightkite – Location-based Social Networking](https://bobbuskirk.com/brightkite-–-location-based-social-networking/) - A while ago I talked about Twitter, if you still do not know what Twitter is make sure you check that post out. I got a Brightkite invite a while ago and while I did not really fully understand what it was I of course went to check it out. I really like how with
- [Pho Minh in Pittsburgh](https://bobbuskirk.com/pho-minh-in-pittsburgh/) - It has been a while since I had my last Pho, and that experience was not authentic according to John Chow. He said you need to go to small place not a place in a Vegas hotel. I have been craving Pho, especially since the guys go each week. Now there are not many Pho
- [The Sunday Routine](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-sunday-routine/) - I have received many e-mails and comments wanting to know what my daily routine is like. The thing is because I’m my own boss my routine changes all the time and it can be different each day depending on what I’m doing. Although my Sunday’s usually are always the same. I use Sunday as sort
- [Free Stuff from Market Leverage and John Chow](https://bobbuskirk.com/free-stuff-from-market-leverage-and-john-chow/) - We all know John Chow has given some really cool things away like a LCD monitor and 10,000 Entrecard credits. Well this contest has to rank up there with some of his best. He has teamed up with Market Leverage to give away 4 great prizes all to one person! These prizes include a Flip
- [What A Season!](https://bobbuskirk.com/what-a-season/) - As most of you know the hockey season is now over. The Penguins were not able to bring the Cup back to Pittsburgh, but even though they lost in the finals you have to commend them on such a great season. Don’t forget that only 2 seasons ago the Penguins finished the season in second
- [Crazy Thunderstorm!](https://bobbuskirk.com/crazy-thunderstorm/) - Early this morning I was awakened by thunder and lightning flashes. I am a very light sleeper, almost anything will wake me up, so the thunder most definitely woke me up. I was lying in bed trying to fall back asleep and I heard thunder and lightning flashes every few minutes. Then about 5 minutes
- [Why I Enjoy What I Do](https://bobbuskirk.com/why-i-enjoy-what-i-do/) - A few weeks ago I talked about living the dot com lifestyle. I really enjoy living the dot com lifestyle and I’m so happy that I am able to make a living online. It was a big step for me to quit college and go full steam with the internet business and at the time
- [Why Personal Blog Posts are Important](https://bobbuskirk.com/why-personal-blog-posts-are-important/) - As most of you know this blog is not just about business, I talk a lot about my personal life on here too. The blog would not be called BobBuskirk.com if it was strictly about business. Actually I started the blog as a place to write down my thoughts and talk about traveling and other
- [My Mahalo VLOG Idol Pick](https://bobbuskirk.com/my-mahalo-vlog-idol-pick/) - If you watch video podcasts then you might be familiar with Mahalo Daily. It was a very good show and they covered a lot of really interesting topics. Their host Veronica Belmont left to join Revision3 so they are in search of a new host. They are doing it Idol style! They are down to
- [Twitter and Why I Use It](https://bobbuskirk.com/twitter-and-why-i-use-it/) - I’m sure by now most of you have heard of Twitter, it is very big now. I first mentioned twitter back in October of last year, then again in January when I was in Vegas, and finally in my article about social networks and their importance. So I have been using Twitter for quite some
- [Were Going to the Finals!](https://bobbuskirk.com/were-going-to-the-finals/) - That’s right Pens fan we are going to the Stanley Cup Finals! We have not been to the finals since 1992, for those who are bad at math that’s 16 years. Honestly after last years defeat in the first round of the playoffs I did not see us getting this far. And when Crosby got
- [Keeping Track of Things](https://bobbuskirk.com/keeping-track-of-things/) - As I have always said it is good to keep a daily task list. This way you know what you need to get done for that day. When you are running your own business it is very easy to get distracted and forget things that you need to get done for that day. Also it
- [Some Cool New Products](https://bobbuskirk.com/some-cool-new-products/) - As I said in my previous post I really enjoy what I do. One of the main reasons for that is that I get to check out a ton of really cool products each week. Here are 3 of the more interesting products I got in recently. First up is the Lenovo Ideapad U110 11.1-inch
- [Living the Dot Com Lifestyle](https://bobbuskirk.com/living-the-dot-com-lifestyle/) - Many people think the dot com lifestyle is something that is unachievable, they also think that it is all about traveling all over the world and fast cars. This is not true, as I am living the dot com lifestyle and I am not doing these things. So what really is the dot com lifestyle?
- [Happy Mothers Day!](https://bobbuskirk.com/happy-mothers-day/) - Well its Mothers day so I thought we would take the time to pay tribute to all those special mothers out there…LOL
- [Living a Healthier Lifestyle](https://bobbuskirk.com/living-a-healthier-lifestyle/) - All my life I really never concerned myself with eating healthy or living a healthy lifestyle. I have never been overweight, probably because I have a high metabolism. Over the past 2 years I have noticed myself becoming very tired easily and not having as much energy as I used to. I wondered why since
- [The Pens Head to the Eastern Conference Finals](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-pens-head-to-the-eastern-conference-finals/) - I haven’t talked about hockey here on the blog for a while so it is about time. It’s May why am I talking about hockey? Well for most teams the season is over, but for 4 teams the season is still going strong. One of those 4 teams is the Pittsburgh Penguins! Yesterday they eliminated
- [What to Write About](https://bobbuskirk.com/what-to-write-about/) - In the world of blogging or any writing medium content is very important, but sometimes it is hard to come up with something to write about. This happens on this blog a lot, sometimes I cannot think of something useful to write about. Even though this is a personal blog I do try to keep
- [Ad:Tech San Francisco – XY7](https://bobbuskirk.com/adtech-san-francisco-–-xy7/) - As I said Ad:Tech was the first marketing event that I have been to. Even so I had heard of most of the companies that were exhibiting there. One name I heard a lot was XY7, funny thing was I had never heard of XY7 at all, weird because they seemed like they were the
- [Dinners at Ad:Tech](https://bobbuskirk.com/dinners-at-adtech/) - With any conference there are dinners. It is a good way to catch up with old friends who you only get to see a few times a year. Also it is a great way to network and meet new people. Ad:tech is only 3 days long so there was not that many dinners to attend,
- [Ad:Tech San Francisco – CPA Empire](https://bobbuskirk.com/adtech-san-francisco-–-cpa-empire/) - Since this was my first time going to an event like ad:tech I did not know what to expect. The show is sure a lot smaller than CES and other tech related events that I’ve been to. There were speaker sessions and an exhibit hall. The exhibit hall is where all the networks and companies
- [Visiting the Justin.tv Office](https://bobbuskirk.com/visiting-the-justintv-office/) - Since I was in San Francisco for ad:tech I decided I would stop by the Justin.tv office and say what’s up to the Justin.tv staff. It is really cool being able to go to the offices of a website or service you use. The Justin.tv staff was more than happy to let us come and
- [San Francisco Day 2](https://bobbuskirk.com/san-francisco-day-2/) - Day 2 in San Francisco gave me a lot of time to explore the city. I went walking around with my friend Jack, who is from San Diego so SF is new to him too. We first headed down into the city on the BART train. It is cool that even if you live far
- [First Day in San Francisco](https://bobbuskirk.com/first-day-in-san-francisco/) - Well flying from Pittsburgh to San Francisco was not that fun. My flight was at 9:20AM, which was to Vegas (a 4.5 hour flight). For one I hate long flights, but I really did not get much sleep the night before since I was excited about the trip. I tried to sleep on my first
- [Working a Day Ahead](https://bobbuskirk.com/working-a-day-ahead/) - If you are a content creator like me then you are always working to put out new content. If you are not actually making the content you are editing and finalizing it. This takes up a lot of time and if you have to meet a deadline you can really stress yourself out trying to
- [Heading to Ad:Tech Next Week](https://bobbuskirk.com/heading-to-adtech-next-week/) - I will be heading out to San Francisco on Saturday for ad:tech. Ad:tech is a conference that focus’s on marketing. They have 10 shows all over the world. So why did I decide to go to the San Francisco event? Well for one I have a few friends who live in the city and friends
- [Fun at the Pens Game](https://bobbuskirk.com/fun-at-the-pens-game/) - As I said when I announced the winner of the iTrip Auto contest I was going to the hockey game. If you are new to this blog then you don’t know that I am a HUGE hockey fan. I played hockey all through high school and have been watch hockey as long as I can
- [Get Rich With ToGetRichisGlorious.com](https://bobbuskirk.com/get-rich-with-togetrichisgloriouscom/) - If I have learned anything from working online is that you learn a lot from other people. I don’t think I would be where I am today without the help of people I have met from blogging. I’m sure all of you know who John Chow is. If you don’t then you should, he is
- [Griffin iTrip Auto Contest Over](https://bobbuskirk.com/griffin-itrip-auto-contest-over/) - Well the month has gone by and we have another contest winner. They have won the Griffin iTrip Auto! All they had to do was subscribe to my RSS feed via e-mail. If you have won you have been notified via e-mail. Thanks to everyone that participated and stay tuned for another contest really soon!
- [A Look at the New Place](https://bobbuskirk.com/a-look-at-the-new-place/) - I showed you guys some pictures of the new place about a month ago. I have been so busy over the past few weeks that I haven’t had time to take pictures of the new place, but I promised I would do a before and after. I really like the new place, even more than
- [Server and Web Hosting Importance](https://bobbuskirk.com/server-and-web-hosting-importance/) - Some of you may have noticed that all of my sites were down including this one was down for some time early in the morning yesterday. I was having problems with e-mail so I decided to just restart the server. Well it did not come back up. I couldn’t figure out why it would not
- [Ways to Make Passive Income Online](https://bobbuskirk.com/ways-to-make-passive-income-online/) - Everyone wants to make money online, but to many people think that it is simple, that you can just make a site, put up ads and you will be making a ton of money. As much as we wish it was the case that is not how it works. Anyone can make money online, but
- [Happy Easter & Contest Reminder](https://bobbuskirk.com/happy-easter-contest-reminder/) - I wanted to take the time to wish all of the readers of my blog a very Happy Easter. I hope you all have nice dinners with you families. I will be spending most of the day at my parent’s house. Since I now live further away from my parents it is nice to take
- [5 Reasons to Start Blogging](https://bobbuskirk.com/5-reasons-to-start-blogging/) - I started this blog back in 2005 as more of a personal journal, but it evolved from that into a platform where I can express myself, give business tips, discuss issues, and even make some money. Blogging to me is a lot of fun and it gives me an escape from writing all of the
- [Win $12,201 in Cash and Prizes from Winning the Web!](https://bobbuskirk.com/win-12201-in-cash-and-prizes-from-winning-the-web/) - Gyutae Park over at Winning the Web has a crazy contest going on right now. Up for grabs is $12,201 in cash and prizes, all put up by well-known companies. As I have always said contests are a great way to get people to come to your blog and generate buzz. With the amount of
- [Pittco 8 Weekend!](https://bobbuskirk.com/pittco-8-weekend/) - Well I took a few days off from Blogging to have a little fun. This past weekend was Pittco 8, Pittsburgh’s largest LAN party! Last year I talked about going to the event and this year was just as fun. As I had said before I used to be on Pittco staff, but because of
- [A Look at TTZ Media and Why I’m Successful with It](https://bobbuskirk.com/a-look-at-ttz-media-and-why-i’m-successful-with-it/) - As most of you know TTZ Media is John Chow’s ad network. You have seen the ads on many of my sites including this one. So what is TTZ Media really? Well it is a network of sites that are affiliates with comparison shopping websites. These sites provide us with the product listings and we
- [Don’t Tell Me How to Run My Business](https://bobbuskirk.com/don’t-tell-me-how-to-run-my-business/) - Sorry to my regular readers for this post it’s just something that I need to say. Last night I was going through my list of blogs I check out on a daily basis and I wanted to check out what one of my friends has been up to. Since he isn’t in my blog bookmarks
- [Get a Larger Monitor, Become more Productive](https://bobbuskirk.com/get-a-larger-monitor-become-more-productive/) - I’ve always liked larger screens, I mean I work on my computer 6-8 hours a day so the more screen real estate I have the easier it is to get work done. Back when everyone had 17-inch CRT monitors I decided to go out and get a nice big Dell 20.1-inch widescreen LCD. Back then
- [Sakkio Japan](https://bobbuskirk.com/sakkio-japan/) - I don’t go to the mall that often, only when I need to get some clothes or pickup a new video game or something like that. I have lived in the North Hills area all of my life so the mall that I would always go to is Ross Park Mall. I’ve seen it go
- [Griffin iTrip Auto Contest](https://bobbuskirk.com/griffin-itrip-auto-contest/) - As I said when the CES Swag contest was over there would be another contest and here it is! I said I would be giving something away that is an accessory to something that most of you probably have, and I assume most of you have an iPod, new or old. I reviewed the iTrip
- [Social Networks and their Importance](https://bobbuskirk.com/social-networks-and-their-importance/) - Social Networks, some people hate them, some people love them, and some people just don’t care. I in fact I use a bunch of different social networks and I noted in a previous post. Now I do use these social networks for personal use (keeping up with friends, meeting new people, etc), but I also
- [Delegate Tasks, Become More Productive](https://bobbuskirk.com/delegate-tasks-become-more-productive/) - When you start your own business you think that you have to do everything yourself. You want your business to succeed so you become a perfectionist and want everything done correctly and the way that you want it. Now this is ok, but a lot of tasks can be delegated to others. If you put
- [The First Dollar](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-first-dollar/) - Everyone knows the tradition, frame your first dollar. A lot of times you see them hanging in local restaurants etc. In the online world there is no such thing since we get paid via check or direct deposit, but it is funny to think about making that first little bit of money online. I’ve only
- [Starting Your Day off Right](https://bobbuskirk.com/starting-your-day-off-right/) - Some people are morning people and some are not, but even if you are not a morning person you should start off your day right. If you have a slow start then you will end up getting less done and you will feel like crap too. I do a good amount of my work in
- [CES Swag Contest Over](https://bobbuskirk.com/ces-swag-contest-over/) - Well the CES Swag Contest is over and I have e-mailed the winner. If they do not reply to my e-mail within 5 days I will pick another winner. I think that the contest went very well and I want to thank everyone for participating. Pictured above are the extra items that I threw in.
