It’s that time of the week again, the time when I review a blog as part of my Technorati contest.This time I am turning my sights on The Answer May Surprise You, a blog with a long name that has only recently left Blogspot to make it on its own. It’s always a wonderful thing…
Month: March 2007
$750 for a Review?
Some of you may be wondering why I have priced the ReviewMe reviews for the blog at $750. Well, sit back and read on because I am about to tell you why.For the past month I have been fooling around with Pay-Per-Post, a sponsored posting service. This service matches up bloggers and advertisers. Advertisers tell…
Speed Linking for Friday March 23, 2007
I know I am a bit late posting this but things have been busy for me this week!Why being a success means people are hating what you do – Chris opines on how the truly successful are not “liked” but hated or loved.Blogging: Tactic 4 – Participate at Related Forums and Blogs – Gregg has…
Upgraded Wii browser will not be free forever
Back in December Nintendo offered a trial version of the Opera Internet browser to all Wii owners. All you had to do was go into he shopping channel and download it. After months of testing and user feedback Nintendo developers have made a number of improvements.Improvementsimproved zooming and scrollingan improved zoomed fontshortened startup timesquicker access…
How To: Use a cron job to backup your databases
If you run a web server that uses a database such as MySQL then you should be doing backups, often.When I was in charge of the web server for Kenzer and Company we used a 7-day rolling backup system. This system insured that, in the case of a problem, we had several days worth of…
Google’s new PR rankings
Every three months Google recalculates Page Rank for all of the sites they track. Many people have speculated on what things you can do to help and/or harm your Page Rank. It would seem that I have done something to harm my Page Rank as I have dropped from a five to a three.I do…
PTO Woes
Parent Teacher organizations, how many of us have an expectation of them?I’m on the board. When I joined, I joined expecting to change the governed circumstance. I was elected to make things happen. Or so I thought.Things have been different. So far, we have raised funds and coordinated events. I’m waiting for change. We have…
Has Digg integrated duggmirror?
This is strange. I was just taking a quick look over on Digg and after clicking on a story that was posted on a blog the direct Digg link took me right to duggmirror!Digg LinkStory LinkDuggmirror linkThis is very strange because the direct link to the story works fine! The blog is not down but…
More iTunes troubles
Every morning I check my iTunes for new podcasts that download while I sleep. This morning I found two new ones, but they were greyed out… I tried to play them but I could not. I checked my hard drive and the files were there and could be played, just not from iTunes.A few days…
The importance of post timing
If you are following my earlier advice about using the WordPress Timestamp feature to publish your articles you might want to pay attention here.If you are using the Post Timestamp feature to write all of your posts (or at least a majority) at one time and scheduling them to appear throughout the day you need…
Google loves me
A common question bloggers ask is, “how do I get on Google?” It’s a question with multiple answers:AnswersAdWords – pay for access.Links – get lots of inbound links.Register – Use Googles webmaster toolkit to ‘claim’ your site in Google’s eyes.Sitemaps – Create an XML document for spiders to read.Write good content.Out of all of those…
Cat Head Theatre
What would Hamlet look like if it were performed by cats?