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Secrets to Successful Blogging

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This blog title should up my visitor count substantially. Everyone, especially those who are blogging for profit, want ideas on how to increase traffic on their blogs, and even though I don’t have any designs on earning a living from my blog, it would be nice to [...]

Thought For the Day (via postie)

Fully Alive

[My wife] said, “You know, when our marriage is at its best, you can listen and laugh and be spontaneous. You haven’t been doing that for a while. I love that guy and I miss that guy.”

I knew what she was talking about. [...]

Disaster Averted

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After many minutes where I couldn’t get my breath, my heart was pounding, and sweat rolled down my forehead, I was able to avert disaster. I did something really stupid and accidentally deleted the database for WordPress. Thankfully, I had a backup, and after several minutes on the [...]

WordPress and Composing Posts

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A little over a year ago, I moved my blog off of Blogger and onto a hosted account using WordPress. I have to honestly say that I really haven’t looked back since then. There are several advantages for me personally, not the least of which was getting [...]

Not A Good Choice

Recently, I introduced IntenseDebate as a comment engine into my blog. It’s turned out that I made a poor choice for my purposes. The one feature that I was most excited about was having threaded comments, which makes it much easier to conduct a virtual conversation. What I didn’t realize when I installed [...]