opinion-and-editorial
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I’m finally on the front page in Google.
After almost a year of trying, I finally got on the front page in Google for the term I’ve wanted. Its not #1… yet, but #5 is better than 40+. I think I’ll share more once I get to #1. For the time being, I’m just excited about this. To be honest, I had put…
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WordPress — get_bookmarks VS wp_list_bookmarks
Recently I decided to replace a small piece of content on my about page where I listed all the links to the different profiles I have throughout the internet. Sites like Flickr, Delicious, Twitter, StumbleUpon. I got pretty tired of going into the code of the post and replacing the links whenever they changed or…
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My Favorite Plugins
I had this grandiose scheme on how I was going to show you all the cool plugins and their features and bells and whistles, but then it was taking forever so here is the quick and dirty version of it. My favorite Plugins, Volume I, Episode I. Hope you find it useful. No promises on…
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Read between the lines and dont make my mistakes.
Prosper recently had to freeze all new activity on the site due to some Federal regulations. Read more about that here ). Even more recently, yesterday I received a number of e-mails notifying me that some loans had been charged off. I have been waiting for this to happen, and I’m glad I can finally…
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Pictures from our Honeymoon. Italy.
For those of you keeping track, we recently (my Wife and I, along with two of our good friends), went to Italy to celebrate our honeymoon and to enjoy a much needed vacation. I wish I had more time to tell you all about it and I intend to do it over the next few…
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First look at Rockmelt. Stream of consciousness analysis.
I was excited this morning when I opened my inbox and found an invitation to start using RockMelt. A new browser that promises to wrangle your Social Media activity in the browser. In contrast to similar functionality, Hootsuite is a webapp, and to some degree it takes care of your social media activity but its…
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WordPress 3.1, closer to full custom post types in the UI.
WordPress 3.1 is supposed to be out soon, as usual there are many fixes coming out and I think they’re mostly improvements to the UI. One of them is this new thing called Post Formats. I think it is in fact one step closer to providing users with a custom-post-types interface without having to use…
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So how do you collect email addresses for your mailing list?
One of the tasks I’ve been given lately is to build a massive contact list for marketing purposes. It isn’t for me, and the sheer scale of it is a bit daunting, but by process of scanning and OCR, manual data entry and warm calling, I’m supposed to put together a contact database containing upwards…
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Adding a social media icon box anywhere on your Blog.
If you look in my about page, you’ll see a little box of icons representing my presence online. Each icon takes you to the profile for that particular social network. I’ve been asked how to do this before so I’ll show you how I did it. There are several ways to do it of course,…
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Amazing Voice Master. Reed Noble
Check out this guy. His name is Reed Noble and he’s a Voice Master, you can see why… You can find more of Reed Noble’s voice impressions on Youtube… look at that video and there’s more on the right too.