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 over my home’s AT&T’s DSL line. The connection was less than decent […]
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, searching for my last name revealed my good old domain name […]
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 words are gathered from the top 10 posts. […]
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 below. Click on an orange marker to see the pop-up info of the […]
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 believe I have good taste. Sometimes I believe what […]
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