- [Last Day for the CES Swag Contest!](https://bobbuskirk.com/last-day-for-the-ces-swag-contest/) - That’s right I will be picking a winner tomorrow, but to sweeten the deal I will be adding a few more things to the prize list. Since moving into my new place I realized I have way to much stuff, so why not give it away. I mean I have no use for it, so
- [Moved In…Sort Of](https://bobbuskirk.com/moved-in…sort-of/) - Well like I said in my previous post Ashley and I moved into our new place this weekend. We signed the lease on Friday and moved some things in that day, but the big moving day was Saturday. We have a lot of large furniture so we hired movers, but they were not from a
- [A Busy Week](https://bobbuskirk.com/a-busy-week/) - This week has been extremely busy for me. If you didn’t know I am moving this weekend. Ashley and I decided to move because it’s not worth wasting all the money on a townhouse when it is only the 2 of us. Also she wants to live closer to home. So after 2 full days
- [Checking Out Yahoo Live](https://bobbuskirk.com/checking-out-yahoo-live/) - As some of you know I sometimes lifecast on Justin.tv. I really like the Justin.tv service, I’ve been with them since beta and they have really made a lot of improvements since that time. All of the chat features and video features are something that you won’t find with other services like this. I also
- [Getting People to take you Seriously](https://bobbuskirk.com/getting-people-to-take-you-seriously/) - If you are starting any new type of business and you are dealing with customers or other businesses sometimes it can be hard for them to take you seriously, especially if you are starting an online business. This happened to me when I first started ThinkComputers. I was about 16-17 when I started the site
- [Yahoo Turns Down Microsoft](https://bobbuskirk.com/yahoo-turns-down-microsoft/) - Well this was not the best news to me. I had really hoped if Microsoft and Yahoo joined forces a lot of good would come of it, especially in the online advertising market. As I said Yahoo’s Publisher Network and Microsoft’s AdCenter don’t even compare to Google Adsense, but if they were combined, there could
- [Lunch at Sushi Tomo](https://bobbuskirk.com/lunch-at-sushi-tomo/) - Over the past year I’ve gotten a real appreciation for Japanese food. I had my first Sushi back in 2006, but never really started eating it on a constant basis till about 4 months ago. After having amazing Sushi in Las Vegas from Social House and Nobu Ashley and I needed to find some good
- [ThinkComputers and Thermaltake Giveaway](https://bobbuskirk.com/thinkcomputers-and-thermaltake-giveaway/) - It seems like it is the time for contests and giveaways. I am giving away some CES Swag and there are a lot of other contests going around the blogosphere. I wanted to let everyone know about a contest we have going on over at ThinkComputers. We have teamed with Thermaltake to give away over
- [Revver Looking To Sell Cheap](https://bobbuskirk.com/revver-looking-to-sell-cheap/) - Revver is a user-submitted video sharing platform much like YouTube. What sets it apart from YouTube is that they share revenue with their users. YouTube has revenue sharing, but only for select publishers. Revver on the other hard offers this to everyone. I really like the service and it gave me another avenue to make
- [CES 2008 Swag Giveaway!](https://bobbuskirk.com/ces-2008-swag-giveaway/) - Last Month I showed you all the free swag I got at CES. I have decided to give a good amount of it away! Like I said in the previous post I still have a lot of the stuff from CES 2007 so why not give away most of this stuff. There will only be
- [The Super Bowl and Ads](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-super-bowl-and-ads/) - Since the Super Bowl I have talked to a lot of people about the commercials, hell its good conversation and its great to remember some of the better commercials, who could forget the Apple Ad of 1984. Anyways most of the people I talked to said advertisers pay way too much for the 30-second spot,
- [Super Bowl Thoughts](https://bobbuskirk.com/super-bowl-thoughts/) - I’m not really a football fan, I mean I can sit and enjoy a game on TV, but I’m not a die-hard fan. Even though I rarely watch football I had to watch the Super Bowl, it is the biggest football game all year so it is going to be a great game and of
- [Microsoft Offers Yahoo $44.6 Billion!?!](https://bobbuskirk.com/microsoft-offers-yahoo-446-billion/) - You may not think that I follow stocks that much, mainly because I never really talk about them on the blog, but I do follow the big players, Google, Apple, Yahoo, Sony, Microsoft etc. Things haven’t been looking good at all for Yahoo. Their Q4 earnings were down 23 percent and their stock has been
- [Advertising Now Available](https://bobbuskirk.com/advertising-now-available/) - If you have been reading this blog for a while you may have noticed that we been running on mostly third-party ads, but now we are offering advertising for anyone. With a lot of good posts coming up and RSS subscribers increasing I though it would be a great idea to offer private advertising. Pricing
- [Some Adsense Tips](https://bobbuskirk.com/some-adsense-tips/) - With affiliate marketing becoming so popular people are moving away from Google Adsense, but a lot of people are still dependent on it for income and I am one of those people. Since Google decided to screw us on the clickable area it has been harder and harder to make the money we used to.
- [Motivation From CES](https://bobbuskirk.com/motivation-from-ces/) - Besides all of good times at the parties and events during CES the thing that I took away most from CES was motivation. I have been working on ThinkComputers since 2001 and I wouldn’t have imagined that it would be my full-time job that actually pays well and I enjoy doing. I proved to a
- [The CES 2008 Swag](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-ces-2008-swag/) - Almost every trade show you go to there will be some type of swag given away, usually its t-shirts and pens, but some companies go out of their way to have some really cool swag to make you remember them. This year at CES I did end up getting a good amount of swag, although
- [Arbitrage For Beginners](https://bobbuskirk.com/arbitrage-for-beginners/) - Arbitrage is a word you probably have heard around the blogosphere. So what is it really? Wikipedia explains that arbitrage is the practice of taking advantage of a price differential between two or more markets. So basically you want to capitalize on the imbalance. Still don’t follow? Ok let’s make this easier, say you make
- [CES Wrap Up](https://bobbuskirk.com/ces-wrap-up/) - As I said CES really kicked my ass! Unlike a lot of people who went for fun, I was there for work. One of my goals for this year is to take ThinkComputers to the next level and with that means a lot more work. So while at CES we tried to cover as much
- [Vegas at Night](https://bobbuskirk.com/vegas-at-night/) - Las Vegas is an amazing place, of course it is known for its hotels and casino’s, but it is also one of the United States fastest growing cities. I have been to Las Vegas 3 times and each was great, every year it seems like they are building something new. I have never flown into
- [The Pens Can Win Without Crosby](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-pens-can-win-without-crosby/) - As you all know I am a huge hockey fan. Living in Pittsburgh I am of course a Pittsburgh Penguins fan. Friday one of the worst things that could have happened to the Penguins did, Sidney Crosby got hurt, suffering a high ankle sprain. Usually in Hockey a high ankle sprain will take you out
- [Sony Online Entertainment Party](https://bobbuskirk.com/sony-online-entertainment-party/) - As I said before so many parties at CES are the same. Most companies will have their party in a Suite and it usually is the same every year. Well to set themselves apart from other companies Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) has a poker tournament in the spirit of Las Vegas. Now originally I was
- [Bill Gates Last Day at Microsoft](https://bobbuskirk.com/bill-gates-last-day-at-microsoft/) - One thing that I always looked forward to at CES was the Bill Gates keynote, not only is he a great public speaker, they was always usually a funny video in there, if sure some of you remember the Bill Gates goes to college video. Since this yeah was his last CES keynote he made
- [Envy Steakhouse with John Chow](https://bobbuskirk.com/envy-steakhouse-with-john-chow/) - If there is one food I couldn’t live without it would have to be steak. It is probably my favorite food. That is why I was so mad that John was not able to have this years TTZ Media dinner at Envy Steakhouse, as I posted earlier we just went to a buffet. Envy Steakhouse
- [Dinner and Phantom of the Opera](https://bobbuskirk.com/dinner-and-phantom-of-the-opera/) - There are so many CES parties, but they are mostly all the same. This year LiteOn and AOC did something different. These 2 companies went out of their way to really treat us. First they took us to see Phantom of the Opera at the Venetian. I had not been to a show since high
- [Starting Off CES Right!](https://bobbuskirk.com/starting-off-ces-right/) - The only way to start off CES is with a party! This year John, Stephen, and I threw the CES Kickoff Party, but instead of the MGM Skylofts we went with the Absolut Suite at Caesars. The suite is of course themed after Absolut Vodka, what better place to throw a party! The suite has
- [CES Kicked My Ass!](https://bobbuskirk.com/ces-kicked-my-ass/) - Well CES is finally over and I am relieved. I had hoped to give you guys daily updates on what was going on at CES, but that didn’t happen. With all of my meetings, appointments, and partying throughout the week it was really hard to find the time to do work, let alone update the
- [My First Pho](https://bobbuskirk.com/my-first-pho/) - I had not heard of Pho until this year. John always talked about going to get Pho and after checking out his posts I was very intrigued to go try it. Problem was there were no places around Pittsburgh that sold the stuff. Well not so in Vegas! As I said in my earlier post
- [The NHL Winter Classic](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-nhl-winter-classic/) - January 1st we witnessed hockey history! The first ever NHL outdoor game in the United States was played at Ralf Wilson stadium in Buffalo. Now there have been other outdoor games like the heritage classic, which was in Canada, but this was the first one in the United States. The 2 teams selected were Buffalo
- [Finally In Vegas!](https://bobbuskirk.com/finally-in-vegas/) - Well I have been waiting for this trip for the longest time! Each January I go to Las Vegas for CES. This year Ashley and I decided to go a few days earlier to get in a little mini-vacation. Last we year decided to stay an extra day, but we were so exhausted it was
- [My 2008 Goals](https://bobbuskirk.com/my-2008-goals/) - With 2007 coming to an end it is time to set some goals for 2008. Before I get into my goals for 2008 let’s see how I did on my 2007 goals… Keep Up With ThinkComputers – I think I did a good job with this. ThinkComputers puts out at least 3 or more reviews
- [Finally Some Changes to Adsense](https://bobbuskirk.com/finally-some-changes-to-adsense/) - If you haven’t noticed when Google does something they usually keep it the same for a long time. Mainly because they usually do things so well they do not need changed. Adsense has been the same for a long time, there have been some minor updates but that’s about it. Well Adsense has rolled out
- [Merry Christmas Everyone!](https://bobbuskirk.com/merry-christmas-everyone/) - Wow this year has gone fast! I wanted to take the time to tell everyone who reads my blog to have a very Merry Christmas! Last night Ashley and I went to my parents where they have Christmas Eve dinner with all of my family and we exchange gifts. I love the food my parents
- [The CES Press Events](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-ces-press-events/) - As most of you know CES is right around the corner! It is January 7-10th in Las Vegas. CES is one of the largest trade shows in the United Stats that means the show floor is packed! That is why I am really glad there are press events. Press events are smaller and held at
- [Advertising Types Explained](https://bobbuskirk.com/advertising-types-explained/) - The world of online advertising can be very hard to understand for someone who is new to it. A few years ago I had no clue about ads and how I was making money off the ads on my site. I just threw up some Google ads and was surprised that I was actually making
- [Agloco Dead in the Water](https://bobbuskirk.com/agloco-dead-in-the-water/) - A while ago I made the post “Agloco is Dead”, but a lot of people gave me criticism saying they were going to change things up and the proposed 10-year payment system would be changed, well it’s to late for that. The other day I got this e-mail from Agloco… “Dear Bob, We would like
- [You Can Make Money from a Blog!](https://bobbuskirk.com/you-can-make-money-from-a-blog/) - So many people say blogs are useless forms of income, but they can be very profitable. Just look at John Chow, he made over $27,000 last month just from his blog, and he has only been blogging for about 2 years. ThinkComputers has been online for around 6 years and we don’t anywhere near that
- [A New Look for the Office](https://bobbuskirk.com/a-new-look-for-the-office/) - Well it was about time the office got a new look. It has been pretty much the same since we moved in back in March! I really did not have a problem with the way things were organized, but after having them be that way for so long it was time for a change. Also
- [Signup for TTZ Media Today!](https://bobbuskirk.com/signup-for-ttz-media-today/) - As many of you have known I have been running TTZ Media since almost the beginning! TTZ Media is run by John Chow, who is one of my good friends. It is a Shopping.com affiliate network. You may be thinking why don’t I just signup for Shopping.com’s affiliate system by myself. Well first off you
- [Make Money with your Old Cell Phone](https://bobbuskirk.com/make-money-with-your-old-cell-phone/) - Do you have an old cell phone just sitting around collecting dust? Well I have 2! It’s pointless to try to sell them. One is like 3 years old and the other isn’t in the best condition. I’m sure a lot of you are in the same boat as me. So what to do with
- [A Look at BlogRush Phase 2](https://bobbuskirk.com/a-look-at-blogrush-phase-2/) - I have not talked about BlogRush since it launched back in September. When BlogRush was first launched a lot of people jumped on, but it had problems. Many blogs were gaming the system and just using BlogRush to get traffic and using it to get traffic to low quality sites. Because of all this BlogRush
- [The Net Vol. 8](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-net-vol-8/) - Another busy week! As you may have noticed I sort of resurrected this blog. I was not updating that much at all, taking 3-4 day breaks between posts, but that is over. I will be making at least 4 blog posts a week if not more. Once again my biggest problem is time management, but
- [Checking out the Original Quaker Steak & Lube](https://bobbuskirk.com/checking-out-the-original-quaker-steak-lube/) - If you live in the northeast you have probably heard of Quaker Steak & Lube. If not Quaker Steak is a restaurant that is mainly known for their wings. They have a bunch of different wing sauce flavors and you can even buy their wing sauce in grocery stores. The first time I went to
- [Happy Thanksgiving!](https://bobbuskirk.com/happy-thanksgiving/) - I wanted to take the time to wish all of the readers of BobBuskirk.com a Happy Thanksgiving! While Thanksgiving means food and giving thanks to most people a lot of people see it as the day before Black Friday. This year there are a ton of deals so make sure you check out BFAds.net. Now
- [Google Keeps on Screwing Us!](https://bobbuskirk.com/google-keeps-on-screwing-us/) - It seems it is just one thing after another with Google. First off a while ago Google slapped people’s pageranks who were using Text Link Ads on their websites. A lot of sites got huge penalties some even going from pagerank 9 to 4! The thing about pagerank is people will pay for that. It
- [The Day Finally Came…](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-day-finally-came…/) - Well it is already November, and a few days ago we had the first snow of the year! This picture above is what I woke up to out of my bedroom window. I honestly hate winter! I’m not a big fan of snow and I really do not like the cold either. Also driving in
- [The Give One Get One Laptop Program](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-give-one-get-one-laptop-program/) - The other day I was having coffee with my good friend Colin and he was telling me about the One Laptop Per Child program. I had heard of this awhile ago, but really have not heard much about it since. Well the laptop is real and it’s called the XO Laptop. Originally the laptop was
- [The Net Vol. 7](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-net-vol-7/) - Even though I have writers block I couldn’t miss a “The Net” post again! What’s really easy about writing these posts is that you are not actually writing the story, you are telling people about other stories. The only hard part is finding the stories. This week once again has been busy for me as
- [Writers Block](https://bobbuskirk.com/writers-block/) - As you may have noticed I have not updated since Tuesday. That’s not a good thing because I used to post once a day. There are many factors that have contributed to my lack of posts. Now these are not excuses, but I will explain them to you before I go into the other things.
