2026
Building a Cost-Saving Agent Skill That Accidentally Became Its Own Weekly Blog Post
I built a Claude Code skill to stop accidentally setting fire to my OpenRouter budget. It does that. It also writes a weekly blog post now.
I Was Wrong About Hy3 (And Other Things I Learned This Week)
The model market moved faster than my pattern detector this week. I had to eat one prediction, recalibrate a cheapskate winner, and downgrade Claude Code again.
Senior Software Engineer by Title, AI Therapist by Reality
My LinkedIn says 'Senior Software Engineer.' My screen time says I spent 14 hours this week talking AI assistants out of bad decisions.
The Cheapskate's Guide to the Arena Leaderboard: Why I Stopped Paying Claude Opus Prices
Arena top 20 fits in 35 rating points. The prices fan out 30x. Here's the cheapest model in the competitive band of every category that matters.
The Autoresearch Ecosystem - How One Repo Spawned 9 Different Types of AI Projects
Karpathy dropped autoresearch in March and the ecosystem exploded overnight. Here's every category of fork and spinoff, and what each type actually does diff...
Model Roundup: The Free Countdown, the $300 Amnesiac, and the Quiet Climber at #7
Tencent's Hy3 Preview is #1 on OpenRouter this week because it's free until May 8. Here's what's actually worth building on.
My AI Agent Kept Making Shit Up (And Other Lessons From Running OpenClaw)
I set up a self-hosted AI agent to run daily reports autonomously. It hallucinated fake news for two days before I noticed.
April 2026 Model Roundup: Opus 4.7 Official, DeepSeek V4 Open-Sources 1M Context, and GPT-5.5 Upstaged the GPT-6 Hype
Claude Opus 4.7 officially landed and is already number 1 on Arena. Kimi K2.6 open-sourced a trillion-parameter coding model. GPT-5.5 shipped yesterday inste...
Microsoft APM - Managing AI Context Like a Dependency Problem
I went from syncing AI skills across devices to building a full declarative infrastructure for agent context. Here's how APM makes skills easier to use in mo...
I Burned Out on Vibe Coding, Came Back, and Rewrote Everything
After months away from side projects, I came back and realized my vibe-coded apps were prototypes. So I started over.
2025
Verdent AI - When Your AI Coding Assistant Finishes Before You Can Get Coffee
I expected the same old process with coding tools and then was given a beta account for Verdent.
The Great Vibe Coding Experiment - How I Built 15 Projects with AI in My Spare Time
Plus the 80 page vibe coding/spec-driven development report Claude generated from my Obsidian notes for me
How I Built Two Obsidian Plugins While Kiro AI Did Most of the Work
Kiro helped me build two Obsidian plugins in 6-8 hours.
I Tried to Upgrade My Blog with AI Project Management and Everything Went to Hell (But the Process Worked Really Well)
How Backlog.md made managing vibe coding chaos easer, even though I scrapped the code.
Jules AI - The (Currently) Free Coding Assistant That Can't Follow Directions But Gets Shit Done
Jules is currently free, so I figured it was worth a try. Of course, I had to find out what I could break.
Creating an Obsidian Plugin with Claude AI
I wrote the original script in Python. I had Claude perfect it, then convert it to an Obsidian plugin.
Building an Electron App from Scratch with Claude Code
In my last two posts on "vibe coding" I used Claude Desktop with MCP servers. Then I found out about Claude Code and now have a much better process.
Vibe Coding With Claude Desktop and MCP Part 2 - Switching to Scrapy
In my last post, I had a TypeScript-based scraper. In this one I switch to Scrapy.
Claude + MCP - 'Vibe Coding' Without Specialized IDEs Part 1
Cursor and Windsurf have gained popularity, but they can get expensive and they only do code. With Claude Desktop and MCPs you do the same thing and more.
Exporting Mac OSX Book Highlights into an Obsidian Vault or Markdown Files
Import your Mac Book highlights, notes, and metadata into Obsidian using the Python Scripter plugin or just run the script to export them in the same folder.
Leveraging React Server Components in RedwoodJS
The React team released React 18 in May 2023, which came with better support for React Server Components (RSCs). Less than a year later, RedwoodJS announced ...
2024
Redux Toolkit adoption guide - Overview, examples, and alternatives
The UI generated by a React, Angular, Vue, or React Native app is a function of its state. For many frontend developers, Redux Toolkit is the perfect tool fo...
Obsidian's New Web Clipper - You'll Want to Try It
Obsidian's official Web Clipper does even more than what I need it for it's made me change my workflow.
Exploring Redux Toolkit 2.0 and the Redux second generation
State management in web applications is a hot topic. But while React’s Context API, MobX, and a handful of other libraries might be great alternatives to Red...
How to Install, Activate, and Update Obsidian Plugins
The key to Obsidian is plugins. After all, without them, you just have a markdown editor, a nice markdown editor, but still, with plugins, you can do more.
Understanding the React exhaustive-deps Linting Warning
When you move from using class components to functional components in React, it can be a bumpy ride. You have to learn how to use React Hooks.
How to Sync Obsidian Across All Your Devices (Including Free Methods)
Updated 1/1/2026! A personal knowledge management tool like Obsidian only works well if you can access it from wherever you are. With Obsidian you have a few...
Writing as You Go - Technical Article Writing Made Easy
If you are a developer and want to write about what you do, there is no reason you should run out of ideas.
How to Add Search to Your Static Site Generator (Jekyll, Hugo, Gatsby, Nikola, etc.)
Add full text search to your static site without using a third-party platform or any type of service. Stop paying for search.
Exploring React Native Pointer Events
Pointer events were designed to be hardware-agnostic and target a specific set of coordinates on the screen and now you can use them in React Native
How I Finally Ditched Evernote for Joplin
The step by step process I used to migrate from Evernote to Joplin on two laptops, one phone, and a tablet.
JavaScript Reduce - A Complete Guide to the Only JS Array Function You Really Need
There are many JavaScript functions that you can use to manipulate arrays, but the JavaScript reduce method can do all their jobs.
2023
Originality AI - Or How Aliens Replaced My Mind with AI
Proving that Correlation is Causation Since...This Year
Never Run Out of Freelance Work - An Exhaustive List of Writing Job Lists
Where to find freelance writing jobs online
How to Lose Your Writing Voice and How to Get it Back
After 800+ articles written in corporate tone and style for SEO purposes, do I still have my own voice?
My Ultimate Set of Morning Rituals
I was never a morning person until about 5 years ago, but I guess I am really still not a morning person.
How to Store JSON in PostgreSQL
Often the data for an application won't fit completely into either a relational or NoSQL world. PostgreSQL gives you options.
How to Autofocus Using React Hooks
React Hooks can be easy to set up on your own, and you can use them to autofocus a field in a few ways.
Why Do You Write Code - The Career, The Code, or The Results?
There are two types of people - people that classify people into types of people and those that don't.
What I'd Do Differently if I Could Rewrite My Android App
I think the key to staying interested in programming is constantly trying something new with technology.
