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Some things employers should worry about a little more is the happiness of their employees. Making sure your employees maintain a certain degree of happiness in the workplace has many benefits! Increase productivity, increase efficiency and perhaps less damaged merchandise cause by natural accidents. When your employees are happy it’s proven that they in fact work harder than normal. The morale of the company is up, the customers will get better service and things simply just run more smoothly.

Recently I experienced the opposite of this trend. My long time employee dropped a huge bomb on our work force last week. It was announced and finalized that we would no longer be allowed of normal 15 minutes am and pm breaks! We are to work an 9, nine hours shift with one, one hours lunch break, unpaid. This is a long day if you ask me! I mean sitting in front of your Personal Computer for 9 hours a day with only one break is personal considered ridiculous and stupid!

Sometimes I literally feel like I’m going to puke or pass out! It’s too long of a day to not get these 15 minute breaks! I’m not too sure why after 25 years of having these breaks they were all of a sudden taken from us but as I write this article they are no longer. It’s now 12:15 and I have been working since 8:00am without a break. Obviously as you can tell I’m breaking the rules and having a personal blog break! Another major move the company I work for has taken is to minimize the usage of the internet to its employees. The company has purchased a license of Web Sense which monitors all internet activity in the building based on an IP system. So my personal computer or other co- worker would be easily identified simply by the IP and name. So yes when I post this the activity will be monitored.

25 years this company has never had issues with these simply rules but now it’s like Adolf Hitler walked in the office and said kill all people except blondes or something!

I thought to myself, self, what would make a company take such drastic measures in order to change something in a company that’s been consistent for over 25 years. I know the American Economy is in a slump; sales are down but why pick on the employees!

Does the company seriously think this will get the employees the drive and motivation to work harder LOL yeah rights! If anything the employees are pissed off now, especially the smokers which we have about 20 of! These guys and girls aren’t going to work harder and in tuff situations will find their selves stressed out and not even wanting to work for the company no longer.

So do you want to destroy your company morale an in instant? Follow these awesome steps you might succeed.

This company which is and will remain confidential can officially say iknownil

I’m not too sure if I told my readers before but my first experience with a personal computer wasn’t until 2001. Yes I’m very serious and was 21 years old! I got information overload and lost about 3 years of my life trying to understand it! I started with the basics and was very interested in software. I’m talking applications that make things work such as Operating Systems, Security Suites, and other simple applications pc’s uses…

After getting pretty board with that, around the end of 2001 I started getting involved with People to People file sharing. This was a big thing back then and as most of you might remember we used c++ and Mirc around this time as well. I passed through this phase pretty quick and started using torrents and private tracker websites. This whole process lasted about 3 years and then I lost interest in my computer. Another 2 years passed and around 2005 I bought my very own computer and no longer was using my girlfriends. I started off the same playing with applications downloading stuff and once again found myself bored with the regular routine. I decided to start my very first website. I was still into torrents and private trackers so I launched a p2p forum that was based on screenshots for quality purposes and links to live downloads! With over 5000 active members I decided the site was getting to main stream and I shut it down. I deleted the database and deleted the forums re-installing a phpbb message board for open source software and webmaster discussions.

This is when I first feel in love with phpbb and it was a rocky relationship. Overall I still to this day use and promote open source software and I have started many other projects as well. As most of my readers know I own http://www.blogengage.com based on open source software and is a social networking website for bloggers. I started my very own Search Engine Optimization Marketing blog which focuses on the basics of starting a website or blog and generating organic traffic. I also started iknownil which is the coolest blog name ever! It’s so cool I still don’t know what my blog focus is about lol and I continue to blog about… well let’s say iknownil. I have learned many things online and have so much knowledge I could pass on. If you’re interested visit my site here, http://www.seomkt.com

My article today was written in hopes that I can give you motivation to start your own website or blog. Seriously if I can do it, so can you. Remember I didn’t even sit on a pc until 2001 so I’m still new at all this internet stuff. I wrote this blog to tell you a little about me and where I’m coming from. Like I mentioned I bought a new pc in 2005 but I didn’t get to use it much as I was in College. I graduated with a degree in Business Administration Marketing in 2008 and I now work full time in Marketing and Sales.

So in total I only have about 3 years worth of experience on the personal computer and even less when it comes to being online and owning blogs. I seem to be doing well regarding my blog sites and my personal projects are also doing great. I guess the lesson is to continue personal growth and never give up on yourself. I should be posting more but I’m a busy guy and maybe someday I can make a habit of becoming consistent but for now I’ll remain inconsistent. Well I’m off to moderate my websites. I hope you enjoyed my little bio and it would be nice to see you reading my next blog.

