One of the trade-offs to going with a fully WordPress driven site for content is a little URL awkwardness for image and archive files you want to show/link to on a page. For example, in a “standard” site it is pretty easy to have a page at this location: http://example.com/foo/ and a related file download…
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I’ve gotten a few questions about the new version of this site I’ve mentioned I’m working on, so I figured I’d just blog a response. I’ve been making good progress on it, but it’s been a bit more work than I’d expected. Partly due to my own scope creep. 🙂 The little template system I…
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One of the challenges I’m facing in working on v2 of the alexking.org site is the best way to “stage” the new site. Normally it’s pretty easy. Just build the new site locally and export the database when it’s time to launch the new site. However, since the live site is getting new posts, comments,…
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‘Tis the fourth anniversary of Talk Like a Pirate Day on me blog. Pass the grog and spread th’ word.
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After reading about Are you a big fish? on Mark’s blog I dutifully went over and did my standard ego searches. The results were a little interesting. For example, ‘alexking.org’ is decidedly a little fish – a “Tiny Lil Guppy” to be precise: Certified Backlinks.Site Class:Are you a Big Fish? On the other hand, ‘www.alexking.org’…
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This is interesting. I’ve tried Google and Yahoo’s ad networks – is anyone seeing great returns from other options?
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I’ve got a bunch of MacBook and BlackBerry blog post ideas that I’ve jotted down over the last few weeks, and still no time to write them this week. Blogging about (not) blogging, I’ve sunk to a new low.
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Like lots of folks, I’m finding my content showing up on lots of random “web sites”. Here is a list that showed up in one day of my “ego” search feeds. http://internet-information-server.pixieblog.net/9084/ http://handy-gloves.info/ http://servers.agfteam.com/36888/ http://webhosting-webspace.net/hosting/how-to-become-a-domain-name-registrar/24455/ http://prosnja.net/q-a-on-the-feedlounge-dns-saga/ (see explanation from site owner in the comments) http://millionringtones.com/blogs/bach-nokia-free-ringtones/30187/ http://www.askthewebhost.net/blogs/web-servers/5904 http://computer-techweb.com/computer/dedicated-internet-server/15971/ http://ebay-auction.damnblogs.com/344301/ If I wanted to actually hunt for…
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If you’re seeing this post, you’re on the new server. The old server isn’t around anymore. The CPU fan quit and the CPU fried itself. Luckily, we1 had moved everything over to the new server already and only had to do some final configuration. I guess having the old server die completely is a good…
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This site, along with the King Design and Tasks Pro™ sites, are moving to a new box. In the event there is server weirdness this weekend, this is likely the reason why. 🙂
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I’ll be in Italy for the next two weeks. 😎 The first week will be spent in San Gimignano where we will be attending the wedding of good friends. The second week will be spent in Rome and Florence, doing the tourist thang. This will be my first trip across the pond, so I’ve been…
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Since Scott and I moved our e-mail to FastMail1, this server has perked up considerably. When someone would log into an IMAP account with lots of messages (1000+), the synchronization step was disk heavy and would slow the server to a crawl – taking down web sites at times. This seems to have gone away…
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Over the last few years, I’ve gotten an increasing number of complaints about the default font size on this web site and in my other web based software1. When I upgraded to my 30″ display, I finally realized why. Pixels have been getting smaller and smaller over the years. For comparison: 22″ Cinema Display: 1600…
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I’ve threatened to do it in the past, but yesterday I finally took the plunge and signed up for an “Enhanced” account (for 5 years) at FastMail. Hopefully this is the last time I have to think about e-mail for the next 4 years, 364 days. 😉 We’ve been hosting a fair amount of mail…
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Based on Mark’s recommendation, I’m trying out a new ad service: Text Link Ads1. I signed up yesterday, but don’t see any ads yet – perhaps they haven’t sold my site yet. Anyway, I put the code in the sidebar under the Yahoo! ads on the home page only – we’ll see how they do…