Jeffrey Munro

Here are a couple of photos from when Nick, Rory and I went four-wheeling / dirt biking about a week ago. Be sure to subscribe to my flickr rss feed to receive all my photo uploads instantly.

Now that most of the registering, mailing, and paying is done for Uni this year its time to go over how everything worked out in respect to my schedule. Although there was some trouble trying to fit in tutorials for all my lectures, I managed to come up with a schedule that will suit my needs and also ensure that I’m not swamped with class all day. I’ve got three night classes and for more people this would be unacceptable but I enjoy going to class more at night than during the day when the halls and rooms are packed.

Semester 1

Financial Accounting II
Marketing I
Organizational Behaviour
Finance I
Intro To Operations Management

Semester 2

Managerial Accounting
Marketing II
Intro to Human Resources Management
Finance II
Intro to Project & Supply Chain Management

Whenever I first started my nature wallpaper website I wasn’t at all sure how it was going to turn out or if anyone would be interested in visiting it. After 6 months I must say I have accomplished a lot of different things I set out to do in the beginning. Some of those achievements being:

• Ranking #1 on Google for ‘nature wallpapers’

• Generating 1,000,000 page views in under a year ( did it in under 6 months)

• Received 10,000 daily page views (avg = 11,000 +)

• Get listed on the front page of Digg and Netscape

I have not worked more than 3-4 hours on the site in last couple months but it continues to generate a LOAD of traffic from Stumbleupon and just random blogs featuring the site on their blog. From the looks of it the site will continue to receive a decent flow of traffic in the coming months, especially once school starts up again and everyone migrates indoors for the winter.

Many of you have probably never heard of Mister-wong but if you hail from Germany it might be as familar as Digg is to North American surfers. Mister Wong is the lead social bookmarking site in Germany and has more bookmarks than del.ico.us (in Germany). The site has always treated Jeffrey Munro dot Com very well, serving up over 20,000 visitors to my sites in the past 6 months. The problem was that the entire site was in German and they did not yet have support for multiple languages. Now the day has come and we are blessed with an all English version of m-w.com. The site currently has a very small user base (still in private beta) but you can sign up for it for free on there website, Mister-wong.com.

So another item to at to the to do list , make a friend in every country in the world (with some exceptions). It doesn’t make a difference how this person comes into my life (internet, in person, phone etc…) just weather or not I’m in regular contact with them over some sort of medium. So heres how this will work. I have posted a bunch of countries below so if you see that your country is not represented by a friend please e-mail me (jeffmunro @ gmail.com) or msn me (jeffm53@hotmail.com) and introduce yourself.

Current Count : 3

North America
Antigua & Bermuda -
Dominican Republic -
Nicaragua -
Bahamas -
El Salvador -
Panama -
Barbados -
Grenada -
Belize -
Guatemala -
St. Lucia -
Bermuda -
Haiti -
St. Vincent -
Canada -
Honduras -
United States Of America -
Costa Rica -
Jamaica -
The Caribbean -
Cuba -
Mexico -
Greenland -

South America
Brazil -
Argentina -
Bolivia -
Chile -
Colombia -
Ecuador -
Guyana -
Paraguay -
Peru -
Uruguay -
Venezuela -

Europe

Albania -
Andorra -
Austria -
Belarus -
Belgium -
Bosnia -
Bulgaria -
Croatia -
Czech Republic -
Denmark -
Estonia -
Finland -
France -
Germany -
Greece -
Hungary -
Iceland -
Republic of Ireland -
Italy -
Latvia -
Luxembourg -
Republic of Macedonia -
Monaco -
Montenegro -
Netherlands -
Norway -
Poland -
Portugal -
Romania -
Russia -
Serbia -
Slovakia -
Slovenia -
Spain -
Sweden - Karl Roos
Switzerland -
Ukraine -
United Kingdom -
Vatican City -

