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Upgraded to WordPress 1.5

After performing the upgrade on the QuikSolar blog, I was convinced the upgrade is painless enough to be done on my biggest and most trafficked (yes that’s a word) blog: this one. I’ll be monitoring things to see how comments and search engine ranks go. I’ll be really disappointed if there are any negative repercussions,…Continue Reading…

Added leaderboard to top of topic views

These new ads at GC will apply only to Guests. Not only will it help to monetize traffic from them, it may also push them to register since registered (and logged in) users don’t get the ads. One concern I have is whether Google will continue to show the ads with higher bid prices in…Continue Reading…

Gmail invites

Do you want an invite to Gmail, Google’s free email service? If you do, visit the Gmail forum at Google Community. P.S. If you appreciate this and you have a website, please link back to my site from yours. Thanks! Note: As of March 2, 2006, comments to this post are closed. Post your thoughts…Continue Reading…

Things look different at night

The text on my monitor looks sharper, crisper than ever..

First entry in the AS Journal

Here’s a little something I’ll start doing with my blog. As recommended by an eBook I just purchased, I’ll start keeping an AS journal. Before buying the book, I was already blending text ads into my sites. But it’s been a further motivator and validated some thoughts I’d had. One of these is the supremacy…Continue Reading…

A parent’s primer to computer slang

… according to Microsoft. Key points for learning leetspeek • Numbers are often used as letters. The term “leet” could be written as “1337,” with “1” replacing the letter L, “3” posing as a backwards letter E, and “7” resembling the letter T. “0” (zero) will typically replace the letter “O.” • Characters of similar…Continue Reading…