My First “Notice of Libel” Yippee!
April 16, 2008
Johnny Cash says it best.
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Forget Security… start blogging!
April 11, 2008
To all would be Information Technology specialist, geeks, and security professionals! Do not put all your eggs in one basket. The corporate world isn’t all that great. Do you really want to be a corporatized zombie in a cubicle farm? Do you want be a work junkie strung out on caffeine with coffee ivy jammed directly into your left ventricle? These are not rhetorical questions. Verily, I say unto you from the front lines of corporate and government mind fields, financial stability is no more unless you have multiple streams of passive income.
I too once dreamed of corporate back rubs, company cars, company Visas. But I’m telling you that on the bottom end of the corporate and government ladder, Robin Leech is not going to wish you Champaign dreams and Strawberry wishes. Robin Leech is going to make you fix his bloody computer and hook up his filthy 802.11g wireless. Robin Leech is going to piss on you like Robert Kelly did to that teenage girl… and you know what the sad part about that is.. you are going to learn to love that golden shower.
Listen. Seriously. All joking aside. I am not an ingrate. I appreciate my employment. I enjoy technology, security and even some of my trips to Hawaii :). I get paid more money than anyone in my family (which isn’t saying much) but one thing I’ve come to realize is that TIME is infinitely more valuable than money (especially the US dollar circa 2008). I figure the only way to get more time is to become completely self employed. Which is something I’d like to do via blogging, one of my favorite pass times (aside from pr0nagraphy). This blog actually makes me a few hundred dollars every month. The crazy things is that Steve Pavilina and Darren Rowse make more in one month from their blogs than many people make in one year. That is what I want to do. And if you are smart (and I KNOW you are) you do too. Start blogging yesterday. Talk about anything to start then turn it into a cash machine as you learn from the Jedi Knights of blogging.
Blog you will, hmm. — Master Yoda
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Drupal 5.1 is pretty bad ass
July 9, 2007
I’ve loaded up Drupal 5.1 on one of my blogs and I am very impressed. I’ve always like drupal for is swiss army knife of content management systems. It is superior to most content management systems by it is FREE!
I’ve messed around with Expression Engine and Joomla and Drupal wins over both of them. Joomla is pretty and Expression Engine is gorgeous in design and implemenation making it easier for web designers, but Drupal has been around longer and has all kinds of cool tools.
One thing that is rather consistently sucky about all CMS’s is that it is difficult to get your content off of them and on to WordPress or Typepad. Content transfer is very important to me, because I like to try different things. I’ve lost content on Drupal because I simply could get the stuff out of their without a whole lot of copy and paste.
Drupal 5.1 is much easier to implement than some of the older versions of Drupal. The designs are also much better. Drupal has the open source, linuxy, mysql, do it yourself feel that I really like, however there is the a “cost to be the boss”. The geek factor required on Drupal is something many people don’t want to deal with. An I must admit there are times when I just want to post a blog, not figure out why I’m getting some sql error cause by some new tool I just added.
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Troubles with video
June 17, 2007
I’ve had trouble with getting video on my blog until now. If you’re having problems check out Jack Humphrey’s video about the subject.
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Over 15,000 Comments
May 23, 2007
I’m getting thousands of comment spam. Way to many to sort through. Its too bad to because comments used to be one of my favorite things about blogs.
I’ll have to mass delete them. Before I was using Akismet. It was working pretty good against spam until my SQL comment table got corrupt. I had to go into the MySQL database and clear out all the data. Since I didn’t back up, it delete all my old comments.
I guess I’ll have to turn Akismet back on again.
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Hacking Blogger Beta: Building a Three Column Template, Removing the Navbar
January 23, 2007
Looking for a three column Blogger Beta template? Looking to remove the Blogger Navbar? Looking to add a picture to your header? Then look no further! This article explains step by step how to do it all. Includes download links to ready-made templates.
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Why Subdomain Hosting is Bad
July 20, 2006
“A quick look at why offering non-reseller subdomain hosting is a bad idea and can expose your passwords to malicious hostees.”
I’m glad I stubbled across this. I was going to host on Wordpress Mu, but now I think I’ll stick with Blogware until I can lock down WPMU. Wordpress is a superior product (more intuitive, better SEO design ect) But WPMU is just too new. I don’t feel comfortable having a buch of customers on such a shake, new system. I will likely host my own set of blogs on it until all the major bugs are worked out.
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Scoble Does Parody of A-List Bloggers
May 21, 2006
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Chris Pirillo, Adam Curry, himself, Dan Winer, Ray Ozzie, Anil Dash, Ray Ozzie, Anil Dash, Dave Barry, Andrew Sullivan, Glenn Reynolds, Lawrence Lessing, Jeff Jarvis, Clay Shirky, Cory Doctorow, Doc Searls, Dan Gillmor, Howard Rheingold, Joi Ito, Chris Locke, Esther Dyson…
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What are Social Bookmarks?
March 29, 2006
A social bookmark is a link created by a web user that is categorized and viewed by the public. If you have ever had bookmarks at work and moved to a new job and wanted access to your old links then you will immediately understand the signifigance of the social bookmarks. They offer a way in which users can access their bookmarks from anywhere in the world with an Internet connection and a way for users to have control over the classification of those bookmarks.
Social bookmark buttons on a blog are especially powerful. These are buttons on a blog and/or website that allow readers to submit articles they like to Digg, Del.icio.us, Reddit and other socially moderated bookmarking/news/feed sites at the click of a button. Readers will also be able to add articles to feed readers such as Google Reader, My Yahoo! and Bloglines. This is a great way to advertise as each link from another site (known as a back link) will give more ranking on search engines. It also allows for something known as social marketing optization.
3spots at Blogspot has one of the most comprehensive posts on social bookmarking and code for blogger, wordpress and Typepad/MoveableType!
Reference:
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7001.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking
Nature Publishing Groups. Social Bookmarking Tools (I).
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Why Social Bookmarking and Service Links: Social Market Optimization
March 28, 2006
Why Service Links?
Service links are the little buttons you see on blogs that allow the user to submit your article to your online bookmarking account. 
Consider Social Marketing Optimization (SMO)The best thing about these service links is social marketing optimization. Social marketing optimization is where you allow your readers some control of the ranking, content or look of your site. Service Links allows your readers to show their approval of your content by bookmarking it or saving it in their own accounts across the web. These accounts, such as Del.icio.us, actually publish all user content to the web for all to see. The reader also chooses the labels associated with your content and exposes that same content to like minded readers who may have been previously unaware of your presence. SMO is allowing your readers to syndicate your content, that is what service link do. This is the current direction of the World Wide Web (Pakii/SMO).
For more information on Social Marketing Optimization check out Mr. T.L. Pakii's site on the subject: Blogging for Fun and Profit/SMO!
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