February 20th 2007 Posted at Musings
Comments Off on Anna Nichole Smith 
A ton of people are blogging about poor Anna Nichole Smith and the MSM is reporting about it. One of the things that has irritated me about much of the commentary is how Anna Nichole married Texas oil billionaire J.Howard Marshall – here’s the Wikipedia entry
February 19th 2007 Posted at Copywriting
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One of the consistently offered services on various webmaster boards (Digitalpoint and V7N) are for content creation. Everyone wants a site with rich content but doesn’t have time/writing skills to actually do it so you might think outsourcing to a country where English is a common taught second language is a good idea. Of course you would be entirely wrong.
February 16th 2007 Posted at Musings
Comments Off on Living in New Mexico
Since moving to New Mexico I really enjoyed the country life. I grew up in Indiana on a small hobby farm (7.5 acres) so I really enjoyed the return to country life. My wife who has always lived in cities in California has really enjoyed the move. There are times of course when we miss the various amenities of city life – like really nice sushi restaurants. Yesterday was one of those times.
February 13th 2007 Posted at Entrepreneurship
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One the key advantages an entrepreneur has over a large corporation is the mistake department. I don’t mean not making them, I mean in making them. Most corporations are structured around the principle of mistake avoidance. But to be frank mistakes are the lifeblood of entrepreneurs because they are typically the hallmark of risk taking. Entrepreneurs are risk takers by nature.
February 12th 2007 Posted at Design, Software
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One of the interesting thing about software design is how the intial assumptions tend to dominate the initial design. A lot of captchas had the initial design of reading letters or numbers that have been distorted or bent out of shape.
February 9th 2007 Posted at Internet, Musings, Projects, SEO
Comments Off on I owe Jeff Barr a BIG apology!
What can I say. I am an idiot. A total fool sometimes. I haven’t talked too much about Best Buys Zone or Best Buys Zone UK lately but they were the sites that gave me the initial idea for Early Miser – compare everywhere at once. Best Buys Zone was a project a built a few years ago with the help of a top notch Russian programmer. It pioneered or rather completely invented the category of shopping by RSS.
February 8th 2007 Posted at Technology
Comments Off on Upgraded MT
I upgraded my version of MT to the latest version 3.34. It went off completely without a problem. I find that amazing consideering the instructions were to simply overwrite most of my previous installations files.
February 8th 2007 Posted at Internet, Technology
Comments Off on Yahoo! Pipes is LIVE!
Pipes which is currently under a Digg effect, strikes me as a really really cool idea. For so long the cool factor of Google has meant that Yahoo has labored under the “big and popular” but not cool.
February 6th 2007 Posted at SEO
Comments Off on Link Building Day
Today I am going to try building a whole pile of links to my various sites. There are a ton of directories out there so let’s see how I do!
February 5th 2007 Posted at Ideas!, Projects
Comments Off on New Project – An Online Business Directory
While it’s a pretty common thing to do an online directory these days, I am trying my first one. My first online directory is using a PHP Link directory, a piece of software designed to build a directory.
