Google search box running AdSense

new google search box interface

Remember those little annoying blue boxes I had all over my old website? They are not coming back to this website, I have something much better. The Google search box whenever you search for something on my site or on the entire internet will spew a few ads on the results page that also fit your search criteria. This is a much less obtrusive way of possibly making a little extra money here and there and also giving you guys the luxury of having the ability to search the internet and my website right from my website! Like every single other thing on the website the Google box also has the statistics tracking code implemented, which will allow me to see how many people are using it. I hope the Google box becomes a positive component to all of you're browsing experiences!

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Sidebar bugfix uploaded and new Contact Me page set up

Buggy sidebarnew Contact Me form
It appears that when I installed the Google Analytics system that I may have involuntarily caused a small bug in the code on the sidebar. This code error has been fixed and you should not see anything like shown above.

If any of you see any other bugs please contact me via the new Contact Me page. Make sure to select bug report in the drop down box. Those of you interested in helping me add more things to the subject dropdown box please drop a line by setting it to Suggestions.


  • Left picture: Buggy sidebar
  • Right picture: New Contact Me form
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Major redesign features list

total redesign preview

I told you all that I would get a list of some of the new features on the new website out to you all today. Here it is,


  • Front end updates

  • Totally fresh new aluminum design
  • Sidebar contains Paypal, Google, Talkshoe, iTunes podcast subscriber, FeedBurner subscriber.
  • Sidebar is available on all pages aside from Photos and Forum
  • About Me page has custom sidebar
  • Photos page no longer goes to .Mac gallery. All photos are now residing on the sherver and utilize Gallery. You can get Gallery for your own site at http://gallery.menalto.com
  • DisabledPlanet.Net forum is easily accessible through this website and continues to preserve the aluminum look and feel.
  • New site has no javascript navigation bars which makes it much more GoogleBot friendly
  • Images have ALT tags allowing screen readers and GoogleBot to recognize them as content
  • Google Analytics tracking for stats (launched today at 12:30 PM CST) This will take place of the visitor counters. I will blog about statistics monthly on the 29th



  • Back end updates
  • Fast FTP uploading framework
  • Upload only changed pages (like iWeb)
  • Full WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) interface (like iWeb)
  • PHP back end on a lot of things (Affects client users by reducing the work their computer does)
  • Less space on my hard drive required for the RapidWeaver program 151.83 MB for iWeb Vs. 50.00 MB for RapidWeaver
  • More customizability and instantly changable site theme's
  • Google Analytics tracking for stats (launched today at 12:30 PM CST)
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Major redesign complete!

total redesign preview

The entire website has been completely revamped. All of it took only about 52 hours of work, reason it took such little time is because my sleep is so screwed up I decided I would work on it late into the nights. All blog posts containing photo gallery links have been rerouted to the gallery that is built into this website! The transition is officially totally complete. There is absolutely nothing left behind on the .Mac server. I would outline all the new features of the new website, but I am a bit fried since it is 2:00 AM in the morning. I will get a features list up when I wake up. For now you can dig through the website and find the new features for yourself.

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Major redesign in progress

rapidweaver logo

For now we are going to continue to use the site that was designed in iWeb. But it takes a long time for it to publish via FTP and is not going to be efficient in the long run. Hence I have picked RapidWeaver to develop the new 2.0 site in, it will not be done for a while so do not worry! By using RapidWeaver we will also increase GoogleBot compatability which will make my website more visible to the general internet! RapidWeaver will also make the site more easy to use and appealing to the eye. Google AdSense will NOT be on the new website. No blog posts or anything will be lost, that is why this redesign is going to take so long!

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Site now on sherver!

fireworks! site now on sherver!

If you are reading this then you are successfully connecting to the sherver! The main website is now hosted on the sherver. The site has been deleted from the .Mac server. Photo galleries will continue to be hosted on .Mac, Google may have problems for a while with the sudden drop from the other server. The reason Google will probably have problems is due to the dirty redirect method that I am using to get the domain routing to work. Hopefully nothing will become severely broken due to the dirty redirects, I will be notifying google of the switch via the Google Webmaster Tools system. Hopefully that will allow google to fix that up.

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Site was down

safari cannot find alinssite.info

The transfer attempt has failed due to some unknown reason. The site has been restored back to its original function on the .Mac hosting system. It is unknown if I caused this transfer failure. The transfer failure occured within the domain routing for the http://www.alinssite.info domain. There is an exact duplicate of this website already running on the sherver at http://alinssite.iguido.com the issue is I need to figure out how to get the domain routings correct. I will figure it out one of these days. But the site is back up and running luckily. I have decided that i will create a new variable on the domain name www2.alinssite.info for experimentation. This site will always be accessible with www.alinssite.info hopefully I can figure out what is going on with these wonky domains. I am going to go to sleep now. goodnight!

