Monthly Archives:: February 2010

The $4000 Notebook

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SML Notebooks / 20090903.10D.52443 / SML
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Reason Not to Blog: Feeling Boxed In

This blog has subscribers. I have followers on Twitter. At one point, I realized these could be real people and I freaked out.

I used to spur of the moment posts about anything I happened to be doing during the day that might be useful to someone else. Then more people began reading and commenting on my blog and I wasn’t sure what to post next. At some point stage fright hits and there is so much you can’t write or at least you may tell yourself that.  Read more... (295 words, 2 images, estimated 1:11 mins reading time)

Friday Links – 2/19/2010

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What’s New with Magento

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Magneto Developer's GuideFirst, let me tell you that I will soon be receiving the Magento 1.3 PHP Developer’s Guide to review. Magento has an architecture link no other software. Hopefully this  book sheds some light on developing with Magento and beats hunting a pecking through the forums. The last book I bought for a CMS was one for Drupal. With WordPress, I picked up everything I know online.  Read more... (274 words, 2 images, estimated 1:06 mins reading time)

What I Do Sundays

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Schedule Board
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I started writing this post a few weeks ago on a Sunday. I was just getting to a weekly rhythm and something broke, so that Sunday was different as most Sundays are. A schedule is always the best case scenario.

Before I started freelancing, I did have a rhythm but I forgot it and found it again and that’s what this post is about. For over a year now I only go into the day job 4 days a week at my day job and when I thought I was going to make a killing freelancing, I was only going in three days a week.  Read more... (765 words, 2 images, estimated 3:04 mins reading time)

Friday Links – 2/12/2010

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Yes, Virginia, SEO’s are Ruining Google

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A woman swats away the stork which has brought...
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And here are some similar phrases that I put in the same basket:  Read more... (285 words, 2 images, estimated 1:08 mins reading time)

  • “We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round.  The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round.  He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality.”- George Bernard Shaw