- [Unlocking the 1.1.1 iPhone Firmware](https://bobbuskirk.com/unlocking-the-111-iphone-firmware/) - As most of you know I purchased an iPhone back in September when Apple reduced the price by $200. After having it for only a few days I found out about the installer.app program and I was able to unlock the phone. By unlocking the phone I was able to customize the phone a lot
- [The Net Vol. 6](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-net-vol-6/) - Another week has gone by and I’m glad to say I have been working a lot on my time management and I am getting a lot more work done. I’m gradually adapting myself to working more hours and doing more things in one day. With the holiday season coming up I will need to work
- [Lifecasting from Starbucks Today](https://bobbuskirk.com/lifecasting-from-starbucks-today/) - If you check out the feed above you can see me live at Starbucks doing work. Sometimes when you work from home you need a change of scenery to make you feel more productive. If any of you didn’t know I lifecast on Justin.tv almost every day, but I’m usually sitting at my desk doing
- [I won both RSS Contests!](https://bobbuskirk.com/i-won-both-rss-contests/) - As you know both Shoemoney and John Chow are giving things away for their RSS competition. John and Shoemoney wanted to see who could get the most new RSS subscribers in the month of October. Shoemoney started out with 10,833 subscribers and John had 8585 subscribers. As things stand right now Shoemoney has more RSS
- [The Net Vol. 5](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-net-vol-5/) - Well we missed The Net last week so this week are not going to miss it! Although I have been crushed with work all week long! This is the real busy time of year for hardware reviews, because a lot of companies are releasing new products for the holiday season. Also real quick does anyone
- [Microsoft Takes a Stake in Facebook](https://bobbuskirk.com/microsoft-takes-a-stake-in-facebook/) - This week Microsoft bought a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook for a whopping $240 million! That puts the value of Facebook at $15 billion! Now that is a lot of money for a company that does not even have 200 million in annual revenue. Myspace was bought back in 2005 for $580 million. Since that
- [Just Shut up and Work!](https://bobbuskirk.com/just-shut-up-and-work/) - One of the biggest reasons that I don’t get things done that I need to is that I procrastinate and put things off till they absolutely need to be done. This is something I’ve been trying to remedy to make things less stressful on myself. I was talking to John Chow the other day I
- [Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!](https://bobbuskirk.com/ahhhhhhhhhh/) - Ok so if you haven’t noticed I have not updated since the 19th! There are a few reasons for this. One I’ve been extremely busy with ThinkComputers, it’s the busy season for product reviews and they are kicking my ass! Two I’m on a horrible sleeping schedule! As I am writing this I have not
- [Lunch at Joe's](https://bobbuskirk.com/lunch-at-joes/) - If there are 2 types of food I really like they are steak and seafood! So when I go out to eat its either to a steak or seafood place. The other day Ashley and I went to Joe’s Crab Shack. Surprisingly there are only 2 in Pittsburgh! The next closest one is in Columbus
- [A Nice Boost From SlickDeals](https://bobbuskirk.com/a-nice-boost-from-slickdeals/) - Monday seemed like a normal day for me. I had posted the review of the Antec P190 Case and was expecting it to go over quite well. For one Monday’s are usually the busiest days for ThinkComputers, traffic is a lot higher than the rest of the week. Also Antec products always go over well,
- [My Schedule](https://bobbuskirk.com/my-schedule/) - A lot of people have sent me e-mails and have left comments asking me what my schedule is and how I manage to get things done. A lot of the time I don’t get what I want to done, but I do have a system. This system is not really that complex at all and
- [The Net Vol. 4](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-net-vol-4/) - Once again another busy week for me! The crappy weather did not help that much at all. Times like this I wished I lived in a place where it was sunny and warm almost all year around. I have been trying to get a lot of work done this week, but I really did not
- [Crappy Weather!](https://bobbuskirk.com/crappy-weather/) - Anyone can tell you this is true! The past few days here in Pittsburgh have been cold and rainy and it just makes me feel like lying in bed all day. Of course I cannot do that, even sitting here now writing this post I don’t feel like doing anything. My desk sits right in
- [Google Rolls Out Adsense Video Units](https://bobbuskirk.com/google-rolls-out-adsense-video-units/) - If you didn’t hear about this a while ago you should start to hear a lot about these video units because now they are available to use. It pretty simple to get setup with these new video units. Just login to your Adsense account, click on the Adsense setup tab and scroll down to see
- [The Net Vol. 3](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-net-vol-3/) - Another busy week for me! It never seems like I get what I want to done! I really need to get some time management in action. Anyways as I said the week has been busy, but there has been a lot going on around the internet. Before I go into that I just want to
- [Leo’s Halo 3 Legendary Edition Giveaway!](https://bobbuskirk.com/leo’s-halo-3-legendary-edition-giveaway/) - If you have not been to Leo Chiang’s blog then you should really check it out. I first started visiting it about 4-5 months ago when I saw him commenting on Stephen’s blog. If you don’t know who Leo is he is an Actor. He plays the tattooed pilot on Battlestar Galactica. That is probably
- [Agloco is Dead](https://bobbuskirk.com/agloco-is-dead/) - Last year Agloco was launched and there was a ton of hype around it. Everyone from bloggers to college students were trying to get people to sign up claiming you could make money just by surfing the web with a viewbar. Even I made a few posts about Agloco trying to get someone to signup.
- [September’s Top Commentators](https://bobbuskirk.com/september’s-top-commentators/) - September was another slow month here on the blog, I only wrote 15 posts. I haven’t been that lazy since December 2006! Hopefully this month things will change. I’m already on the ball and I actually remember to take a screenshot of the top commentators widget last night so I wouldn’t have to go back
- [The Net Vol. 2](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-net-vol-2/) - This week has been quite a busy one for me. Only 2 posts since the last The Net post last Sunday. The main reason for this is Halo 3! I have been playing that non-stop! I have already beat the game and have been playing online a lot. So many of my friends have it
- [The Power of Endorsement](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-power-of-endorsement/) - If you think of any product or service there is usually someone famous or popular in that niche endorsing that product. Why is that? Say it’s a hockey stick and one of the best hockey players Sidney Crosby says it’s a good stick. I’m sure a lot more people will go buy it the stick
- [Halo 3!!](https://bobbuskirk.com/halo-3-2/) - It seems like Halo 3 has taken over my life…haha! I waited in line for about an hour and a half to get it too! It was actually the first time I have waited in line on launch day to get a game or anything for that matter. It was cool and the people who
- [The Net Vol. 1](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-net-vol-1/) - Sunday is usually a down day for me. I am usually preparing a review for ThinkComputers and taking it easy. But I decided I would start a weekly post where I let you know the happenings of the net for that week. Not just with blogs, but with regular websites too. Hopefully I can keep
- [Our First Blog Sponsor](https://bobbuskirk.com/our-first-blog-sponsor/) - If you haven’t noticed by now you don’t see the Google ads on the blog anymore. They have been replaced by a JohnChow.com ad. The reason for that is he is our first blog sponsor! Well actually second behind Create Business Growth, which has bought a TLA ad on this page for the past 2
- [Get More Traffic with BlogRush](https://bobbuskirk.com/get-more-traffic-with-blogrush/) - It used to be that if you wanted to get a link on another blog you had to exchange links and usually the only people that would list you on their blog would be your friends. You can see on the side of my I have a list of my friends blogs. Well now you
- [Not Sleeping Well](https://bobbuskirk.com/not-sleeping-well/) - If you may have noticed I haven’t had a lot of good posts lately on the blog. I have a lot of good ideas and a list of blog topics to write on my Netvibes, but I have had a problem for over a week now, I’m not sleeping well at all! The biggest problem
- [My New Toy!](https://bobbuskirk.com/my-new-toy-2/) - Well as you can see I got myself an iPhone. Now I said before that I would not be getting an iPhone and originally I was not planning on it. Over the past month I have been looking at getting a new phone. The Audiovox SMT5600 I was using was so old that the battery
- [250 Free Business Cards from VistaPrint](https://bobbuskirk.com/250-free-business-cards-from-vistaprint/) - There is no easier way to promote your business than with business cards. I have had many different business card designs, but I was most pleased with the latest ones I received from VistaPrint. I had heard from a friend that VistaPrint does a good job and they were right! Anyways I was excited when
- [Why I Enjoy Trade Shows](https://bobbuskirk.com/why-i-enjoy-trade-shows/) - I really love going to trade shows. Trade shows are events / expos where computer and electronics companies show off their products. Each company has a booth with their latest and most popular products. I usually only end up going to one trade show a year, CES in Las Vegas. Trade shows are usually expensive
- [The Importance of Private Domain Registration](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-importance-of-private-domain-registration/) - I have never really thought that private domain registration was important, but when someone does not like you or wants to just bother you that is one of the easiest ways for them to get your personal information. If your domain is not private all of your personal information will show up on the whois,
- [Lunch at Redfin Blues](https://bobbuskirk.com/lunch-at-redfin-blues/) - There are not many places in Pittsburgh where you can get good seafood, let alone eat outside and have a great view of the river. Redfin Blues is a small restaurant right on the river that is a perfect place to eat on a nice summer day. Redfin Blues is located at Washington’s Landing on
- [Finding New Blogs](https://bobbuskirk.com/finding-new-blogs/) - I have a whole list of blogs that I check on a daily basis. A lot of them are my friends, some are people who I found their blog and ended up becoming friends with them, and others are blogs I have just found. A lot of these blogs are very informational and I really
- [Now On Justin.tv](https://bobbuskirk.com/now-on-justintv/) - I posted before about lifecasting. I started lifecasting over on Ustream and it was a lot of fun, but the whole reason I wanted to start lifecasting was because I heard about Justin.tv. I signed up for Justin.tv over a month ago and I finally got into the beta. Justin.tv has a much larger viewer
- [August’s Top Commentators](https://bobbuskirk.com/august’s-top-commentators/) - As you all might remember I was a bit late on the top commentators for July, this month I’m right on time, although I still forgot to take a screenshot last night of the top commentator’s widget on the side of the page. So this morning I had to go back and count them by
- [ThinkGaming Gets a New Look](https://bobbuskirk.com/thinkgaming-gets-a-new-look/) - If you head on over to ThinkGaming you can see it has a new look. When I first switched ThinkGaming over to wordpress I used the same layout I was using for ThinkComputers, with different logos of course. This layout works very well on ThinkComputers, but I really did not like how it looked on
- [My 20 Hour Work Week](https://bobbuskirk.com/my-20-hour-work-week/) - As I said before I have started to log my hours. The main reason for this is because I feel like I’m not getting enough work done. So what better way to see if I’m actually doing work than to log my hours. So over the past week I setup an excel sheet to log
- [The Digg Effect...Again!](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-digg-effectagain/) - If you did not notice all of my sites including this blog were running VERY slow yesterday. The reason for this is the Samsung SyncMaster 940UX 19-inch LCD monitor review made it to the front page of Digg, so we were overcome with traffic. Now before we were able to handle a Digg just fine,
- [July's Top Commentators](https://bobbuskirk.com/julys-top-commentators/) - I know some of you may have thought I have forgotten about the top commentators from July, but I haven’t! A few days into August I had to go back and track the comments, but I have been so busy that I haven’t have a chance to make a post about them. Now that that
- [Tips on Releasing Content](https://bobbuskirk.com/tips-on-releasing-content/) - A lot of people think that that releasing content in the morning is the same as releasing it at night. Believe me it is not. Learning when it is best for you to release content can really help you increase your online income and also increase your reader base. I have tested content release times
- [Thanks for the Beers!](https://bobbuskirk.com/thanks-for-the-beers/) - On Tuesday I turned 23 and my buddy Justin was nice enough to buy me a beer! He is only the 2nd person to buy me a beer via the Buy Me a Beer Plugin. When I first implemented the plugin Shawn Knight bought me a beer. My beer of choice is Heinken, in a
- [The Next Internet Millionaire](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-next-internet-millionaire/) - I watched this for the first time last night and it is very intriguing. I’m not a huge reality fan but the Next Internet Millionaire appeals to me because I make all of my money online. The Show is the joint production from Joel Comm and Eric Holmlund, who each have made quite a bit
- [23…That Sounds Old!](https://bobbuskirk.com/23…that-sounds-old/) - Well I turned 23 today and man does that sound old! I remember when all I wanted to was be older, now it’s starting to sound bad! 21 and 22 do not sound that bad, but 23 just sounds old to me. Of course I don’t feel old! And I guess when you get older
- [Being Productive Means Being Healthy](https://bobbuskirk.com/being-productive-means-being-healthy/) - I’m sure most of you have had days where you didn’t feel like doing anything. I felt like this all last week. When you don’t feel good or are tired it shows in your work. You get less done, it’s not the quality that is expected of you and because you get less done you
- [What a Horrible Design!](https://bobbuskirk.com/what-a-horrible-design/) - You would think a large company like Intel would take time to test out their products, but when it comes to their CPU cooler design I guess they didn’t. Well maybe they did test it, but not for multiple installs. What I’m really talking about is the clip design on the stock Intel cooler, you
- [Easy Ways to Promote Your Website](https://bobbuskirk.com/easy-ways-to-promote-your-website/) - Website promotion is not always the easiest thing to do. I know that I have had trouble promoting websites in the past. A lot of people who are starting websites do not have a lot of money to work with, and I am the same way. After spending the money on design, coding, and hosting
- [Having Fun with the Corsair Flash Voyager](https://bobbuskirk.com/having-fun-with-the-corsair-flash-voyager/) - It is not often I get a product in to review that is actually fun to test. I’ve been reviewing hardware for so long almost everything seems to be the same. Well a couple of weeks ago I received the Flash Voyager GT 8GB flash drive from Corsair and it has been a lot of
- [Using Netvibes to Organize Your Life](https://bobbuskirk.com/using-netvibes-to-organize-your-life/) - Running your own business is not an easy thing. It is so easy to get off task and even forget the important things you need to do. I have gone through making daily task lists, putting everything into outlook, and even considered getting a PDA. But before I wasted the money on a PDA I
- [Watch Me Live!](https://bobbuskirk.com/watch-me-live/) - So if you ever want to see what I am up to you can check out the watch me live page or go to my Ustream show page. There you will also find a live chat so you can talk to me. Wonder how long I can do this for?
- [Logging the Hours](https://bobbuskirk.com/logging-the-hours/) - So if you didn’t notice this week I have been extremely lazy in updating my blog. It’s not because I have a ton of work or anything like that, it’s just because I have been lazy and unmotivated. It has been really hard to get motivation lately, the weather has been horrible here and traffic
- [LAN Party Weekend!](https://bobbuskirk.com/lan-party-weekend/) - This past weekend I attended Pittco’s Iron Strom 7 LAN party. I have been going to LAN parties since I was 14 or 15 so it was nothing new for me. One thing that was different was that I used to be on Pittco staff. Because I have been so busy with work I decided
- [8 Fun Facts About Bob Buskirk](https://bobbuskirk.com/8-fun-facts-about-bob-buskirk/) - A while ago Leo tagged me in a blog post. He has listed 8 fun facts about himself. Of course I knew that he was a ninja. Look at those tattoos, he was either a ninja or a member of the Triad. Anyways here are the rules… - Each player must post these rules first.