Site was down from approximately, 1/25/08 10:00 PM CST until 1/26/08 2:45 AM CST

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alinssite.info to move to sherver soon

iWeb transitioning to RapidWeaver

The site will be compatable with the sherver. I had to make some modifications to the iWeb frameworks. Expect transition to sherver soon. The photo galleries are currently hosted on .Mac hosting and will expire in september. I will be moving the photos into galleries that are built into the website.

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Forum moved to sherver

forum moved to sherver

The transfer of the forum is now complete! Domain transfer will take till March 1st due to ICANN’s international registrar regulation stating that no transfer may occur until 60 days after the domain’s initial purchase. I bought the domain on January 1st so it will transfer on March 1st. The forum will be accessible using the http://disabledplanet.iguido.com subdomain until then.

PLEASE CLEAR YOUR BROWSER COOKIES AND CACHE BEFORE RETURNING TO THE FORUM... FAILURE TO DO SO MAY CAUSE PROBLEMS!!!

It now runs on the newest version of phpBB which is phpBB3. The forum used to run phpBB2

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Planning the move to Saxline's sherver

This is a sherver. A sherver is a shared server.

I have good news for all of you. Last year on september 21st we moved the website to .Mac hosting. At $100 dollars a year it is quite expensive, Add $25 dollars per year for domain name registration, and the total is $125 per year. Well, A friend of mine known as Saxline who has decided to make me the co-admin of all operations at his website. I am really happy about this as he has given me full admin rights over his dedicated server which I have now codenamed a sherver due to the fact that we are sharing it now. This means that my total cost per year will be down to $25 for web hosting needs. Transitioning will be easy, there will be no action needed on your end, the domain name will continue to be the same http://www.alinssite.info domain name. Though there are just a few small issues. iWeb was originally designed for the .Mac platform and some features will not be properly transitioned over to the new server. These features include blog comments and the photo gallery system. We will not be able to keep blog comments that we already have nor will we be able to allow comments on the new server. The photo gallery system will no longer be at gallery.mac.com it will be moved into internal pages within this site like the old first generation website.

The website is not moving yet!!! You will all be notified 24 hours before the move is to occur so you know to expect a few hours of downtime. The website will be moved on september 20nd, exactly one day before the .Mac hosting package expires.

As an early preparation step I have shut commenting off on the blog. Photo galleries will remain as is until early september when I kick transitioning tasks into high gear.

And for those of you techies out there here are the basic server stats.

750GB hard drive space.
7.5TB monthly bandwidth transfer
Unlimited email accounts
Unlimited sub-domains
Unlimited FTP accounts
Unlimited SQL databases
i686 architecture
Linux OS

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Ramp completed!

ramp completed on house

My sleep stinks, don’t ask!

Anyways I decided I would finally make the public news release that our ramp is officially completed! We decided to go for a aluminum ramp wood deck combo. It looks great!

Click the photo above to go to the photo gallery.

Thanks dad, for taking all the pictures!

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E-Mailing list

e-mailing list buttons

I have been maintaining a private E-Mailing list with friends and family that alerts them of blog and website updates. I am excited to tell you that I am opening the list up to ANYONE who is interested in subscribing.

All you need to do to subscribe is click on the picture above or E-Mailing List In the menu!

This is a great addition to the site as it will allow you all to stay up to date as the site is updated!

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3000th view

3000th view on counter

At 1:29:20PM the website received its 3000th view.

The site was started July 11th 2007 or 190 days ago. Which equates to approximately 15.7 views per day, 110.2 views per week, 476.1 per month.

As you can see the website is beginning to spread and also receive a higher view rate. This positive impact can be owed to a few things. Increased cross-linking with other websites, Google listing beginning to become active, domain picking up more traffic by being easier for people to type.

Just because we hit 3000 doesn’t mean you can stop coming to the site, there will continue to be frequent news updates so make sure to check the blog every few days!

