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Grab What's Between Your Legs!

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 - 1:21 PM Comments (3)

Crude title for this post but I think it's necessary.

I subscribe to many different mailing lists because I like to see what people are writing, teaching, promoting, etc. More importantly, I like to see the style in which they do it.

It's a great way to learn about marketing, copywriting, and salesmanship. One of my favorites is Frank Kern, which isn't really a surprise because he's huge in the internet marketing world.

Today I was going through my many, many mailing list emails and ran across an email from Frank about a new blog post ...

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Brand Spankin' New Design

Posted on Jun 25, 2010 - 5:14 PM Comments (0)

A few weeks ago I went looking around Theme Forest for a new design to use on this website. A lot of people get confused and think that because I am a great web developer — *cough* — that I'm also a great web designer. Well web designer I'm not, and yes, there is a huge difference between the two. When I need a new web design I do it the old fashioned way, I buy it. Either buy a new theme or hire a designer to create something unique for me.

So there are still a few kinks to ...

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The White House: A New Blog To Add To Your RSS Reader

Posted on Jan 20, 2009 - 11:33 AM Comments (0)

Today at 12PM EST, our new president Barack Obama was sworn into office. Truly an amazing day.

President Obama has long been a champion of social media and internet technology (or just technology in general) and now the WhiteHouse website has a new feature... A blog!

There are already 5 entries in the blog (obviously prepared in advance) but that is a good start!

Be interesting to see how often this is updated and how transparent this administration will be. The promise of real transparency has been made along the campaign and so far it sure seems like that will ...

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Geek or Marketer or What The ...

Posted on Aug 13, 2008 - 9:57 PM Comments (1)

I've been wondering lately if I am alienating myself from my readers by covering many different topics on this blog. My posts range from software development to money management to internet marketing. It's hard to build up a dedicated readership when my topics don't seem to stay on any certain topic ;)

So should I stick to a single topic? I don't think so. This is a personal blog and it should reflect the things that interest me or the events going on in my life right now. That is why I will write an article on ...

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How Much Do You Hate Comment Spam?

Posted on Mar 3, 2008 - 10:33 PM Comments (0)

I am so tired of dealing with comment spammers. Even though I use custom software that I wrote to run this blog, I still use the Akismet comment spam detector run by the boys & girls at Wordpress. The Akismet system is an awesome tool and catches a ton of spam for me but a good amount still gets through.

I began logging every time my software found a spam message around 6 months ago. After 2 weeks I had caught nearly 12,000 spam messages. I would sit and watch my logs just fly with spammers using custom software to ...

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Fortune & Fame ... Becoming A Rock Star

Posted on Feb 26, 2008 - 10:35 PM Comments (0)

Ever wanted to be a rock star? I think we all have at one point. I mean, what's not to love about it. They rock on stage, party all night and have their pick of the hottest ladies at the show. Sure that all seemed great when we were younger but what about becoming a modern day rock star?

What is a modern day rock star?

Good question. That could probably be defined as any one who truly stands out in their industry. For instance, Michael Arrington could be considered a rock star in the blogging world for the ...

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Getting Rich Quick - Online

Posted on Jan 30, 2008 - 3:23 PM Comments (1)

I stumbled across an article today titled How To Make $1,000,000 By Blogging. It's an awesome read and pretty funny through out the entire piece. It's basic outline is that you use the money you make from your blogging to buy lottery tickets to win $1,000,000+.

The moral of the story is that blogging is not a get rich quick scheme. I've written before about how I plan to make a million bucks this year and in the post I give an outline of my overall plans to achieve this goal. A lot ...

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My Ears Were Burning

Posted on Jan 15, 2008 - 11:43 AM Comments (3)

I woke up this morning at about 3:15 AM when my oldest daughter came into my room complaining about her cough. She hasn't been feeling good so I had her come to sleep with my wife and I. I couldn't fall back asleep.

I laid there thinking about everything going on in my life right now. It's a very busy and exciting time for me. I lay awake for nearly 2 hours, just me and my thoughts. I've had a lot on my mind lately and I didn't realize that I had won a ...

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Django + Flatpages = WTF?

Posted on Aug 19, 2007 - 8:53 AM Comments (0)

OK, the title is a little misleading. I love the flatpages. I recently deployed them on this blog for the about and contact pages and they were working fine. This morning I noticed that they were raising a 404 (Page Not Found) error. That's where my "WTF" in the title comes in. Here is a check list to solve this flatpage issue.

1. Add the middleware and app as directed on the flatpages documentation page.


2. Make sure you have the correct SITE_ID in settings.py and make sure the flatpage is assigned to that site.


3. Check that you have flatpages ...

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Ping Technorati from your Django App

Posted on Jul 14, 2007 - 9:39 AM Comments (4)

There are other articles written about this, but I felt the need to write a better one. Ahem.

Meat and potatoes time.

In your settings.py file, set 2 new variables:

# 'PING' blog indexing sites. 
PING_BLOG_INDEX = True


# List of blog index ping URL's
BLOG_INDEX = ['http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping',
              'http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2',
              'http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2']

PING_BLOG_INDEX is self explanatory. BLOG_INDEX is a list of blog XMLRPC url's that this application is going to use to notify the remote website (blog indexer) that your blog has been updated.

Let's create a new ...

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