Asia
Azerbaijan -
Japan -
Qatar -
Armenia -
Jordan -
Saudi Arabia -
Bahrain -
Kazakhstan -
Singapore -
Bangladesh -
Kuwait -
South Korea -
Bhutan -
Kyrgyzstan -
Sri Lanka -
Brunei -
Laos -
Syria -
Burma -
Lebanon -
Taiwan -
Cambodia -
Malaysia -
Tajikistan -
China -
Maldives -
Thailand -
East Timor -
Mongolia -
Turkey -
India - Rachit Gandhi
Nepal -
Turkmenistan -
Indonesia -
North Korea -
United Arab Emirates -
Iran -
Oman -
Uzbekistan -
Iraq -
Pakistan -
Vietnam -
Israel -
Philippines - Vinchi Gamboa
Yemen -

Australia

About a week ago my brother, Eathan, and I went karting at St-Zotique. The facility has been open for quite a few years and every year they seem to upgrade or add something to make it that much better. They have an excellent system setup to track your lap times, the cars are really quick compared to most Karting places and the course is challenging but still very quick. The price of one round of Karting (10 minutes) is a little pricy at $16 for adults (cheaper for kids -$12) but definitely worth it for a day trip.

Introduced in Europe a quarter of a century ago, karting is currently in full expansion in Québec. If heart-pounding thrills are your passion, then get behind the wheel and race down the 1-km track at top speed. Karting St-Zotique . . . where you can dare to dream!

Many well-known Québec drivers sharpened their reflexes through this sport. Jacques Villeneuve, Claude Bourbonnais, Patrick Carpentier, Bertrand Godin and Alexandre Tagliani all started out behind the wheel of a go-kart and continue to use the sport to maintain their driving abilities.

Thanks to our safe and suitable facilities, karting is a sport that has now become accessible to everyone.

Pricing
Adult - 1 Run (10 Minutes) $16
Children - 1 Run (10 Minutes) $12

Opening hours / Hours of Operation
From May 5 to June 21 2007
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday : 12:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. ( good weather)
22th of June 2007 thru September 30th 11.00 am to midnight Monday to Sunday (good weather)

Track Information
Track length: 1 km
Track width: 6 metres
Number of go-karts: 24 for adults, 5 karts-baby,
10 for children, 5 two-seaters (for adults and children)
Maximum speed: 75 km/hr (for adults only)
Go-kart type: Red Baron (made in Italy)
Go-kart weight: 150 lbs.
Go-kart length: 68 inches
Go-kart width: 54 inches

Pretty eventful night in Montreal last night. Went up to Ali’s apartment first and then headed off to the Peel Pub, only about 4-5 blocks away. Some how we managed to turn that 4-5 block walk into a 15 block marathon. Sometimes pizza is more important (Brendan). Got lost a little on the way in, and out, it was a pretty good night. Some people snapped some photos from the bar so you can check those out below if ya want. I wish we would have checked out some more places rather than staying at the same bar all night, although we did get there pretty late. The Peel Pub has 4 Litre pitchers ($30) if anyone ever wants to try tackling a couple of those

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Peel Pub Montreal

In the last couple of days the site has been getting pounded from Google search results with people looking for information on the leaked copy of the new Harry Potter book The Deathly Hallows. The site has received well over 30,000 unique visitors in the last 3 days and over 23,000 views on this. The site has never seen this amount of traffic from Google but it obviously is very content targeted as the users are the ones doing the searching.

I believe the mistake Ive been making whenever I promote the site is trying to reach every single demographic out there no matter how far off or unrelated the content may be. By targeting the traffic to a particular demographic the value of the content becomes that much more important and it will also help in building readership as many of the readers will be interested in the type of stuff I may be discussing.

I have no idea how long I’ll be riding this Google keyword train but hopefully for the next week or two as it really helps with ad sales :). For all the bloggers out there it is important to remember that having one source of traffic is a very bad idea. If you lose that source then you are stuck with a few visitors trickling in from random places across the net. You can use this experience of mine as an example in practice. Once people stop searching as often for these particular keywords my traffic will again drop down and plateau out where it normally is. Some alternative sources of traffic that I use for this site include:

Netscape.com
Digg.com
Stumbleupon.com
Msn.com
Yahoo.com
Link Exchanges

Update: Now that we are the subject of stats I thought I would also post this. I just noticed that my nature wallpaper website surpassed the 1,000,000 page view mark today!! Woot woot!

A small collection of some of my favorite rap songs of all time. Some I may not listen to anymore but at one point it was all that I was listening to.