Okay for some reason I can’t just blog about the environment. I enjoy preaching the word of Environmental Awareness but I also like blogging about idiots and politics and other random stuff. So I’m taking back my word iknownil will NOT only be about the Environment but also everything else that made iknownil what is it is today.

I’m sorry for confusing my readers if I did and if you’re reading this you’re probably extremely happy to hear this news.

I won’t be making fun of anyone in specific today I just wanted to let you know that we will continue on the path and direction iknownil was already taking. I think we were doing well!

Thanks again to all my readers and I look forward to my next blog… it should be exciting!

Cheers, bbrian0-17 aka blogengage

and yes, I can officially say, iknownil

One of the world’s largest global movements literally shut the lights off on our planet last night, March 29, 2008. With some of our largest cities in North America participating we have made our world a better place. Shutting of our lights to prove and show we understand the crisis of global warming is the biggest step we have ever taken to voice our opinions as citizens of the world regarding Global Warming.

Will our governments list? Will we listen? Will we make a difference if only for another day? These are questions we all have that linger in our minds. There’s no true answer to these typical questions. There’s only one thing we can do to ensure conservation and clean living continues. We have to do it ourselves! We have to continue doing things in our lives that are more environmentally clean and then the answers the questions will be yes. 

Yes we will make a difference!

Here are some pictures I found searching Google and its pretty cool!

Sydney Australia, the originator of Earth Hour.

Chicago USA, Participating in the movement.

Google.com showing they’re supporting the Earth Hours Lights out movement!

I’m extremely proud to show the next picture! Seriously this is an amazing movement and we should all be proud! Toronto Canada, CN Tower

Thank you to everyone who participated.

To those who didn’t you can officially say iknownil

Tomorrow one of the worlds largest movements towards Global Warming and Environmental living will be taking place. Originated in Sydney Australia, many of the world’s largest cities will be truing off their lights for one full hour. Finally I get to say how proud I am to be Canadian! Over 150 cities in Canada alone will be participating in the event which leaves a huge smile across my face. The most amazing thing is it’s not just your typical home owners or University/College students.  Some of Canada’s biggest landmarks will also be following suite such as, the CN Tower, Niagara Falls, Toronto Eaton Centre, Fairmont Royal York Hotel, Honest Ed’s in Ontario; the Olympic Flag, and the City Hall Clock.

This is a big step towards a more environmentally concerned society and we could seriously use this type of motivation. Please join in with the rest of the world and turn of your lights one hour from 8:00 – 9:00pm March 29 2008.

How can you make a difference or participate?

It’s easy! Simply go to the following website, http://www7.earthhourus.org/ also watch the video. Its amazing 2.2 million people last year, 2007, turned their lights out which was equivalent to taking 45,000 cars off the road!

If you can’t take one hour from your life a year and help reduce usage of our planets resources then yes, you can officially say iknownil!

Last night I was thinking to myself, why do I blog about stupid people, places and or things. I mean we all know it’s funny but honestly who’s not doing it already right? So I decided that I will now be 100% focusing only on the environment and the never ending global warming crisis. This decision came after I realized I’m one of the only environmental blogs I’ve ever seen to this day. Don’t get me wrong I know there are others but I just haven’t seen any at blogengage yet! 

So after debating with myself back and forth with the pro’s and cons of becoming an environmentally friendly blogger I decided it’s better for me, the people that read my blogs and the world in which we live to hear my concerns and suggestions regaring the enviroment.

I urge you to tell your friends about our blog, pass the word that iknownil is an environmental blog where you can learn how to help your planet in the smallest to largest ways!

I haven’t decided what I will be blogging 100% af of yet but I do have some ideals. I will most likely cover topics such as, recycling, energy consumption, fuel efficient automobiles, saving energy and the affect of global warming on our planet.

I’ll help our readers and myself understand the little things we can do in our daily lives to help prevent global warming or atleast reduce the rate it’s coming at. Global warming seems to be a big topic these days and I want to be fighting the battle at the forefront! I want to be a leader when it comes to making environmental changes. Lets help planet earth remain the beauty it is for generations to come, develop reusable energy sources and be cautious with supplies we now take for granted.