The Time They Tried to Replace Our Whole Engineering Team and It Backfired - A Cautionary Tale
This is a story about a lesson I learned when I was a fledgling corporate developer in my 30s. I say that because at that time I had already been writing cod...
How I Keep Myself Interested in Coding
I think the key to staying interested in programming is constantly trying something new with technology.
When Taking a Pay Cut as a Programmer Might Be the Right Choice
Why would someone want to take a pay cut to go to a new job, especially when that is one of the most common ways programmers get raises?
How I Spent a Month Building a Cryptocurrency Trading Platform
And I made a million dollars...not.
Good and Bad Times as a Contrarian Programmer
When I think of the traditional leaders in tech, I realize almost all of them were contrarians.
Developer, Programmer, Engineer - Decoding the Titles in the Coding World
As a person who writes code, it is important to choose a title that describes what you do. There are quite a few to choose from, each with their own connotat...
The Secrets to Keeping Your Programming Career Balanced
Master the art of achieving work-life harmony as a programmer, with valuable insights and lessons from someone who has experienced the struggle firsthand.
Navigating Coding Roles - Startups vs. Big Tech
One of the most effective ways to simplify the complexity of the software engineering landscape is to separate companies into startups and big tech, with a s...
2022
How I Made $4000 in a Single Month Freelance Writing on the Side
Lessons from My First Three Years of Freelance/Content Writing
Debugging React Native with VS Code
How to write React Native code and debug it in the same IDE, VS Code.
Creating a Custom React Native Dropdown
How to create a dropdown in React Native from scratch that looks the same in Android or iOS.
2021
Debugging React Native Apps with Flipper
How to use Flipper to make debugging your React Native apps easier.
Creating an offline-first React Native app
There are many reasons to consider building an offline-first React Native app.
2020
Just Code It
Stop waiting until you know what you are doing. Stop waiting until the idea is complete. Just code it.
Gold Rushes, Boom Towns, Wild Wests and Side Hustles
Chasing the next big thing was fun for a while, but got old.
Creating an Android EULA Activity
Create a reusable EULA activity for your Android app
136 Places to Learn to Code for Free
Here is an exhaustive list of resources that will teach you how to write code for free. Updated February 2020.
2019
Learning to Program by Working on Real World Projects
Forget the toy projects when you want to learn to program and build something you would use.
The Niagara Falls Supension Bridge Programming Analogy
Starting with a lean functional application and slowly building robustness.
The Truth About a Computer Science Degree
Your computer science degree is not job training to be a programmer. Most likely, all the technologies you use at your first job you will have to learn there...
Making Ideas Real
Giving ideas life by writing them down.
Programmer, aka Soldier of Fortune
If don't approach your job like a mercenary, you are missing out.
The One Who Writes
There are a lot of tools to help you to start a habit. Just remember that your goal is building the habit, not using the tool.
A Constant Brain Change
Keep learning to keep changing.
Don't Make a Habit a Crutch
There are a lot of tools to help you to start a habit. Just remember that your goal is building the habit, not using the tool.
Devote Part of Your Day to Keeping Up to Date
You have to keep up to date in this industry if you want to get the best jobs.
Another Way Jekyll Helps Me Out
Jekyll keeps me focused on writing instead of getting distracted by tweaking my site.
Make Everything You Do Perform More Than One Job
Killing unlimited birds with one stone.
Programming Generalist Versus Programming Specialist
It's really not your decision because the work will choose and you have to be both.
Learning How You Do It
Even with the best teachers, you still have to learn your own way.
Embedding Yourself in the Internet
Be everywhere you can on the internet and leave a mark.
Interviewing for Practice
Keep interviewing even when you aren't looking for a job.
How I Finally Convinced Myself to Become a Morning Person
Doing things in the morning can even help night owls.
Documenting Your Programming Experience with a Blog
Write about your work.
Learning Programming by Building Tools You Need
Building something real is a much better learning experience than working on exercises.
Always Have a Project on the Side
Build experience in new technologies by burning the midnight oil.
Is the Tech Industry the New Coal Mine?
If programming is a working class job then we need some working class benefits.
Beginner's Luck is a Real Thing
Maybe the best way to learn something new is not to be taught it.
2018
Using Imposter Syndrome to Your Advantage
What to do with the voice that says you aren't good enough.
95% of People Fail Because They Just Don't Try
All success stories start with someone doing something. Sitting on the sidelines won't get you anywhere.
Encrypting Messages with Bitcoin Cash Keys
Encrypt messages with your blockchain private key so that only the owner of another wallet can read it.
Writing a Book for Yourself
How do you switch to self-publishing after two published books?
Creating Full Stack Dapps with Truffle Boxes
Truffle boxes will get your Ethereum smart contract and/or Ethereum Dapps bootstrapped in minutes.
Payblok: Taking the Kinks Out of Supply Chain Financing
I ran into something you hardly ever see in the wild today. A token on the Ethereum network that is a true utility token from a company that is not doing an ...
Quanta : Not Just Another Decentralized Exchange
Why do we need decentralized exchanges when centralized exchanges work? At a price tag anywhere from tens of thousands to a million dollars, listing a crypto...
Will Net Neutrality Impact the Future of Cryptocurrencies?
The recent repeal of Net Neutrality has made internet users go into a chaotic frenzy. Many people are worried about where the internet is going. Will interne...
2017
Writing as I Learn Revisited
Something New to Learn
2016
Creating an AngularJS 2 contenteditable Directive the Wrong Way
The contenteditable Attribute
A Tale of Saving a Windows Installation with Linux
Death of a Gaming Laptop
Converting an Angular1/NodeWebkit App to an Ionic/Electron App
Zen Notebook
When Windows Turns Jekyll into Hyde
I Lied
Testing My New Web Only Jekyll Deployment
So Jekyll is a great choice for a blog if you don’t need to run a dynamic site and I just got tired of running a whole hackable application on a server somew...
Starting Fresh
A Little History
2015
Crickets
On the topic of crickets, you know those crickets that live in your basement that look like they were crossed with a spider on some alien planet, well...&nbs...
2014
Using Display Suite View Mode Switcher
Well, I happened to be looking at Display Suite Extras and found something I thought I might be able to use for a project I am working on. It creates a switc...
Phoenix
Bear with me while I try to make this thing rise from the dust. After spending the time to convert it from Wordpress to Drupal, I sort of let it sit stagnant...
So I Wrote a Book on the Phalcon Framework
I have to admit I change my mind a lot. I started out rolling my own sites in PHP and MySql. Then I spent a lot of time with Wordpress and various Ecommerce ...
2013
Instant E-Commerce with Magento: Build a Shop
Magento is a complex piece of software designed to do just about anything you might want to do with an online shopping cart. And while it is possible to cust...
Instant Magento Performance Optimization How-to
My first suggestion when installing Magento for a live site is get a big dedicated server or use Amazon so you can scale quickly and easily. I mean, you are ...
It's Alive
Well kind of at least. Just switched from Wordpress to Drupal. Got tired of using plugins I needed but never could trust to be safe and for the last 8 months...
