Photographs Of and From Around Masterton.

Masterton New Zealand Photos.

AgeofEmpiresOnline.Com

So I found a game that I might possibly play for a little while. Back in the day I used to play Age of Empires 2 multiplayer on dial up for hours at a time. Just recently microsoft have released the latest installment in the Age of Empires series located at AgeofEmpiresOnline.com



The new aoe game is a cross between World of Warcraft with questing and a tech tree and 40 Levels you have to go through by earning experience, then still very much like the original Age of Empires with a real time strategy like starcraft but set on earth with history based ancient civilisations like Greeks or Egyptians.



At the moment for free there is only one civ that you can play and it is a little cut back. Maybe in the begginning you could remain competitive for pvp but you would have to get the full game eventually. Something thats new is there are gear slots for your units, with greens, blues and purples (Epics) likes wow. You get armours and weapons as quest rewards and also from chests you get ingame. As a non paying customer you are limited to only green level coloured armour or weapons so once paying customers are geared up really well then you will be at another disadvantage. Some items are craftable from blueprints with materials you earn.



You can visit other peoples towns and buy and trade stuff with them like blue prints gold or materials and there is a ingame mail system.



I think AOE runs in 6 month seasons but i'm not sure exactly how it works. AOE online came out on the 16th of August 2011, I found this out originally after asking in the general chat and then later looking up the wikipedia page for aoe online. General chat which can be a bit of a wasteland, is available all the time in game and in your city.



AOE Online is powered by an updated AOE 3 engine so the graphics aren't bad and you don't need an amazingly powerful computer to run it.



Kinda cool how I stumbled across this game. I went to twitter because now that I am following more people it presents a lot of links. On twitter I went to Stephen Fry and he had posted a link pointing to time magazines top 50 sites of 2011 and from there I kinda randomly picked a site and it was a gaming site called GiantBomb.com where I watched a video of them reviewing AOE.



So all from twitter.



Check out AgeofEmpiresOnline.com

A Clue for Starting out on Twitter.

For over a year I had no followers on twitter. I now after 3 days have 188. At first I was just following one person MC Hammer. 3 days ago I added someone who had alot of followers. It was a person called shoemoney who had 100k followers. What happened after I had followed him was that 3 people started following me.



So I clicked on. I started following more people. I am now following 900 people and yep 188 people have started following me. So that's great. People haven't followed me from darcylee.com yet as it's not getting enough exposure or traffic. I'm pretty sure that noone from twitter visited my website though, but also can't be 100 percent about that, so at the moment it's not generating any traffic even after posting a link to all my followers.



Twitter has been quite surprising. I never thought I could get so many users. I had just thought that people had just gotten followers via there websites, word of mouth or however. I had no idea all you needed to do was follow people and you would get followers. It's good. So my plan is to follow more people and hopefully the tide of followers will keep coming.



I have also set up a new facebook account and have a like button on this page. It will be a long time before someone likes me. Could be years.



Another cool addition to the site comes from LinkWithin.com. What this does is crawl every page on this website and then display 3 pages from previous posts, picture and text, at the bottom of every post. It matchs similar topics and pulls out old posts that would otherwise never see the light of day. With this people will browse posts that they might be interested in, it gives them a clue what the post is about and all you have to do is click and it takes you straight there. It installs very easy if you have a blogger site. You basically just need to log in and then postion it to the correct place, (which for me was under every post), in the page layout section. Very easy took a minute.



So thats me for now. 3 new features to this page that hopefully over time will help. I'm becoming quite a fan of social networking.



Darcy Lee

Money.

Well what to write. I still don't have any great ideas on how to make money through this website. I don't think I ever will. I'm not smart. Still I must persist and keep trying.



At the moment once I pay all the bills each week I have no spare money left over. It's pretty depressing. I don't have any money left to save, not that i'd probably save it anyway.



Some people have had a lot of success using the internet to make money. Not me though. You can try and copy what others do but with the fringe topics i'm dealing with it's a bit difficult. No-ones willing to believe me about Virtual Reality Pictures In Your Head. But still i'm going to keep talking about it. It will happen soon. There will come a point where the world not knowing would be holding us back really badly.



So how to make money. I have no idea. I don't know where to even start. I'm not putting in much time on this website at the moment. That could be something. Working a bit harder and putting in some time could achieve small results I guess. But I don't know what to post about. I just go round in circles. So I stand defeated there.



I don't see me making much money from this site going on past experience I don't have exactly heaps of passion for it.



