February 2010

15 of the best actors in my time, in my opinion

February 23, 2010 Amusing

Just a quickie this time, here’s a list of my favorite 15 actors of all time.  You might have some opinions on my selections, so feel free to use the comments to let me know I’m crazy for choosing this one, or what about that one… These are in no particular order, but I will [...]

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Establish a local WordPress development environment using WampServer

February 22, 2010 Build a website

If you have ever thought about how you can improve your website without  impacting your current visitors, you’re probably ready to establish a local development environment where you can make your changes on your desktop or laptop, and then migrate the changed files out to your production web server, to effectively “roll out” new changes.  [...]

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Something I learned from the mousy looking girl in accounting

February 19, 2010 Web Development Tips

I remember meeting a mousy looking girl back when I was doing accounting for a grocery chain here in Southern California.  Yes, my first major was accounting, snore.  I love numbers though.  Anyway, this mousy looking girl was an auditor, and I was talking with her about what she does, and what she enjoys about [...]

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Is your blog DoFollow? Here are some great images to let your visitors know!

February 18, 2010 Blogging Help & Tips

I’ve found a new blogger recently that blogs at ExtremeJohn.com and is giving away free dofollow images for you to use on your blog. Pretty damn cool if you ask me, and the image work is pretty nice too. What the hell is DoFollow? DoFollow refers to your links and whether or not there is [...]

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The time when a Burger King employee threw a double cheeseburger at me

February 16, 2010 Random Thoughts

If I could make this shit up, I’d be rich.  This happened just the past weekend, and I couldn’t pass up telling you all about my experience at Burger King. The day started normal enough, aside from the fact that we had a wedding to attend and a reception afterward.  A friend of the family [...]

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Finding an optimal screen resolution for your web sites

February 15, 2010 Web Development Tips

I was just over at YouTube watching a video from Matt Cutts on the Google Webmaster Central Channel where he takes questions from the audience and provides a video response.  The questioner asked “What’s a good screen resolution to design for?”, here’s the video: Matt Cutts is head of the Webspam team at Google and [...]

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Hitler gets Google slapped

February 12, 2010 Amusing

This was just too funny not to post…  If you have ever felt the frustration of having to ask yourself “Where did all my traffic go?”, you’ll enjoy this bit.

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Death of a website – DiggityHost’s miserable marketing failure and what I’ve learned

February 11, 2010 Make Money

I just shut down DiggityHost.com, and want to let you know why I made this decision.  Here’s a chance to learn from my own failure and naïveté on trying to crack the domain name and website hosting niche with a site named DiggityHost, especially when it’s your first attempt at cracking anything. DiggityHost.com was my [...]

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An overview Chitika search advertising for publishers

February 11, 2010 Make Money

In my quest for financial freedom, I’m very interested to learn more about how I might utilize the hundreds of posts I’ve written over the past two years.  AdSense has worked out nicely and continues to show growth as I continue blogging, but after using Chitika for the past few months, I realize that I’ve [...]

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Taking Scribefire for a test run

February 9, 2010 Blogging Help & Tips

I found an add-on for Firefox called Scribefire that I’m going to be testing out.  I mentioned a few posts ago that I wanted to write more often, and to do so, I’ll be writing smaller posts on topics that I find interesting, helpful or just plain fun and entertaining.  I think Scribefire will help [...]

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