- [Web 2.0 Communities](https://bobbuskirk.com/web-20-communities/) - Web 2.0 communities and networks are all over the place now. There are tons out there, some for personal use and others for business. Before web communities there were online forums, now they are websites that are dedicated to the specific niche community they represent. So below I have listed the web 2.0 communities I
- [One Step at a Time](https://bobbuskirk.com/one-step-at-a-time/) - One of the biggest problems I have is that I think too much. When I am working on something I will be thinking of what I need to do next, a day later, or even a week later. All of this thinking makes me less productive and can even stress me out at times. Sometimes
- [ThinkCE Re-Launched!](https://bobbuskirk.com/thinkce-re-launched/) - Some of you might have noticed that ThinkCE has been inactive for some time now. Since December actually! Well today I have re-launched the site. Over the past few weeks I have been debating whether or not to switch it to Wordpress. I knew for sure I wanted to start it back up because I
- [The Blogging Tip Meme](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-blogging-tip-meme/) - The Blogging Tip Meme My buddy Leo tagged me in his latest blog post. This time we have a blogging tip meme! -Start Copy- It’s very simple. When this is passed on to you, copy the whole thing, skim the list and put a * star beside those that you like. (Check out especially the
- [Samsung SyncMaster 971P 19-inch LCD Monitor Review](https://bobbuskirk.com/samsung-syncmaster-971p-19-inch-lcd-monitor-review/) - Today has been quite a busy day for me. I did want to let everyone know about the Samsung SyncMaster 971p 19-inch LCD monitor review, written by fellow blogger and new ThinkComputers staff member Michael Kwan. He will be doing most of the Samsung reviews for ThinkComputers. ThinkComputers just picked up Samsung as a sponsor
- [Snorkeling Egmont Key](https://bobbuskirk.com/snorkeling-egmont-key/) - While in Florida Ashley and I heard about a snorkeling trip, so we decided to check it out. We both had never been snorkeling before so we thought it would be a lot of fun. On the snorkeling trip they take you out to Egmont Key, which was about a 45 minute boat ride from
- [Back on the Smartphone](https://bobbuskirk.com/back-on-the-smartphone/) - A few years ago I purchased an Audiovox SMT5600 smartphone. At the time it was the world’s smallest smartphone and I loved it. This was before AT&T went over to Cingular. Once the switch happened I had to get a new phone. I ended up getting a Razr. I have been happy with it, but
- [100 RSS Subscribers!](https://bobbuskirk.com/100-rss-subscribers/) - Finally I have reached the 100 RSS subscriber mark! I was close a few times getting up to 99, but never have a reach 100 until today. It is quite an accomplishment for me because this is my personal blog. It shows that people are actually interested in my posts and what I have to
- [Using a Daily Routine to Maximize Work](https://bobbuskirk.com/using-a-daily-routine-to-maximize-work/) - Since coming back from vacation it has been hard to get used to working again. So I have setup a daily routine to help me get back to work. It has really proved to be very effective and I’m now getting more work done then before I went away. My daily routine starts when I
- [Motivation: Movies](https://bobbuskirk.com/motivation-movies/) - Sometimes it is hard to get motivated to do work or start a new project. One good way to become motivated is to watch a movie that will motivate you. A lot of movies can motivate you, they don’t even have to be about what you are doing. I always have a few movies lying
- [Crabby Bill's](https://bobbuskirk.com/crabby-bills/) - While in Florida we went to a restaurant called Crabby Bill’s. Of course it was a seafood restaurant. One thing that was great about it is that it was right one the beach. You could look out the window and see the ocean, they also had an outside deck. Once we were seated I looked
- [Diversify Your Online Income](https://bobbuskirk.com/diversify-your-online-income/) - Many people think there only one type on online advertising. That is not true at all. There are all different types, banner ads, text ads, contextual ads, etc. To maximize your online income you should use a mix of all different types of ads / advertising companies. You can’t rely on just one because you
- [Finally Home](https://bobbuskirk.com/finally-home/) - Last night we finally arrived home in Pittsburgh. Saturday was a LONG day. Before we checked out of our hotel we went to the beach and the pool one last time, knowing we probably won’t see the beach for another year. People who live by the beach don’t realize how lucky they are! Anyways after
- [The Week So Far](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-week-so-far/) - The week down here in Florida has been really nice. Ashley and I have had a lot of fun! When we got in on Saturday we spent most of the day at the pool / beach. Sunday we rented wave runners. This was the first time I have done and it was really a great
- [I Need Sleep!](https://bobbuskirk.com/i-need-sleep/) - Well its 7PM here and I haven’t slept since around noon yesterday! As you may have guessed Ashley and I made it to Florida! Our flight from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia was horrible! We were cramped on a 737. If this was my impression of U.S. Airways I would never fly them again! The service was
- [At the Airport...](https://bobbuskirk.com/at-the-airport/) - Well I’m posting this from the Airport’s free WiFi. Getting through security and everything was very smooth. We got e-ticket’s through Priceline so we had to go to the ticket counter to get our tickets. They had touch-screens setup where you retrieve your tickets. It was a very easy process. The security line was quite
- [The Joy of Packing](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-joy-of-packing/) - For the past 2 hours I have been packing. This time I was smart and made a list of the things that I need to take, I always end up forgetting something! So hopefully this time I won’t. Packing for this trip is a lot different from CES. For CES I pack all dress clothes
- [Busy, Busy, Busy!](https://bobbuskirk.com/busy-busy-busy-2/) - This week has been insane so far! For some of you that don’t know I will be going away to Florida on Saturday. Because of this I am trying to get a lot of work done before I leave. This means doing 2-3 times more work than what I am used to. I’m trying to
- [The 40oz Porterhouse](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-40oz-porterhouse/) - My friend Sebastian and I were hanging out last week and once again we wanted steak. My Dad had told me about a place around here where if you ate this steak in a certain amount of time you get your meal free or something like that. Now that sparked my interest! So after making
- [June’s Top Commentators](https://bobbuskirk.com/june’s-top-commentators/) - Wow it seems like time is flying, another month has gone by. Last month was a great month for this blog and we had a good amount of comments. Only the top 5 commentators make our list though. Here they are, Leo Chiang style… BigMan – He reviews PC Hardware just like me, and enjoys
- [Be Productive on the Weekend](https://bobbuskirk.com/be-productive-on-the-weekend/) - For most people the weekend is the time to relax and just take time off from work. Usually I try to do the same, but what I should be doing is being productive. Weekends are usually slower for internet traffic so I usually don’t post reviews on the weekend, I try to relax and work
- [ThinkComputers Updates](https://bobbuskirk.com/thinkcomputers-updates/) - Usually with all of my sites there are little tweaks or things I want to change. With ThinkComputers there was been many things that I have wanted to get done, but I just haven’t had the time. Finally last weekend I took the time to fix a lot of the little problems with ThinkComputers and
- [Cooking Mama!](https://bobbuskirk.com/cooking-mama/) - If you have a Wii you need to check out Cooking Mama: Cook Off! It is a really fun game and anyone can pickup a Wii remote and start playing. I’m not going to tell you all about the game, you can read my review over at ThinkGaming. If you have a chance, pick this
- [Brainstorming](https://bobbuskirk.com/brainstorming/) - Why is brainstorming important? I think for me it allows me to come up with quality posts and content. I see a lot of bloggers writing impulse posts. These are quick posts that they have thought up that day and post right away. Now there is nothing wrong with impulse posts, but I feel that
- [Finally on Flickr](https://bobbuskirk.com/finally-on-flickr/) - I’ve had a free pro Flickr code for some time now, well I finally cashed it in. For those who don’t know Flickr is a place where you can store photos online and people can view them, leave comments, etc. I always like to get feedback on pictures I take or just some funny comments
- [Taking Ashley to Outback](https://bobbuskirk.com/taking-ashley-to-outback/) - After going to Outback with Sebastian and telling Ashley about it she told me she had never been to Outback so I decided I would take her. We went to the Outback in Robinson because we were out that way. It was nice out so we decided to beat the wait and eat outside. The
- [Ashley's Blog](https://bobbuskirk.com/ashleys-blog/) - Ashley has decided to start up a blog again. She originally had one, but never updated it. She says she will be updating this one all the time, but we will see. She is using the same layout I have, but she has changed it up to fit her style. She says she is going
- [5 Days, 5 Reviews](https://bobbuskirk.com/5-days-5-reviews/) - This week was a great week for ThinkComputers, we posted a review each day of the week (Monday-Friday). Usually we post reviews on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, but we had enough products in that we were able to post reviews on Tuesday and Thursday too. Because of the added content I saw about a 5%
- [Keeping Track of Money and Payments](https://bobbuskirk.com/keeping-track-of-money-and-payments/) - Some people are good at this and some people are just horrible at it. With so much going on it is hard sometimes to keep track of your expenses and payments. Also when you work exclusively online most of your money comes in around the same time each month so you basically have one payday
- [Always Try to Work Ahead](https://bobbuskirk.com/always-try-to-work-ahead/) - I always have a problem getting behind in my work, it could be that I have bad time management or that I don’t always set daily goals or even that I’m just lazy. It any business it is always great to be ahead in your work. Once you get behind in your work things just
- [The XPS vs. Mac](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-xps-vs-mac/) - Ahhhh! Well today has been extra busy for me so I haven’t had a lot of time to make a post, but I found this today and it made me laugh. Hell yeah XPS > Mac! Here is the second video too. Dell should make these a real commercial. Anyways these videos brightened up my
- [Going On Vacation!](https://bobbuskirk.com/going-on-vacation/) - Well I know I talked about doing all work this summer, but Ashley talked me into taking a vacation and we both really need it. As I always say it is good to take a break and just relax. Now this trip won’t be a total relax trip as the hotel we are staying at
- [Win a Zune From Ms. Danielle](https://bobbuskirk.com/win-a-zune-from-ms-danielle/) - What? Another Zune contest? I didn’t win John Chow’s Zune contest so I better win this one! Actually Ms. Danielle is the winner of John’s contest. She is giving the 30GB Zune away! What a great way to drive traffic to her site and gain readership. Contests always bring in readers because they have the
- [Getting More Comments](https://bobbuskirk.com/getting-more-comments/) - I love when people comment on my posts. It actually shows that people are interested in the post and they want to add their 2 cents in. It also letís me find out who my readers are. There are a lot of different things you can do to get people to comment on your blog.
- [What Do You Focus On?](https://bobbuskirk.com/what-do-you-focus-on/) - When I am thinking about posts to write a lot is going through my head. There are many different things that I want to write about, but there are key things that I try and focus on. These key things are what shape my blog. They are the ideas behind my blog and the things
- [A Day at the Pool](https://bobbuskirk.com/a-day-at-the-pool/) - The other day Ashley and I went down to the pool they have here at our complex. It was the first time we have seen it. It’s not super big or anything like that, but hey it’s a pool none the less! Around the pool they have the typical chairs and tables, but they do
- [Finding Out Who Your Readers Are](https://bobbuskirk.com/finding-out-who-your-readers-are/) - The readers of your blog / website are very important. They enjoy reading your posts and come back each day to see what is new. If you are publishing any type of media you want to know what type of people are reading / watching your works. You might find out that some very interesting
- [The Summer Outlook](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-summer-outlook/) - You ever remember those summers when you were in high school when you worked your ass off to get that new car, or just to have some money? Well that is looking to be what this summer is going to be for me. I don’t want a new car or anything like that, but I
- [My Mobile Office](https://bobbuskirk.com/my-mobile-office/) - Anytime I take a trip or even go somewhere like my parents house where I know I will be there for an extended period of time I usually end up taking my "mobile office" with me. The reason I do this is because as they say time is money and if I can get things
- [The Ducks are Champions](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-ducks-are-champions/) - Well there is good news and there is bad news. The good news is that the Duck's are Stanley Cup Champions. The bad news is that hockey is over. Hockey is one of the most intense sports to watch, I still don't understand why so many people hate the sport, but anyways.The Ducks took game
- [Missing Out on Another Trade Show](https://bobbuskirk.com/missing-out-on-another-trade-show/) - If you follow technology at all you should know that Computex is going on all this week in Taipei. Last year I said I would go, but I’m sitting here at home. I LOVE going to trade shows. For one I love technology and it’s great to see what all of the companies are coming
- [The Ducks Take Game 4](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-ducks-take-game-4/) - Another game of the Stanley Cup Finals is in the books and the Ducks now lead the series 3 games to 1. The first period was back and forth but with only 0.3 seconds left Alfredsson scored to give the Senators a 1-0 lead. The second period was almost all Ducks. Andy McDonald scores 2
- [Why Would I Pay you $25 Tyler?!](https://bobbuskirk.com/why-would-i-pay-you-25-tyler/) - I first read about this over at Jon Waraas’s blog then followed the story to WickedFire. So Tyler Cruz made a post on his blog about is new site and was talking about how he liked the forum layout that he got designed. He complained about the waiting so long for previous layouts and he
- [May’s Blogging Thoughts](https://bobbuskirk.com/may’s-blogging-thoughts/) - Well I think May was a good month of blogging for me. I only managed to write 26 post compared to last month’s 30, but this month was quite a busy one for me. I have been working on a lot of reviews for ThinkComputers and writing quite a few articles for ThinkGaming. Luckily I
- [The Agloco Viewbar is FINALLY Released!](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-agloco-viewbar-is-finally-released/) - This is a day I really did not think would happen. All of the speculation and rumors that Agloco was a scam. Well now we have what we have been waiting for the viewbar, the thing that makes us money! In order to download the viewbar you should receive an e-mail from Agloco saying that
- [May’s Top Commentators](https://bobbuskirk.com/may’s-top-commentators/) - Well I have been so busy this week that I forgot to take a screenshot of the top commentators. So I decided instead of not making this post I would just go through and count the comments. It was not fun, but I did it! Here are the top commentators for May done
- [Buy Me a Beer!](https://bobbuskirk.com/buy-me-a-beer/) - A lot of my friends have added this plugin to their blogs so I have decided to add it to mine. The buy me a beer plugin is quite a cool plugin and is really easy to install. What better way to let me know you like my post than buying me a beer. I
- [The Feast at Outback](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-feast-at-outback/) - Last weekend my friend Sebastian and I were hanging out and we both felt like getting some steaks so we decided to go to Outback Steakhouse. Now I haven’t been there in probably 4 years. I’m really not sure why but I need to go more often. Sebastian and I were both really hungry so
- [The Ducks go up 2-0 in the Series](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-ducks-go-up-2-0-in-the-series/) - Just like in game 1 Ottawa is getting out-played and over worked. There were inexcusable turnovers, 1 which ended up being the game winning goal for the Ducks. The number 1 scoring line in hockey during the regular season (Spezza, Alfredsson, Heatley) has not been able to generate much offense at all in the first
- [The Man Behind FirstShowing.net](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-man-behind-firstshowingnet/) - Now I know most of you have probably never heard of Alex Billington. He isn’t a blogger like John Chow or Jon Waraas, but he is a good friend of mine that is doing great things. Alex runs FirstShowing.net, which is a movie news website. You will find everything from reviews to event coverage. Lately
- [Finally Someone Shut-up the Senators](https://bobbuskirk.com/finally-someone-shut-up-the-senators/) - If anyone does not know the Stanley Cup Finals are going on. If you get to a chance to watch any of the games I would. You will see some of the best hockey! The 2 teams that made it to the final are the Anaheim Duck and the Ottawa Senators. After the Senators beat
- [Connecting With People](https://bobbuskirk.com/connecting-with-people/) - In my business (ThinkComputers) I am constantly dealing with people. Every time you see a new review I’ve had to talk to someone at that company in order for them to send it to me. Well sometimes things just show up, but not that often. Most of my contact is done through e-mail, but I
- [VOSS Water in Pittsburgh!?!](https://bobbuskirk.com/voss-water-in-pittsburgh/) - Well last night I was doing some work and I was a bit hungry, but didn’t want to make anything. Luckily there is a Sheetz 2 minutes from my place. So I decided to go over there and get a MTO. MTO’s are great, I usually get a 12-inch steak hoagie with double meat, double
- [$3 For a Link on JohnChow.com](https://bobbuskirk.com/3-for-a-link-on-johnchowcom/) - Well this was a great deal! A ReviewMe review on JohnChow.com is $400! A Text Link is $240! So how did I manage to get a link in his latest post? I bought him a beer! John just installed the Buy Me a Beer Wordpress plugin. You can see it at the far bottom of
- [Increase RSS Subscribers with Facebook](https://bobbuskirk.com/increase-rss-subscribers-with-facebook/) - When I first heard of this I was a bit wary, but I guess it seems to be working for me, although I’m not really sure. I know most of you have heard of Facebook. If you haven’t it is the less spam version of Myspace that allows you to connect with old classmates from
- [Ashley’s New Puppy](https://bobbuskirk.com/ashley’s-new-puppy/) - Well Ashley has talked about getting a dog for a while. I just said ok thinking she would never get one. Yesterday she came home with a puppy! It is an 10 week old Yorkshire Terrier. Ashley named it Teddy. I can’t believe how small it is, it’s smaller than both of our cats. So
- [A Keyboard for iPod Lovers!](https://bobbuskirk.com/a-keyboard-for-ipod-lovers/) - The Pro|Type is actually based on the Tarantula keyboard, which is focused more towards gamers, so if you don’t need the iPod dock and don’t like the all white design of the Pro|Type the Tarantula is a great keyboard. The Pro|Type is very hard to find right now. It only started shipping on April 9th
- [Don’t Do It for the Money](https://bobbuskirk.com/don’t-do-it-for-the-money/) - This weekend on my Personal Day I was watching a lot of TV, and actually there was something interesting on. The Science Channel has their Geek Weekend, which focused on the history of personal computers etc. On the one show they talked to a lot of the people who revolutionized personal computers. The interesting thing
- [A Personal Day](https://bobbuskirk.com/a-personal-day/) - It used to be a common thing for me to miss a day of blogging. But as most of you have noticed I have been updating this blog quite frequently. The main reason for this is because I consider blogging “work” now. This week has been hell for me, mainly because some how I got
- [Halo 3!](https://bobbuskirk.com/halo-3/) - For the past few days I have been playing the Halo 3 beta. I’m sure some of you have been too! In order to get into the beta you had to either signup and be selected or buy a copy of Crackdown. The beta is only a multiplayer beta so you just get to play
- [Relying 100% On Online Income](https://bobbuskirk.com/relying-100-on-online-income/) - All of my income comes from the internet. To some people this could be a good thing, or a bad thing. It all depends on how you look at it. Before we go into talking about the pros and cons of online income you need to decide when it is a good time to rely
- [Jon Waraas Another Young Entrepreneur](https://bobbuskirk.com/jon-waraas-another-young-entrepreneur/) - When I first started talking to Jon it was if he already knew me. We talked about everything from online advertising to girls. What I found most astounding is the amount of money he was making off of his sites. I don’t know the figures, but you can take a look here and see that
- [Some People Just Don’t Get It](https://bobbuskirk.com/some-people-just-don’t-get-it/) - Man I always tell people doing internet work is not as simple as it seems. Yeah I make my own hours and yeah I work from home, but I DO have to put in a lot of hours of work to make the money that I do. I hate the people that think they can
- [Another Busy Weeked!!](https://bobbuskirk.com/another-busy-weeked/) - Now usually the weekends are time for me to relax and catch up on work, well not the past 2 weekends. Last weekend I was fixing computers for some family friends, this weekend was mother’s day and I had a lot going on so I really did not get much done. As you can see
- [Watch out Tribal Fusion Publishers](https://bobbuskirk.com/watch-out-tribal-fusion-publishers/) - Well the other day I sent my friend a link to a review I post posted on ThinkComputers. He usually reads over the review and fixes any mistakes that I might have made. After fixing the mistakes he said, “You making good money off those huge ads?”. I was like huge ads? He told me
- [Dawn](https://bobbuskirk.com/dusk/) - I am usually NEVER up really early in the morning. I usually get up around 9:30-10, but I’m on a horrible sleep schedule waking up at 2-3PM in the afternoon. This schedule really affects my work so I’m pulling an all nighter to get back on the good schedule. It’s not that hard to stay
- [Ashley Shows you the Townhouse](https://bobbuskirk.com/ashley-shows-you-the-townhouse/) - A couple of weeks ago Ashley made this video for her myspace. Because I’m way to busy to make a video myself and I’m sure most of you would rather see her than me I posted her video to give you a tour of our new townhouse. Enjoy!
