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| How to increase your blog fan base |
| 2008-09-03 11:55:38 |
Quick fix eye-candy comic to placate you ….
from xkcd
Ho hummmmmm…… It’s high time I did another post in this sleepy little blog that only eight really cool people read regularly. There are over six billion people in the world, and 1 billion of them have internet. But there aren’t [...]
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| IT third place in Lies on Resumes |
| 2008-08-23 19:53:43 |
Tech Republic ran this news item giving particulars about who lies most on their resumes and what things they lie about. IT came in third place. Job responsibilities was the most “lied about” item on resumes.
But as a veteran filling out job application forms, I have to wonder what really is considered [...]
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| I can do magic — Can you? |
| 2008-08-19 09:55:35 |
another offering from our friends at xkcd. Ha! I wish I could say
“sudo clean your frakkin’ room!” to my offspring! “sudo” is as close to a magic spell as it gets.
Listen to this post
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| A hack for my Hubpages fans |
| 2008-08-15 14:50:31 |
This is a prototype expression of thanks in the form of Linky LUV in appreciation of my fans over on Hub Pages It randomly displays one of their widgets right here in an IFRAME. If you don’t like the looks of the one you see, refresh the page and it will [...]
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| I quit EC dropping and my bounce rate went down |
| 2008-08-13 21:11:37 |
Since July I have been dropping way way less Entrecards. I made it a point to only drop on sites I was visiting for some other reason, (like I was really interested in the post) which meant I stuck around long enough to not be counted as a bouncer. What did it [...]
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| Security Articles Growing a Tail! |
| 2008-08-04 08:38:15 |
The dork is featured again in Issue #4 (August 1) of Information Security Short Takes that I was in last month. This blog features a monthly blog carnival potpourri webzine of useful selection of security related articles. I know, I know, nobody wants to hear about [...]
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| Woot! The comment spammers found me |
| 2008-08-01 14:20:17 |
Akismet is an awesome spam filter plugin no wordpress blogger should be without. It’s point ‘n’ click installable if you happen to use wordpress, but they claim that hacks exist for 20 other blogging platforms and they do provide an API. Hacks don’t mean evil programs, they just mean ways to enable you [...]
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| StumbleAudio: a great way to discover new tracks |
| 2008-07-29 14:21:59 |
If you like stumbleupon for discovering websites and blogs, you are gonna love stumbleaudio for discovering new artists and tracks. Warning: it is a flash site but the interface is well-done and intuitive.
You must sign up for an account (free). It works similar to stumble upon in that you can filter on genres you [...]
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| Wanna see what a dork looks like? |
| 2008-07-22 11:51:41 |
Made this over at pikistrips. This particular example is totally useless, but you can do things to pictures of people and comicize it. This might be useful for something. Personally I was just fooling with a recent signature photo of myself. This is really me, not the model with the propeller [...]
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| HubPages: A paying outlet for your verbal diarrhea |
| 2008-07-18 11:29:38 |
Want to know a little secret about bloggers? We bloggers all have a bad case of verbal diarrhea! We just can’t stop spouting off and we all like an audience. Since we’re all doomed to suffer from this malady, we might as well get paid something while we suffer from it.
The downside to blogging
The way [...]
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| I want you on my LAN |
| 2008-07-15 18:31:03 |
I wrote these lyrics to the tune of “I wanna hold your hand” by the Beatles, with all due credit to them. The purpose was to teach a class of bright youngsters how Ethernet networking works at the hardware level. I thought that my hot dorkage readers might enjoy them. It’s all [...]
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| Free link juice in a blogalicious flavor |
| 2008-07-14 11:41:14 |
If your blog is 100% nutritious lean tech protein, it seems as dry and flavorless like a digital camera manual. Besides, any cook knows that the flavor is in the fat. Not useful but people like it better. That’s the lesson I have been learning lately but I hadn’t taken any action yet. Even [...]
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| Hot Dorkage gets reviewed |
| 2008-07-11 08:22:16 |
Woot! Social action!!! Hot Dorkage got reviewed on pisiosplugs. I won’t quote it, that’s what links are for. I will say that I think Pisio is spot-on with his review. If you would like your blog reviewed, he just might do it for you, as long as he doesn’t find your blog [...]
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| Lolcatese — u lerns it or eatz mai dust sucka |
| 2008-07-07 08:48:18 |
Lolcatese — is it becoming the new internet pidgin? Perhaps first exclusively written language? Lolcatese is named after the acronym LOL, which is Textese for “laughing out loud.” Textese is a thing distinct from Lolcatese. The purpose of Textese is to transmit the [...]
