Oct 5, 2007

I have several personal websites on a shared server where indexes are turned on by default in Apache. That is simply annoying, because I hate having stray empty index.html files sitting all over the place. I suppose I could just leave the indexes on but I dislike the idea of

Oct 4, 2007

I have been doing a lot of reading about Alexa rank lately, and I was curious how I might be able to lower my Alexa ranking. While most webmasters would probably agree that the Alexa ranking is not very accurate, it does play a role in how some websites are

Oct 4, 2007

There was a post over on Pronet Advertising earlier in September that has stuck in my head for a little while now. The post was titled Social Media is the New Word-of-Mouth. Perhaps what caught my attention about the post was how narrow minded the post was about word of

Sep 28, 2007

Well I have been checking in one DealDotCom the past few days, and I have to say I have not been impressed with the crap stuff they have been selling. Things seemed really hopeful when on the second day of their doors being opened they had a copy of the

Sep 27, 2007

Since switching to WordPress the spam comments have gone through the roof. Thank goodness for Akismet, otherwise I would be deleting and removing tons of crap from the comments everyday. I never got that amount of spam when this blog was being published on Blogger. I don't know if Blogger

Sep 27, 2007

I don't read Mashable very often, mainly because they post so often it is hard to keep up, but I do check it out occasionally. Earlier in September they had this huge post 5000+ Resources to Do Just About Anything Online. It is one gigantic list of all of their

Sep 26, 2007

I finally got around to replacing the carpet in your little kitchen nook with some new laminate flooring. I took pictures as I went and put them together in this little video. It is 30 secs long so you won't have to site forever to watch it. It is hard

Sep 26, 2007

With the popularity of online video there has been a rise in the need for royalty free music to use in videos. Using music from your favorite band or artists can lead to your video being removed from video sharing sites, such as YouTube, for copywrite infringment. While I have

Sep 25, 2007

Problogger was running a poll last week to see if people preferred full or partial RSS feeds. The results are in with 75% of the respondents liking full feeds better than partial feeds. I personally have to agree with the poll results. I prefer full RSS feeds, especially now that I

Sep 25, 2007

BlogRush came out with a frenzy, and it did not take long to be realized that it is a huge target for spammers and people who want to game the system. From all forms of cheating like hiding the widget on pages, creating custom RSS feeds just to display on