- [3 Guidelines for Starting a Website](https://bobbuskirk.com/3-guidelines-for-starting-a-website/) - Ok well starting a website or blog is not that easy, but if you follow some simple guidelines you can have a fairly decent website that people will want to come back to. After thinking about all of the steps in creating a website I have come up with three guidelines you should follow if
- [A Busy Weekend](https://bobbuskirk.com/a-busy-weekend/) - I really did not have a lot of time to post this weekend. Most of my time was taken up by reviewing and fixing people’s computers. Being able to fix computers is a good thing, because a lot of people have them and they always need fixed! Over the weekend a good family friend needed
- [April’s Blogging Thoughts](https://bobbuskirk.com/april’s-blogging-thoughts/) - Well April was a good month of blogging here at BobBuskirk.com. I set a record with the most blog posts I have done in a month, 30! I guess I had a lot to talk about and I actually made time to write. I used to just blog when I had free time. No I
- [The Real John Chow](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-real-john-chow/) - I’m sure a lot of you know John Chow by now. Maybe from his four front page Digg’s in 2 days, or from his many ways to make money online, or even more recently for his 13,000 AGLOCO signups, but do you know the real John Chow? I met John Chow around 2 years ago.
- [Top Commentators for April](https://bobbuskirk.com/top-commentators-for-april/) - Shawn Knight – Shawn is one of my friends who owns OCIA.net. He has just recently started his blog and there is always something interesting on it. Glenn Hawkins – Glenn always seems to comment on a lot of my posts. His blog is about making money online, investing, and working out. A lot of
- [Digg Gets Owned by It’s Own Users](https://bobbuskirk.com/digg-gets-owned-by-it’s-own-users/) - Finally Digg was taken down and the front page is still down, but you can still easily submit stories or check out stories. I’m sure Digg has coded something that will auto-bury stories with the HD-DVD encryption key in them. Digg founded Kevin Rose has posted his thoughts on the whole thing. He obviously knows
- [And the Winner Is?](https://bobbuskirk.com/and-the-winner-is/) - So who won the 1GB Mushkin Flash Drive? The contest ran for around 2 weeks and I only had 9 entries. I wish I would have had more, but hey it’s only a 1GB flash drive not a Wii or PS3. Here are the nine entries that I received... I’m A Lucky Girl (Cher Free)
- [One Day Blog Silence](https://bobbuskirk.com/one-day-blog-silence/)
- [Another Digg For ThinkComputers](https://bobbuskirk.com/another-digg-for-thinkcomputers/) - Yesterday my review of the Icydock MB561 4-Bay External SATA Removable Hard Drive Enclosure made it to the front page off Digg. As I always say I rarely submit things to Digg. Just for the fact that most of the reviews are not super interesting and I don’t want to get the reputation of someone
- [My Adventure Into the City](https://bobbuskirk.com/my-adventure-into-the-city/) - Well early this morning my friend Phil called me. He maintains my servers so when he called early I though it had to be a problem with the servers. He actually wanted to go to lunch. He has been telling me about this Chinese buffet that is downtown. He was working downtown today so he
- [Some Small Updates to ThinkGaming](https://bobbuskirk.com/some-small-updates-to-thinkgaming/) - ThinkGaming has been doing very well. With the exception of today I have been posting at least 2 posts a day. The only reason I didn’t today was because I was working most of the day cleaning out my old apartment. Anyways when I finally switched ThinkGaming over to Wordpress I sort of left it
- [Finally Some Exercise!](https://bobbuskirk.com/finally-some-exercise/) - I barely work out, exercise or anything like that. Once of the main reason for that is that I’m just lazy and I really do not like going to work out. The only reason I stay slim is because I have a high metabolism. That basically allows me to eat whatever I want and not
- [Don’t Blog Just to do it...](https://bobbuskirk.com/don’t-blog-just-to-do-it/) - I have come across so many blogs that when I go to them and read the posts they just seem boring or they seem like they are copied from other sites. Some people blog either to make money or to try to become popular so they do the exact same things as other popular blogs
- [Some of my Favorite Things](https://bobbuskirk.com/some-of-my-favorite-things/) - Well my buddy Shawn tagged me in one of his posts. Shawn has a list of his favorite Song, Color, Food, TV Show, Movie, and Animal. I will be giving you my favorites on all of these and adding a few more things to the list, enjoy! Song: T.I. – What you know about that
- [Contest Update!](https://bobbuskirk.com/contest-update/) - It has been 8 days since I announced the 1GB flash drive giveaway. As of right now I only have 4 entries. I know a 1GB flash drive isn’t a Nintendo Wii, but hell it’s free! And it is very easy to enter the contest. All you have to do is write about the giveaway
- [Being Sick...](https://bobbuskirk.com/being-sick/) - Well for the past few days I have been sick. I’m not sure what I really have, I think that it’s some type of throat cold. My throat hurts really bad and the past 2 days I woke up I have been spitting up blood. So right now I am taking throat and sinus medicine.
- [A State of Trance](https://bobbuskirk.com/a-state-of-trance/) - As some of you may know I enjoy listening to techno and trance. It is hard to find new music that you haven’t heard if you are working at your computer each day. I swear I listen to so many of the same songs it gets annoying. That is why I am happy when Thursday’s
- [Smart PageRank](https://bobbuskirk.com/smart-pagerank/) - Because of comments on my dnScoop post and some e-mails about it I also want to tell you about Smart PageRank. Apparently according to Smart PageRank dnScoop was using under-handed tactics to steal website traffic. Smart PageRank was so upset they created dnscoopsucks.com. Now it seems everything between them is ok. There is only one
- [Make Your Blog Your Own](https://bobbuskirk.com/make-your-blog-your-own/) - As I said before I prefer going to everyone’s blogs instead of reading the RSS, therefore I use bookmarks. I like going to the blogs themselves because it brings me into the bloggers “world”. This personal feel is something I try to give to my readers too. That is why I have changed elements of
- [Penguins Tie the Series 1-1](https://bobbuskirk.com/penguins-tie-the-series-1-1/) - Well it looks like the Penguins have tied the series 1-1. It would have been really hard to fight back going down 2 games to 0. Now we are heading back home for the next 2 games. The win will give us momentum going into game 3 and the game is at home so that
- [Win a 1GB Mushkin Flash Drive!](https://bobbuskirk.com/win-a-1gb-mushkin-flash-drive/) - Well my blog has been around long enough it’s about time I have a contest. Up for grabs is a brand new 1GB Mushkin flash drive that was given to me during the 2007 CES. They gave me two so I really do not have a use for this one so why not give it
- [The Logitech diNovo Edge Wireless Keyboard](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-logitech-dinovo-edge-wireless-keyboard/) - Usually when I review products I am never really blown away. Probably because I am so used to reviewing products and so many products are alike. Not that often do companies come out with something that makes me go, “WOW”. Well Logitech really made me go WOW with their diNovo Edge Wireless Keyboard. This keyboard
- [Some Advice for the Penguins](https://bobbuskirk.com/some-advice-for-the-penguins/) - Well as a lot of you know I’m a big hockey fan and I can’t be more excited for the 2007 Stanley Cup playoffs, not to mention that the Penguins are actually in them! It’s been a while since the Pens have been in the playoffs so of course I’m real excited. Watching the first
- [Quit Looking for Instant Results!](https://bobbuskirk.com/quit-looking-for-instant-results/) - I have seen so many people give up on making money off the internet. One of the main reasons for this is they want instant results. A lot of people just think they can throw some ads on a website and the next day they will be making good money. You may laugh at this,
- [Text Link Ads](https://bobbuskirk.com/text-link-ads/) - Well some of you may have noticed the Featured Sites section on the side of the site. That is because I signed up for Text Link Ads last night. To my surprise my site was instantly approved. I’ve heard of a lot of other blogs have had a hard time getting accepted. Maybe I’m just
- [Vote for a new Star Wars Stamp](https://bobbuskirk.com/vote-for-a-new-star-wars-stamp/) - Last week when Ashley and I were down at the Waterfront I walked by a mailbox and I had to do a double take. When I looked for the second time I was like, “It’s R2D2!!”. Ashley was wondering why I was so excited. Of course she is not a Star Wars fan like I
- [The Digg Effect](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-digg-effect/) - Well a lot of people have e-mailed me as well as left comments asking me how much of a traffic boost the digg gave ThinkGaming. Well first off ThinkGaming was barely doing any real traffic, maybe about 100 uniques a day. That is mainly because I haven’t had much time to work on it and
- [ThinkGaming gets a Digg!](https://bobbuskirk.com/thinkgaming-gets-a-digg/) - Well as a lot of you may have noticed all of my sites including this one were basically down last night. The reason for this is because my favorite video game easter eggs article made the front page of digg. Now ThinkComputers can take a digg without a problem, but TG is based off wordpress
- [Busy Weekend!](https://bobbuskirk.com/busy-weekend/) - Well it’s been a busy weekend for me. Most of you probably have been relaxing since it is a holiday weekend. I have been working! First off I wrote a very cool article about my favorite video game easter eggs over at ThinkGaming. Make sure you check it out and digg it too! Of course
- [Another Contest from John Chow](https://bobbuskirk.com/another-contest-from-john-chow/) - Well it looks like my buddy John, or as some of you may know him as the root of all evil is having another contest. This time he is giving away a Microsoft Zune media player. Not bad eh? This is not an old Zune that he has been using for a few months, it’s
- [ThinkComputers is looking for new staff members!](https://bobbuskirk.com/thinkcomputers-is-looking-for-new-staff-members/) - Well ThinkComputers is looking for new staff members. Below is all the info, any links to this post or repostage is appreciated! ThinkComputers.org is looking for more staff. We are looking for more writers and reviewers. Who we are: ThinkComputers.org is a comprehensive hardware review site. We have reviewed well over 550 computer related products,
- [RSS or Bookmarks?](https://bobbuskirk.com/rss-or-bookmarks/) - Each day I usually go through and check out around 10 different blogs. These are mostly my friend’s blogs or people I know. When I first started this blogging thing I used Google Reader to keep track of everyone else’s blog posts. While Google Reader does do a good job it was sort of boring
- [The Waterfront and Yokoso!](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-waterfront-and-yokoso/) - Yesterday Ashley and I went down to the waterfront, which is one of the nicest places to go on a sunny day, and yesterday was the perfect day. It was sunny all day and 80 degrees! To bad it’s like 30 degrees today and it’s been snowing on and off all day. Gotta love Pittsburgh
- [OCIA.net 2007 T-Shirt Design Contest](https://bobbuskirk.com/ocianet-2007-t-shirt-design-contest/) - Well my buddy Shawn is hosting a T-Shirt contest for his site OCIA.net. OCIA.net is just like ThinkComputers, it is a computer hardware review site. Well OCIA is having a contest where you can win $100 via Paypal by creating an OCIA T-Shirt logo for them to use. Here is a link to the contest
- [Busy day so here are some links](https://bobbuskirk.com/busy-day-so-here-are-some-links/) - Well I’m really busy today so here is some quick links for yah! Fireplace with build-in iPod station & speakers Bad day at the office? ViewSonic VX2235wm 22-inch HD Widescreen Monitor Review Shawn has another picture for his daily ownage section Halo 300! Enjoy the links!
- [LongHorn Steakhouse](https://bobbuskirk.com/longhorn-steakhouse/) - Yesterday Ashley and I ventured out into Cranberry. Even though I only grew up about 20 minutes from here I never was really up this way much. Most of my time was spent in North Hills so there is a lot that I do not know about up here. Also Cranberry is a very up
- [Timeshare…How about a DreamShare](https://bobbuskirk.com/timeshare…how-about-a-dreamshare/) - We all know what a timeshare is, but how about a DreamShare. Gotham Dream Cars is calling their new timeshare membership program DreamShare. Gotham Dream Cars is a car rental company, but not you’re typical rental company. They only rent what they call “exotic” cars. Unlike other exotic car rental companies they only offer what
- [New Advertiser on ThinkComputers](https://bobbuskirk.com/new-advertiser-on-thinkcomputers/) - ThinkComputers has just picked up a new advertiser, Cableorganizer.com. They bought the 468X60 top placement for April and May. Cableorganizer offers a ton of different products to help you organize your cables! From home to business solutions they have it all. And not just simple things like wire loom and sleeving they have data center
- [Stay Motivated!](https://bobbuskirk.com/stay-motivated/) - When you are running your own business it is very hard to stay motivated. I think the main reason for this is because there is no one telling you what to do and you're on your own schedule. Because of this you can become very lazy and not get as much done. I have experienced
- [Best Home Workstation Contest](https://bobbuskirk.com/best-home-workstation-contest/) - I was browsing Shawn’s Blog today and I noticed he had a picture of his home workstation setup. The reason for that is Gary Lee is hosting a best home workstation contest. I’ve seen some extremely nice setups so hopefully some people will like my setup. I was never really proud of my setup before,
- [Lunch and a Movie](https://bobbuskirk.com/lunch-and-a-movie/) - As you may have noticed I have not updated in a few days. Well there are a few reasons for this. One being that at ThinkComputers I am doing almost all of the reviews. My two other guys are really busy with school / personal life to do any reviews so I’m stuck with all
- [Intro to Affiliate Marketing](https://bobbuskirk.com/intro-to-affiliate-marketing/) - A lot of people think to make money on the internet you have to build a website, put ads on it and drive traffic to that website. This is not the only way to make money on the internet, of course you could sell things, but if you are anything like me you are lazy
- [dnScoop - All in one Domain Check](https://bobbuskirk.com/dnscoop-all-in-one-domain-check/) - Well the other day my girlfriend Ashley told me that ThinkComputers was worth $116,560. She was checking out this site called dnScoop. Their slogan is, “All in one Domain Check”. A lot of sites will give you certain information like page rank or traffic rank, but dnScoop gives you a ton of information. First up
- [There are Bloggers in Pittsburgh!](https://bobbuskirk.com/there-are-bloggers-in-pittsburgh/) - Well after some searching I came across the Pittsburgh Bloggers website. I was surprised to see how many bloggers there are around the Pittsburgh area. Pittsburgh is not really a huge tech city, but of course not many of these blogs have anything to do with technology. Most of them are more like personal journals
- [Lenovo ThinkPad X60 Tablet PC Review](https://bobbuskirk.com/lenovo-thinkpad-x60-tablet-pc-review/) - I talked about the Lenovo ThinkPad X60 Tablet PC a couple post ago. It is really a great tablet PC! Instead of me telling you all about it I made a video showcasing some of its features. Check out the video below. If you want to learn more be sure to check out the review
- [Review My Post](https://bobbuskirk.com/review-my-post/) - Way back at the end of December I talked about PayPerPost and how you could easily make money blogging about various topics. Now PayPerPost has a really cool service that I want to tell you about, it is called Review My Post. It is a form of blog marketing that pays YOU every time someone
- [The Penguins are staying in Pittsburgh!](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-penguins-are-staying-in-pittsburgh/) - I’m sure some of you know that I am a huge hockey fan. This all season there had been talks about the Penguins leaving Pittsburgh. There were talks that they might go to Kansas City where a brand new area lay waiting. Mellon Area is the oldest hockey area in the league. A few months
- [CSS and Ad Changes to ThinkComputers](https://bobbuskirk.com/css-and-ad-changes-to-thinkcomputers/) - Well I have been meaning to do this for quite some time. Well I said a while ago I was testing the Google 336 ad placement. I changed the colors to see if it would increase the click through rate. It did to some extent but it was not a huge increase as I would
- [Reviews!  And getting caught back up!](https://bobbuskirk.com/reviews-and-getting-caught-back-up/) - Well I have been working my ass off trying to catch back up with all of the reviews I need to write. Right now I am writing about 90% of the reviews on ThinkComputers so it is a bit hard to do all that plus all of the other things I am trying to do.
