Posted on my new blog:
Bought Wii at discount, Looking at games for my 4 year old
Cheers!

Posted on my new blog:
Bought Wii at discount, Looking at games for my 4 year old
Cheers!
Hello, I’m happy to announce that I’m in the process of relocating all my content from withinmymeans.blogvis.com and withinmymeans.freehostia.com to Thrifty Trend - Sivan’s new website including DelayedExec and Free Stocks Ticker
See you there soon!
Cheers!
And again, I’m pretty sure the google cache page is working just fine…
The fellows at blogvis are really hurting my reputation and the blog’s web presence.
Sucks ass - that’s all I can say. I bet they don’t mean to suck as much ass, but they do.
My blog withinmymeans.blogvis.com is down again on 3/5/09. It’s not that it has ever attracted a huge following, but it did have it’s 10-20 readers a day. This is a hit to my own reputation.
Once again, I refer my readers to google-cache:
I’m happy to announce a new open sourced freeware I wrote called DelayedExec.
The problem: When Windows Vista starts many applications are registered to run and some are locking up resources and cause you to sit there and wait until the memory and resource consumption storm is over.
The hatchet solution: People on the web would advice you to turn off most of the start up applications. For some it improves windows startup experience.
My solution: DelayedExec is yet another startup applications, only it allows you to move the other applications from startup to being run in a queue in a timely manner - leaving you a less stressful computer upon startup.
Download here. (zipped MSI)
Source code here. (zipped c#)
Prerequisite: DotNet 3.5 Runtime
My personal flavor of setting it up: move everything that doesn’t register itself back into the delayed queue, and put the sidebar at the top of the queue.
What it doesn’t solve: Some services and hardware devices cause windows to lockup for a few seconds, this is out of my application’s control - and playing with devices and services to reduce stress is something a bit “risky” that might not work for everybody.
Screenshot:

License and liability:
I hope it helps you, I don’t take any responsibility regarding how you use it or what it does to your computer. The license is simple: free to use, free to change code - don’t remove link-back and credit from application. The installer is Microsoft standard automatic installer - and if it fails, all I can say is try again.
Have fun and spread the word around, support this site - click on an ad.
Cheers!
All my uploads were on skydrive, so regardless of my blog status at blogvis.com they are available.
Here are the links:
FreeStocksTicker.zip - 1.0 release
FreeStocksTicker_src.zip - 1.0 released source code
FreeStocksTicker Beta.zip - 1.1 beta with several scrolling lines
FreeStocksTicker live Beta Src.zip - 1.1 beta source, updated more frequently than the beta binaries
The source code is in C# and demonstrate usage of Yahoo online services to download stock quotes, creating plugin mechanisms, and reading RSS feeds.
Keep’n it “real”…
I really thought I’d never go back to this site, but here I am. Today, blogvis died. If it won’t come back by next week, I’ll restore from backup my posts there over to here, and work on the theme. I think that most of my recent posts might be gone, for now though - there’s google-cache:
cached “withinmymeans.blogvis.com”
Cheers? We shall see…
Update1
Imported my content from blogvis, blogvis.com claim they will be up again on new servers. The import is very imperfect… Need to copy images and adjust theme, also add plugins and enter my ads again. Hopefully the blogvis will be back soon - I don’t wish to relocate my blog…
Update 2
Blogvis is up, and so is this site. You might find backlinks here to blogvis - but for the most part I have the look and feel under control on freehostia. It seems things load up here faster too.
Just to be clear, this is a BACKUP site. New posts will and are posted on blogvis and unless there’s a problem will not be reposted here (until I find a good enough reason to start paying for a domain).
Update 3 - 12/9/2008
Blogvis went down again, and they took all the blogs off air. When they restored my blog - everything was gone except for the content I had in backup to begin with.
One thing is sure, the template I used is not supported and my blogvis blog will drift away from this one.
I’m working on restoring what I can though. It could take a couple of days.
CHEERS!!!
I could just write each one of the monthly free trade as one of the 10 great reasons, I’ll try to go deeper.
I have been a client of ZECCO for more than a year now and know a thing or two about the good and the bad. I’ll list 10 great reasons to sign up to ZECCO, then I’ll give you a link (I’ll make a small commission if you sign up there…), then I’ll list a few negatives.
Here goes:
If you have any question about my experience with them, feel free to comment below.
Open an account, you won’t regret it (you might regret your investment choices though)
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Like I promised, here are a few negatives:
I hope I provided you with useful info, comments are welcome, spread it around.
Cheers!
My browser of choice is Fire-Fox, the biggest reason is the most important plugin out there - “AdBlock Plus”. This plugin prevents you from wasting time and bandwidth downloading ads which will often blur your vision while trying to read web content. I’ve been using it for more than a year and it has made browsing the web much faster on many different machines.
I know that many bloggers who actually do make money from blogging (not me) are using AdSense and other services to allow a tiny monthly income, and this plugin kills it for everyone - but for the web content consumers it is simply worth it.
P.S.
Before downloading Fire-Fox and installing AdBlock, be nice - click on an add on this site. Just clicking on an adsense sends me a cent or two, clicking on other content like Zecco or others might not make any dough for me, but I assure you I try to collect ads which could help you the reader. It is more important to me to provide you with value than make any money. Is this why I didn’t make any money? No it’s because I don’t chase readers and advertise much, so I get very little traffic - if you’re here, I’d love to hear feedback about the kind of content I provide…
Sample ads you can click:
| [ad#zecco-banner] |
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OK - back to business, download and browse faster here:
Firefox![]() |
Adblock Plus |
Happy Faster Browsing,
Cheers!
To those who downloaded and are using “Free Stocks Ticker”, here’s a quick FYI:
When you add feeds in the options xml, if the feed URL has the character ‘&’ in it, replace that character with & to avoid a crash and losing your options xml file. This is an XML standard, the character is used by that standard to signal many other characters as is documented in this wikipedia page.
To try it out, here are a few sample RSS feeds from financial websites you can add:
<feed>
<name>Coke stock market watch feed</name>
<url>http://www.marketwatch.com/rss/newsfinder/AllMarketWatchNews/?p=word&pv=KO&t=KO&dist=TQP_Icon_rss</url>
</feed>
<feed>
<name>Pepsi stock google finance feed</name>
<url>http://finance.google.com/finance?morenews=10&rating=1&q=PEP&output=rss</url>
</feed>
<feed>
<name>Alteria stock yahoo finance feed</name>
<url>http://finance.yahoo.com/rss/headline?s=MO</url>
</feed>
Another note, for some feeds, like financial news for individual stocks, you might wish to increase how old you want the posts to be allowed, I increased it to 60 for these feeds:
<maxDaysOld>60</maxDaysOld>
Cheers!