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The new and improved ScribeFire

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

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I love Firefox.
I have plenty of other browsers installed, some are good, some less so… but I’ve never found anything to coax me away from Firefox.
Believe or not though, this post isn’t about why I love firefox, but rather it’s addon capabilities.
There [...]

If You MUST Date Wordpress

Friday, February 1st, 2008

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photo by j.reed
Further thoughts on Dates within your blog (original post)
I’m no developer, but fortunately I can read php well enough to munge together what I need most of the time if I have enough examples of what [...]

Building - or is that growing!? - Sprouts

Friday, February 1st, 2008

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I love what the team at sproutbuilder.com has put together. They’ve barely launched and have been struggling with server-load issues but the product is incredible (or remarkable as Seth Godin may say)
Basically, if you know what you’re doing [...]

It’s Official, I’m Dating My Blog…

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

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No, I’m not talking dinner and a movie.
If you look at the title of this post, you will now see a date stamp following my name.
Personally, I like not having the date stamp, but let’s call this an experiment.
And if it’s [...]

Now With More Audio

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

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I just added OdioGo to my blog and would love to hear what you think of the service!
I’ve always gotten a kick out of listening to computer voices try and read things I type in, so on one hand I’m enjoying the service [...]

Dates on a Blog?

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

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Has the need for dates on a blog outlived their necessity?
Are they simply a holdover from the online journal days that don’t really have a place on a modern blog.
Reasons NOT to use dates in a blog:

A date DATES your post. People [...]

The Ultimate WordPress Plugin List

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

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While I’ve always believed in working hard once I’ve set my mind to something, I’ve spent a lot of time over the past year or two trying to teach myself how to work SMARTER as well.
One of the ways I try to [...]

Blogging / SEO tip of the day…

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

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I have a quick Blogging/SEO tip for today:
I finally figured out what went wrong with my template. Thanks for all the suggestions, but it looks like it was my own error in the end (not that I thought it [...]

Argh… I need help! I broke the mainline!

Monday, October 1st, 2007

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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 [...]