2012
Mastering Magento - A Magento User's Manual
It takes a while after learning to develop with Magento to even consider picking up any random Magento job that comes along. I have learned that every site h...
How SERPS.com Stole My Idea for SEO Software and Gave Me Press Access to the Theft
I was actually writing code to integrate Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools when Google just added the ability to mash them together. Long before th...
For My Kids and Myself
I'm Back Baby!
RSS, the Dark Side is Strong with You
And you thought RSS was the best thing about blogs, the advantage they have over a standard website without a feed. But think about it for a second.
.htaccess Hack Finder Script for vlag-nerto.ru
A few day ago, I posted about a Wordpress .htaccess redirect hack that happened to me.
Writing, Meditation, and the Irreplaceable Value of Wasted Time
I stop myself from writing my thoughts so much any more. I have too many thoughts that I think would come out the wrong way. A filter built into my fingers t...
Sorry for the Malware Interruption
4 Fast Feed Readers that Handles Lots of Feeds without Slowing Down
Setting Up Google Authorship with rel="author", rel="me and your Google+ Profile
Playing Three Card Author Monty with Google Now the steps to claim your content go like this: Cut off the pinky finger of your left hand. Send it in for DNA...
Manually Activating Your ThinkUp App on PHPFog
What is ThinkUp? Thinkup is an open source social media dashboard. It makes it easy to sort and analyze items from your Twitter, Facebook and Google+ account...
2011
Whiners are Agents of Change
SEO and Blogging Basics- Why SEO Works
Blogging and SEO are inseparable. The blog is perhaps the defining website content, and blogs cover every imaginable subject on Earth. The trouble is that lo...
Plato's Cave of SEOs
Magento 1.4 Development Cookbook Review
Development in Magento I would have to say that I chose Magento in the first place because it would have a lot of the features we would need available withou...
2010
JD Salinger, Blog Stickiness and How to Disappear from an Active Site
And there I go again, writing what I want to call an SEO blog and then putting a title on this post that guarantees nothing. But I am currently a self-suppor...
Stupid Shiny Ribbon in Windows Live Writer 2011
It Started With Zemanta It all started when I noticed the Zemanta Windows Live Writer Plugin had an update, so I went to the page for the update. I love Zema...
Pentaho and Apatar, My Two Strangely Named Free Data Friends
Image by rickbradley via Flickr I have to admit that cool tools like these will eventually make certain types of programmers worry about job security. But ...
Chasing the IronPython and Various Other Free Desktop Development Tools
Image via Wikipedia Screw that balancing writing and developing post. It worked then. But now that I am building my own ideas. And that is where I have ...
Magento 1.3 Sales Tactics Cookbook Review
This is the third Magento book I have reviewed at this blog. The first book took a beginner through the basics of adding products to and running a Magento st...
Thoughts on Moving Forward
I was preparing another reason not to blog for my reasons not to blog series. It was going to be entitled “My Blog has an Identity Crisis”. But I actually ca...
A Review of Magento 1.3: PHP Developer's Guide
Let me guess. You’re an in-house ecommerce developer. About a year or so ago you heard about this slick ecommerce software called Magento. You’re skeptical b...
Balancing Developing and Writing
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The $4000 Notebook
Image by See-ming Lee ??? SML via Flickr Reason Not to Blog: Feeling Boxed In
What's New with Magento
First, 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. Hop...
What I Do Sundays
Image by Vidiot via Flickr 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 S...
Yes, Virginia, SEO's are Ruining Google
Image via Wikipedia And here are some similar phrases that I put in the same basket: "We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Mid...
Just Who Do You Think You Are?
Image via Wikipedia Reason Not To Blog:Just Who Do I Think I Am?
It is Hard to Write
Reason Not To Blog: It is too hard to write
How to Host Your Own Blog in 5 Minutes for $10 a Year
A few weeks ago, I just happened on a really cheap hosting company called NearlyFreeSpeech and nearly free is right. To host the average Wordpress blog, it w...
I Don't Like the Way I Write
Image via Wikipedia Reason Not to Blog: I Have a Crappy Writing Style
Work For Yourself Daily
Image by guydonges via Flickr Reason Not To Blog: I have to work to put food on the table.
There Is No Killer App
Reason Not to Blog #3: I just can’t find the right tool.
The Pressure of Rules
Image via Wikipedia Reason Not to Blog #1: There are too many rules
Reasons Not To Blog - A Series
Image by eristoddle via Flickr A Few Weeks Ago A few weeks ago I started writing posts and saving them on my desktop. You see, each one of the posts I w...
People I Have Worked With in Kansas City
Image via Wikipedia Since I have starting working on websites here in Kansas City, I have had the chance to work with a lot of local tech people. And si...
2009
A List of Free Tools to Keep Your Stuff in Order
A few months ago, about the time I stopped posting so much at this blog, I ran into an issue. I had a lot of things to do and could not keep them in my head ...
Extrapolation, Not Duplication
Cover via Amazon "You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his ...
Just Write An Email
I wrote this article a long time ago, before I had a blog. It references Outlook, so it had to be a while ago. I haven’t used Outlook in a long time. </p&...
Building Links Through DoFollow Forum Signatures
I haven’t written a link building post in a while, because for the most part, I was off investigating other things. And getting way too complex. When I reali...
The Inner Workings of the Twitter Machine
I am not quite sure why a made my last post a cliff hanger. To tell you the truth, I was running out of time and decided to just cut the post in two parts. T...
A Twitter Machine
I must admit I can’t help. I see one technology and try to attach it to another. And then another and another. I originally learned to program so I could cre...
Magento Beginner’s Guide
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My Top Subscribed Posts
I happened to be exploring the happened to be exploring the backend fo this blog today making sure everything was up to date, discovering what plugins I had ...
The Elusive Clean Plate, Inbox Zero and Mind Like Water
Cover via Amazon Many people have one job. Nice! Many people have one job description. Also great. And it's a place I hope to be some day. Until then, ...
Listening to Twitter
Twitter has changed search and has also changed the meaning of the term “up-to-date”. This is no longer waiting until the next scheduled news cast. And forge...
My Magento Bookmarks
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Beating the Hare or How Not to End Up in the Mental Ward
I worry a lot. I worry that I don’t write posts often enough. I worry that I don’t comment enough on other blogs. I worry that I don’t make enough real comme...
What Makes You Money?
Image via Wikipedia This is what you should be doing.
A Change in the Blog Design
If you’ve been here before, you may have noticed the blog theme changed over the weekend. I didn’t really plan for that to happen. It was just the final resu...
The Changes at Bloghology Social Network
Despite being immersed in the internet for 12 hours a day at times, I am not quite sure of the definition of a social network. Some are for bookmarks, some f...
Learn, Integrate and Automate
Image via Wikipedia The Only Employee It's a slow cycle when you are trying to learn everything you can about the Internet, Search Engines, Social Media and ...
How to Create More Content for Your Products
Image via Wikipedia How do I write about my products? I have built a lot of different sites for a lot of different people and this question always comes up...
