David Nick Moves On

May 30, 2006

Those of you who have been around awhile might know about David Nick. David has been a long time guest-blogger here at Technosailor. I discovered David (or maybe he discovered me… I don’t remember) when he was solo-blogging over at Firewolf’s Lair (Can’t find the URL at the moment). He had given that [...]

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Long Holiday Weekends and the Fallout that Ensues

May 30, 2006

It was nice to chill over the weekend. Long holiday weekend. The first of the summer. It’s so nice to be able to relax a little bit. I didn’t blog much over the weekend though. There was other stuff to do.
I always hate coming back to work after those long [...]

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The Torch You Threw

May 29, 2006

Last November, on Veteran’s Day, I republished In Flanders Fields. Today is Memorial Day and we honor our fallen with this poem from Moina Michael who after reading Flanders Fields, wore a red poppy in remembrance for the rest of her life:
We Will Keep the Faith
Oh! You who sleep in Flanders’ fields,
Sleep sweet – [...]

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Can A Web Programmer Make a Living Programming?

May 27, 2006

I’ve been writing code for the past 6 years. In certain areas (PHP, MySQL), I consider myself beyond proficient and more in line with “fluent”. Other areas I have no real experience: Ruby on Rails, .NET, Java.
For most of those 6 years, I’ve freelanced with the thought that if I could jusst generate [...]

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Readers using IE

May 26, 2006

I feel very bad that my latest theme update last month has caused a lot of issues with readers – particularly readers that have had Internet Explorer forced on them by corporate entities who obviously have no sense of security. Many readers have been emailing me (there have been 5 emails in the past [...]

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Jack of All Blogs up for sale!

May 26, 2006

I knew this was coming from talking to Dave Krug, but it appears to be official now. He is selling JOAB at auction over at Sitepoint. The bidding started at $1200 but the Buy it Now is $3600.
So if you want to buy a high traffic blog for a good price, go buy it.

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b5media Blogger Needed

May 26, 2006

Hey folks–
We have an opening at b5media in the Sports channel for a boxing and/or wrestling blogger. The previous blogger did some great things with it but had to bow out to take care of some other opportunities coming his way. The previous blogger did a lot with vidcasting but this is not [...]

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Birthday Blitz Winners

May 24, 2006

As mentioned yesterday, the winners of the birthday blitz contest have been chosen, notified and they have all claimed their prize.
The first place winner is Mike Rundle for his comments about The Blog Herald: Then and Now:
Hey Aaron, very good assessment of things over at BH. I think lately Matt’s been doing an incredibly good [...]

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Winners Chosen

May 23, 2006

The winners of the annual Technosailor Birthday Blitz have been selected. As a reminder, the winner would be chosen from all comments over 50 words long and posted between April 15th and May 19th, The winner is getting a $50 Amazon gift certificate. The second place winner was chosen from among comments over [...]

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Credibility in Blogging

May 22, 2006

I posted a comment today on a blog written by a blogger whom, in my eyes, once was a very credible source. Recently, he has been posting some really absurd stuff that makes me wonder where he was coming from. His blog has become more of a tabloid than anything credible and after [...]

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Air Show

May 21, 2006

It was a great weekend. My wife and I took my 2 year old son to Andrews Air Force base for an air show Joint Forces Open House, a major recruiting effort if we want to be honest. However, it was a blast and I wasn’;t being recruited. Been there, done that.
Here’s a [...]

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