Posts filed under 'General'
November 18, 2008 at 3:27pm | Category: General | Comments: no comments
I bought my very first domain and hosting plan in the fall of 2001. At that time, I was new to all things hosting. All I knew is that I was done with free servers, I was done with bolt.com and geocities.com, and I wasn't interested in being hosted on ...
November 12, 2008 at 7:41pm | Category: General | Comments: no comments
Many bloggers choose to have one blog that is a catch-all for anything and everything they want to talk about. Others, like myself, have several blogs, with each one being a specific niche type of blog. I'd say my most category-specific blog would have to be In My Bag. This ...
November 12, 2008 at 6:51pm | Category: General | Comments: no comments
Writing for a living definitely has its drawbacks. I used to be very good at blogging daily, sometimes multiple times a day. Then I would get busy with work or family, and slack off a bit. About a year and a half ago I started getting really into blogging again, ...
November 12, 2008 at 6:04pm | Category: General | Comments: no comments
The nice thing about paid blogging is that there is almost always an opportunity to earn some extra money. I do paid blogging through several companies, so starting in September I began figuring out future paychecks and payouts from the various companies I work for. PayU2Blog pays on a bi-weekly ...
November 11, 2008 at 8:41pm | Category: General | Comments: no comments
I was hoping to do NaBloPoMo this month, but unfortunately I missed the very first day of November, and then I missed yesterday. You're probably wondering just what the heck NaBloPoMo is. NaBloPoMo stands for National Blog Posting Month, and it's all about blogging every single day for an entire ...
November 11, 2008 at 8:23pm | Category: General | Comments: no comments
In case you haven't heard, WordPress 2.7 is up for grabs. It's still in the beta stage, which means it works, but there might be bugs. So far, no security bugs seem to have cropped up, but there have been mentions of various visual bugs (mainly with certain browsers, one ...
November 7, 2008 at 12:06am | Category: General | Comments: no comments
Ugh, my back is killing me right now. My back suddenly started hurting really bad low and center around 3pm today, when my mom and I went to Applebee's for a late lunch/early dinner. So I'm sitting here writing about fragrance lamps and trying not to freak out. The back ...
November 4, 2008 at 3:44pm | Category: General | Comments: no comments
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Spam is annoying, and there are certainly a lot of WordPress plugins that can help you catch it, moderate it and delete it. Several useful spam catching & killing plugins include Akismet, Bad Behavior and Sparm Karma 2. I have used ...
October 31, 2008 at 10:44am | Category: General | Comments: no comments
Danielle sent me a text message asking what size of clothing Alyssa wears. Well, she's definitely not wearing baby clothes like she used to! She's now wearing 5T. A girl's 4/5 will also fit her... depending on the article of clothing. In most cases, it's the tops that will fit ...
October 27, 2008 at 2:56pm | Category: General | Comments: no comments
Halloween is this Friday, of course, but we're doing Trick or Treating tonight. In addition to the regular Trick or Treat on Friday, a local shopping center is doing its own candy distribution tonight from 6pm to 8pm. :)
Alyssa's choice of Halloween costume this year is a witch:
For Ryan, candy ...