Dragon NaturallySpeaking, Now with Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
A Few Ways to Search Faster than Google
Image via Wikipedia About 100 years ago, you would have to wait for a newspaper to get the news or go to the library to look up information. And the inform...
How to Win Friends and Influence Tweeps
One of the reasons I don’t post as often as I used to here is social networks. Another reason is that not writing one day starts a trend. It may take 21 days...
Dir23.com - My New Search Aggregator
I went off on a tangent last night and built this. It only took a few hours.
How to Write Fast - From Various Sources
Cover via Amazon I think it is quite ironic that I am writing this post while trying to avoid writing a post. I know why I searched for the topic in Google a...
2008
How to Make Flock Faster
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One Way to Speed Up Your Feed Reading
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Are We Creating Our Own 1984?
“You can’t comment on that post. It’s two months old. It will look like spam.”
Create It, Promote It, Find It or Respond to It
Your duties as a blogger may get confusing after a bit. Initially, you may have started with a simple plan of posting every day and leaving 10 comments on ot...
SocialToo - Why Do People Follow You on Twitter?
I remember starting out with Twitter a few months ago. I had made fun of it up to that. Had no use for it. But then I read an interview of a blogger, can’t r...
Wakoopa, Find Software You Never Knew You Needed
This is now one of my favorite sites. It gained that status over the weekend.
How Many Hats You Wear?
Ground Zero I started out selling on Ebay. I didn’t know much more than HTML. I knew nothing about SEO. And I knew that some people had made money with affil...
Blogs You May Need to Read in These Hard Times
Making Money Online? Maybe it is the economy. Maybe it is the fact that I took on too much work. Maybe it was because I had a system that made me money and w...
TidyFavorites: Bookmarks and More
Not another bookmarking tool. That’s what I thought at first. I had finally settled on delicious as my tool of choice. I can save, search and archive. Much b...
Blog Blazers: A First Impression
Last night, I received my copy of Blog Blazers. I got it for free to review it. I can’t tell how excited I was over that. In fact, I had to analyze the excit...
Not My Last Word on the Subject of SEO and Online Marketing
I just recently built a e-Commerce site. Only about 20% of the products are up but we decided to launch it. It was time to start getting links and making sa...
The Dell White Flashing Cursor of Death
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Organic Social Media Marketing
Organic is used a lot on the internet. So let me explain how I am applying it to social media marketing. How do you learn social media marketing? That was a ...
Leveraging Your Social Media Efforts
Image via Wikipedia Today I just happen to do a search for "mobile blog posting software" and ran into ShoZu which does more than mobile blog posting. The ...
Kansas City e-Commerce Job - Entry Level
We have too many products and all of our vendors just doubled their lines. First let me warn you, "entry level" means "entry level". If you just can't handle...
Yes
Image by abbyladybug via Flickr And to reiterate, yes!
Attacking and Defending Your E-commerce Niche
This was the slide show from my presentation at Highlight Midwest. really enjoyed the unconference and can't wait for the next. Attacking and Defending...
Highlight Midwest and Unconferences
This started as a post telling you to come to Highlight Midwest in Kansas City this Wednesday, but then the iframe virus hit the server this blog once lived ...
Sites and Cpanel Hacked with prevedvsem123.cn Virus
Updated: A Note Before You Read On I don’t know the source of this virus currently. All I know is that everyone I have talked to so far that has this issue h...
My First Review of RankSense
I am writing this post tethered to the wall by a cord. I have a laptop but the battery is a year old, lasts about 10 minutes now and I am waiting on the new ...
Narrowing Down My Networks
You see the WTFMO widget on the side of my blog. It’s a scam. For a while there I was signing up for everything like a maniac. Not that that is a bad thing. ...
Priorities in Traffic, Time and Money
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What I Learned At Blog World Expo Part 1 of Many
I guess this is a little late, but better late than never. It has been a chore trying to keep up lately and yes, I do actually have enough material for two w...
Changing Offices
While I Was On My Way to Writing a Contact Form
Yes, yes, I am going to spill more of the beans about Blog World Expo. But I thought I needed some preparation first. First, a contact form and I really need...
Enough Content for Two Weeks of Posts from BWE
It Was Fun
Bloghology, BWE, Vegas, and Other Random Stuff
The First Day Okay, I think I am much more put together today. I meant to get a nap in all day yesterday after checking out the 4 block radius around my room...
At Blog World Expo
Well, not really there. I am in a hotel room, a purple and pick one with the jet engine type air conditioner. But it works. Damn sure lot of construction goi...
Blogging is a Bitch
Okay, time to get these off my chest and write them down so that I can separate the stupid from the actual true issues.
The Affiliate Niche Blog Plan
Image via Wikipedia MMO Blogs My blog is number 53 on the top 100 Make Money Online blogs. It has hovered right that number for a while. Amazing, considerin...
More News About Bloghology: Articles in the First Issue
Well, this week was a hectic one. I had all of my articles “written” and interviews sent out for the upcoming issue. But that was only half the job. The othe...
A Few Tools to Help You With Writing
Pen and Paper
The Blogging Monk
This was going to be a post about how I got away from blogging for the weekend to get back to writing. And that part’s true. I started writing it yesterday a...
Bloghology, Offline Blogging Magazine, For Bloggers and By Bloggers
I subscribe to a few magazines. Any magazine that is totally devoted to the Internet is hard to find. When I find one, I subscribe. The internet to me is alm...
Finally Every Wordpress Installation Current
And it was a mother. This was why I wait so long to update.
Experiencing Technical Difficulties
Right now, for some reason, I can’t access my Wordpress admin. Well, I can. In one way. I can click around on the top menu. The thing is that, nothing appear...
How to MacGyver Yourself Some Software
Other working titles for this article were “Guerilla Programming” and “How to Build Rube Goldberg Apps”, but I had to make a choice.
Internet Writing Practice
Writing Down the Bones If you have not read this book, do so now. It was written by Natalie Goldberg. It will change your attitude about writing and is my ba...
atomkeep - for online multiple personality disorder
Capitalization is a dying, so what the hell. I am not sure what that indicates. But I went with it. They don't capitalize, so I won't. I have a lot of onlin...
How to Get a Tech Job with a G.E.D
I have never been one to hold a job for long. I don't have a degree. About two years was my limit. It has not been the pay as much as the boredom. Once I cou...
Writing Every Day
I do work in a lot of different areas on teh internets. And each job I do has different effects on my mind. I have to enter that job's mind mode for a short ...
Single Tasking is Hard To Do
Doing one thing at a time. It's a nice concept and may seem easy, but I guess it depends on how you handle things. I know it works. I know the sense of accom...
A List of Top Blog Lists
I cover a lot of topics and read a lot of blogs. Up until recently, I had them all in one folder in my feed reader. Then I broke them up into folders. That t...
No More Banners Here
I decided to take the banners off the site. They didn't help with the view. And unless my traffic increases exponentially here soon, I am not going to lose a...
