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Automatic Saving and Post Titles  

June 8th, 2008 at 7:00 pm - one response

The importance of a title is everything these days. When writing posts, I sometimes write the body of the post, then the title. Sometimes I don’t know what I want to title it exactly, so I leave it blank. No biggie, right?
Well if you are using the WordPress.com Stats Plugin, there is a slight bug [...]

Word to the Wise  

May 1st, 2008 at 11:22 am - no responses yet

I just logged in here not too long ago, and saw that I had new spam comments. Usually I just hit delete all, and go on my way. But I decided to take a quick look to see what lovely things I got spammed with. I saw that the name was the same as mine [...]

Jakob Nielsen on Blogging  

November 14th, 2007 at 1:33 am - no responses yet

A former Distinguished Engineer, Jakob Nielsen gave a talk the other day at Sun. He says blogs are just a stream of consciousness and their authors just use them to pump out new content. While this is certainly true, I think that the lines certainly get blurred between me pumping out content, and as [...]

Stats  

August 15th, 2007 at 10:21 am - one response

We all want to hit success at some point, in some shape or form. With blogs, it could be number of hits you get as a whole, on a certain post, or the same thing with comments. Early on, in my last blog I had, I was only getting a few dozen hits a day, [...]