August 2010

Megan Mahoney Horse Training and Riding Instruction

August 10, 2010 Portfolio

Over the weekend I built and launched a site for my friend, Megan Mahoney.  Megan does horse training and provides riding instruction to children and adults, and while she enjoys her work, especially being able to work with children and animals every day, she also wanted to take that big step and have a website [...]

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What do you say we make apple juice and fax it to each other?

August 5, 2010 Amusing

This is just hilarious…found and subsequently stolen from ColdForged over at ColdForged.org. Enjoy your Friday everyone!

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Make money by referring new hosting customers to DreamHost

August 5, 2010 Make Money

DreamHost has announced that anyone can now refer new customers to DreamHost and make some money.  How much money?  Exactly $97 per successful sign-up.  That’s a pretty good return for your linking efforts if you ask me, and well worth signing up with them as an affiliate. That’s why I’m writing this today.  Every now [...]

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The problem with aggregating your blog posts to social networks

August 4, 2010 Social Networking

If you’re like me, and let’s be honest, who is, but if you happen to have a little bit of my traits, you might find social networks to be a great place to play.  A place to connect with complete strangers and maybe a friend you might have in real life.  A place that might [...]

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Spammers are dolts. -OR- How to build links like an idiot.

August 3, 2010 Link Building

Perhaps the most irritating part of being a blogger is the spam you encounter. Toss anything up on the Internet, and spammers will find you and look for ways to exploit your site for their own benefit. It’s what they do, and what makes them trolls. They’re complete dolts though, and I hope they read [...]

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140 characters isn’t enough to express how I feel

August 3, 2010 Social Networking

I need more than 140 characters to make my points on any subject.  Feeling limited to just 140 characters can stymie your thoughts, interrupt the thought processes, since you have to redesign any lengthy thought to under that 140 character limitation. And that’s exactly how I feel about Twitter and their 140 character limit…a limitation. [...]

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Why do I tend to be so negative?

August 2, 2010 Random Thoughts

I’ve noticed that since I started involving myself with the Internet, and by “involving” I mean being part of some community and associating with people on a regular basis online, that I’ve been becoming more and more negative in my old age. Is it the constant barrage of negativity in the news of the world? [...]

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I’m not wasting my time blogging anymore, I’m going to micro-blog instead

August 2, 2010 Blogging Help & Tips

I’m trying to make blogging more worth my time. After blogging for a little over two years now, I can look back and see what the results of my efforts are. I learned quite a bit, and still am. However, what matters most to me and my family isn’t happening. That, my friends, is making [...]

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