- [Some Funny Cat Photos](https://bobbuskirk.com/some-funny-cat-photos/) - Well having pets can be fun, but also annoying at times. Our cats are so much fun, and they love to sleep! Here are some funny photos I took from this past week!
- [Wealth TV](https://bobbuskirk.com/wealth-tv/) - Well since we moved into the new townhouse we have cable now. I’m not spending all of my time in front of the TV, but usually when we eat we turn it on. We have Armstrong cable, which is basically like Comcast. Looking through the channels I found one called Wealth TV. Wealth TV is
- [Magazine Advertising](https://bobbuskirk.com/magazine-advertising/) - I really do not read magazines, but the other day I picked up a Wired magazine. Looking through it I kind of wish I didn’t. Almost half of the magazine was advertisements! The first 11 pages of the magazine were advertisements. I really don’t know that much about magazine advertising, but I guess these ads
- [300 – Prepare for Glory!](https://bobbuskirk.com/300-–-prepare-for-glory/) - Last night I went to the midnight showing of 300. I’m sure most of you have heard of this movie, trailers have scoured the internet and the movie has been all over Myspace. If you have not heard of the move you can check out the trailer here. I was first shown the trailer back
- [A Look at Our New Townhouse](https://bobbuskirk.com/a-look-at-our-new-townhouse/) - So you want to see the new place? I’ll show you the photos first before I talk about the move... The new office Other side of the office, my test machines for ThinkComputers My setup in the office Big bedroom with like nothing in it! TV / HTPC setup in bedroom Master bathroom Loft area
- [All Moved In!](https://bobbuskirk.com/all-moved-in/) - Well Ashley and I are all moved in! We finally have every put together and this place finally feels like a home. It has been a pain trying to clean this place up, put together furniture, go out and get stuff for the place, and keep up with work. We just got our internet installed
- [So Busy!](https://bobbuskirk.com/so-busy/) - Well if you haven’t noticed I haven’t been updating a lot. The main reason for that is I am in the process of moving. It is such a busy time going out and getting things for the new place, going through the lease process, and just driving stuff to the new townhouse. We are not
- [Being Dependent on 1 Computer](https://bobbuskirk.com/being-dependent-on-1-computer/) - Well if you haven’t noticed ThinkComputers did not post a new review for 5 days! That’s one of the longest times it has gone without new content! The reason for this is that the CPU in my main PC died so I had to wait until new parts came in to work on most of
- [Our New Townhouse](https://bobbuskirk.com/our-new-townhouse/) - Ashley and I have been looking for a new apartment because our lease at our current apartment will be up April 1st. We wanted somewhere that was in the same general location because we wanted to be close to our families and we were not ready to move out of Pittsburgh yet. We looked at
- [Pittsburgh Bloggers?](https://bobbuskirk.com/pittsburgh-bloggers/) - Pittsburgh is not really a tech city at all, more of a blue collar working city so it is rare that you find people from this area that work on the internet full time. I wanted to shoot out this post to see if there is anyone in the Pittsburgh area that blogs or runs
- [Some Digg Tips](https://bobbuskirk.com/some-digg-tips/) - Digg is a great marketing tool not just for technology websites, for all websites. Getting your story or article on the front page usually guarantees a great increase of traffic. With that increase in traffic you usually are also guaranteed an increase in ad revenue. Lately I have noticed a lot of people making simple
- [AdBrite’s InVideo Advertising](https://bobbuskirk.com/adbrite’s-invideo-advertising/) - The other day I logged into AdBrite to take a look at my earnings. I rarely even go in there and look because I really do not use AdBrite that much. While looking at my earnings I saw a new thing for videos. Wondering what it was all about I took a look. I discovered
- [Some new blog features!](https://bobbuskirk.com/some-new-blog-features/) - You may have noticed some new features on the blog the past few days. I have been meaning to add these features for a while now. So let’s see what is new. First off I FINALLY updated wordpress to version 2.1. This was well over due, especially because the version I was using before had
- [A Few More Ad Changes](https://bobbuskirk.com/a-few-more-ad-changes/) - If you are a frequent visitor of ThinkComputers than you may have noticed a few things that are different. I told you before I was doing some Ad testing on my inline Google 336 ads. With the addition to that I have been making my actual review pages longer. This cuts the total review pages
- [ThinkGaming Looking For Bloggers!](https://bobbuskirk.com/thinkgaming-looking-for-bloggers/) - That’s right I am hiring bloggers for ThinkGaming. I really want to get the site going and I can’t count on people that will “do it in their free time” so I am hiring people. I have already done a job posting on Problogger. I have got 2 responses since I posted it yesterday, hopefully
- [An Interesting Valentines Day](https://bobbuskirk.com/an-interesting-valentines-day/) - Well this Valentines Day was quite interesting for me. First of all I went outside and was greeted with something that looked like the picture above. This picture was taken today, yesterday it was much worse. So Ashley and I were going to go out for dinner for Valentines Day and I go outside and
- [Agloco Update](https://bobbuskirk.com/agloco-update/) - Well a while ago I talked about Agloco. If you were not reading my blog then I will explain Agloco to you again. I’m sure you have heard of the services that pay you money to surf the web, the most popular of them was AllAdvantage. Well AllAdvantage is back under a new name, Agloco.
- [Ad Testing](https://bobbuskirk.com/ad-testing/) - On each of my sites I always wonder how an ad will perform if I put it here instead of the normal placement, or if I change the colors of my Google ads, etc. Well the only way to tell is to test. It is really hard to test these things with a content based
- [ThinkComputers and ThinkGaming join BuzzBums](https://bobbuskirk.com/thinkcomputers-and-thinkgaming-join-buzzbums/) - If you read Jon’s blog you probably have heard of BuzzBums. If you have not it is basically a blog of blogs. There are various types of categories on BuzzBums like business, sports, technology etc. As I always say every link counts so ThinkComputers and ThinkGaming have joined BuzzBums. What BuzzBums does is read the
- [ThinkGaming Now on Wordpress](https://bobbuskirk.com/thinkgaming-now-on-wordpress/) - Over the past couple of weeks I have been working on ThinkGaming. It is now running 100% on Wordpress! Instead of using a Wordpress template and trying to edit it to how I would like it, I actually took ThinkGaming’s original layout and made it fit into Wordpress. This took some time, but I think
- [What's In My Fridge?](https://bobbuskirk.com/whats-in-my-fridge/) - A while back Jon tagged me and wanted to tell you all what is in my fridge. Well I’ve finally got around to taking a picture. So what’s in my fridge... A little bit of everything I guess. We have of course alcohol, energy drinks, pop (soda for all you non-pittsburgh people), milk, salad, and
- [How to Promote a Website](https://bobbuskirk.com/how-to-promote-a-website/) - Starting a new website isn’t easy. You have to get a layout designed, code that layout, and of course fill the site with some type of content. After you have that done you need some way of getting people to your website. Promoting a website might be as hard as actually getting a website started.
- [Do I have a life?](https://bobbuskirk.com/do-i-have-a-life/) - Ok so this has been going around a lot of blogs lately. If you have seen 85 of these movies then apparently you have no life. Let's see if I have a life or not... ( ) Rocky Horror Picture Show ( ) Grease (X) Pirates of the Caribbean (X) Pirates of the Caribbean 2:
- [What am I going to review next?](https://bobbuskirk.com/what-am-i-going-to-review-next/) - I always get people asking me what to you have in for review or what are you going to review next. Well a little but before Christmas I started the Product Inbox section on the ThinkComputers Forums. This section provides users with information of all the new products that we have got in. I kind
- [January a record month for posts!](https://bobbuskirk.com/january-a-record-month-for-posts/) - Well January was a record month for posts! I posted a total of 23 posts for the month. That is the most I have posted in a single month. I have been trying to do daily posts, but sometimes it is hard with the amount of work I have to do. I only missed 8
- [Running Your Own Business is 24/7](https://bobbuskirk.com/running-your-own-business-is-247/) - Well I’m sure some of you who run your own business have experienced this. The reason I am talking about this is because a lot of people I know say, “Hey man you have it easy”. Well I guess I do for the most part, but those people also have it easy too. After their
- [A Night of Fine Dining with John Chow](https://bobbuskirk.com/a-night-of-fine-dining-with-john-chow/) - While in Vegas at CES John was nice enough to take me as well as other TTZ Media affiliates out to Roy’s. Roy’s is an award winning Hawaiian themed restaurant. I have only been out to a few restaurants that serve fine cuisine so it was a new experience for me. We were served a
- [Why the iPhone is not for me](https://bobbuskirk.com/why-the-iphone-is-not-for-me/) - Since the announcement of the iPhone so many of my friends have asked me if I was going to get it because I am on Cingular. Well the answer is NO! So many people are wishing they were on Cingular because they want to iPhone so bad. Well I am not really excited about the
- [Favorite Products of 2006](https://bobbuskirk.com/favorite-products-of-2006/) - 2006 was a great year for ThinkComputers. We published 220 reviews and 16 articles. With all of those products that came in I decided to make a list of my favorite products that I reviewed over the past year. I tried to keep the list to 10, but there were so many great products I
- [Blogs Added](https://bobbuskirk.com/blogs-added/) - Just a quick note I have added a few blogs to my friends list on the right. Thanks everyone for exchanging links. If you sent me an e-mail about exchanging links and you do not see your site there please let me know. Also if you want to be added to my friends list just
- [Why Not Strive For More](https://bobbuskirk.com/why-not-strive-for-more/) - I know not everyone can be self-made millionaires, but so many people can do something about their current situation. So many people that I know constantly complain about how much their job sucks, how they are not making enough money, and even just how they are unhappy with their situation. Out of all these people
- [Ahhhh No Updates!](https://bobbuskirk.com/ahhhh-no-updates/) - Ahhhh I haven’t updated since Sunday! The reason for that is that I have been on a horrible schedule. When you work for yourself and don’t really need to have much of a schedule it is very easy to get on a bad one. I have been going to sleep around 8-9AM and waking up
- [Shawn's Blog and Other Blogs I Visit](https://bobbuskirk.com/shawns-blog-and-other-blogs-i-visit/) - My buddy Shawn from OCIA.net has just setup his own blog. OCIA.net is a hardware review site just like ThinkComputers. I really like the site and have been following it for a few years now. Shawn’s blog is brand new so there is not much there right now. Hopefully he will keep it updated regularly.
- [The Fireplace Coffee Table](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-fireplace-coffee-table/) - Right now I really do not have a coffee table in my living room. There is couch, and 2 chairs. A coffee table would be a nice addition, but which one to get? How about a coffee table / fireplace! This coffee table has a stainless steel top with an embedded fireplace! The coffee table
- [Our New Kittens](https://bobbuskirk.com/our-new-kittens/) - Before we left for CES Ashley and I were talking about getting a cat. She has had a cat for a while and we wanted to get one for our apartment. We went to the humane society and a few different pet stores, but we really did not find any cats that we really liked.
- [$355 For an E-mail Address!](https://bobbuskirk.com/355-for-an-e-mail-address/) - Now I thought domains were a big market especially when new popular products are announced. I remember all of the domains that sprung up for the Playstation 3, Wii, and Xbox 360 when they were announced. There were tons of auctions going on over at Sitepoint. Well the biggest product announcement right now is the
- [The Las Vegas Purchases](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-las-vegas-purchases/) - As some of you may know Ashley and I stayed an extra day in Las Vegas to go shopping, why? Well because in Pittsburgh there are hardly any good places to shop. Ashley and I are big fans is designer clothes so usually if we see something we have to order it online. So since
- [Our Room at Treasure Island](https://bobbuskirk.com/our-room-at-treasure-island/) - While in Vegas for CES Ashley and I stayed at Treasure Island. We both were very surprised at the size of the room and how nice it was. Some nice thing about the room was that it had a strip view, LCD TV, a nice desk and table, large mirrors, and a very clean a
- [Vegas Photos](https://bobbuskirk.com/vegas-photos/) - While in Vegas I got a chance to take some pictures of the hotel’s and surrounds with my Canon Digital Rebel XT. I am no pro photographer, but I think some of these came out well. I am still learning a lot about my camera and how to get the best shots. Here are some
- [Having a flat CPM rate is great!](https://bobbuskirk.com/having-a-flat-cpm-rate-is-great/) - It’s great having a flat CPM rate on ads. This means that every time an ad is displayed 1000 times you get the CPM rate. This is great because no one has to click the ad at all for you to make money. Most 3 party advertising companies do not offer a flat CPM rate,
- [The CES Swag!](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-ces-swag/) - Well you know when you go to CES you will be coming back with free stuff! Well this year I got double free stuff because Ashley came with me. Above you can see everything that we got. First off the 2 big backpacks were given out to all press at CES. They were really helpful
- [The PC Race for Charity](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-pc-race-for-charity/) - Last year I competed in Tiger Direct’s PC Race for charity. It was a lot of fun and the food was great! So when they asked me to do it again I agreed! The PC race for charity is sponsored not only by Tiger Direct, but by companies like AMD, Microsoft, and Acer. All of
- [CES Kick-off Party](https://bobbuskirk.com/ces-kick-off-party/) - Wow finally some time to do a post! On Sunday night we had out party with FutureLooks and The TechZone. We invited all of our friends that would be at CES and all of our sponsors. We did not announce the party at all because last year over 200 people showed up! The only people
- [Busy, Busy, Busy!](https://bobbuskirk.com/busy-busy-busy/) - Well damn it is crazy here! This is the first chance I have had to really sit down and write. Well we got into Vegas and we had to wait about 40 minutes for our bags. Once we got there we went to our hotel, got checked in, which only took about 10 minutes then
- [A Good Start To The Year](https://bobbuskirk.com/a-good-start-the-year/) - Well I expected this year to start off like any other just writing reviews and getting prepared for the trip to CES. Well to my surprise the review of the ASUS WL-500W Super Speed Wireless Router made it to the front page of Digg. It was a surprise because it has been increasingly harder to
- [Small Business Advice & Info](https://bobbuskirk.com/small-business-advice-info/) - There are a lot of things you learn when venturing into starting your own business. From taxes to what type of business to register under. You are usually out on your own when it comes to these things and they are really a pain to research. Some things can really bite you in the ass
- [The New Office!](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-new-office/) - As most of you know I have kicked my roommate out! So what am I doing with his old room? Turing it into my office!! It will be a nice change of scenery and actually make the apartment feel more like a normal place. Not having the computers out in the living room will be
- [Having a schedule and my goals for 2007](https://bobbuskirk.com/having-a-schedule-and-my-goals-for-2007/) - As you can see I have not updated my blog since the 28th! As I have said before I want to update at least once a day if not more. The main reason for this is I’m on a bad schedule. I have been staying up way to late and not getting up till later
- [Another Roomate Gone!](https://bobbuskirk.com/another-roomate-gone/) - Well as it seems another roommate of mine is gone! This really is not a bad thing, the difference in rent is really not a big deal to me and his room is going to become my office! He was more of a rent-helper than a roommate, because he was hardly here and when he
- [No Gift From ValueClick?](https://bobbuskirk.com/no-gift-from-valueclick/) - Well as most of you know Google was nice enough to send me a Digital Photo frame as a thank you for being a Google Adsense publisher. Well the other day I received a nice card in the mail from ValueClick. I mainly use ValueClick on my myspace related sites and Ashley’s site. Actually ValueClick
- [5 things you don't know about me](https://bobbuskirk.com/5-things-you-dont-know-about-me/) - Well it looks like I have been tagged by my good friend John Chow. He wants me to tell you 5 things you didn’t know about me. Well I usually do not hide that much from people so let’s see what I can come up with... 1. My first ever website was a Dragon Ball
- [Merry Christmas!!](https://bobbuskirk.com/merry-christmas/) - Damn every year goes so fast! That only means I’m getting older! I just wanted to take the time to say Merry Christmas to everyone that stops by my blog. Well this year I did not get anything on my Christmas Wish List, but at my age a rarely get presents, usually just money. So
- [The Evolution of my business card](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-evolution-of-my-business-card/) - Business cards are very important, not just for the information that is on them, but the quality as well. If you give a company a flimsy poorly designed business card they might make the judgment that your company is not that good or that you are not professional. Above you can see 3 different business
- [The Blog Overhaul](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-blog-overhaul/) - Well if you are reading this you will notice a HUGE change with the blog! The first thing I did was change the layout. The one I was using before was getting old and this one works very well. The original layout is MistyLook 2.3. I changed a lot of things, I first made it
- [Why The Web Is Easy](https://bobbuskirk.com/why-the-web-is-easy/) - So many people say making money on the internet is easy…..well it is and it isn’t. You can’t just go ahead and make a website, put some ads on it and expect to make money, but the internet is very easy to get started and much easier than running a normal business. Here are a
- [Year In Review: ThinkComputers](https://bobbuskirk.com/year-in-review-thinkcomputers/) - Well it’s almost the end of the year so I thought I would let everyone know how all of my sites have made it through the year. This was a big year for ThinkComputers and also a proving year as I proved to people and my parents that ThinkComputers could be a full time job
- [Another Japanese Restaurant](https://bobbuskirk.com/another-japanese-restaurant/) - Well Ashley and I went to another Japanese restaurant this week. This time we went to The Shogun which is in Monroeville for all the people in Pittsburgh who read this blog. We went with my friend Matt and his girlfriend. This place was much bigger than Sapporo and actually had like a little waterfall
- [World’s First Underwater Hotel](https://bobbuskirk.com/world’s-first-underwater-hotel/) - While looking for things to post on ThinkCE I found this really cool article on an underwater hotel. Well before I get into it I guess I should tell you that ThinkCE is going good again. This time I am focusing more on just cool tech/gadget news so if you are interested in that check
- [Getting Ready for CES](https://bobbuskirk.com/getting-ready-for-ces/) - A while ago I received my press pass for CES. The past week I have been setting appointments and sending RSVP’s for all of the events. Last year CES was a shamble because it was my first time going and I had no clue what to expect. This year I am organized and know what
- [In-Direct Marketing Using Myspace](https://bobbuskirk.com/in-direct-marketing-using-myspace/) - Myspace is probably the biggest online community out there. Myspace has made many people rich, not just its owners. Jon makes a good amount of his money off Myspace. It is crazy the amount of traffic you can push to a website because of Myspace. The 15K challenge used Myspace to make $14,185.37 in 1
- [Our First Snow!](https://bobbuskirk.com/our-first-snow/) - Well today we had our first real snow of the year! Honestly I’m not a real fan of snow. It’s fun for the first couple of week then you just want it to be warm again. Not to mention all of the roads are crap and it’s pointless to wash your car. We got about
- [The Web 2.0 Poster](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-web-20-poster/) - While doing my daily web browsing the other day I cam upon a really cool pixel object poster called “Web 2.0”, which basically highlights all of the big “Web 2.0” companies.Looking at it I can see a lot of the services I use today, Google (who doesn’t use google!), Feedburner, Wordpress, Skype, Myspace, Digg, YouTube.