* Update: This post has been receiving lots of traffic the last little while so I thought I would expand on it and update a list throughout the month and link to it from here. I’m going to start with about 15-20 songs for December 2007 but will definitely be adding to it by the end of the month so be sure to check back. If you do not like the list please do not bash it in the comments, instead post a comment with a couple of song suggestions. Everyone will benefit this way.

December 2007 Songs

Ay Dawg Jazze Pha
U Got a Problem? Ludacris
Southern Hospitality Ludacris
Splash Waterfalls Ludacris
Start From Scratch The Game
Fire Joe Budden
Focus Joe Budden
Milkshake Kelis
Outta Control 50 Cent
Just a Lil Bit 50 Cent
Gatman and Robbin’ 50 Cent
Piggy Bank 50 Cent
Patiently Waiting 50 Cent
Places To Go 50 Cent
I’m Back Eminem
Rock Bottom Eminem
Kill You Eminem
Criminal Eminem
Hailie’s Song Eminem
Remember Me Eminem
Under The Influence Eminem
Guilty Conscience Eminem & Dr. Dre
React Erick Sermon feat. Redman
Smash Sumthin Redman
Rockafella Redman & Method Man
Light Your ass on Fire Busta Rhymes Ft Pharell
Party Up In Here DMX
Get It On The Floor DMX
X Gonna Give It To Ya DMX
Forgot About Dre (feat Eminem) Dr. Dre
Still D.R.E. Dr. Dre
Gin and Juice Dr. Dre feat. Snoop Dogg
On The Blvd Dr. Dre feat. Snoop Dogg
Ol English The Game
Higher The Game
One Blood The Game
Hate It Or Love It The Game
New York, New York The Game
Moment of Truth Gang Starr
Check Yourself Ice Cube
You Can Do It Ice Cube
It was A Good Day Ice Cube
What You Gonna Do Lil Jon
Throw It Up Remix Lil Jon
Get Crunk Lil Jon
Go DJ Lil Wayne
My Niggas Lil Kim
Shut Up Bitch Lil Kim
Magic Stick Lil Kim feat. 50 Cent
The Jump Off Lil Kim feat. Mr Cheeks
How Many Licks Lil Kim feat. Sisqo
Warriors Part 2 (Remix) Lloyd Banks feat. Eminem, 50 Cent & Nate Dogg
Get Low Lloyd Banks
Bout It Bout It Master P
Shook Ones Part II Mobb Deep
Ching Ching Ms. Jade Ft. Timberland & Nelly Furtado
Shake Ya Ass Mystikal
Truth Or Dare N.E.R.D
Rock Star N.E.R.D
Grinding N.E.R.D
Pimp Juice Nelly
Splurge Nelly
Hot In Herre Nelly
Country Grammar Nelly
Promiscuous Girl Nelly Furtado feat. Timbaland
Lapdance N.E.R.D.
Spit Your Game Notorious BIG
Going Back to Cali Notorious BIG
Hypnotized Notorious BIG
Big Pappa Notorious BIG
Runnin Notorious BIG
Straight Outta Compton NWA
Average Man Obie Trice
Got Some Teeth Obie Trice
The Set Up Obie Trice
Body Guard Obie Trice feat. Dr. Dre & Eminem
Hey Ya Outkast
So Fresh So Clean Outkast
Idlewild Blues Outkast
Bombs Over Baghdad Outkast
Are We Cuttin Pastor Troy
Can I Have It Like That Pharrell feat. Gwen Stefani
Culo Remix Pitbull Sean Paul Lil John
Ghetto Superstar Pras, Mya, ODB, Wycleaf Jean
Buttons Pussy Cat Dolls feat. Snoop Dogg
Get Busy Sean Paul
Like Glue Sean Paul
We Be Burnin Sean Paul
Ain’t Nothin But A G-Thang Snoop Dogg
Step Your Game Up Snoop Dogg feat. Lil’ Jon
Radio Edit Sweatshop Union
Try Sweatshop Union
Deep End Swollen Members
Fuel Injected Swollen Members
Steppin’ Thru Swollen Members
What You Know About That T.I.
I Gotta Stay High Three Six Mafia Feat. Young Buck
so seductive Tony Yayo
Drama Setter Tony Yayo Feat. Eminem & Obie Trice
