Grant Laird, Jr. Blog

How cool is that? Go and vote Deaf Racer - Greg Gunderson. You will need to go here and vote for him. I believe you can vote for him online again and again every one hour.  

Look like they have 50 racers right now. I just voted for him at 6:30 PM and it shows that Greg is leading 20th out of 50 racers so far. Cool beans!

A deaf driver on reality TV Show
A big hello from Sioux Falls!

I have exciting news to share with you!! I am one of the 50 race car drivers selected for a chance on a new reality TV show, Racin’ for a Livin’, this fall. I am the only deaf driver selected and I must be in the top 12 drivers to get on the show. If I win the show, I will get seven sponsored rides in the 2007 NASCAR’s Busch Series season!

I need your support and help. How?

1. Go to my website at http://www.gundersonracing.com for more information on the reality TV show and how you can help me get on the show.

2. BE SURE to sign up for the Gunderson Racing E-News to receive weekly updates.

3. Also, I want you to vote for me as often as you can.

4. Lastly, please forward this message to your friends, family, and colleagues and ask them to vote for me.

Thank you for your support. I want to race for you and everyone else. Give me the chance to drive to my dream!

Thanks.
Greg Gunderson
Sioux Falls, SD
http://www.gundersonracing.com

Grant W. Laird, Jr.
http://blog.grantlairdjr.com

Geez! Damn phishing…

I just got this one at my Outlook today. It’s funny because I jsut ordered something from ebay.com few days ago. Lucky, I looked at it carefully since we all knew it happened a lot already. I wrote more about it last year. Click here to read.

I simply looked at link and it popped up yellow with real link address. Bingo!

It’s not even that close to ebay.com address - it goes to some russian link. Sigh.

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Grant W Laird Jr.
http://blog.grantlairdjr.com

It’s been a year and half since I officially use b2evolution program for my blogsite. I am sorry I was pretty much have no choice but to abandon it due to poorly spam and refers system. It caused a lot of bandwidth and loads on our server.

Before I used b2evolution, I did test with few other programs such as Wordpress, Blogger, Mambo, and few other programs. I picked it because it offers a lot of features at this time. I knew Wordpress is supposed to be good but it lack multiple blogsite under same account back then.

Last weekend, I did re-consider heavily on either Movable Type or Expression Engine over Wordpress but Wordpress is only one that is free and offers plenty of themes and plug-ins. It was easy decision – I pick Wordpress not because it’s free but there’s more in it.

Other things that worry me the most is converting into different blog program. I found converter script at Wordpress forum and asked Brenden to help me with it. We did it with no problem. Only one thing that I have to fix manually is all of pictures link. It is partially my fault – I should have use different directory rather than use inside b2evolution directory.

Most important of all, all old links will not work once I closed it permanently. That’s mean some of you may have to re-fix it so you will continue getting feeds from my blogsite. Of course, it is good experience for me to go thru all of it. I didn’t think I can do it before but I am glad I did it anyway.

I already installed WYSIWYG Editor inside Wordpress. To me, it is a must. I also installed mini-calendar on it. Neat stuff. Now, I need to work on few things – add my blogroll back in action. I also need to some more cool stuff on my sidebar. Hopefully it will cooperate with me.

Other things about Wordpress’ advantage – handful of deaf bloggers use it too. This way we all can share and help each other

Grant W Laird Jr.
http://blog.grantlairdjr.com