On Getting Advice
It is good to live with someone you trust to tell you that you are being stupid. Of course, part of the deal is actually listening when that person says you ...
7 Very Cool Free Desktop Feed Readers
I have been so wrapped up lately trying to replace desktop software with web apps that I haven't looked into desktop feed readers for a long time. I used Fir...
The Importance of Knowing What You Want to Write
There are times I have had pretty good luck with just taking off with a topic and coming out on the other side with a post. This morning was not one of those...
I Wanna Be a Ass Hat SEO, Please
Using the term “Black Hat”, automatically assumes the existence of White, Gray and theoretically “No Hat” techniques.</p><h3>No Hat SEO</h3>...
The Pen Collection
If there is anything I will steal from you it will be your pen. That is, if you have one worth stealing. I collect pens. I haven't quite got to the upper end...
Positioning Images and Javascript in Blog Posts
I wrote HTML before they really made any good editors for it, back in the old days of 64 colors or however many there were back then. Tables were the only op...
Getting Away From Monkey Mind
The books and web pages I read affect me a lot. I use them as tools sometimes. If I read a book on productivity, I become more productive while I am reading ...
Set Yourself Up for Failure with Rules
I have gradually built up a list of invisible rules for this blog. What are invisible rules? Rules set by the popularity of past posts. Rules that cause writ...
Feed Consolidation for Niche Blogs
One of the first things you want to do when starting a new blog is find the neighborhoods that you will hang out in when you are working on your blog. These ...
Where I've Been Lately
I can be accused of reaching too far. I can also be accused of getting in over my head, at least for a few days at a time. But, if I had a choose between hav...
Getting Closer to the Clouds
I decided to write a post about cloud computing, because I am using less and less of my own resources and more and more of what is freely and cheaply availab...
Help a Blogger Fight a Corporation
Support Vlad Zablotskyy's Defense Fund Defend your own right to free speech! I will have to send you to a couple of other blo...
Testing the 0-60 of a New Blog
I have been trying to start another blog lately. At least, that's what I am telling myself. It's a clean slate right now and that's a good place to start. I ...
Getting Related
I have got my lifestream up and running on Gregarius. I still plan on using Profilactic though. It will be more effective at updating the stream multiple tim...
On the Trail of LifeClusters
I went back to Darkroom today. I needed only to see the words continuing on the black screen to know that I missed this. I think I actually type faster that ...
A Huge List of Keyword Tools
There doesn't seem to be a common consensus on what keyword tools are useful or whether you need to use them in the first place, but there are a lot and we w...
Fixed Costs and Fixed Time
Time is money. It may be something we all agree on, but what does it really mean. Fixed costs are nice. One of my fixed costs is hosting. When I make $4000 i...
A Few Quick Tips for Ecommerce Sites
I rank pretty high for specific terms when it comes to ecommerce, even though I haven't written a post in a while. I have learned a lot through running an ec...
Article Spinning and Content Creation
If I actually like to write, why am I looking into artificial content creation. Because it's interesting. I am on the trail of building a contextual matching...
Don't Be a WP 2.5 Hater
I have had issues with Wordpress upgrades in the past. Nothing makes my day like going through the upgrade process, refreshing the page and getting a nice cl...
My Ideas on Multiblogging
Traveling Detail Light When studying a new technology, I plunge in headfirst. I have read a lot of books and from experience, despite what I learned from boo...
How to Teach Yourself to Make Money Online
Dealing with Incomplete Information I learned in a De Bono thinking course that for some things, you will just never have complete information. So there is s...
How to Mask Procrastination and Wasted Time
Habits are hard to break. Habits are hard to create. Any productivity book I have read that doesn't state those two points clearly goes in one ear and out th...
R.I.P Stephan Miller
Celebrity grizzly Rocky mauls trainer Stephan Miller to death - Times Online I realized I was getting above normal hits to my site today. It crashed this sit...
The Continuous Process of Change
Repeating Myself Now let's see if I can write this post without repeating myself. Or I will have to start calling my blog 101 ways to look at producti...
Yet Another Sunday
I started carrying my camera on Friday this week. Trying to make it a habit to be more observant. A lawn mower as a mode of transportation. The tea is call...
Optimizing Wordpress for Search Engines
I lay awake at night thinking of things like this. Not long. A few minutes or so. Sometimes I get an idea when I am driving. Sometimes I write the ideas down...
A Weekend of Work
This weekend I got off my butt and went down a list of things I wanted to get done. I built a list of blogs using the CommentLuv plugin over at my site ...
Panic As Fuel
I am a relatively organized and driven person, but I do get comfortable. Comfortable is spending way to much time exploring and not enough time marketing and...
Adding Related Feeds to Your Wordpress Posts
Writer's Block I woke up today with nothing to write. That usually happens when I am in research or programming mode. These modes are necessary evils but the...
I Will Be Exploring Freelancers
It's time to shift my focus a little again, back to projects, code and campaigns. I am just this close to having the theme done for my other blog. And then I...
How to Decide Where to Put Widgets on Your Blog
I have been looking at the layout on my blog for a little while now, calculating what I wanted to change about it. But I didn't make the changes right away. ...
Finding Your Own Way to Make Money Online
I sometimes look back at the posts I have written and then back at my site and think, "Damn, these people must think I'm an asshole." I say, "...
Comfort Zones, Slacking and Brain Enemas
I've been a slacker for a couple of weeks now. The money has been good, so I slowed down. Not here at my blog, but with other projects. It's a habit I know w...
A Question of Semantics
A while ago I wrote a post questioning the issue of reblogging. Posts are often reblogged on meme tracking sites which use an algorithm to detect popular sto...
Lessons Learned at Low Paying Jobs
I didn't quit a cush job to start making money online. I did it while I was making $12 an hour and realized the ceiling was right around $16. I am a lazy per...
How to Give a Blog Post More Emphasis
Most people don't give a second thought to how the search engines work. When I explain that part of my job, I have to say something along the lines of, "...
Word Salad - A Post in the Raw
Everything blends together in my mind. I haven't figured out yet if this is normal or not. The first time I noticed this was when a boss told me to leave my ...
How to Find the Right Software
I have come to the decision that I will never hire employees. Nope. I have managed people before and I have come up with a equation that sums it up. Take the...
First Things First
I have been reading The Four Hour Work Week lately. It takes a while. I get a half hour in here and ten minutes there, but I will get through it. It has made...
Your Opinion on Reblogging
I don't like rehashing. Most of the time I wait until I had something to add to a topic before I jump in, whether it be a new technique or some research resu...
Riding Waves of Productivity
I tend to discount inspiration. I wrote an article about it once because much of the time, it is used for an excuse. Last week I wrote a series of posts tha...
The Curses of A Contact Form
Okay, now I know that I could do research and find a spam free contact form or something along those lines. But it involves a lesson that took me a long time...
Tunnels, Carrots, and Tangents
I have been writing the posts in this blog for the me of three years ago. "I come from hard working stock." Three years ago I was just looking for ...
Adjusting to Sporadic Cash
This is a good year. Affiliate marketing is recession proof. If Americans are broke, I can sell in Australia, England, Canada and other English speaking coun...