You need passion to drive you. I just have nothing to write about. If you want a boring life mine is it. Daily I do the same stuff all the time. Not much ever changes. I remain poor.



Ok enough boring stuff. This is what a post turns out like when I have nothing to write about. My posts don't deviate much. Just wanted to attempt to write a post.



Darcy Lee.

A-HA Take On Me

A-HA Take On Me

Shoemoney.

I've been reading a blog at www.shoemoney.com One of the things he's got going is that readers send in a T-Shirt with there companies logo on it and then Shoemoney takes a photo of himself wearing the T-Shirt with logo and posts that on his website. Cool way to get free clothing. It wouldn't work on this website of course because I don't get enough traffic.



People would only be interested in sending you stuff if your big enough. If you get enough traffic.



If you want to make money, you have to work harder than what I am. I'm upto $37 dollars earned on google Adsense. Yey.



I was amused at the T-Shirt Idea with the thought of free clothing. Could be kind of gross though. Who knows what people will send. Clothing is another thing I would spend money on if you gave me any via paypal.



So that's two thing's I would spend xtra money on. Clothing and Food. I'm slowly making a list of how money would be spent.



The picture is Shoemoney in a hugamonkey.com shirt. You can see the rest of shoemoneys shirts HERE.

Snow Pictures from Masterton New Zealand.

The last time I remember snow in Masterton I was very young and not like this. Snow in Masterton is very rare almost never. It was piled up high over all the grass, cars and everything. The picture without snow is the front of my new house I just moved to.

Entrepreneurial.

Hello World. This web site is entrepreneurial. I'm trying/attempting to make money. So far i've meet failure. Any money I earn of which I haven't earnt any is going to go towards my daily living costs. That is unless it's alot of money which would be worthy of saving. If I made alot of money it would the money eventually go towards a house. I live off a government benefit so am very poor. I will be living off the benefit for the rest of my life.



My paypal account is ready to receive money via credit cards. It's tested. It works. I've transfered $20 dollars that I earned through world of warcraft from my paypal account to my very own bank account and then withdrawn that money.



What am I missing? Traffic. I'm only a page rank one site. I'm getting between 1-5 hits a day. I'm simply not getting many hits from google and google is my main and only traffic source. I know I want this website to be about Virtual Reality and minorly but eventually if I ever get a copy a certain phone call then majorly about the September 11th American Terrorist Attacks.



Virtual Reality is the future. It is greater than movies and computer games in the current format of technology. Pictures in your head. Virtual Reality. Pictures in your mind. Virtual Reality. Pictures in your eyesight.



This tech exists now. It's being practiced. This means nothing to the average person. When will virtual reality technology be revealed to the general public well I don't know. If you believe me you are one of the few if only. It will be the greatest innovation since the internet. Not many people will read this website before this technology is released. And it will probably be many years before it's release.



I need money to buy a house and live day to day. At the moment I pay rent. I also need money for a 50" television. I need to make an income. I think i'm dreaming.



I've been reading a blog at www.shoemoney.com which sort of centers around making money. It has given me some inspiration. But theres no way I could ever be that sucessful.



I would like oneday to set up a charity. When i'm famous and can get money just from the fame. When i've made alot of money already. A charity to feed, house and educate people. Still dreaming.



So yeah I need to make an income per week but at the moment I have no ideas. Virtual Reality is not doing much as a topic as it is still very fringe. Once everyone starts experiencing virtual reality then there will be alot more talk about it but this website will be drowned out by everyone else or by the time virtual reality pictures in your head is revealed i'll be dead. It will be an amazing innovation.



I have such limited information about it that I can't sell it very well. I have no evidence. I have no proof. It's amazing. It exists. Yet to be believed.



Since i've moved into a new house I am more comfortable but I am poorer. Any money that is given to me will be put to good use. I am very poor. To give you an idea of what I would do with the money, well if you donated $1 dollar then I would probably leave it in the paypal account and not bother to withdraw it until there was more money in the account. If you donated $10 dollars then I would probably convert it to food. If you gave me $50 it would probably be converted to food as well.



If you gave me $100 I could convert that to maybe a few weeks food mostly take outs and a movie at the local theatre here in town. Also it would last a few weeks. It wouldn't be spent all at once.



I haven't got many ideas for what I would spend the money on apart from food. It's only when you donate like $1000 dollars that I could purchase some electronics like a 50" Television. Another item I could use would be a laptop. A real luxery would be Sky TV. More TV channels.



