For those of you who knew that I have another blog directed toward another passion of mine (automotive and motorsports topics), I would like to now officially notify you that I have finally finished completing the re-branding of my Informant Zone blog to Automotive Zen.

I wanted to purposely give the blog more of a fitting automotive name and take on a magazine-like appearance since I think that’s what any site reporting on cars and motorsports should look like! Well, at least those are the ones I favor to read the most. I honestly do not like reading automotive reports from websites that do not look automotive related.

I hope you enjoy the new look and feel of Automotive Zen and remember, I am looking for generous writers! The blog/magazine is meant to be intuitively laid out and easy to navigate for anyone searching for the latest automotive and motorsports information!

As you may be aware of the fact that I’ve been trying different variations of a template design that I had made, I finally made the decision to go with this theme. I had a few goals in mind when updating the look of this blog and they were to keep the blog looking clean, well structured and easy to read.

I didn’t want any fancy graphics or bells and whistles. What I was after was a functional setup that would entice my readers to keep visiting my site. I hope this design was the right choice and will give the site a solid look and brand presence. I want this blog to be taken seriously as what I write is not a joke!

My articles focus primarily on what I am doing to improve my own blog and how you can do if you follow along. I apologize for the delay in updating my posts however I’ve been working on this offline as well as been moving my Informant Zone blog to another domain which I will reveal shortly! I am also glad to say that Informant Zone is getting a large update in the design department as well.

So keep visiting as my sites are coming out with some great changes and new content on a daily basis (which was my routinely posting schedule). I do my best to keep you guys informed of the latest developments so I really hope that you find my articles useful!

-Justin

I am not sure if you EVER thought that there could be a correlation between these two things but I think there is! I was lying in bed the other night and this kept me awake so I just had to write something about it! Here is my list of why bloggers are like whores

1. Bloggers will do just about anything to make a quick buck.
2. Speaking of bucks – bloggers love to ride that traffic bull hard like it’s their Daddy until they get bucked off and have to look for more traffic to ride on.
3. Bloggers blog-hump other blogs/bloggers just to get a backlink
4. Bloggers will say anything just to get into bed with Google
5. Bloggers are controlled by pimps. Those pimps are the Affiliate Ad Networks. Bloggers do the dirty work and the networks take a huge cut.
6. Bloggers change their affiliate networks faster than a whore changes her diaphragm.
7. Bloggers drop affiliate links more than a whore drops her panties.
8. Bloggers are as obsessed with keywords as a whore is with birth control medication.
9. Bloggers check their stats more often than a whore goes to the clinic to check for STD’s.
10. Bloggers, like whores, are educated sluts. They know how to leverage the “hits” they get, “position” themselves creatively to maximize profits and generate leads through “social” networking.

That’s the list I came up with. I would love to hear more if anyone can think of them. I will continue to update this as more comparisons pop into my head.

I’m not usually one to get into the mix of the complicated political world and what it stands for. However this is truly going over the edge in my opinion and is an atrocity to our city. A giant bust of Vladimir Lenin and Chairman Mao Zedong has no right being in our democratic country.

As you may know, Vancouver is hosting the 2010 winter Olympics and this tasteless statue has been erected very near to the Richmond speed skating Olympic oval. It features a giant chrome bust (head) of tyrant Vladimir Lenin with a smaller lady-boy statue of Mao Zedong standing on top.

I was driving by one day and almost crashed my car because this giant 17 meter display of communism scared the daylights out of me. I wasn’t aware that I was living in Mother Russia. If I had wanted that, I would’ve moved there. I really don’t appreciate the Gao brothers (the two “artists” who designed this) bringing this massacre into my home country where I have lived in peace all of my life. Their statue represents everything opposite of what I have experienced here in Canada. It represents fear, genocide, deception and suppression.

Some people claim it as just being art. Stop making excuses. This is NOT art! Take a look at the other so called “art” made by the Gao brothers.

Yes, they also did this. A bunch of Mao statues executing Christ.

For those of you not familiar with what Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin and Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong and Communism in general have done, here are some figures:

The Soviet Front (1917-1953)

• Death total for the Soviet Union between 1917-1953 (excluding WWII deaths) – 54 million
• Deaths directly attributed to Lenin whose face is so stoically displayed – 3 to 5 million in Russian Civil War plus the Volga Famine (the first genocidal policy of the USSR to be enacted upon the Ukrainians- the next would be in 1932-33  killing 8 million of them) not to mention his political terror that killed another 100,000 dissidents
• Whether or not Lenin was guilty of the actions by Stalin that killed 50 million more later on is your decision, but this guy has the blood of at least~4 million on his hands.

Mao Zedong’s regime (1949-1975): 40 000 000

• Rural purges, 1946-49: 2-5M deaths
• Urban purges, 1950-57: 1M
• Great Leap Forward: 20-43M
• Cultural Revolution: 2-7M
• Labor Camps: 20M
• Tibet: 0.6-1.2M
• TOTAL: 44.5 to 72M

The numbers are there. You do the math. This statue disgusts me and should not be here for any reason – especially not while Vancouver becomes an international spectacle during the Olympics. While this statue may have some meaning for some people, it has absolutely nothing to do with Canada or Vancouver. Please take this monstrous thing down before you scare everyone away! I wonder what Vancouver’s tourism board thinks.

Now I am not here to give you a hard sell and make a bunch of empty promises that lead you nowhere or beat around the bush on selling products that help you achieve nothing. My reason for setting this site up is simple to report my findings on what I am doing to make money and try to let my readers progress with their blogs along with me. I do strongly encourage discussion via comments as I also like to discuss methods in a more informal method.

I will be updating this blog at least once per day with some new information so be sure to check back often!

-Justin