‘Tis the sixth anniversary of Talk Like a Pirate Day on my blog. Thanks to my matey Dougal “BlueBeard” Campbell for the right proper plugin o’ th day.
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I got a couple of reports that my WordPress Theme Browser was not working. I checked it out, and sure enough – not working. This was a bit of a surprise as that code hadn’t changed in years. Turns out, it was the browsers that had changed. I had moved the theme browser from my…
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I’m not finding as much time to experiment with things on this site as much as I’d like, but I did switch over from Google AdSense to Rubicon to try them out (on Micah‘s recommendation). I turned off things I thought would be too annoying: Audio Ads, False Message Ads, Shaky/Flashing Ads and Windows Dialog…
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I’ve moved this site to our new SVN server, let me know if anything broke in the process.
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Welcome to my third annual year in review post. January – I begin offering premium support and TechStars is announced. I start helping RedMonk in their site update efforts, PHP Tag Engine reaches 1.0, I release a variety of WordPress plugin updates and we upgrade the Use Tasks service. February – I get to release…
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There are a number of sites that are harvesting the RSS feed of the comments on this site for SPLOGS. I know this because they send pingbacks when they post the content on their sites. This has been getting worse for me over the last few months – anyone else seeing it? It’s annoying to…
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I’ve turned off the Kontera in-text ads that had been shown to people on their first page load if they came in from a search engine. Frankly, I’d forgotten I still had them on since I hardly ever saw them, and the income wasn’t enough to offset the bad impression they made on many visitors.…
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I’m in Hawaii for the next week, and am going to do my best to not work or be online too much while I’m here. Posting here and e-mail response time will definitely be impacted. Aloha. 😎
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‘Tis the fifth anniversary of Talk Like a Pirate Day on me blog. Yo-ho-ho!
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I’ve recently gotten several e-mails asking how I created my friendly search URLs here on alexking.org (also used on the Crowd Favorite web site, etc.); I figured others might be interested in this as well. It’s really rather simple, there are just a couple of places to make changes. Note: you must be using nice…
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I was approached by TradePub a little while back to see if I wanted to be one of their “free magazine” affiliates. From what I gather, it’s basically the exchange of marketing information about you for free magazines – some of which are pretty useful reads. I imagine this will be an attractive offer to…
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This web site (along with crowdfavorite.net, etc. everything except crowdfavorite.net which will be transitioned next week) will be moving to a new (faster) server this afternoon. Apologies in advance for any downtime. If you use OpenDNS, you probably won’t notice a thing. I’ll update this post when the migration is complete. UPDATE: This is the…
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I moved to a new SVN server yesterday so I’ll be bouncing my web sites a bit today as I get them all set on SVN checkouts from the new server. If one of my sites isn’t available, please check back in a few minutes. Apologies in advance for any inconvenience. UPDATE 4:25pm MDT: alexking.org…
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Twitter has had an interesting effect on my blogging over the last few months: Things that used to turn into short blog posts are often being distilled down to a couple sentences and sent to Twitter instead. Of course, this results in fewer blog posts and more Twitter updates. The posts that do find their…
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Note: This is the eleventh (and last) in a series of articles about the building of alexking.org 2.0. When I first launched alexking.org back in 2002, I didn’t plan to make any money from it or do any advertising on it. I remember friends telling me I should put up ads when I was slashdotted…