A Final Traffic Update, I Think
Why final? Because I don't think it adds much any more. This is the sixth one since I started focusing on getting traffic to this blog and I haven't added to...
Kombucha Tea
This weekend I haven't been around the net much. I actually got out with the love of my life. We got a babysitter. And went over to Overland Park, Kansas in...
How Do You Find Blogs to Comment on?
There are a few things you have to do if you want to get the word out about your blog. Joining blogging social networks helps. Writing good posts help. But y...
Long Tail Time Bombs
I knew I would have to explain this one today. If you noticed, I have a popular posts widget in the top right corner of this blog. This is based on Google An...
Success, One Mistake at a Time
I am a dumbass when it comes down to it. I was going to list a whole bunch of mistakes I have made here, but then realized that some of them make me cringe w...
Rereading A Good Book
This weekend I started reading The Bombast Transcripts by Christopher Locke again. You can find most of the contents of that book here. Entropy Gradient Reve...
Flash Where It Should Be Used
I have Flash turned off on my browser. I use Flock and have a few addons that I can't live without. But it kept slowing down on me, so I trimmed a few things...
How Does a Blogger Do Taxes?
I love affiliate marketing. I was on cloud 9, just moved cross country and was about to do my taxes. Bam. I had killed my day job before the move. But the da...
Research Left Over From the Weekend
I was busy this weekend with projects but didn't quite get everything all finished. To clear off my web clipboard, I am putting them here for future referenc...
Average, Normal, and Regular
Right now, by all accounts, I should have 1.2 kids, be $10,000 in credit card debt, and have had two major car accidents by now. But not one of these is rig...
Getting Past Scheduling
I revisit the topic of schedules every so often because schedules are evolving things. The reason why Zen to Done works for me is that it minimizes the impor...
How Should I Monetize My Website or Blog?
If you know your niche, that's basically all you have to look at when you are searching for ways to monetize a site, along with "how big is the cut"...
Blog Monetization Strategies
Last night I sat down and decided I wanted to list all the ways to monetize a blog. Not a list of websites, but a list of types. That way I could look at the...
Getting Yourself Unhacked by Mr. Exe, Destroyer, or Dark Master
I think this started with Refresh, the Georgian Hacker, but now a few other hackers are getting in on the action. I guess this is still going on. Just to let...
TNX.net
Notice: Buying text links in today's internet landscape is a risk and not something I would advise to newbies. But it does have i...
A Glitch in The System
I used to work on cars. I thought I loved it at the time. I realized after a while that I hated it. I like saving the money. Don't get me wrong. I still will...
My Wordpress Time Machine
I think most of us know the advantage of setting our timestamps ahead on our posts. I am here but I am not. For all you know, I could have written this post ...
The Best Laid Plans
The Plans I plan to write good posts. Once, I thought blogging was just internet writing and I just spit out a few words here and left for weeks at a time. I...
Nice Little Traffic Update
This is the best one so far. And I guess it should be that way. The current one should be the best. But I think by the time I write another one of these, I w...
Automatic Form Filling With Firefox
fireform :: Firefox Add-ons I am still surprised at the amount of people who don't know the existence of this plugin. I am currently writing a database/pr...
Cleaning Off My Desktop with RapidReader
No Time To Read I don't know about you, but I don't get that much time to read. I used to read all the time. Now I get eye bites. Short glimpses of paragraph...
Give Away Free Things to Get Traffic and Sales
When I started in internet marketing, that's what we called in back in the olden days, I was all about getting paid. And 5 internet years is equal to about 2...
Monetization So Far and Alinks
This weekend was another research weekend, hence my last links post. I have been looking a lot at the alinks plugin. This plugin allows you to assign urls to...
Windows Live Writer
I have tried a few desktop blogging programs. The closest I came to anything I would use was Qumana or Scribefire. Both programs claimed tagging support, but...
Google Adwords Demographic Bidding
Got an email from Adwords today. It seems that they just opened a beta program where advertisers can bid on specific groups of people. Demographic bidding i...
Don't Believe Everything You Hear About Internet Marketing.
Pick any blog on the internet that claims to teach you how to build traffic, what monetization method to use, and how to go about this blogging thing and you...
Using Software to Save Time
Usually my day to day activities give me enough material to write about, especially when I break things. There is no better fuel for writing than outright bi...
Using Firefox as a To Do List
I carry a Moleskine around to write random ideas down which I later put in a bigger notebook which consist of to do list, article ideas, half finished articl...
The Jamaican Challenge
I have good intentions to post every day. The problem with that is human nature. The days that I actually go to my day job, I wake up at 4:45 am, grab everyt...
What to do with my feed?
I don't know about Feedburner sometimes. It seems everyone uses the service. I like using it. But I am not sure if my subscriber count could have possibly ju...
Rihanna for Smile Jamaica-Africa Unite
I need to get out of this icy Midwestern weather. Perfect time to go to Jamaica, except for the whole money situation. And that is changing. Maybe next year....
Getting Unstuck
I have said many times before that I don't get writer's block. No, I just have days where anything I type turns magically into crap right before my eyes and ...
How My Blog Got Hacked
About a week ago, Digital Products Review, a blog where I am slowly breaking down how I make money through Clickbank, got hacked by someone from Georgia. Not...
Google Says They're Sorry
Search for something on Google and get this page: We're Sorry... ... but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware app...
Get More Visitors to Your Blog
I recently wrote a post about the different types of links you can get to your blog and what they mean to your traffic. One was a more active way through soc...
How to keep Refresh, Georgian Hacker from hacking you?
Solved! Short post. Just got one of my blogs hacked. Only one blog and I only lost one post since I do backups. Some people. But only at the blog level becau...
Comment Nazis
I put a contact form on this blog just so that anyone who wanted to contact me. Well, someone did this week. I will not mention any names. But someone conta...
Filemaker Server 9 Crashing Issues
I wanted to get this post in, because there is not much information on this subject around the net, but I also wanted to stay with the theme of the blog. Fol...
The Real Free Credit Report
Shortly after the holiday season, my mind turns to taxes and this year, to the fact that I got trapped in an ARM that increases my mortgage payment two month...
Traffic Update #4
I hope that I will be getting to some of the John Chow type income updates soon, but last month I made about $50 from this blog or about 1% of my affiliate i...
New Year's Resolutions
I figured I would rob a few from other blogs, considering I just made a resolution to be more active in the blogosphere a few months ago. I do have a few of ...
2007
Looking at Links Again
One thing blogging has done for me is force me to put into words vague ideas that have been floating around in my head for a while. I may not have the clout ...
What Kind of Links Do I Need to My Site?
There is more than one way to get traffic to your blog. I see a lot of emphasis placed on what I consider dynamic links. This is traffic from commenting on b...
Creating Your Own Blogging Schedule
In the last three months or so, I have kept a pretty good schedule of blogging. It involves getting up an hour and fifteen minutes earlier each day, getting ...
