Excerpt: If you are like me, you are one super-duper Windows software engineer running a super-duper powerful duo-core PC running Windows XP Pro 64bit.  If you are like me, you love to post to your blogs with Windows Live Writer. If you are like me you are steaming mad that Microsoft has yet to rel…

Excerpt: My list of ping servers that I use when I do some blog posting. Not sure if they are all in use, so let me know if you run into any inactive ping servers. http://blogsearch.google.com/RPC2 http://rpc.pingomatic.com http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping http://www.bloglines.com/ping http://ping.f…

Excerpt: Last week my friend Garick asked me why he couldn't post to his blog...nothing had changed but every time he would try to post using Windows Live Writer, the server would throw a 500 server error. I told him to take a peek at the program that lets you post, xmlrpc.php in the browers.  He did so…

Excerpt: One thing I like to do after each cool blog post is to run it by Pingoat.com.  But it seems the site is down now, so I'm pretty bummed.   Just like Cinderella once said: "You don't know what you got, till it's gone..." Stupid cheesy 80's metal.  Now you can see why I'm furious.…

Excerpt: I just found a really cool plugin for Windows Live Writer called WebSnapr URL Preview Imager.  This little tool grabs a thumbnail images of a URL of choice.  Pretty nifty and useful.  Download a copy here:…

Excerpt: Since getting a new record deal with Spectra Records this year, Tommy Tutone has been quickly flexing their creative juices to come up with a follow-up hit to their 1982 chart topper, Jenny (867-5309). Trying to keep hip and up to date with the innernet, blogs, emails, computer modems and hard…

Excerpt: I'm sure you've seen the spy programs out there, you know, the ones that say Spy on Your Wife, Spy on You Children.  Spy on anything used on your computer. Well you don't have to actually buy those things if you only want to see what is going on with chat sessions. Now I don't think it is a go…

Excerpt: Well, my last ten posts about moving companies are making an impact in the search engines.  In particular, MSN.  I was hoping to see some indexing from Google, but MSN is a start.  So, for the search term moving back to Chicago, I am currently #5 in MSN.  Take a peek here. I'm s…

Excerpt: Recently I've been juggling a few of my Google Adwords campaigns around.  Just to see some change in performance with CTR and landing pages.  Out of curiosity I wanted to get an idea of how much people are paying for ads related to the moving industry.  I figured there was some kind …

Excerpt: Ok, I must admit I'm not a big follower of sports.  So why should I even post anything about the Superbowl?  Why?  Because I think I have the most unbiased analysis of the Superbowl and you people placing bets on the outcome should listen to me.  Here is how this whole thi…

Excerpt: I've recently installed Community Server over on Emailfriends.com as an experiment in social networking and to extend the user experience to Emailfriends.com.  This platform is pretty cool and is 100% ASP.NET 2.0/C#.  Everyone is used to running social networking apps with PHP/mySQL, so t…

Excerpt: My friend was asking me where to ping when he posts a new blog entry.  I told him to go out back behind the house if he wants. hehe...ok, that was a bad joke.  But anyways here is my list of ping services I use: http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ http://r…

Excerpt: It is no surprise to me that after binging every week during the holidays that I feel like I've gained a few pounds.  I did eat lots and I did gain some weight.  Apparently many others feel the same way too!  But figuring out how I was going to squeeze back into my 32 inch waisted jea…

Excerpt: Recently I've been trying to figure out a way to aggregate eBay auctions for use in one of my real estate websites.  I wanted to do this for two reasons, one being to generate fresh content and the other for trying to inject my Commission Junction affiliate code into the listings.  The so…

Excerpt: I've been generating sitemaps for Google using SoftPlus GSite Crawler and the SiteMap plugin for Wordpress.  I'm torn though...which is the better choice for generating the sitemap for Google?  The Wordpress plugin automatically generates the sitemap after each posting and it does this f…

Excerpt: Ok, I'm lame for writing yet again about Halloween, but heck, I think it is a fun holiday.  I've just posted a few halloween recipes for cookies and things over at my culinary blog.  The key to great halloween recipes and treats is to have goulish sounding names for the treats.  For …

Excerpt: Do you occassionally get those annoying emails to renew your domain names?  I do, about 90 days before they are set to expire...then 60 days...then 30 days...then I freak out and wonder if it is worth keeping the domain name or letting it fall to the expired domain pirhanas to pick up. Well, so…

Excerpt: As promised, here is proof of my super earnings from Adbrite.com.  Keep in mind that this is my first payment since November of 2005.  I figured I'd wait about a year to collect. Move over Adsense, my new true love is Adbrite!  This super payday is for $7.09.  That is alot of tac…

Excerpt: Lately I've been having lots of fun optimzing my wordpress instance to make it super search engine friendly.  My experiments seem to be working.  I've been showing for searches related to halloween costumes and the playstation III.  So anyways, some quick things to do to get WordPres…

Excerpt: Copy Writing,  Article Generation and Killer Sales Pages Professional copy writing is important for conveying the image of your business online. Our professionals know that writing for the web is a science and should be taken seriously. Killer Sales Pages to Pull In Sales and Leads Sales cop…

Excerpt: Do you Know who Dog The Bounty Hunter is? Well if not, you should. But I found a cool and funny spoof video of Dog The Bounty Hunter. When something like Dog The Bounty Hunter hits the Yahoo Buzz Report it really tickles my fancy. In factI wanna sound like the guy from American Idol and say "Dawg …

Excerpt: I've just downloaded to try the Windows Live Writer Editor to write posts from a windows program rather than the wordpress screen. Everything seems to be ok so far, but I don't see anywhere of how to post a page.  There are selections for categories though. One thing I do like is that it lets y…

Excerpt: Don't you just love it when you get an email notification that say "You have comments in need of moderation" but go to check the comments in moderation and they are nothing but spam? The best way to avoid these things is to turn off commenting or to use Askimet. But for all you comment spammer…

Excerpt: Well folks, I thought I really screwed up this time. I've recently decided to do away with the regular ASP.NET super hot and flashy tonyrocks.com website and just focus on the blog. I wanted to migrate pages and links to the blog and then get rid of the blog directory and move the blog into th…

Excerpt: You know, I have to admit, I am a big fan of this guy. Who is Shoemoney? Well if you don't know then you just aint reading enough about blogging and making money in the Internet (or innernet if you are from South Western Pennsylvania) I first started blogging to make tons of cash as depicted on tho…

Excerpt: Why such a post you ask? Why should you backup your Wordpress database (or any database for that matter)? Because if you are like me, sometimes you name your databases names that have nothing to do with your web application. Take my Timeshare blog for instance. Yes, I have it running off…

Excerpt: Well, I can't say that the Adsense videos stink, mainly because I haven't used or seen them yet.  But I hear reports from many people using them and complaining about them. First off, when I think of video ads, for adsense in particular, I immediately think "Oh geez, I hate video playing on …

Excerpt: The best content management system (CMS) in my opinion is Wordpress. Forget your blogger, forget your moveable type, forget it all. I LOVE Wordpress and use it to manage the content of my sites...hence the name, Content Management systems. Ok, I'm getting circular, so I'll jump out of the l…