- [Sapporo Japanese Steakhouse](https://bobbuskirk.com/sapporo-japanese-steakhouse/) - As some of you may have known Ashley and I broke up about a month ago. It has been a hard month for both of us, but we put all our differences behind us and decided to get back together. We went out for our 2 year anniversary (even though we were broken up for
- [Rant!](https://bobbuskirk.com/rant/) - This has really been bothering me lately! Why is it that people who don't have to work because "mommy & daddy" pay for everything think they are better than you? If there is one thing that pisses me off it is people who think they are the shit because their parents have money. Yeah it
- [A Gift From Google](https://bobbuskirk.com/a-gift-from-google/) - Well today I was surprised to see that I received a package from Google. After opening it up it was a Holiday gift from them. As you know I use Google Adsense on many of my sites, and it is a major source of income for me. This gift is something they give to their
- [Getting There....](https://bobbuskirk.com/getting-there/) - Well it's been another 4 days since I have updated my blog....geez! Well I have been getting a lot of things done with my sites. First off I want to say Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! Hope everyone enjoyed all of the Turkey! Ok like I said I have been doing a lot of work the
- [Get Paid To Surf The Web!](https://bobbuskirk.com/get-paid-to-surf-the-web/) - I’m sure some of you remember AllAdvantage. It was a company that paid you to surf the internet! And what was even better was that it paid you when people you referred to the service surfed the web, and when the people they referred and so on. When I first heard of this back then
- [Where did all the time go?](https://bobbuskirk.com/where-did-all-the-time-go/) - Lately I haven't had the time to get anything done!! I really not sure what it is, but I have no been getting the things that I need to get done....done! I have been on a better sleep schedule and everything. My biggest problem is that I get distracted to easily. Everytime I start something
- [Every Link Helps](https://bobbuskirk.com/every-link-helps/) - Well when it comes to website marketing there are a lot of options. One of the easiest and most popular was to promote anything is Digg. Even if your story does not get dugg you still get some traffic from the post. For some people this little traffic means nothing, but if your site does
- [Reviewer's Wanted!](https://bobbuskirk.com/reviewers-wanted/) - Reviewer’s Wanted!!ThinkComputers is looking for new reviewers for the Holiday Season. Because the holiday season is upon us we are getting tons of products in and we need people to review them. We are seeking 1-2 reviews for the holiday season and if we like you we will keep you throughout the year. Here are
- [How It All Began](https://bobbuskirk.com/how-it-all-began/) - Well I have been running ThinkComputers since 2001! I can’t believe it has been that long. So I figured I would let everyone know how I got started. I was always very interested in computers and I always went online to get tips and check out all the new computer hardware. That was when I
- [The Show Progress](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-show-progress/) - Well Jason and I have been working on our show titled, "The ThinkNetwork Show". The show will cover gaming and computers. We were hoping to release the first episode on the 1st, but because of our schedules we were unable to meet that date. We will hopefully be releasing on the 15th. It is really
- [Great Shrimp](https://bobbuskirk.com/great-shrimp/) - Shrimp is one of my favorite foods. I always like getting shrimp when I go out to eat. I love to cook and when I was a teenager my parents taught me to make some really kickass shrimp. All you need is Old Bay, Olive Oil, pepper, and garlic salt. What you do is pour
- [Awesome Penguin Game!!](https://bobbuskirk.com/awesome-penguin-game/) - On Tuesday Jason and I went to the Penguin Game. Penguin games are a lot of fun to go to, but they are even better when you are sitting in the igloo club. Igloo club seats are the best seats in the building. They are right on center ice and are the first 20 rows
- [A Busy Monday](https://bobbuskirk.com/a-busy-monday/) - Well it's Monday and Monday's are usually the busiest day of the week for me! Today I managed to get a lot done, for once. You know how I said I was only posting reviews on Monday, Wednesday Friday and Saturday? Well I decided if I had time I might as well post things on
- [I need Energy!](https://bobbuskirk.com/i-need-energy/) - It seems lately like I do not have enough energy to get things done. Usually it's not that I don't have time it's that I don't feel like doing it. This is my problem...I am very tired all the time. I have tried various energy drinks, red bull, bawls, amp, etc and they really do
- [No Time!](https://bobbuskirk.com/no-time/) - Geez it's been like 3 days nice I last updated!! It seems like there is no time to get anything done lately! Well I have been busy working on a few things...Over at ThinkComputers I have noticed that even if I don't post 1 thing a day traffic stays the same. Even the day after
- [My First Interview](https://bobbuskirk.com/my-first-interview/) - Yesterday I was interviewed by the guys from Buck Being Normal. Buck Being Normal is all about people who go against the normal of working the 9-5 for someone else. They are a very new site so make sure you check them out. The interview was a lot of fun and I really enjoyed talking
- [Student Loans!!](https://bobbuskirk.com/student-loans/) - Well I just got my first student loan payment and damn it's A LOT. You really do not realize how much you are borrowing until you get out of school and the payments come. This stuff is just as bad a credit cards. Since my loans were issued they have already gained $3,000 in interest!!
- [My New Toy](https://bobbuskirk.com/my-new-toy/) - Well as I said before I needed to get a new laptop. I decided on the Dell XPS M1210. There were a few things that made me choose it over the other laptops I was looking at. The biggest one being size. The laptop I had before this one was the Dell 700m, which is
- [Getting More Pages Indexed By Google](https://bobbuskirk.com/getting-more-pages-indexed-by-google/) - Well last night I finally decided to do the task of recoding the news script on ThinkComputers. I reason for this is getting more pages indexed by google. When I used to post news on ThinkComputers it was displayed as one large news post that was part of the front page. After the day was
- [The Apartment Tour](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-apartment-tour/) - Well I made this video for the guys over at GAF, but I decided I would put it on here too. Here is my apartment, it's nothing great, but let me know what you think!
- [Why College Was Useless for Me](https://bobbuskirk.com/why-college-was-useless-for-me/) - As so many of my friends are finishing up college I am thinking of what a waste of time it was for me. If you don't already know I make 100% of my income online. I did not need a college degree to start my online business nor will that really help me in my
- [500 Reviews!](https://bobbuskirk.com/500-reviews/) - Well today I have just posted review number 500 for ThinkComputers! Thats a lot of free products! I started ThinkComputers when I was back in highschool and look where it is today. It is the most profitable site in my network and the one that I enjoy working on the most. I think even if
- [A New Laptop??](https://bobbuskirk.com/a-new-laptop/) - Well I have been wanting a new laptop for a while. With CES coming up I want something that is reliable and I can also game on. I currently have a Dell 700M, it is a 12.1 widescreen. The new laptops I am looking at are the Dell XPS M1210, and the ASUS A8Ja. The
- [RSS Feeds and Paid Advertising](https://bobbuskirk.com/rss-feeds-and-paid-advertising/) - After integrating feedburner with my blog I decided it would be a good idea to add it to some of my other sites. I really never used RSS feeds on any of my sites. My main sites do not use a CMS so its not like there is an RSS feed that you can easily
- [Blog Updates](https://bobbuskirk.com/blog-updates/) - Well I have finally done some long awaited blog updates. First off I am finally hosting the blog on BobBuskirk.com instead of ThinkComputers. All I really had to do was export the database and import it over at BobBuskirk.com. Next I added the recent comments addon. Now you can see what posts have been commented
- [Corsair](https://bobbuskirk.com/corsair/) - While writing the review for the HX620 power supply which will be posted in a few days on ThinkComputers I realized why Corsair is so well known and everyone really likes them. The biggest thing that makes any company a well known company is marketing, and Corsair sure does a good job at it. If
- [An Update...](https://bobbuskirk.com/an-update/) - Ok well I thought I would let everyone know how things go as far as all of my sites are concerned. Things are going very well and I am hoping to have a record setting holiday season. Right now I am working full time on 3 of my main sites: ThinkComputers, ThinkGaming, and MyProfileResource. Everything
- [Adsense is all about tweaking](https://bobbuskirk.com/adsense-is-all-about-tweaking/) - Recently I have been tweaking some of my adsense ads, especially the ones on MyProfileResource. If you have worked with adsense for a while you will know that tweaking is the key to sucess. On MyProfileResource I really do not have the much room to work with because of the template im using. I have
- [Picture Taking Days](https://bobbuskirk.com/picture-taking-days/) - Well if you look at the above picture you can see the place is a mess!! This is what happens when I have a bunch of products that I have to take pictures of. This usually happens every other week because I like to take them all at once to save time so I pick
- [Weekend Traffic](https://bobbuskirk.com/weekend-traffic/) - I have noticed the past few weekends that ThinkComputers traffic has been way up. I'm not 100% sure of the reason, but I have a few guesses. First off it has nothing to do with the products that are being reviewed, because I usually save smaller, less popular items for the weekend as usually there
- [Almost a dot com mogul](https://bobbuskirk.com/almost-a-dot-com-mogul/) - Well according to John in this post I am not a dot com mogul! I only don't meet one of those requirements, you can take a guess at what it is. Very soon I will meet that last requirement and then John will have to call me a dot com mogul! Until then.....oh well...