So going by this post any money I make will go on just feeding me. I've made about $35 dollars through the ads on this page. But that's over like 5 years. So the ads are my main source of income. I haven't so far been given any money by anyone.



I'm tiring now it's quite late here. I'll leave by asking you gift me some money which I will convert into food, savings a TV or laptop I can't think of much else I need. I just need to make a little more money each week to get by on. Also if you can't donate then possibly leave a comment or follow me on FB or twitter.



Darcy Lee

Twitter First Followers.

So I had my first person join me on twitter a few weeks ago. TweetaMarket was the first person to join me. The second was hollywoodseo247. The third person to join me was Stephaniscoe. I think i got there names correct. Anyway when i'm famous and your reading this then follow them. Also follow me.



So at the moment I have 3 followers. I listed them mainly because if I ever become famous I can return the favour and have people join them. I've had twitter for over a year now and it's taken me that long to get some followers. I got them by following a person named shoemoney. Pretty much as soon as I joined Shoemoney I got some followers. The only other person i'm following at the moment is MC Hammer.



So I suggest if you want followers and your new to twitter then just join some random people that have a few followers already and hopefully someone will start following you. Otherwise I wouldn't know how to get people.



So I just added a facebook link where you can also follow me. This will all work when I become famous. The catch is will it happen while i'm still alive.



So that's me again. As always join me on FB or Twitter, give money or leave a comment.

Moving Day All Done.

It's tuesday now. Nearly Wednesday. I just moved house on Saturday 6th of August 2011 after being in my old house for nearly 5 years and 8 months total. My new house is heaps better than my old one.



The living area (lounge + small kitchen) or the place where I spend most of my time when i'm awake is alot bigger than my old place. I can fit a couch in and still have a bit of space up the back for things.



The move was pretty easy. I didn't have to do much. My two brothers and mum did most of the moving. There wasn't much heavy stuff mainly the fridge and washing machine just quite a few bags of stuff. Everything was done in two loads.



I've unpacked most stuff but there's still a bit of a mess. I need to do some washing now the washing machine is hooked up.



I can't think of much else to say about the move. It was pretty easy for me. I'm pretty happy with the new house. Even though the rent is more and the supermarket is not as close.



Thats it for me and as always leave a comment and donate.

Headless Chickens - Expecting to Fly.

Headless Chickens - Expecting to Fly.

Photos from Moving Day.

Photos from moving yesterday Saturday the 6th of August 2011.

Looks Grim.

Hello, my name is Darcy Lee. I live on the government benefit and have done for the last 13 years and expect to live on the benefit the rest of my life. So establishing those facts what they mean is that unless something happens I absolutely will never own my own home. I won't even be able to have a mortgage as all the house prices are $200000+ and it's just not possible any more to buy a house while living on the government benefit.

So this is where blogging and the internet come into it. I hope to raise capital one day through blogging. And thats my small story. Give/Donate Money to me. Please. I'm very poor. I'm trying to earn it. But progress is slow and it looks grim. It looks like i'll never own my own house. I do sometimes wonder if i'll even get to own a 50" T.V as well. That would be great.

Darcy Lee

Random Photos.

Here are some random photos from the new camera I just got:

MGMT - Electric Feel.

MGMT - Electric Feel.

Moving In One Week.

I sit staring at the screen wondering how I can get more traffic. Not very exciting staring at the screen and not knowing what to do. An idea is to post more. More words, more traffic more people might have a use for your site.

I haven't posted very much over the years but at least i've kept the site alive. I don't know what to post about. That has to be a problem.

One thing I did recently was buy a digital camera for taking photos. It's a 12 mega pixel Panasonic lumix DMC S1. I don't need it. And I doubt i'll use it much. It was such an impulse buy. It cost $140 NZ Dollars plus they don't come with an SD Card so you have to buy that to and that was another $30 dollars for a 4 GB card. I like shopping though. Having money is fun. But making wrong purchase choices can be just not fun. I like the flash on the camera which lights everything up right before taking the photo and it takes good quality photos not like a video camera which doesn't have a flash. The photos here are exactly the camera I bought.

So writing more posts. Well I bought the camera with the thoughts of using it for this website. But me being stupid I have nothing to take photo's of. I'm very silly.

Writing more posts i'm thinking will be hard. I need some variety in the topics of what i'm posting about. I have a kind of writers block.

I have exactly one week until I'm moving house. Not looking forward to moving. It should be ok. I will be poorer. But I hopefully can cover all the bills.

Anyway as usual donate and leave a comment.