Gray Wolf Blog

I have been submitting content to various article directories for about 90 days. I have submitted 80+ articles and variations to 20 or more directories.

One thing I have noticed from other boards is that it can be difficult to determine how effective all your work is. Some sites have lousy stats, others have decent stats but result in little traffic.

Obviously, if you are posting junk, you will get little traffic. However, I have taken the same article, re-written it several times, posted it to the various directories and had big differences in views and site visits.

Factors I am considering when reviewing an article directory:

If you are just looking to blast articles, this probably won’t be of much interest. There are plenty of spinners and auto submit services out there.

Hammer is running out of gas and so is Spillane. You know Hammer will always get the girl, money, bad guy, etc and this book doesn’t deviate. The plot is a little weird with 89 billion dollars up for grabs. Drags in places. Good for filling a hour or two at the end of the day. It is what it is.

Black Alley

Remarkable story of a mother and daughter’s survival in the Warsaw Ghetto and escape from a train to Treblinka. The mother wrote the journal immediately after the war and had it transcribed into English. Sat in a drawer for 40+ years until being found after the mother’s death.

A Jump for Life: A Survivor’s Journal from Nazi-Occupied Poland

This work has none of Morris’ hubris and extravagance so blatantly on display in the efforts with Reagan and the second volume of TR. He lets his writing and research hold the weight and doesn’t resort to the silly tactics of “you are there, riding in the wagon with TR.” This book was the impetus for my creating the Theodore Roosevelt Timeline.

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Modern Library Paperbacks)

My memory says this did happen. But my conscience says ’twere better if it had not happened. Gradually memory yields to the dictates of conscience.

Brave New World

“I’d rather be myself, ” he said. “Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.”

A gramme is always better than a damn.

Everybody’s happy nowadays

Was and will make me ill
I take a gramme and only am

When he at last achieved fame and success he was a dying man and knew it. He had fame and was too ill to leave his room. Money and nothing to spend it on, love in which he could not participate; he tasted the bitterness of dying.

On George Orwell

The progression of the artist is a continual extinction of personality. One constantly struggles to efface one’s own personality. Good prose is like a window pane.

The crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood.

In the middle of the journey of our life
I found myself in a dark wood
For I had lost the right path.

I have felt the wind of the wings of madness.

I feel that every step in my plan has been taken with Divine help.

60,000 of his men would be destroyed the next day at the Battle of the Somme – 1916

The mass needs, and we give it, leaders who have the firmness and decision of command proceeding from habit and an entire faith in their unquestionable right to command as established by tradition, law and society.

Never underestimate the power of the need to obey.

All men, whoever they are are more or less brutes when they have power or guns in their hands and a reasonable excuse for using them. They all have the same latent bad streak, the so called decent ones, the Good Samaritans. Only, in peace time this bad streak shows itself in hating the next door neighbor or somebody who is more successful. In war a soldier kills and enjoys killing.

Technology without hatred can be a blessing, though not always. Technology with hatred is always a disaster. What will happen to this world when the haters of today, the terrorists, come into possession of the technology of our times?

I was a bit hesitant to pick up this book as it is over 1000 pages. And how could it hope to cover such a vast scope? All in all, I think the author did a great job. Work is focused on first person accounts and covers all theaters. At times, very raw and visceral descriptions of what the men saw and did. Not a buff and polish homage like Brokaw. In fact, author appears to take Brokaw to task at end of the book. Refreshing to say the least.

The Greatest War: American’s in Combat: 1941-1945

One big hassle in Sql Query Analyzer was the inability to copy the column names from the result set. You could get the column names through Enterprise Manager.

This appears to have been resolved in Studio Express where you just need to set the option to copy the column header names:

There is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted, counts.