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Upgraded to WordPress 2.8.4
Usually, upgrading Wordpress is no big deal – click a button in the admin page, and voilà1 – done! However, for some odd reason my hosting company allocated just small amount for my web site and I couldn’t do an auto-upgrade. I h...
Please Comment (But How?)
Every blogger loves to receive comments. I’m no exception. I enjoy connecting with you, my readers, and I value your opinions. However, this is the internet. People are unpredictable, and with the safety behind anonymity, eventually I&#...
Finding the Right Sheep
I just looked at my Twitter followers recently using a tool called Twitter Sheep. I made a startling discovery: I’m becoming a “social media blogger”. Funny thing is, that’s not who I am. Sure, I’m using social media...
My Blogging and Social Media Flowchart
A while ago, I decided to start making a flowchart of my “content production” activities using Microsoft Visio. This includes my blogging, microblogging, and other social media posts. I tried my best to avoid duplications in all areas...
Responsible Blogging
I have a hard time reading some blogs out there. I know blogs are highly biased writing exercises. It can also lack objectivity. I sometimes wonder why people write to spur up controversy. I see them blogging for the wrong reasons. Pastor Ric...
Bricks - A Personality Test
A friend of mine posted this in Facebook. I thought it’s hilarious and strangely accurate. Worthy of a re-post. Put 400 bricks in a closed room. Put your new hires in the room and close the door. Leave them alone and come back after six ho...
Three Years Blogiversary
Lis mentioned the term “blogiversary” to me in a comment last year. It was to mark my 2nd year blogging anniversary. Well, today is the third year, already! Wow, time has certainly fly. This blog has gone through a lot of changes ...
Begin Anew in 2009
It’s 2009 everywhere in the world already. The new year is an opportunity to better myself and the community. It’s a symbolic start for improvement and growth. For me, I have a list on what I have planned for this blog: Change of l...
The End of a Memorable Year
I can’t believe it’s the end of the year already. The memory of taking down the Christmas lights in January 2008 is still fresh in my mind. In a few days, it’s that time again to clean up the lights and start doing New Year̵...
My “Mixtape” from Tumblr
Tumbltape is a way for me to make a convenient playlist of the audio/mp3 files from my Tumblr site. I’ve been looking for something like this for quite some time. It works pretty well, except that it only takes the recent 12 songs and it̵...
Singing in the Rain
There’s been so much rain in California recently, I thought I’ll sing about it. Well… actually, I’ll let the Yahoo’s Emoticarolers do the singing. This article was posted on Rudy Amid's Blog: Singing in the Rain Book...
Ga-Ga over Google!
Without fail, every time Google releases something, the crowd is all over it. I’m certainly a fan. Other than the usual Google search, I use a lot of their applications on a daily basis. Google does produce mostly good stuff, but some are...
IE6 Must Die!
Steve and Lin have reported my site crashed their Internet Explorer 6 browsers. I’ve tested it using a Windows 2000 machine at work, and confirmed it. I’ve been trying to figure out which plugin or sidebar widget does this. I found ...
Coincidence or The Force?
Last week, when I heard about an exclusive “Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Lightsaber Duels” Wii game coming out in November 2008, I was stoked. I saw the game preview video on EW.com, and promptly took a totally random screenshot (because...
Wearing My Domain
I just dug this T-shirt from my closet the other day. Network Solutions gave this away back in the late 90’s to everyone who registered domains through them. As you can see from the faded prints, I’ve worn it down. Lin Burress told me...
Personal Reasons To Blog
I read Matthew Ingram’s post with quotes from Seth Godin about blogging. It’s related to my recent post mentioning my own reasons to blog. I think it’s worth repeating what Seth said: Blogging is free. It doesn’t matter if any...
Honesty and Blogging
When I was young, I was told to always tell the truth. As I grew up, I discovered honesty was not always the best policy. There were circumstances that require “white lies” to get me out of awkward situations, or just to make people h...
A New Hosting Site
I finally did it. I broke down and paid someone to host my web sites. This blog is now officially on HostMonster. I picked the site through partial recommendation from Web Hosting Search. Originally, my site was hosted in my own Linux box ove...
Google 2001
Ever wonder if your site made it in Google back when they first started? Google just put up a nostalgia page featuring their oldest index. It’s a full featured search page, returning the crawled web pages in the year 2001. To my surprise, ...
Fun with Wordle
Wordle is a fun site to generate a randomized cloud formation of words from any text, website, or RSS/Atom feed. The site also lets me create a gallery of images and share it. Here are samples from my blogs. From my RSS feeds, it looks like the...
Google Mapping Lunch Bits
Lee at Epiblogger pointed me to this neat Google Maps Wordpress Plugin. I had trouble getting it to work initially, but after a few tweaks, I figured it out. In this post, I’m featuring my “Lunch Bits” Editions 1-19 on the map belo...
Keep Going and Get It Done
This is video is going around the Internet as an inspiration for those who are doing creative work, such as blogging. In the first 2 minutes and 30 seconds, I gathered the key points that applied to my blogging life: I get into it because I believ...
Follow Up on Twitter Stuff
Twitter’s popularity is on an all time high. I can tell they’re being used more often now by the amount of Twitter tools available out there. Here’s a round up on what I’ve recently used regularly, in addition to what I...
EntreCard: The End of Once a Good Thing.
I was a long time EntreCard user when it began late 2007. It had given my blog a kick start and introduced me to many good people. I stuck with it through the changes, and many ups and downs. I had argued with others, who dropped it earlier, abou...
Twitter’s Down and It Bothers Me
When Twitter goes down, seemingly for no reason, without any warning, it just bothers me! How can its outage irk me to a point to blog about it? Twitter’s a tool that I’ve actually grown to love and use a great deal. It’s definitel...
Web Comedy
I discovered a few funnies on Twitter that I thought I’d share with everyone. This will keep you busy for a while. Twelve People Actually Worth Following On Twitter by @Nick Favrd by @Textism Top Nine Reasons Why Moms Primarily Read Mom Blogs...
Eight Random Facts About Me
Periapex just tagged me with this meme. I’ve done a similar one before with the 7 Weird Facts About Me. I wasn’t going to do this again but Reggy persuaded me to do it, so I’m giving this version a go. It’s actually pretty ...
Pages of My Blog
WordPress has the ability to create a custom page. The tricky part is to figure out what pages to make. I try not to go overboard with my blog because I want to make each page as unique and useful, as possible. Here’s the list of my pages: A...
In The Know Using Twitter
Ok, so now I’m following a bunch of people in Twitter. What’s next? I read in other’s posts like Nowsourcing, Dave Fleet, and SearchEngineLand on how were able to harness the power of Twitter’s “crowd sourcing” ...
Twitter: The Productivity Tools
As Twitter’s usage increased recently (scalability issues notwithstanding), so has the invention of new applications to make the Twitter experience more enjoyable. These are the tools for Twitter that I’ve used, as I discovered them, in ...