The Streets WC feat. Nate Dogg
Gravel Pit Wu Tang Clan
Shorty Wanna Ride With Me Young Buck
Beautiful Snoop Dogg
Welcome To D-Block Jadakiss
Holiday Inn Chingy, Snoop Dogg, & Ludacris
Ol’ Time Killin’ Kardinal Offishall
Bakardi Slang Kardinal Offishall
What Goes Around…Comes Around Justin Timberlake
My Love (Feat. T.I.) Justin Timberlake
Clockwork Juelz Santana
Show Me What You Got Jay-Z
Can I Getta… Jay Z
So Amazing Jagged Edge
Holla Holla Ja Rule
Murder, Murder Ja Rule
Between Me And You Ja Rule
Tipsy J-Kwon
Hood Hop J-Kwon
Out Of Control G-Unit
Movie Star Rascalz
What’s Love Fat Joe feat. Ja Rule & Ashanti
Crazy World Rascalz
Alphabetical Slaughter Papoose
A Bay Bay (Dirty) Hurricane Chris
Beautiful Girls Sean Kingston
Big Girls Don’t Cry (Remix) Fergie ft. Sean Kingston
Busta Rhymes - Touch It (Mega Remix) (feat Lloyd Banks, DMX, Mary J Blige Ne-Yo, Papoose Rah Digga & Missy Elli
Click Up ft. Lil Jon, Three 6 Mafia, Young Geezy T.I.
Clockwork Juelz Santana
Doors Intro/Confessions Of A Drug Addict B-Real
Forgot About Dre (feat Eminem) Dr. Dre
Frontin Chamillionaire
Get Busy Sean Paul
get low feat ying yang twins Lil Jon and The Eastside Boyz
Gimme The Light Sean Paul
Guilty Conscience (Ft. Dr. Dre Eminem
H To The Izzo Jay Z
How I Could Just Kill a Man Cypress Hill
I’m So Fly Lloyd Banks
I Get Money 50 Cent
I Love My Lady (Clean) Busta Rhymes
Jukebox Hero Foreiner
Kanye West - I’ll Fly Away Kanye West
Kanye West - Jesus Walks Kanye West
Laffy Taffy (Remix) D4L feat. Busta Rhymes
Like Glue Sean Paul
Like Toy Soldiers (Produced By Eminem) Eminem
Lose Yourself Eminem
Man I Used to Be K-OS
Mosh (Produced By Dr. Dre & Mark Batson) Eminem
Move Bitch Ludacris
My Name Is Eminem
Pass The Courvoisier (Ft. P.Diddy) Busta Rhymes
Raise Up (North Carolina Dirty) Petey Pablo
The Real Slim Shady Eminem
Ridin (Feat. Krayzie Bone) Chamillionaire
Ruff Ryders Anthem DMX
Side 2 Side (Feat. Kanye West & Project Pat) Three 6 Mafia
Soulja Boy - Crank Dat (superman that hoe) Soulja Boy
The Sound Of Revenge Chamillionaire
Start The Show Common
There It Go (The Whistle Song) Juelz Santana
This Is Why I’m Hot (Dirty) MIMS
Tipsy J-Kwon
Warrior Part 2 (Feat. Eminem, 50 Cent & Nate Dogg) Lloyd Banks
The Way I Am Eminem
We Fly High (Ballin’) Jim Jones
You Know What It Is T.I. ft. Wyclef Jean

A couple of days into my no smoking test and things seem to be going pretty damn smoothly. I’ve quit a bunch of times before so it is not something necessarily new but every time you think about quitting it seems like an entirely new battle. Quitting everything at once seems much more effective than slowly trying to break the addiction. I did not have many of the withdrawal symptoms that I had on previous attempts. (sweats, lack of sleep, moodiness (more of all the time thing)). Like many have said before me, the nature of addiction lies within your mind and not in your bodies physical dependence on the substance (drugs, sex, alcohol etc…). If you can go to a state in your mind where you are completely smoke free you will go there in the body. It seems like such an abstract idea but until you try it, you really won’t understand how powerful your mind really is.