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Fifth day sick

Medical Logo

Finally starting to get better after approximately 48 hours on antibiotics. Odd thing is the Entex never came in either due to the fact that was discontinued too! Yesterday we just decided to go get Mucinex pediatric liquid cough suppressant, nasal decongestant, and secretion suppressant. The Mucinex liquid is really helping clean out my sinuses and also stop the over secretion. You may wonder “Why pediatric?” As you may already know I have lost a lot of weight over the last year due to this neurological disease speeding up my metabolism and making feeding very difficult. Hence I am constantly loosing weight. At some point in the future it is very likely that I will need to get a G-Tube. Another reason is most pills that are on the market for this purpose are too large for me to swallow. Hence liquid drugs will be used more and more until pills are completely eliminated as progression continues. And when I do get the G-Tube drugs can easily be put in directly.

Due to the total lack of news Tuesday and yesterday I decided that it was not worth it to waste time making blog posts with no news at all to blog about.

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Second day sick

Medical Logo

Symptoms worsened from yesterday mom, and I decided to heed the doctor’s advice in calling as soon as symptoms start worsening at all. The doctor scheduled us in for 2:00 PM in an urgent care slot. At 2:00 PM we went to the doctor and he made the diagnosis for this current sickness, “A croup type infection of the upper respiratory system.” After making that diagnosis he proceeded to give me the usual Zithromax but this time added Respaire which is a prescription strength cough suppressant and sore throat suppressant and secretion suppressant, I had a small trial for 3 days of Respaire on my last sickness, This is I think a 14 day prescription or something.

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Sick

Medical Logo

Same symptoms I usually get for upper respiratory infection. Looks like we will be going to the doctor tomorrow if things do not change quickly for the better. I am currently attributing this to several things, loss of sleep, increasing aspiration frequency, and my immunodeficient state. Increasing aspiration frequency definitely increases susceptibility to upper respiratory infections, along with my weakening coughing and secretion removal abilities that are slowly weakening. Weakened secretion clearing and cough ability are common in neuro-degenerative disease and lead to many deaths due to the very heavily increased upper respiratory infection frequency. Hence, Respironics corp. came into the picture with a specialized Non Invasive Burst Ventilator also known as the Respironics CoughAssist. It is a type of Non Invasive Ventilator that the user is interfaced with a mask, The CoughAssist adds inspiratory pressure to push a good amount of air into the lungs and then quickly reverses the pressure, This creates an artificially produced cough. Sounds like something that might come into my picture in the future.

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Powerchair delayed

airport delay screen, hacked with powerchair delay

The above humorous image is what my mind painted today around 11 in the morning, and is what i just finished making in Adobe Photoshop. Why, we decided to call the powerchair dealer to check order progress hoping that it about ready to ship out. WRONG! The insurance company froze the process due to the fact that the forms are more than three months old and they want new forms. Both the powerchair dealer and my doctor got notice that they need to re-file their forms on Wednesday this week. The doctor rushed his forms back to the powerchair dealer today, only two days after receipt of them. We do not know how long the delay will be, but we are sure it will add at least another week onto the wait.

Note: IVC-080891 is not a valid order number, the real order number is secret.

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Disabilities podcast epilepsy episode released

talkshoe logo

Hosted by: Alin S
Title: EPISODE6 - Disabilities - Epilepsy
Time: 01/08/2008 09:00 PM EST
Episode Notes: Tonight we will talk about Epilepsy (Seizures) and how to control them with therapies and medications and how to live a good life even though you are epileptic. Last weeks podcast was canceled due to seizure issues, what a coincidence hehe. RATED R FOR LANGUAGE. LAST 10-15 MINS OF THE TALKCAST. ALL OTHER PORTIONS ARE G RATED.

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DisabledPlanet.Net

disabledplanet.net logo on safari

I have started a discussion forum designed for people with disabilities and people interested in disabilities to get together and talk disabilities, the forum can be found at http://www.disabledplanet.net and you can go there quickly by clicking the link above or by going to the Forum page or by clicking the picture in this blog post!

Unlike most forums this forum is designed for anyone with ANY disability to be able to come and talk; it does not have any “specific” focus.

Please make sure to check it out and maybe register and become an active member of the community!

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Happy new years!

fireworks happy new year

Welcome to 2008 everyone. this is a big year of advancements for us. practically a new life is starting this year. 2008 on the zodiac is the year of the... bah forget it i forgot, 2008 on the Aliniac is the year of the powerchair! thats all you need to know...

I never thought of a new years resolution and being what condition i am in i have the liberty to not need one.

However goal 2008 is to get high school “fixed” as of right now i am doing homebound but we need to get me set up with an online high school since its terribly tedious to have to have someone else write everything for me or scan and then “write” it in the computer. with internet based school i would just type in my answers.

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