I still haven’t found a perfect solution for WordPress backups (though I will report on Skippy’s plugin in a moment, which is close). But Serendipity has come out with great new backup interface - everything’s completely automatic, if your host allows, and it backs up your HTML files as well as your database. [...]

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Here’s a tip I learned from the brilliant Garvin of Serendipity blog. Have you ever lost your ability to change permissions, edit or delete a particular file on your server? I’ve had it happen on a couple of sites where I was using php software that had the ability to fetch and install [...]

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For years, I’ve been setting realistic goals and plodding along toward them as best I can. Like:
I will build this site.
I will generate X pages by this date.
I will submit it to 250,000 directories.
I will buy it an ad on this other site.
Etc.
The other day, I did some thinking about my life, and [...]

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I was using Google a while ago and all was well. Then I started getting this error message:

The links appear to lead to URL’s at download.com. I’m not an expert on hacking and other violations of security, but I don’t think this isn’t a message from Google. Especially because if I load [...]

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I installed a new template for this site today, which I hope looks a little more professional, and easier to read. This change actually goes with some thinking I did over the weekend.
I’ve decided to branch out from affiliate marketing and ad networking. I’m not exactly sure what I’ll be doing, so there’s [...]

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The article “How AdSense Lowers Site Self-Esteem” by Jason Lee Miller couldn’t have hit me at a better time. My AdSense earnings in November were over pretty decent, but on December 1, then suddenly plummeted. I’ve earned in 11 days what I was earning in one day in November. And I can’t [...]

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My thanks to Garvin at Serendipity, who helped me sort out this blog when my upgrade didn’t work. Still not sure exactly why it didn’t work, but I had some file transfer and permission errors with the host while doing it. Amazing how differently things can work from one host to another, and [...]

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Updated the blog yesterday, and it ate my categories. They’re still there - I just can’t publish entries to them, and you can’t click them. I’m doing my best to figure out the problem, and then I’m never, ever updating this blog software again.

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It’s really hard to say what’s comment spam on a blog, and what’s not. For example, someone leaves an insightful comment that just happens to link to their irrelevant affiliate site. Are they commenting just to get a link from me? Or are they merely participating in a community of affiliate marketers, [...]

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I needed a laugh today, and I got one - while submitting my sites to directories. SEO is so serious and boilersuit, but this site’s got me thinking “why?” Why don’t we have more fun with this crap? Why do we take it seriously, when it’s all really just fun and [...]

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