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Archive | December, 2005

31 December 2005 32 Comments

Had a L’il Mishap

I just made a boo-boo. I was valiantly trying to cleanup my plugins folder in WordPress and issued the deadly:
1-bash-2.05b$ rm del2wp *
What I meant to do was run rm del2wp* but alas, I added a space thus deleting ALL of my plugins and not just all the plugins beginning with del2wp…. Sigh.
I’ll let you [...]

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Reflections on 2005

Happy New Years, everyone. It’s with mixed emotions I look back at the year gone by and, with excited anticipation, I look to the new year.
The past year has probably been the most difficult year I have ever gone through on a personal level. It started out well, as they all seem to. [...]

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31 December 2005 19 Comments

The 73 Lessons of SEO

Web Professor has out together an excellent list of lessons for SEO.
My favorites:
3. Online Marketing is where its at, and that should encompass SEO
11.Just because someone can argue well online doesn’t mean they know jack shit.
19. Just because a search engineer is nice, smart, witty and reasonably honest doesn’t mean he isn’t your adversary.
22. [...]

30 December 2005 2 Comments

Blogebrity

This is a cross post from Emerging Earth. EE has had the distinct pleasure of being added to Blogebrity’s C-List and a write-up to boot. Welcome to 2006!
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With a note of pleasant surprise I opened my inbox and saw a trackback in moderation from Blogebrity. Blogebrity, as you may know, is sort [...]

30 December 2005 4 Comments

ExtremeTech – Top Failed Tech Trends for 2005

While everyone is working on predictions for 2006, ExtremeTech has looked back at 2005 and picked the real lemons for the year that had such bright futures at the beginning of the year. Some may still have potential (High Def video on the PC) but some are just real turkeys.
My favorite turkey for 2005? iPod [...]

30 December 2005 13 Comments

What NOT to do when you set out to travel this Holiday

I love browsing the The Drudge Report every morning. That happens to be a ritual of mine every day (among other websites and blogs) and I thought this article a very interesting read.
I haven’t used an airplane since 9/11 and quite frankly with all the security precautions, hassles, and headaches I’ve read and heard about, [...]