Christmas Link Love
First I want to preface this post with the fact that I wrote it Dec. 23. I'm not quite the workaholic everyone think's I am. I do try to take days off. I hav...
Tricking Yourself into Getting Things Done
It seems like getting ahead involves constantly looking back at how you react in certain situations and figuring out your way around yourself the next time. ...
Another Reason to Hate Mac's
Think Secret - Apple, Think Secret settle lawsuit Because Apple likes throwing there weight around and beating up the little guy. I am a little late posting ...
More Bamboo Fun
I swear that one of these days I will have something useful to do with this Wacom Bamboo Fun tablet, but for now it's like having a million colored pencils i...
Snow Day
Yesterday was a snow day for me. I spent most of Saturday evening on the laptop watching the snow fall outside. It wasn't done when I went to bed. The kids h...
Burning Down the House
I see so many people that don't think or don't even care to. When they search for a way to make money online, they want a system. Do they care how the system...
How to Promote Your Wordpress Theme
Talk about an increase in traffic and I didn't have to bribe someone to digg or stumble one of my posts. I was getting really antsy to be finished with this ...
Bamboo Fun
I got an early Christmas present today. It's a Wacom tablet. I was looking at one a year ago, but got a new cell phone instead. I have to say that I can't wa...
Multiple Widgets Wordpress Theme
I figured I would host all of my Wordpress experiments on another blog, Renovating Wordpress. I am going to be doing a lot with Wordpress in the next few mon...
A Writing Reading List
I don't know if it's me, but a lot of bloggers out there seem to assume that writing is just sitting at your computer and typing. Get your ideas in order and...
How to Create a Blogging Network
The other day I ran into a post over at DoshDosh about the Flagship Blog Project. It's quite a schedule. A new blog every 30 days. Ever since then I have bee...
Traffic Update
This was suppossed to be a traffic update. But I woke up sick today and I don't really feel like getting to all the details. I barely ever get sick and today...
Keeping a Notebook
And I don't mean keeping a laptop. I meaning having a place to write things down to get them out of your mind. I have written in a notebook for almost twenty...
Multidimensional Posts
Every now and then in the blogosphere you run into a post that lists types of posts you can make on your blog. This is a great help if you are stuck. There i...
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Maybe I don't have a good bookkeeping system or maybe affiliate marketing has too many ups and downs to calculate an average or maybe I am just a straight id...
Why Facebook Sucks
I have finally made it to this point with Facebook. Nope, no convincing me otherwise. I get enough spam in my email to waste my time. And it's like I wiretap...
How to Add Images to Your Blog
I don't know if images help or detract from the content. I think I like them and have been adding them to most posts lately. I have also been bugging a lot o...
My BlogRush Stats
In my head, I am always speaking out of my ass. This time it spilled onto the page. I think Blogrush is a waste of screen real estate, but it remains on my b...
Social Synergy
I am not a very social guy in real life. Regular readers can tell this through some of my posts. I don't like malls. I choose the booth at restaurants becaus...
Building Steam
Sometimes you have to put one foot in front of the other. That's it. Just focus on that and things will happen. Choose only the amount of daily projects you ...
Zen to Done - Finished
I like the concept of big rocks. I have a lot of project lists, but very limited time to do them. But cutting the active projects down to two or three, every...
Mac is a PC with Training Wheels
I refuse to watch any movies this guy is in. Don't know his name other than being the Mac guy. But Mac guy, you can take your overpriced Leopard machine and ...
I Don't See the Difference Between Design and Purpose
I see everything as connected. I don't see different fields and I don't believe in specialization. Specialization is for employees. If you want to be a emplo...
Leave Me the F*** Alone
You have to learn this phrase. Some people won't hear kindness. Some people won't let you do your own thing. Some people don't know if they would just give y...
Finding a Direction
This blog has basically a mess of categories. The categories explain what is in them, but they tend to be all over the map. This is because this blog has rea...
Hope for the High School Dropouts
I think it is assumed that most pro bloggers quit a cush corporate job to become a blogger. Or they owned a business and then began blogging. Or that bloggin...
Money Lubricates the Mind
I thought of this post while taking a shower. Then I thought I wouldn't post it. It goes totally against the background I come from as a child. "Money i...
Pen to the Paper
This post was written last night in a three ring notebook with a gel pen. My favorite was once a fountain pen because they write faster. And I may be going b...
Zen to Done - Half Way Through
David Allen is a control freak. Sorry to say that, but the twists and turns of his system had me slacking. There was just too much. I don't have room for a t...
Zen to Done - GTD as modified by Leo Babauta
I am a GTD covert. I thought it was a new thing until I read the book. But it doesn't quite fit everyone's tastes. For one, I have no one to delegate to curr...
Lazy Day Blogging
Every now and then I need an easy day. I don't want to write the 1000 word essay, teacher. I don't want to check all of my sources to insure correctness. Not...
Tweenage Girls are Nuts, But Their Parents...
Even though it seems like I don't, I do take some nights off. Last night Ashley Tisdale came to Independence Center. I am not sure why she came there. There ...
The PageRank Crisis and Jedi Mind Control
The title's a joke. My rank is falling. My rank is falling. If I hear that one more freaking time... Pagerank is nothing. Just a indicator. And I wonder if a...
Quick Zanox Overview
I never heard of Zanox until they released to the press that they had changed their website to add more information to help beginners on their way with affil...
Creating a Feed Reading Matrix
How you view your feeds depends on what you want them to do for you. I have used so many feed readers that did not agree with me. The first one I stuck with ...
Lists and Lists of Free Software
One thing I learned about people who use the internet. Everyone has their own threshold when it comes to how long they will spend beating their head against ...
Bookmarking Your Own Posts
I have been slowly working my through the free ebooks I have found lately. Right now I am in the middle of Authority Black Book by Jack Humphrey. It is a res...
Black Hat SEO and Game Theory
I have done a few things in the past to make sites rank that would definitely qualify as being on the black hat side of things. I am done with that now. It's...
Optimizing for Hits You Already Get Part 2
Yesterday I said it is much more worthwhile to optimize your web site for the key phrases that show up in your statistics software. Today we will go over som...
Optimizing for Hits You Already Get
SEO this and SEO that. SEO's have a bad name, just like lawyers. But when you're the one that needs one, all the lawyer jokes get dropped and you hire the be...
Setting Up Filemaker for Remote Access for Free
This was a lot easier than I thought. In fact, I was prepared for a hour of messing with the router. I am not a network guy. I play with it until something w...
"Can Do" Blinders
When it comes to developing, modifying designs, or hacking Wordpress plugins, I like to wait until I have a long period of time to do it. That means waiting ...
When the Industry's Behind, Start Running
I kind of fell into the job at AllAboutDoors.com. It happens to be one of those niches that if you do any kind of SEO or SEM, you are kicking everyone's ass....
How to Move Wordpress Quickly
You can take this tutorial with a grain of salt. I have always thought that the "right" way to do things takes a little bit too long. But then agai...
Moving Day
This is going to be a quick post of thing I will be doing this weekend, if possible. I am going to be moving this blog over the weekend. I will still try to ...
