Please note and update your links, Bizcards Journal has now moved.
It is now located: http://blog.cardeologist.com and it is now called Bizcards Blog.

I have my Cross-post problem fixed now for those that go into my old LiveJournal blog ( bizcards). It was having problems with images that are placed in my blog, I found it to be from a plug-in that auto signed alt tags to the images placed in my blog, and LJ didn’t like the code it was using so it was dumping it. I tried to edit some of my past entries, so if you have noticed strange html errors on some, that is why. So my Cross-Posting should be fixed for the images part. Remember you can always comment on my new blog using your OpenID which is what LJ supports and uses too! =) If you do notice any past entries still like that, give me a comment to that entry and I will get it fixed asap. Plus, I do have a plug-in now that will e-mail you when I have replied to comments so you will know about these. Try it out today!

If you haven’t yet checked out my new blog, please feel free to do so!
Bizcards Blog.

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Today I gained 17 business cards from a collector in Sarnia, Ont., Canada. My new overall total is 151,026.

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This post is open for LJers to reply directly on my LJ and not on my new blog. Do you like the fact that I am CrossPosting and did you know that you can reply to my post on my blog using OpenID, that means you can use example: http://[username].livejournal.com, instead of [username] you place in your own username, like bizcards. Do you like the fact that I am crossposting so you all can still see my entries I make or should I stop the crossposting? This entry was not placed in my new blog: Bizcards Blog. It was posted directly using Livejournal. BTW, if you all haven't seen my new blog yet, you should check it out.

Today I gained 1 business card from myself, along with 6 duplicates. Plus, I gained 3 business cards from a reporter. So today I gained a total of 4 business cards.

My new overall total is 151,009.

Today I met with the reporter for the photo op. She says that my story should be out this Thursday, unless they need to bump it into the following week. I will let you know if it is in this Thursdays paper or not. Plus, if it is Online, I will give you a link to that article. So look for my post on Thursday, for the update.

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Today I gained 32 business cards in a mailing tube from a normal contributor, qweenoftheworld. My new overall total is 151,005.

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I am so sorry for being soo delayed in posting my new totals.
I have been very busy at work and also with my new blog.
I still have a few more things for my blog to make it more complete, so please bare with me as I am still make the transition. Now to posting my totals…

April 7, 2008
I gained a total of 219 business cards this day from…

• 129 business cards normal contributor in Aurora, CO along with 185 duplicates
• 40 business cards from a collector in Oviedo, FL.
• 44 business cards from someone with no return address in Seattle, WA. They also have a note saying they are a former collector.
• 5 business cards from toxickath.
• 1 business card from someone in Milwauke, OR.

April 9, 2008
I gained 242 business cards all from one person in Lyons, GA, it was sent in 2 separate packages, along with 21 duplicates.

April 10, 2008
I gained 4 business cards from qweenoftheworld. On a side note, I did have a normal contributor from Plains Twp., PA send me 2 Campbell Labels for Education and 1 Box Top for Education for my daughters school.

April 11, 2008
I gained a total of 5 business cards this day from…

• 3 business cards from my mom, along with 2 duplicates.
• 2 business cards from West Warwick, RI.

April 12, 2008
I gained a total of 11 business cards this day from…

• 1 business card from my self, along with 6 duplicates.
• 10 business cards from mischief_nz.

April 15, 2008
I gained a total of 21 business cards this day from…

• 2 business cards from qweenoftheworld in 2 packages, along with 11 Box Tops for Education for my daughters school.
• 19 business cards from a collector in Sarnia, Ont., Canada along with 1 duplicate.

April 17, 2008
I gained a total of 15 business cards this day from…

• 3 business cards from a collector in Coon Rapids, MN.
• 12 business cards from someone in Howard Beach, NY, along with 4 duplicates.

April, 18, 2008
Today I gained 16 business cards from a normal contributor in Lyons, GA.

I want to thank each and everyone who has sent me business cards for my collection. I also want to thank those who are planning to send me business cards too.

Don’t know where to send business cards? Well you can send all unwanted and even wanted business cards to:
Steve Patterson
P.O. Box 27840
Knoxville, TN 37927-7840
USA

Want to learn more about my unusual hobby of collecting business cards then you are welcome to visit my Web site: www.cardeologist.com.

If you have questions about business cards or anything, please feel free to give me a comment and I will do my best to answer them for you.

Now, I would like to end by posting my new overall total of business cards.
I now have 150,973 business cards in my collection.

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I might have another article done about me and my business card collection. I won’t share too much right now, as I am not totally sure, but when I get it confirmed when, I will make sure to make a post to announce this article. I had a phone interview today. The person actually called me 3 times today and even set up a date and time for the photo op.

