Somehow, a ton of comments disappeared off Mike’s World News.  I had to restore from backup from a few days ago to get them back, but some of the more recent ones may be missing.  Sorry for anyone who’s comment is missing.

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I tried out today for Radio Star 4 on Newsradio 840 KXNT.  I had a lot of fun doing it.  I had thought about doing it, but wasn’t sure if I was going to or not.  My friend Denise kept e-mailed myself and Troy that we should go out and try.  She thought we would do a good job.  At about 12:00, I called Troy to see if he wanted to go down to it (the contest started at about 9:00 AM).  He told me that he had already gone down.  I finally went down and got there at about 1:00 PM.  The people who were registering everyone said that they had filed up all the slots.  I was a little disapointed, but oh well.  I decided to stay for a while at watch.  I was going to sit near Casey Hendrickson, the afternoon drive time host and winner of Radio Star 1.  I’ve talked to him quite a bit via e-mail and phone, but have never actually meet him.  I decided, instead, to sit by the registration booth.  After being there for a few minutes, someone who was registered decided to leave.  The people registering asked me if I wanted to take his spot.  I did.  It was fun.  I got to meet Jodi, winner of Radio Star 2, who hosts the show “Jodi & Friends” Sunday mornings.  She gave some good advice when I was standing in the back waiting for my turn.  The Wife, who is at her parents for a week, listened online.  Ammon (and his parents) as well as Troy & Sarah listened on the radio.  After I do my audition, I went and sat by Casey.  After he signed off, I said hi to him.  It was nice to finally meet him in person.

I don’t imagine I’ll win, although the odds are not impossible.  There was about 110 people who tried out.  Of that, 20 people will be chosen as quarter finalists.  Once the process is all done, 1 person (out of 110) will be hired to have a show on News Radio 840 KXNT.

I’d like to thank Jack, Heather, and Alan for being judges, Casey and Patrick for hosting the show, and all the staff at KXNT who made this event possible.  It was a lot of fun!

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I’ve added a few new features to Mike’s World.  These include the option to e-mail an entry, or post it to various social networks, like FaceBook or MySpace, the popularity of a post, and several other features.  The biggest change most will notice is the entire layout (or theme) of the site has changed.  Let me know what you think.

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As promised, Mike’s World is now running on it’s new Blogging Software.  For the time being, I will have the new blog be only at Michael.CoxFam.org and the old blog at www.MikesWorld.org.  In the near future, I’ll recombine these two pages and post the old blog at a different address.

In the meantime, I have some work to do to reformat my old blog postings and to correct the dates (it decided that all the posts were done 31 December 1969!).  It did not transfer over the old comments.  I’ll try to find someway to do that manually.

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I’ve had it with this piece of crap blogging software that I’ve been using. There is no type of antispam protection. There is no updates, no support. I have some stupid blog spammers who keep posting comments on here with links to their stupid crap. I go in and manually delete them (about 250,000 today) and, sadly, accidentially delete real comments at the same time. I’ll be switching to WordPress in the new year, but as a result, the Permalinks will be changing. Between now and then, I’m going to disable comments. However, this will also prevent the reading of comments, except by way of RSS.

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I previously talked about how I was trying to setup a Blog for the Wife. Well, I finally worked out the last (I hope) problem with it and am now pleased to announce Amanda’s World. Hope she likes it!

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So, the wife decided that she wanted a Blog. I decided to install WordPress, which is different than the software that I’m running for Mike’s World. I’ve followed the steps, but I’m still getting a message that says “Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL which is required for WordPress.” I’m sure that I can get it to work, but it is kinda annoying.

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In just a few days, Mike’s World - a Blog by Michael H. Cox, will hit its 1 year birthday.  While I’ve been online for a long time, I’ve only had a Blog for a year.  I don’t post as often as I thought I would, but I think most of the posts that I’ve done have been worthwhile.  I really think that is more important.  After all, who’d want to read a bunch of junk posts that happen everyday?

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I had some database errors that caused the blog to be down for a few hours.  Hopefully, they are all resolved now.

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I have decided to change our personnel family website. It has always been at www.MichaelHCox.org. Effective April 22, 2006, the website is changing names to www.CoxFam.org. Since there are 3 of us in my family now, I thought this would be a better name.

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