I have another tip to add to my post - The Ultimate Guide to Doing Nothing but Looking Busy at Work - it is from one of my favorite blogs - Lifehacker.
Brilliant!
Here is the original Lifehacker article - Look busy with a fake desktop background.
Technorati Tags: Lifehacker, Looking Busy, Seinfeld, Work
I have tried many blog editors out there to try and make my life easier when it comes to blogging. In fact I did some extensive reviews of
What has ended up working out for me the best is the combination of the Firefox 2.0 and the Performancing Plugin. The reason for this is that Firefox 2.0 has a built in spell checker which I really need. Then the Performancing plugin allows you to post to your blog from a simple interface. This works better for me since I do not have to log into each individual blog that I post to in order to write something.
I definitely recommend it if you blog on a regular basis.
Firefox can be downloaded here.
The Performancing Plugin can be downloaded here.
Technorati Tags: Blogging, Blog Desktop Editors, Firefox, Performancing, WordPress
One of the main differences between Los Angeles and Austin (other then the traffic and the people) is the food. I have long been a fan of Rudy’s BBQ and eat there on almost a weekly basis.
Today I decided to try something different - Schlotzsky’s Deli. It is similar to Quizno’s except for the fact that they make their bread fresh daily (not like how subway does it with frozen dough). The other thing that is cool about Schlotzsky’s is that they have 2 free Mac’s available that you can surf the internet from (I am blogging from one right now). You can also bring your laptop to surf free internet to.
I have to say that it is nice to see companies finally realizing the pull that the internet has on people. See I am not a big deli sandwich type of guy but Schlotzsky’s has just been added to the list because of the internet access.
I have been blogging for about a year now and I only started to try and make money from blogging about 3 months ago.
When I started I started like most people and got an Adsense account and expected the money to start rolling in. As you probably know that did not have. To date I have made about $25 from Adsense. At this rate it will be another 9 months before I get to $100 and actually see a check.
Anyway, you may have noticed that on this site and some of my other sites that I have some affiliate links to various vendors. I started that about 1 month ago and I have made about $115 from that in that 1 month. Pretty sweet.
You may have seem my post - Christian Family Blog - My Blog about Raising My Family as Christians - in which it was my goal to dislodge a atheist web site for being in the number one position for the term “Christian Family Blog”.
Well in 2 days I succeeded.
The above mention post is now number one for the term “Christian Family Blog” and I am pretty sure that in the next few days that this post will probably bump it down to the number 3 spot.
Why would I want to do this? The reason is simple. If people are really looking for a blog about a Christian family they do not want to find an atheists web site. Just today I have gotten several hits on this site and my The Abundant Life web site from people who were looking for a Christian family blog.
I hope more Christians step up and get their sites to the top so people can find what they are really looking for.
Technorati: Christian Family Blog, Blog, Blogging, Jesus, God, Christian
One of the blogs that I frequent regularly is problogger.net.
This blog is a guy from Australia that makes his whole living from blogging on this site and few others. The blog incidentally is about how to professionally blog and make money from your blog,
As of 8/22/06 Problogger is #55 on the top 100 blogs on Technorati. That says something for his site.
I usually do not plug my Christian Blog about my family very often because I do not think that people usually appreciate having religious views thrust upon them.
To me this case is a little different though.
Me, being a Christian, I want my kids to grow up a be product members of society. In order for them to do that I need to be that. For my I have gotten the most direction from the Christian Church.
I grew up as a Catholic but as a Catholic God seemed so far away. He seemed like he was up in heaven and we were way, way down here. Only the “called ones” ever got to talk to him and only a fraction of those ever heard from God. Also, the only way to get to heaven was to be a really good person and then MAYBE you would get in.
As a Christian I was taught that God is here - he is everywhere. Then if you believe that Jesus died on the cross for you sins, and you accept that sacrifice, then God lives in you and you go to heaven. There are no rules that you “need to follow” but that if you are really saved from hell that you are thankful and that makes you want to be a good person.
That is where I am at.
I had just got done removing all the Adsense from this blog and my idano.net blog when I came across the Ontok Highlighter.
The Ontok Highlighter automatically creates links on your pages that if clicked or hovered over will pop up a set of ads that relate to the highlighted keyword.
I really like this blog. The reason why is that I am not restricted to what I am to blog about.
That was the original intend of my idano.net blog but it has now been narrowed down to Blogging with WordPress. I also have 3 other blogs that are topic specific so I am restricted there to.
I think that if you blog you need to have at least one blog where you are just talking about whatever. That is what this blog is for.
Also, I have not put this blog on my hosting because I do not want to be bothered with plug-ins, performance, whatever. I just want to blog about anything that passes into my head.
So another words - Do not expect this Blog to be about anything in particular 
.
Technorati : Blog, Blogging, Movable Type, Personal Blog, WordPress