Running a blog
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I figured I would give Google’s new AJAX Language API a try today and I will say I’m pretty happy with the results. It was really easy to setup and so far the results have been pretty good. For a while now I’ve been thinking of adding other languages to my sites and this will […]
Free sofware…without stealing.
I was in the process of writing up a post on the great world of free and open source software when I woke up this morning to read a great post over at Nick Cernis’ blog Put Things Off. He hit the nail on the head so instead of re-writing what he puts so nicley […]
Entrecard.com Review - 10 day update
Ten days ago I wrote a review on entrecard.com and how I didn’t think the site was really worth it and in my tens days of using it my thoughts haven’t changed. As I mentioned earlier I didn’t think the way it was implemented would work and my assumptions have just grown in to facts […]
Blog Basics - Chapter 4: Give birth to your blog; your first post.
Wow, we’ve come a long way in only a short time. We’ve decided we want to start a blog, we decided what software we want to use to create our blog and we’ve decided where we want to host our blog. Once that was all setup we continued by customizing our blog so […]
Blog Basics - Chapter 3: Making your blog YOUR blog, presentation and customization.
So, you know what you’re going to write your blog on, you know what software you’re going to use and you know where you’re going to host it; the next step is setting it up so it’s your blog.
Chapter 3, Section 1 – Presentation, a.k.a Themes.
Every software package is different so I will try to […]
WordPress 2.5 Admin Preview/Review
After reading that WordPress was going to skip an official release of 2.4 and go straight for the 2.5 release in March I figured I would have a look at how it’s coming along. I was looking forward to a new update for my blogs because there are a few things I wanted fixed so […]
Blog Basics - Chapter 2: I’m ready, how do I get started creating my blog?
This post is part of The Vacant Cubicle Blog Basics Series
Great, so I’m assuming you’ve read Chapter 1 on whether you should start a blog and you’ve decided you should. Now for the next step, deciding on how and where you will begin your journey into the blogosphere.
Chapter 2, Section 1: Choosing your blogging […]
Blog Basics - Chapter 1: Should I start a blog?
This post is part of The Vacant Cubicle Blog Basics Series
Well, even though I would love to be able to answer this question for everyone, it’s not a straight forward answer. Blogs, as defined by dictionary.com are: a personal chronological log of thoughts published on a Web page; which is a fancy way of […]
Set your blog free with a Creative Commons license.
I received an email this afternoon asking me if it would be okay if they reproduced my post on the Amazon Simple Storage solution on their site. Well, I didn’t see an immediate problem with this but after asking around on some forums I frequent I found at that if I don’t include some […]
Wordpress Plugin : Before Publishing a Post On Your Blog
I decided to churn out a quick plugin for a great post on problogger.net today. The post titled ‘13 Questions to Ask Before Publishing a Post On Your Blog‘ gives a very accurate, realistic list of things to check over before you publish a post on your blog. Shoot over to read the list […]