I thank all my readers for visiting to read about all the funny shit I wrote but it’s time to get serious and start blogging about things that matter. It’s time to make a difference and we have to start here @ iknownil

Think about the name of the website! I bet over 90% of the world population can officially say iknownil when it comes to global warming and environmental issues. My goal is to help our people, our world and help all my readers understand how they can simply make a difference.

If you think I’m wasting my time, if you think nothing I say will make a difference than you can officially say iknownil

So I was watching my favorite T.V show and hosted by my favorite political comedian ever, Rick mercer. You might know him from the Mercer report or CBS television. He’s currently also hosting the T.V. show, “The next Canadian Prime Minister” Now I’ve always been a huge fan of this guy and if you were to go to his website, http://www.rickmercer.com/blog/index.cfm  and watch his videos you would understand why I love his work.

The show is actually off Air until the fall so please bear with me as I’m seriously depressed regarding this news! Rick Mercer has a specific part in his show named, “The rant”. In this section of the show Rick walks through streets and alley ways speaking about Canadian Politics and things he believes to be silly and or retarded on the part of the Canadian government.

This week was extremely special and also the most depressing thing I heard in many years! I’m not going to cut around the bushes I’m going to straight out say it and here it is. 72% of the eligible voters in Canada didn’t turn out to a pre election vote! If you’re not Canadian then you might be saying well who really cares but I hope I have some Canadian readers!

This is the biggest no show in Canadian history! It’s funny too because the conservative, liberal, and NDP leaders had many positive things to say regarding the results. But who are they fooling the results only represented 28% Canada’s eligible voters population.

This “no show amount” is a huge number and it simply says one thing and one thing only! We no longer believe in our political system, we no longer believe any of these parties are listening to us and we’re tired of broken promises!

A little heads up for my American readers! Please skip this part if you’re easily offended!  As a Canadian I also follow the American Political system and the electoral process there is more extreme and millions of dollars are spent. The sad part is no one’s talking about what they will do when elected they’re all too busy bad mouthing each other like its kinder garden or something. He said she said, he called me dumb, he pulled my hair when no one was looking etc… You obviously get my point… The system seems to be fading away and when a number like 72% of eligible voters don’t vote you know it’s not just a coincidence!

If the Canadian Electoral System continues on its current path and destroys in one generation what has been standard for several generations before us the Canadian government, Conservative, Liberal, or NDP can officially say iknownil!

Seems the Canadians think they can sneak out of the war that’s happening in Afghanistan buy 2011! At least that’s what the rumor seems to be anyways… See I didn’t know you could forecast peace in the Middle East like this. So what’s going to happen with this situation? 2011 will come soon and you will still see poverty on the streets, hunger within families and road side bombs continuing daily. What the government doesn’t understand is when we leave the situation will only going to get worse! I personally think setting a time line to leave Afghanistan only allows who we’re fighting the time to prepare for whatever they plan on doing when the Canadian’s do in fact leave.

We started a movement in Afghanistan; we started the revolution that will bring peace and freedom to those who need it most! Now we’re going to take it all back and say. “Hey sorry, but if Afghanistan isn’t fixed by 2011 we’re leaving anyway”?

What is this bullshit?

I’m a Canadian and I don’t think this is right! We have to help re build their community; we have to liberate the people from the terror they live in!

80++ Canadian solders have died since the war in Afghanistan and maybe more. Do you think the 4000 dead solders would want us to leave? How happy do you think they would be if we stopped the war they died for before the goal was reached? Could you go as far to say they died for nothing if we pull out too early?

I live my day with so much freedom and I take for granted what I have in my life. It’s the smallest things that are most important in which I take for granted. These items consist of clean drinking water from a tap, food delivered to my local grocery store, police to protect me from criminals and much more. We not only started a war in Afghanistan but a new way of living. We must help them take for granted what we do in our daily lives. We must build their law enforcement and military so they can defend themselves.

Please don’t leave Afghanistan in 2011, we all know the country isn’t stable enough; we all know they will fail due to inadequate resources and or training. Help them rebuild the country they once dreamed. Help free the people of suppression and the world will be that much more of a better place!

If the Canadians leave Afghanistan the Canadian Government can officially say iknowniil!