- [Firefox vs. IE](https://bobbuskirk.com/firefox-vs-ie/) - Well I was looking over my traffic the past few days and I came across some interesting information, more people are viewing my site in firefox than IE. This really suprised me because IE comes with almost every PC you buy (with windows). You have to download and install firefox. This tell you one of
- [ThinkGaming Re-design](https://bobbuskirk.com/thinkgaming-re-design/) - Well if you stop over at ThinkGaming you will notice it looks a lot like ThinkComputers. The old version of ThinkGaming was running on Joomla CMS and it just was not working out. The reason was I was not able to put things exactly where I wanted them and I had to use a template
- [Armin in DC](https://bobbuskirk.com/armin-in-dc/) - This past weekend Phil, Dan, Rob and I went down to Washington, DC to see Armin Van Buuren. If you do not follow trance at all Armin Van Buuren is a DJ. He is currently ranked #3 on The DJ List. The show was on Saturday night at a place called Fur that kinda was
- [The Zoo](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-zoo/) - Yesterday Ashley and I took a trip out to the Pittsburgh Zoo. The last time I was there was almost 4 years ago when I had to do my Freshman community service project when I went to Robert Morris. Since that time a lot has changed. Some things are still the same, but there are
- [Holiday Season Coming...](https://bobbuskirk.com/holiday-season-coming/) - Well it's Septermber now...the summer went really fast! The next months leading up to Christmas are going to be very busy. The reason for that is companies are going to be coming out with new products for the holiday season. This means that they will be sending out a bunch of review units to get
- [Update!!!](https://bobbuskirk.com/update-2/) - Ok it has been 6 days since I have updated!!! As I said before my time management sucks so I have not updated my blog! The past week has been busy trying to work on all of my sites and still have time for other things. Here are some updates...ThinkComputersI have been keeping up with
- [Another Year Older...](https://bobbuskirk.com/another-year-older/) - Well today I turned 22.....WOW IM OLD!! You would have thought I was going to go out today but I didn't. I woke up early and got alot of work done. I have been meaning to catch up on alot of work. Im finally getting back into a normal rythm of things. ThinkComputers is doing
- [A Fun Night Out](https://bobbuskirk.com/a-fun-night-out/) - Ok before I start this blog post I know it has been forever since I have updated!!! I have been gettign side-tracked with alot of crap! I think the whole time management thing is my problem....oh well. Anyways this past Saturday Ashley and I went out with our friends Zach, JD, and JD's girlfriend. We
- [A Weekend Of Gaming](https://bobbuskirk.com/a-weekend-of-gaming/) - This weekend I took part in Pittco's 5th LAN party. Pittco is Pittsburgh's biggest lan party and I am on staff. Pittco is always a lot of fun because you get to see a lot of people that you have not seen since the last event, and of course you get to game! I played
- [ThinkGaming making some headway](https://bobbuskirk.com/thinkgaming-making-some-headway/) - Well moday I sent out a ton of e-mails to various gmaing compnaies to see if they will sponsor ThinkGaming by send us a few games to review. I really was not expecting that much of a response from any of them, but I did get some. The reason I did not expect a big
- [Go Get a Real Job](https://bobbuskirk.com/go-get-a-real-job/) - Today I came across this thread on sitepoint. The user talks about he is always told to "Go Get a Real Job", mostly by his parents. This brings back memories of when my parents would tell me to stop spending so much time on my computer. If I would have listened to them I might
- [Freedom](https://bobbuskirk.com/freedom/) - With all my friends around the age of 20-25 most of them are getting out of college and heading for full time jobs. With all of this going on I feel happy that I make enough money to work for myself. I do not have to be at work at a certain time, I don't
- [A Fun Weekend!](https://bobbuskirk.com/a-fun-weekend/) - This past weekend Ashley and I went camping! We went to Bear Run Campground which is about 30 minutes away from Pittsburgh. We stayed in a log cabin, which is pictured above. It was suprisingly nice inside. It had a full refridgerator, microwave, 2 full size bunk beds, table, and a sink. The campground also
- [A CMS vs. Coding](https://bobbuskirk.com/a-cms-vs-coding/) - Running a many different websites there are some things to choose from. One of the biggest is hand-coding everything or choosing a CMS that will work for your site. On ThinkComputers I hand code all of the review and article pages, where as on ThinkCE and ThinkGaming I use a CMS called Joomla. There are
- [The Nerve of Some People...](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-nerve-of-some-people/) - Well as some of you know Kris left ThinkComputers, no biggie. But he started his own site, which I will not mention, but yeah. Now on this site he was re-posting reviews and articles he wrote for ThinkComputers. There were a few reasons this made me mad. For one if there is an exact copy
- [The Power of D-SLR](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-power-of-d-slr/) - Well if you read my blog you know that not that long ago I got a D-SLR camera. Now you can't just pickup this camera and start shooting, well I guess you could but you wouldn't be using its full power. After reading some guides online I have learned a little bit about D-SLR cameras,
- [Back To Work](https://bobbuskirk.com/back-to-work/) - Well I'm finally back from a short, yet fun vacation. We stayed friday to tuesday. It was alot of fun and gave Ashley and I time to relax and not worry so much about work. It is such a relief to not really have to worry about posting reviews, news, etc. We stayed at Gevena-on-the-Lake,
- [Vacation in Geneva](https://bobbuskirk.com/vacation-in-geneva/) - Well Ashley and I are in Geneva, Ohio. My parents went up here for the week so we decided to stay with them. We are right on Lake Erie so it is really nice. It finally gives us some time to relax. I still of course have to do work, where we were staying said
- [Staying Up a Full 24 hours...](https://bobbuskirk.com/staying-up-a-full-24-hours/) - Well tuesday I was up very early in the morning and I was out all day long. So when I got home I basically passed out...When I woke up it was 1AM. So I figured I would atleast post a review on ThinkComputers, so I did. After posting the review I was extremely hungry so
- [Work Work Work!](https://bobbuskirk.com/work-work-work/) - Well this week I have a ton of work to do! I am hoping to go away with Ashely this weekend so I want to get as much work as I can done. The place we are going says they have the internet, but you can never count on it working 100% so I want
- [New Camera!](https://bobbuskirk.com/new-camera/) - Today I finally got my new camera! I have been waiting a week for it to arrive. If you are wondering what type of camera I got, it's a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT Digital-SLR camera. The lens I got is a Sigma 18-200mm f3.5-6.3, it seems like a good starting lens. I also got
- [The BBQ](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-bbq/) - Well this weekend I had a few people over. I guess it was a 4th of July party. This was the first party we had at the new apartment and it was alot of fun! I got to hang out with alot of people that I have not seen in a long time. It it
- [Content is EASY!](https://bobbuskirk.com/content-is-easy/) - Running a website like ThinkComputers content is everything. If I don't constantly produce content people do not come back to the site. I mean some will, all sites have return visitors, but if you don't put out new content then what reason do people have to come back to your site? Some people think this
- [A Nice Lunch](https://bobbuskirk.com/a-nice-lunch/) - Well yesterday I actually had the time to make myself a nice lunch. If you didn't know I LOVE salad. It is one of my favorite foods, but unlike most people I do not like dressing on it. I made an italian salad mix with mozzarella & asiago cheese with roasted garlic. I
- [hrmm....Pittsburgh](https://bobbuskirk.com/hrmmpittsburgh/) - Well I have been thinking, why do so many people that I know love pittsburgh? I mean I grew up here and I guess I have to like it, but love it? A lot of my friends live in much bigger cities and it seems like there is a lot more to do in those
- [Vegas All Booked Up!](https://bobbuskirk.com/vegas-all-booked-up/) - Well CES registration just opened and right after I registered I was looking at hotel's to get an estimate of how much it would cost for the week. Looking around I found that ALOT of hotels were sold out that week!!! So I had to hurry up and get a hotel all booked up. Looking
- [Red Lobster!!](https://bobbuskirk.com/red-lobster/) - Tonight Ashley and I went to Red Lobster. I have not been to Red Lobster in forever...maybe 4 years? So I really did not know what to expect. There was a 30 minute wait, but we go seated in about 15. Looking through the menu there was alot the choose from (that I would actually
- [Ok Ok!](https://bobbuskirk.com/ok-ok/) - Well it has been like forever since I have updated my blog! I know I am are going to try to update it atleast once a day. So what has been going on? Well my method of waking up ealier and posting reviews in the morning instead of night proved to make me less money,
- [Everyone's In Taipei!](https://bobbuskirk.com/everyones-in-taipei/) - Well everyone is seems to be having a great time so far in Taipei. Above is a picture of John and Cam at Ruby Tuesdays in Taipei. Everyone is over there for Computex. It is basically Taipei's version of CES. I was going to go on the trip with everyone, but the trip was just
- [2 New Movies](https://bobbuskirk.com/2-new-movies/) - Well over the past week and a half I got the chance to see 2 new movies, X-Men 3 and The Da Vinci Code. Let's start with the Da Vinci Code, I really enjoyed the movie. I really liked National Treasure with Nicholas Cage and the Da Vinci code is similar. There was alot of
- [The Pool!!](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-pool/) - Well this past weekend the pool at my apartment complex opened. Ashley and I have gone the past 3 days. It is really great and im getting a tan! Also they have WiFi down there so I can bring my laptop down and do work. It's much better than sitting at the apartment. There is
- [Galleria at Pittsburgh Mills](https://bobbuskirk.com/galleria-at-pittsburgh-mills/) - Ashley and I took a trip out to the Galleria at Pittsburgh Mills, and it was anything but a Galleria. The Galleria is supposted to be a nice shopping mall, but it is basically filled with "Mom and Pop" stores that sell like antiques and crap like that. The only designer store in there was
- [Wednesday....](https://bobbuskirk.com/wednesday/) - Well it's been 5 days since I updated my blog! Hopefully I will not get into that routine again! This week as been normal, but busy! I have got so many products in for ThinkComputers its crazy. Me and Kris have our hands full with reviews!! I also have to find content and update 3
- [400 Reviews!](https://bobbuskirk.com/400-reviews/) - Well yesterday I posted ThinkComputers 400th review! Damn now thats alot of products! Lately we have picked up the pace of things almost posting a review each day! With this pace we should reach 500 reviews in no time! Now we only have 39 articles...hopefully we will post some new ones soon!
- [ThinkGaming On Slashdot](https://bobbuskirk.com/thinkgaming-on-slashdot/) - Well yesterday an article on ThinkGaming was posted to Slashdot. Now it was not posted on the front page of Slashdot, but on their gaming page, none the less it brought a ton of people to ThinkGaming. The article has got over 9700 hits so far, much better than the normal 400-700 a regular article
- [Thoughts on PS3](https://bobbuskirk.com/thoughts-on-ps3/) - Well I watched the entire webcast of Sony's E3 press conference. It was about the PS2, PSP, but mainly the PS3. Well I can say I am more excited about the PS3 now. It will have a Blu-ray player, gigabit ethernet port, 20gb or 60gb hard drive, and a new controller. The controller is much
- [The Week Ahead...](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-week-ahead/) - Well this weekend has busy as usual. Getting ready to lauch ashley's 2nd site, and doing the normal routine for my sites. I also got the first season of Lost. What can I say WOW! I'm already on episode 12 and I can't stop watching! If you havent seen it go get the DVD seriously!
- [The Think Network Launched](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-think-network-launched/) - Well today I finally got The Think Network site up. Basically what it is, is a listing of everything that is happening on the network. The best stories from ThinkGaming and ThinkCE will be listed, review links from ThinkComputers will be listed, and event info from our events page will be listed. Also we will
- [Bill Gates Goes To College](https://bobbuskirk.com/bill-gates-goes-to-college/)
- [The New Routine](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-new-routine/) - Well this past week and a half I have been on a horrible sleeping schedule. Because of that I have not been able to get that much work done. Being that I'm a dot com mogul and all sites rely on content it is bad when your not getting done what your supposted to. With
- [Missing Cable](https://bobbuskirk.com/missing-cable/) - Well for the first time in a while I do not have cable. Is this a bad thing? I guess I mean when you are bored you can always turn on the TV. Why don't I have cable? Well the new APT goes through some unknown cable company and their prices are crazy, $50 just
- [The New Apt - The Kitchen](https://bobbuskirk.com/the-new-apt-the-kitchen/) - Well this week has been extremely busy!! Just been working on all of the sites, and trying to get more traffic to TC. I showed you all pictures of the new apartment before we moved in but not since we have moved in so here yah go! Here is a picture of the the living
- [5.1 Sound!](https://bobbuskirk.com/51-sound/) - Well today I spent most of it getting my HTPC in order. First I had to re-install XP, update it, update it again then install all the HTPC software. My roomate got a new surround sound system so he gave me his old one. It's not a bad system at all. And the best part
- [Finally Moved In!](https://bobbuskirk.com/finally-moved-in/) - Well I'm finally moved into my new apartment!! It has not been all fun and games though, it has been very stressfull! For one I dont have internet, as you notice TC has not been updated in almost a week, so I have turned my old room at my parents house into an office for
- [360 finally!](https://bobbuskirk.com/360-finally/) - Well today I finally got an Xbox 360! This past month I was debating to get one or not. It's an investment I guess, I got the 360 premium bundle, plug & charge kit, ghost recon, and NHL 2k6. I was really impressed with the system and graphics. Finally I have something to use my
- [It's a HOCKEY night in Pittsburgh!](https://bobbuskirk.com/its-a-hockey-night-in-pittsburgh/) - Friday night my friends Jason, Ryan, Trevor and I went to the penguin game. Jason's dad works for federated so we got awesome seats. Our seats were in the Igloo club. The Igloo club is the best place to be besides the private box seats. You get your own Bar, Concession stand, and bathroom which
- [Possible Vacation Spots](https://bobbuskirk.com/possible-vacation-spots/) - Well it’s getting closer and closer to summer, and what does that mean? Vacation!! This week I have been thinking of places to go with Ashley this summer. I wanted to go some place where we havent gone before and that is by the beach. My first thoughs were Florida. We looked at Miami, South
- [Getting used to my new "job"](https://bobbuskirk.com/getting-used-to-my-new-job/) - Well as most of you know I am done with school now. So what am I doing?? Being a dot com mogul of course! Seriously though for now I am running 3 websites and it seems to be going well for me. I am making enough money to pay all my bills and have enough
- [And I thought my roomate was bad....](https://bobbuskirk.com/and-i-thought-my-roomate-was-bad/) - Taking a look over at Stephen Fung's blog the other day I came along this post. Now I thought my roomate was bad! Now my roomate is basically the same way, except he drinks, smokes, and chews ALOT. Now that might not be that bad but when you desk looks like this..... It's really a
- [Ikea](https://bobbuskirk.com/ikea/) - As some of you may know I will be moving to The Woodhawk Club April 1st. Well since I'm moving I figured I needed a new bed. So where to get a bed? Ikea of course!! I'm actually lucky there is an Ikea in Pittsburgh, there are only like 25 stores total. Anyways I got
- [Back up!](https://bobbuskirk.com/back-up/) - There was a vulnerability in our server software. Because of this vulnerability hackers were able to gain access into the server. They deleted all of our mysql databases and the backups. We did have older backups from about a month ago. So on the forums, photo gallery, and blogs we lost a month of posts.
- [New Phone](https://bobbuskirk.com/new-phone/) - Well after a $475 phone bill (roaming), I had to finally upgrade my service officially to Cingular. I was with at&t, but as you know they were taken over by Cingular. When they switched over they did not automadically upgrade all at&t members to Cingular, so I got the roaming charges :( Well now I'm
- [Netflix](https://bobbuskirk.com/netflix/) - Well today I signed up for netflix...I only did the $9.99 a month deal for 1 DVD at a time, so I will see how it goes. I also just got a DVD burner with lightscribe technology. It looks cool so I had to get it! Besides that I'm having a normal week, school and
- [Finally back and sick...](https://bobbuskirk.com/finally-back-and-sick/) - Well we are finally back from CES. For being our first CES I think it went well. Meeting all of our sponsors and other review sites was really great. All of the press events were cool too, especially the free food :). As far as vegas goes I was not that impressed with it, unless
- [Airport Security](https://bobbuskirk.com/airport-security/) - Well this morning I headed out to the airport for Vegas. I have never flown before so I did not know what to expect. Since 9/11 they have of course beefed up security. Thankfully in line a lady was nice enough to tell me all what I had to do, because the only signs were
- [Starbucks](https://bobbuskirk.com/starbucks/) - Well I went to starbucks today. I don't go there that often but when I do it's always a treat. Starbucks always has a good feeling when you walk in. Not sure what it is, maybe its the smell or the nice furniture. I think it's because it's so clean and quite. I wish my
- [Shopping...](https://bobbuskirk.com/shopping/) - Well this year I was an idiot and I went shopping the friday before Christmas and the day after. And as expected both days were horrible, lines were long as hell, and everyone was in a bad mood. Both days I went to the mall. Now alot of stores in the mall do not have
- [Good Food](https://bobbuskirk.com/good-food/) - Well last night I ate at a place called Sapporos, which is a Japanese place. It is one of those places where they cook in front of you. It was the first time I have been to one of these places so I was excited! Well for $25 you get a salad with some funky
- [Im Alive!!](https://bobbuskirk.com/im-alive/) - Yes another few weeks and no update.....well yeah. What can I say....I've been busy. School, the site of course, and other crap. Getting back on track pumping out reviews and articles for everyone! Also got my friend phil on staff, he is my PHP slave LOL. He will be writing some good stuff, some that
- [Update!!](https://bobbuskirk.com/update/) - Well I have not written in here in about a week. Of course it was Thanksgiving Break and all....but things have been busy. Writing articles and reviews all day, and now I'm back to school. Anyways I found this cool need IPTV show called the scene. Check it out, http://www.welcometothescene.com. Start from episode 2, from
- [Parents suing Blizzard for World of Warcraft addiction](https://bobbuskirk.com/parents-suing-blizzard-for-world-of-warcraft-addiction/) - A thirteen year-old Chinese boy jumped to his death last year from a 24 story building, allegedly after playing too much World of Warcraft. The parents of the boy are now suing game maker Blizzard with the help of lawyer and “internet game addiction researcher.” The legal team also plans on filing class action suits
- [Welcome to my Blog](https://bobbuskirk.com/welcome-to-my-blog/) - Well the TC blogs are up! You can check out mine and Dracos's. Remember you can comment on all post etc. Let us know what you think of the blogs...

## Pages

- [About Me](https://bobbuskirk.com/about-me/) - So who is Bob Buskirk? Many of you may know me as the founder of ThinkComputers. ThinkComputers was one of the first websites that I started and in 2003 I learned that I could make money off of it. The next year I dropped out of college and have been living by my own rules
- [Resources](https://bobbuskirk.com/resources/) - Welcome to my resources page! Here you will find the different tools and services I use to run my business! This page is ever-evolving and will be updated regularly. Websites & Online Services WordPress - All of my websites are powered by Wordpress and it is an extremely easy to use platform. Traffic Planet Hosting
- [Contact Me](https://bobbuskirk.com/contact-me/)

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