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I now have a new layout to my blog.
I used the mushblue-10 WordPress theme set up by: Mukka-mu.
I edited it some for some of my stuff I have on it.
Even edited my header images to fit the new theme.
Thank goodness for Layers in Photoshop to make it easier to edit.
I even added DiggIT to my blog, so you can click on the DIGG feature for any of my post, if you wish to do so. I also have OpenID installed on my blog now too. So you can reply to comments using your OpenID. (Attention my LiveJournal friends! — This is where you put in the URL of your Journal) and it will allow you to comment on my blog. Please visit my blog and let me know what you think.
http://blog.cardeologist.com.
If you have any suggestions, comments, etc. about my blog, please let me know. I want to hear them.

Added: I disabled the DiggIT Plugin, it kept giving me errors when I would make a post or edit entries. But, I hope to find a fix.

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I got two Where’s George hits the other day. I thought I would get to posting about them.

Hit #1 from yesterday.

This bill has travelled 273 Miles in 31 Days, 10 Hrs, 15 Mins at an average of 8.7 Miles per day.
It is now 273 Miles from its starting location.

I entered this bill in Knoxville, TN and it is now in Ramer, TN.
Ramer, TN is in McNairy County. This is a new county for me in Tennessee.
I now have 41 of the 95 counties in Tennessee.

Hit #2 from yesterday.

This bill has travelled 75 Miles in 81 Days, 7 Hrs, 15 Mins at an average of 0.92 Miles per day.
It is now 75 Miles from its starting location.

This is a bill I entered in Kodak, TN (Sevier County) on my way to the Asheville, NC gathering.
I traded it with newwave at the gathering and now it is in Brevard, NC. This is a Liquored up George because of the reference to a liquor store.

Whining does wonders!
I want more hits and I want them now!
*fingers crossed*
Wish me luck!

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Today is a very special day. My little girl is another year older now.
They seem to grow up very quickly. I cannot believe she is now in her double digit numbers.
That is 10, for those who cannot do math. LOL Just kidding!
Before you know it, she will be off to college.
It seems time flies by more rapidly each and every day that passes.

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Today is National High Five Day.

Be sure to give everyone you can today a High 5 today!
The third Thursday of April is when this national day occurs.
Want to know more info then you can visit: www.nationalhighfiveday.com.

According to the Web site, this holiday started in 2002 by the University of Virginia.
So make sure all day today is full of HIGH FIVES!.

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This is just an update. If you haven’t noticed, I haven’t made many post lately.
I have been busy at work and when I am at home, I have been configured my new blog:
http://blog.cardeologist.com. So please update your list to my new blog address.

As some of you know, I now use WordPress blog on my own domain. I did export a good bit of my old entries from LiveJournal, my prior blog. But, I do have a plugin for my blog that crosspost to my LiveJournal, so all my LJ friends can still read my post. Yes, you can all can reply to my post at my new blog! When it ask for URI or URL, just use your link to your LJ. Example: http://bizcards.livejournal.com.
I even have a plugin that will allow me to continue to use and it will auto-convert it to look correctly in my blog bizcards.

Tomorrow, we are getting cable and DSL. So now we can have fast internet and get rid of our dial-up. Now, I don’t always have to go to go a place with free Wi-Fi just to download updates to my computer or iTune songs. Plus, the wife and I both can be Online at the same time.

Now is the cable t.v. part. I haven’t had cable t.v. since before I got married, which will be my 8th anniversary in June. We are getting the extended basic which comes with like 77 channels or so.

I have a huge stack of business cards I have received since April 7, 2008. Once, I get a free moment, I will count them and make a post on who I got them from and how many and what my new total is. So please be patient as I work on this.

If you have business cards for me, please keep them coming! You can send them to:

Steve Patterson
PO BOX 27840
KNOXVILLE TN 37927-7840
USA

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sorry for any duplicate entries, it seems the new plugin' went through and posted the entries I already had on WP, which some of them were imported from LJ. So some dups on here.

I now have my blog hosted on my Web site.

Check it out: http://blog.cardeologist.com.
You can also subscribe to my feed at: http://blog.cardeologist.com/feed/.

Make a note of these. This crosspost plugin I have for WordPress, should post into LiveJournal. So all my LJ friends will still see my post.

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I got my entries imported from Livejournal. I didn’t import the comments, I figure the most important part is the post themselves. Now, I will have to go through them and weed out ones I don’t want kept and ones I do. Plus, perhaps edit some of the words in them and such to fit for WP. I used a program called, LJArchieve to do this. You find more information at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ljarchive/. I did only my Post. When, I had it do my comments, it would give me errors.

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Not much longer and a section of Interstate 40 through Knoxville, TN will be closed. This closure happens May 1, 2008. The section between James White Parkway and Hall of Fame Drive (Exits 388A to 389). Yes, it is a small section, but it is very close to downtown! This will be a headache, because it will be closed for 14 months starting this May. As alternative routes you can use I-640 or I-275 to by pass this closure of I-40. SmartFIX40 as they call it. You can find more information at: http://www.smartfix40.com/. You can even see a rendering of what it will look like when it is completed, which is scheduled for July 2009. (14 Months).