So I was reading the posts at one of my favorite blogging communities and ran into an interesting topic I just had to get involved with! The topic was regarding bloggingzoom a social networking website that is similar to http://www.blogengage.com

Now don’t get me wrong I like the site, I like the community but I don’t seem to fond of the owner as he’s a little bit of an immature prick! If you’re interested in the specific topic have a look here, http://www.bloggeries.com/forum/news-blogosphere/3677-blogging-zoom.html

From the topic you can see many members have some sincere concerns on how blogginzoom is being managed and maintained. The owner(s) have already lost their database from an easy exploit hack that pligg contact management systems suffers from and now claims to have fixed the situation. This isn’t the point of my blog so I’ll move on, more or less this was an example of how much these guys are noobs and should really learn to make back ups daily!

The main concern I have and the main reasoning for my blog is the lack of respect the owners have for other people! Just as an example this is a “quote” from the topic I linked above from the bloggingzoom owner to a specific members, names will be mentioned!

Well rhyswynne is the classic self centered blogger that goes into a social community and whines and cries like a baby but yet let me explain with his own user so you see why the community did not welcome him with open arms.

Mr. rhyswynne made one submission which he received 10 Zooms and had a total of 87 unique click through since day one and I have the stats to prove it. Now the question is why he did not receive anymore traffic simple look at his user and you tell me. He made the classic self centered approach he made his submission and then went on his way he did not even have the common courtesy of answering comments from other users and he did not vote for one other submission so how can you expect for a social community to support a leach.

Now I’m not too sure who’s lying here but why would some random member start lying about traffic he generated from another website before he got banned? I mean Ic an see the reasoning if the member was already banned but not before.

Bloggeries I find it very amusing you mention cheap hosting. We have a dedicated server if we used “Cheap Hosting” because of our huge page views per day we would be canceled in one day.

Example this site. This site is hosted on a Host Gator $7.95 Baby Plan. If we used a “Cheap Plan” like this on a shared host we would be canceled in less then one hour since we usually have over 20 connections a minute and over 20k page views a day.

This was another example of the bloggingzoom owners disrespect to the owner of the forums in which he was blogging in LOL. What type of loser does it take to even make rude and inappropriate comments about the site owner. I’ll tell you what type of loser, a real true and honest loser! We have a winners, Vic! or should I say Hic?

Mr. rhyswynne made one submission which he received 10 Zooms and had a total of 87 unique click through since day one and I have the stats to prove it. Now the question is why he did not receive anymore traffic simple look at his user and you tell me. He made the classic self centered approach he made his submission and then went on his way he did not even have the common courtesy of answering comments from other users and he did not vote for one other submission so how can you expect for a social community to support a leach.

I must admit even tho I know this guy is a retard I was surprised to see that all he cares about is commenting on his site seeing the point of these sites is to develop traffic to the bloggers blog and NOT have all the blog comments take place at the social networking website! Seeing the blogger didn’t answer the comment the blogger was banned!

As you can see I wrote a few comments regarding what he said in that post and obviously he didn’t like it too much and if you care to read more it’s over at Bloggeries forums!

Obviously the website owner(s) cares nothing about his members and works towards building his own traffic when in all reality it’s not about the social networking website it’s about building traffic, readers and back links to our blogs!

Bloggingzoom and owner(s) you can officially say iknownil!

So I’m sitting here at work when the sudden realization of global warming hit me dam smack in the face. Sure I’ve always heard of people saying our world is heating up but even I must admit I’m not doing all that much to help the situation. I mean sure I recycle everything in my home but I’m not doing anything socially to help improve the planet in which we live.

I look outside my office window right now and the reality of Global warming is all too real. The winter months in Ontario are no longer the same. The snow falls later in the season and seems to even melt faster. I was watching Global News a few days ago and I guess they saw the biggest loss ever in history up in the North Pole Ice Caps. If you don’t believe me you can easily search Google for more news and information regarding this world issue.

I know that I will live my life without being affected by Global warming but we can’t think like this. We must take action now to help our children live healthy lives without worry of Global warming and eventually the end of mankind. Our water is scarce, our forests are burning yet we seem to care less daily! Sure this is a short blog today but I think it’s important to mention these Global issues. We continue to live our daily lives with little or no reflection on what we’re doing to our planet. We need to take a step back and look at what we have done, look at what we have become because in the end we are the only ones who can make a difference.

So to end the blog I ask all my readers to do one thing and only one thing. Please start recycling your plastics, card board, metal and glass. These are simple steps you can do in order to help save or planet. I must warn you recycling can become very addictive almost to the point where nothing in your home is really garbage anymore.

If you can’t take these simple suggestions and implement them in your life habits then yes, you can officially say iknownil!