Last year, I heard of this little site called Empire Avenue. I think BitRebels brought it up to my attention. And I tried to get all my friends and colleagues to join, I even invited my friends from Twitter. The responses were dismal, “why?” “WTF? I don’t want to buy ‘people'” or “that seems like a…
Last December I quit everything that was great with my career in order to pursue my dreams of running my own business. As some of you know, I’ve been running my own sidebusiness since early 2004.
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…
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,…
Here’s a quick video I put together to show you what Tarpipe does. If a picture is worth 1000 words, a video must be worth millions. This example shows an email being sent out with an image attached to the email. The email produces a new picture posted to Flickr, and the link for the…
I don’t get very many comments around here, so I’m not sure that this is even a valid opinion. A few months ago I decided to change a few things round on my blog so I can play around with different settings and options. One of these changes involved replacing the built-in comment system on…
Reality check Part of your job as a System Administrator or Website administrator is to ensure the work you do is safe from attacks and vulnerabilities. Remember that movie where Michael Moore goes around in Canada trying to open doors because he heard that people there don’t lock their doors? Do you remember what happened?…
There’s always a list of stuff you do before you post to your blog. Whether you realize it or not, there are a number of things that must be done before you hit that Publish button on your next blog post. For example, did you…
I have some interesting sites to share with you, call this a random link-o-rama. Random interesting stuff: Read a great article on management and whether it is good or reasonable or even advisable to expect your employees to put in 60 hour workweeks, just because you (as the owner) do . The article asks: Ask…
If you’re using your own server to run WordPress and you’re using the WP Super Cache plugin to help with performance, you might see this warning at the top of your pages in the WordPress Dashboard: mod_headers – Required to set caching information on supercache pages. IE7 users will see old pages without this module….
I have some interesting sites to share with you from last week. I call this a random link-o-rama, or share-content-fest. [singlepic id=178 w=320 h=240 float=right] Interesting stuff: Read a great article on management and whether it is good or reasonable or even advisable to expect your employees to put in 60 hour workweeks, just because…
If you’re a blogger, and participate on websites with comments you want to know about this. As you strut around the web, leaving your comments here and there and making an impression on people with your oh so clever wit, you should make sure you have configured your avatar. More specifically go on and configure…