The "I've Found It" Post
Some things are still pretty hard to find online, no matter what Google, Yahoo, and Live say about perfecting their search engines. Or maybe it's because eve...
Hot Linked Image Marketing - Ecommerce Optimization Series
The title is sort of a joke. When you have about the only good pictures of an item on the internet, you are bound to be the target of people who want to use ...
Google Sitemap Errors
I hate updating Wordpress, especially minor updates. Sometimes I forget to reactivate some plugins. It wouldn't be so bad if I didn't have some plugins just ...
All Over the Map, Questioning the Niche Issue
How much can you jam into a blog before the amount of topics or subjects you cover has spread you too thin? This is something I have been asking myself latel...
The Traffic is Picking Up Slowly
About a month ago, I decided to cut out the B.S. and start writing every day, except for Sundays. I am not religious. That is just an agreement I have made w...
Google Just Gave Me the John Chow Treatment
Back in June, John Chow announced that he no longer ranked in Google for his own name. Now I am in the same situation, at least temporarily. If I search Goog...
Design by accident.
The alignment of the logo in the header was an accident. Didn't really mean to put it there, but I forgot to adjust the size of the top black bar. My name wa...
Hacking Wordpress Themes
I don't know if you can it being a perfectionist, but i can't really rest until a site I have does everything I want it to do. If it doesn't fit, it just doe...
16 Networks For Free Blog Traffic
I have been collecting these for a while. One site here, another site there. As I click through the items in my feed reader, I not only read the posts, but I...
Old School Marketing Can Help Low Traffic Bloggers
Everyone has an ebook about blogging now. There is so much free information out there that I can't keep up. But how can you, just starting out, get the word ...
Two Customers, One Billing Address - The osCommerce is a Mother Series
This is an issue with osCommerce, one that I have run into two or three times. It is possible for two customers to somehow get the same session id and whiche...
Wordpress Plugin Hunting
I have been looking for a Wordpress plugin that will make the reading of tutorials that span more than one post easier. By default, Wordpress will sort posts...
Uploading Product Data Fast and Getting Your Vendors to Help - Part 2 Ecommerce SEO
I can take a long time to manually enter the data for thousands of products into a site like OsCommerce. We have over 5000 products listed online. Close to 2...
Total Google Searches: 6181
I actually looked through my Google web history this morning. I finally started logging into Google before searching a little while ago. Before I was paranoi...
Building a Good Category Structure - Part 1 of the Ecommerce Seach Engine Optimization Series
Up to the point that I became the in-house SEO and developer for http://www.allaboutdoors.com, I had never really dealt with a large scale ecommerce site. I ...
What's Holding Me Back From Blogging
What has been holding me back from blogging? Time and the wasting of it. I have yet to quit my day job and do this full time, I have two kids, and I am the o...
Ebooks, Ebooks, Stupid Ebooks
I have to admit that I got stuck in the Clickbank trap. Buying the next latest and greatest ebook on how to make thousands daily while I slept. And most turn...
Fixing Wordpress Feed Error Issues
I was adding Feedburner to my site today. I had use it once, switched templates and put off editing the template. Then I realized my feed had an error in it....
The Ultimate Custom Search Engine
I don't know if it would be for everyone, but for me yes. I have basically stopped bookmarking, because I end up with thousands and never find what I was loo...
The Correct 301 Redirect to a New Domain
I have found a few different example on the web. The first one I used added a big, long, unnecessary query string to the url. The following one works ...
Deactivate Wordpress Plugins through PhpMyAdmin
I recently moved a Wordpress blog to a new domain. A domain that had access to the old database. So I figured, why not just move it. Wrong. My admin page tur...
Google Adwords Campaign Optimizer
Just found this today in my Adwords account. Does it work? Yes. But you have to check everything out first. Of course, they optimize your keywords up to numb...
Toolbarqueries.google.com Incorrect Security Certificate.
Every once in a while, ever since the last Firefox update, I have been getting a security certificate mismatch error from Firefox. Not sure if this is an iss...
Developing in the Trenches
This is the usual trend in my blog. These periods where I don't post are when I am heavy into developing either sites or software and now that my day job alm...
Converting the Clickbank Marketplace xml to csv
Using the following xsl stylesheet and software like xmlpad, you can convert the Clickbank Marketplace xml into a tab delimited file. I choose tab delimited ...
Why use Filemaker 8.5?
I am the kind of guy who likes everything organized and in one place. My original plan was to use mysql and a locally running installation of Drupal to track...
Importing ShareASale Datafeeds into Drupal Part 2
Okay, there is an issue using Node Import to import ShareASale datafeeds.
Santa Fe Office Interiors - Running on Drupal
I am not saying it’s the best site that I have built and the css and layout still needs a little work, but it works great for now and it took very little tim...
Lending Club
Lending Club
Importing ShareASale Datafeeds into Drupal Part 1
I finally cracked this code. Well, almost. I still have to create a template for the new nodes. I still have to clean up the taxonomy a little. Hopefully, I ...
Mahalo
Mahalo Publishers Guide - Mahalo
Ebay affiliates can no longer use paid advertising
I guess Ebay got tired of their affiliates trying to get a jump on new Ebay niches like Dead Steve Irwin. Just trying to step on a few innovative spammers to...
How to Get Pro Drupal Development from Apress for less than $12
I am talking about the ebook and not the print book, but if you’re attached you to your computer like me, than an ebook is worth more than a print book and s...
Facebook opens its pages
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Organizing for Freelancing
For three years I have played with this little internet marketing business on the side. For two years it has surpassed and continues to surpass my pay at my ...
Yoono vs StumbleUpon
For the person who wants to wander aimlessly through a bunch of sites generally related to his interests, StumbleUpon is great. Pick you topic and start Stum...
Installing PHP on Vista
I actually found the answer to this problem pretty quickly. The php installation software did not work for some reason on Windows Vista. The only thing I saw...
Installing Apache on Vista
This really sucked. No one gives the complete information anywhere, so I thought I would explain step by step what I went through to install Apache 2.2 on Ce...
Fading Out Nofollows?
Fading Out Nofollows?
ROI in Adwords
I had slacked off on using Adwords lately until this week. I got tired of it. It seemed so much of a hassle coming up with keywords. Not so much that but bef...
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DMOZ Is Accepting Submissions Again
DMOZ Is Accepting Submissions Again
Things My Neighborhood Psychic Didn't Tell Me About Search
Things My Neighborhood Psychic Didn’t Tell Me About Search – SEO by the SEA Google buys Text Link Brokers and hunts and devalues paid links at once(now this ...
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Improving Adwords Landing Page Quality
Google AdWords Case Study - Improving Landing Page Quality » eWhisper.net
Blogging Post Shooting Star
This whole keeping up with things on the internet can get addictive. Getting to a Digg story and being number 1351 to digg it is kind of deflating, but havin...
I'm Back
The existence of only one post on my blog is a result of Hostica.com's policy of shutting down accounts with the word of one email. Hostica is the worst host...