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| From the road |
| 2008-07-04 11:09:55 |
Totally non dorkage again today. Photos so far, as promised. A selection from the Columbia Gorge, the Mt. Hood area, and the North Oregon coast. Tomorrow Mexico! The Mexico pix will start appearing in the dynamic Flickr widget as we take ‘em.
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| Dork on break |
| 2008-06-29 00:23:30 |
Even dorks need a break some time, and this dork is taking off the month of July. I am going to visit all my old friends in Nuevo Leon that I haven’t seen for about 10 years and I plan to check email every other day or so and possibly upload pictures from [...]
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| Make your blog mobile friendly |
| 2008-06-26 12:39:59 |
Always those pesky mobiles and the lack of standards for them. Bleah! I looked into mobile support for web a year ago. If you think web browser CSS support is flaky, it goes double for mobiles.
However, I can envision mobile professionals wanting to chill out and browse blogs on their [...]
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| How to tell your neighbors your web exists |
| 2008-06-24 18:23:04 |
Do you ever want to know who your blogging neighbors are? Or websites geographically near you in general? Even better, would you want an easy way for them to find you?
GeoURL is here to help. GeoURL asks you to place two metatags in the head of your website and it helps you generate them based [...]
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| Eleven Signs that your blog sucks |
| 2008-06-21 14:46:27 |
Stumblers, readers, friends, and surfers, I beg your indulgence just this once. Permit me to take a break from providing you the high quality dorkage that you’ve come to take for granted and let off a major bitchy rant. If I don’t do this I’m going to blow a gasket! What’s causing my consternation? Rampant [...]
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| WTF is Ping.fm? |
| 2008-06-20 12:33:47 |
Ping.fm purports to let you update a bunch of social sites all at once. It is in beta now, and you have to have the current betacode to get an account. The current betacode is “letmeping”. They keep changing it. I have no idea how long that code will be good.
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| Volunteer for Librivox |
| 2008-06-17 10:16:37 |
It seems most bloggers are very busy trying to suck money from the internet. If tweaking and promoting of your blog doesn’t eat every last second of your time, consider giving something back. I recently found out about Librivox — an all volunteer project to provide audio of public domain literature. [...]
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| CONTEST! Pimp my EMV and win! |
| 2008-06-14 11:46:29 |
I am a hopelessly prosaic geek when it comes to titles. A number of my titles scored ZERO emotional appeal according to a headline analyzer I tried. Whatever algorithm the thing uses is a mystery to me. Why should one of the “pimp” titles get a zero and the other one not? [...]
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| Avoid the phish |
| 2008-06-11 10:52:06 |
A old school phish typically involves an Instant Messenger or email message asking you to click a link. This tried and true technique uses bogus links, and this article shows you how to detect them. Newer phishes bite you at a different level. They feed you “good” links but then they [...]
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| Scoutle: another layer of automation? |
| 2008-06-09 03:43:13 |
I have been struggling to get started with Dojo and Ning lately. Both these technologies are fairly new and the number of books about on Dojo is severely limited, and as far as I know there are no books on Ning. So I would like to hook up with some other developers who [...]
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| Take Action against Credit Card Fraud |
| 2008-06-05 12:51:16 |
Another database: CRACKED A recent security breach of a local online merchant prompted me to write this post. As a shopping cart software author and former security analyst at Symantec I know the nuts and bolts of security from several perspectives. Credit card fraud is a huge and growing problem. [...]
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| How to make an audio post |
| 2008-06-03 18:28:43 |
Download audio file (audioblog.mp3)
Links referenced in the post:
Audacity
1pixelout
The body of this post is audio. You should be seeing a little player icon. One of my test computers failed to display it. If you can’t see it, leave me a comment with your OS, browser and version so we can compile some data for the plugin author. [...]
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| Blog Engage & Blogatiser: forkage? |
| 2008-05-27 10:25:39 |
I’ve recently encountered two metablog sites, Blog Engage and Blogatiser. One of them specifically requested a review. What is striking about these two sites is how similar they are. Pretty much everything I say here applies to both sites unless specifically noted otherwise. If I were still a [...]
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| Put Bloglines to work for your Wordpress blogroll |
| 2008-05-25 23:09:13 |
Warning: If you are not a Wordpress blogger who can install your own plugins you might wish to skip this post.
Bloglines is my feed reader of choice because it’s simple and hierarchical. I’m going to show you a neat little trick I did on a wordpress blog to make a compact, organized, and [...]
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