I hope that when they get this all fixed it will be a lot better, but you know how construction goes. Once they complete this section, they will move a few miles down the interstate and do another one. Never ending!

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I have my Web site hosted through Mister.net.
I only pay $35 per year total. That includes hosting and e-mail, etc. It cost additional $35 to add My SQL to it. Plus, more features, bigger space and bandwith. So I plan to upgrade my Web site soon, so I can have the My SQL and transfer my blog onto my own domain from WP’s site, but I still will be using WP’s site. I will keep you all updated on this progress.

I did get my comments exported to XML using one program and it couldn’t do the post entries, kept giving an error. Now I did use a different program, it would allow me to export my entries, but not my comments. Go figure eh? But the bad thing is, my comments XML is 4 MB, it is already over the 3 MB limit. So I may just import my entries and not my comments from LiveJournal.

So please bare with me as I make the switch over from LJ to WP. It will be a long process, but I am slowly but surely getting it. I just wished I knew about WP from the beginning, it would have saved a whole of time eh?

Plus, now I need to market out this new blog, but I will wait until I get it hosted on my Web site, before I do that. I know my LJ can be found in tons of blog searches and such. So it will be just a matter of time before it will be found here. I think I enjoy the more custom features you an do at WordPress than LiveJournal. Plus, you an host WP on your own domain.

If you all are reading this, please let me know what I can do to make my blog better and such. I am up for suggestions and ideas or if you have tips about moving over and such, share them with me, pretty please! Including great plug-ins to use and such. *big smiles*

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My greatest Accomplishment is…
Attaining the Rank of Eagle

The Rank of Eagle, for those that don’t know if the highest rank in the Boy Scouts of America. I attained my Eagle July 5, 1994. I had to advance in rank to move on my Trail to Eagle. I also had to earn “Skill Awards.” They no longer have Skill Awards. Plus, I earned Merit Badges. I had to go on camping trips, do community service projects and serve as leadership position in my Troop.

For my Eagle Scout project, I did some landscaping. I landscaped around the Annex building of my old church. The building wasn’t used for anything. They called it the Old Youth Building. Shortly, after I landscaped the building, they turned it into a Mother’s Day Out building.

I started out in Cub Scouts as a Bobcat. I don’t think they had Tiger Scouts then or near me. I have also served as Assistant Scoutmaster for 2 troops in Knoxville, TN and then 1 in Gaylord, MI.
I would like to find a local troop and help them. I have two numbers to contact about helping a local troop.

My old troop is no longer around, but I have heard they are trying to get the church to approve having the troop back again, this would be a few blocks from my house. Growing up it was just half a block away.

In the Scouts I got up to “Brotherhood” in the Order of the Arrow. (0A). Those in the BSA know what I am talking about.

I need to renew my membership to NESA (National Eagle Scout Association).

My resume even list that my greatest achievement is attaining my Rank of Eagle.

BTW, did you know that in Feb. 2010, Boy Scouts will be 100 years old?
I remember the 75th Diamond Anniversary while I was a kid in the Scouts (1985).
My Boy Scout troop even made it to the 50th Anniversary, forgot when now.

“Once an Eagle Scout, Always an Eagle Scout.”

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My greatest Accomplishment is...
Attaining the Rank of Eagle

The Rank of Eagle, for those that don't know if the highest rank in the Boy Scouts of America. I attained my Eagle July 5, 1994. I had to advance in rank to move on my Trail to Eagle. I also had to earn "Skill Awards." They no longer have Skill Awards. Plus, I earned Merit Badges. I had to go on camping trips, do community service projects and serve as leadership position in my Troop.

For my Eagle Scout project, I did some landscaping. I landscaped around the Annex building of my old church. The building wasn't used for anything. They called it the Old Youth Building. Shortly, after I landscaped the building, they turned it into a Mother's Day Out building.

I started out in Cub Scouts as a Bobcat. I don't think they had Tiger Scouts then or near me. I have also served as Assistant Scoutmaster for 2 troops in Knoxville, TN and then 1 in Gaylord, MI.
I would like to find a local troop and help them. I have two numbers to contact about helping a local troop.

My old troop is no longer around, but I have heard they are trying to get the church to approve having the troop back again, this would be a few blocks from my house. Growing up it was just half a block away.

In the Scouts I got up to "Brotherhood" in the Order of the Arrow. (0A). Those in the BSA know what I am talking about.

I need to renew my membership to NESA (National Eagle Scout Association).

My resume even list that my greatest achievement is attaining my Rank of Eagle.

BTW, did you know that in Feb. 2010, Boy Scouts will be 100 years old?
I remember the 75th Diamond Anniversary while I was a kid in the Scouts (1985).
My Boy Scout troop even made it to the 50th Anniversary, forgot when now.

"Once an Eagle Scout, Always an Eagle Scout."