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Off to the BigSeminar in Georgia
Michael | October 3, 2007
Tomorrow’s going to be a long day of travelling.
I’m heading to
Unfortunately I’ve gone and let my passport expire. I haven’t been out of the country much in the past couple of years (3 babies in 3 years will do that to you!) and hadn’t realized that I needed to renew my passport. And of course, as the US is in a ‘heightened state of security’ I can’t fly in without a passport anymore; which means we need to DRIVE into Buffalo and catch a flight to Atlanta from there… ridiculous!
I hate that it’s more difficult to get across the border now-a-days, and before any of my American friends and readers get their knickers in a bunch, I DO understand it, but I still hate it for a number of reasons.
While we may have our little cultural differences, Canadians and Americans really are just two sides of the same coin and I for one am fiercely proud of the fact that our nations have the world’s longest undefended border. And it’s been that way for a long, long time. Anything that impedes on that is ultimately unfortunate.
Anyway, I’m tired and getting off topic here a little.
This started as a post about the BigSeminar :)
So I leave the house tomorrow around 7:30 am, and should get to the hotel in Atlanta somewhere around 5:30 pm. Long day of travelling!
But, good times will be had by all. I’m looking forward to talking to our merchants, and some of the presenters.
If you happen to be going, make sure you look for the 1ShoppingCart team!
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Michael | October 2, 2007
I just finished watching the Jim Carey movie 23.
As the movie ended and I hit the power button on the remote, I glanced up at the digital clock above the TV…
It read 1:13, which my influenced mind read as 23. eerie.
hmm… now that I think a little bit more about it…
www.michaelvaliant.com/ = 23 characters!
Todays date is 2/10/07 (10-7=3!)
I’m 32 this year! (23 backwards)
I live at the 53 house on my street (5 upside down is 2!)
I’m leaving in 2 days for a 3 day seminar in Atlanta!
I have 2 kids, but will have 3 by the end of the year!
I’ve been trying to write this now for almost 23 minutes!!
And this message will self-destruct in exactly 23 seconds!!!!
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Argh… I need help! I broke the mainline!
Michael | October 1, 2007
I’m in a bit of trouble 
Something I’ve done to this template has screwed up my page navigation… This is Michael being frustrated (with myself of course!)
Problem: if you scroll down to the bottom of my homepage you will see navigation options to navigate through older pages of posts. Unfortunately if you click through any of them you are taken to a copy of my homepage.
In other words, it looks like all of my paginated index pages are drawing from my most recent posts.
And I can’t figure out how to fix it.
Solution: ? This is a call for help / suggestions / sympathy (just kidding!) … if you have any idea what I may have done, or how I may fix it, please email me at:
mvaliant at gmail .com or leave a comment…
Thank you!
(and yes, I’m using a plugin to modify how my pagination appears, but this issue predates that plugin!)
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Notice something funny here?
Michael | September 18, 2007
I’m currently in the process of moving out of my previous home at TheMarketersReport.com (TMR) in favour of MichaelValiant.com.
This is a fairly labour intensive job and will likely take me a couple of days to complete.
I’m copying all the posts from TMR and reposting them here at MichaelValiant.com. Then 301′ing to the new posts to help my search engine love.
I’m also doing most of this by hand… one post at a time.
My only saving grace is the fact that I have only been using the current incarnation of TMR for about 40 days and there are only about 130 posts, half of which I will leave for fallow (I’m only bringing the good stuff… at least the ‘better’ stuff).
Besides feeling a little pretentious about hiding behind my own name now, I think I will be happier in my new digs. I bought TMR years ago for one purpose or another and have been sitting on it ever since. When the Thirty Day Challenge cropped up this year I dusted off TMR for the sake of expediency. Now that I have signed on to moderate the Thirty Day Challenge forum on a more permanent basis, I thought I should make a more permanent home.
So I am going to listen to Chris Brogan’s advice and ‘Be the Brand’ (I don’t know if Chris has actually worded it quite like that…) and I now find myself squarely on… well, myself at www.MichaelValiant.com. Ironically (in a completely sideways direction of the conversation), Chris is having some duplicate domain issues of his own right now.
Well, I’ve got to get back to moving some posts over, creating 301 redirects, moving more posts over… creating more 301 redirects.
I just wanted to touch base with everyone and try to explain the short term madness!
Cheers!
(image source: ejdmoo)
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