By Emma on Saturday, June 30, 2007Filed Under: Cool Stuff
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I’m not much for acronyms, but what’s up with Nelly Mckay? I downloaded some songs from itunes and oh my goodness. Nelly is some kind of crazy mix of new music, jazz and rap. I normally hate new music, [...]
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By Emma on Friday, June 29, 2007Filed Under: Life Optimization
My birthday is in July. I’ve recently come to terms with having birthdays and decided to accept that birthdays are a good thing, it means your still alive, and you might get cake.
I’ve also recently been thinking about facing and overcoming fears. I’m not all that unique because I have the typical fears most [...]
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By Emma on Friday, June 29, 2007Filed Under: Life Optimization
A big issue with me is the value of time versus money. I strongly believe there is nothing more valuable than time. I also thing making a conscious decision about how you spend your time when making money or just relaxing is one of the most important decisions anyone can make. Steve Pavlina has a [...]
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By Emma on Monday, June 25, 2007Filed Under: Starting A Blog
Recently as I was searching for PHP info, I stumbled upon a site that not only has PHP tutorials but has content similar to what I would like to have. The idea of this site is to talk about writing and language, plus tips on how to blog and get published. I guess great minds [...]
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By Emma on Sunday, June 24, 2007Filed Under: Starting A Blog
Hello Everyone, I’m back. As I began working on my blog I realized that even though I’m fortunate enough to use wordpress and have automated themes, that I want more control of my site. This involves learning some basic coding information.
I found a great site that has tubetorials that explains things really well. Besides [...]
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By Emma on Sunday, June 17, 2007Filed Under: Technical Skills
OK, today is day 4 and I have Google Analytics up and running. Yesterday I had 5 unique site views. Not bad for a 3 day old blog, with no marketing, light content, and being completely unknown.
This should be a good starting point. I’m excited about moving ahead. I also added some AdSense ads. But [...]
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By Emma on Saturday, June 16, 2007Filed Under: Technical Skills
Well today is day 3 and from checking the stats provided by Dreamhost, I’ve had an average of 800 page requests per day. I’m not sure if these are actual page views, or me trying to post.
As I learn more about stats, I decided to add Google Analytics. Just go to Google and search for [...]
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By Emma on Friday, June 15, 2007Filed Under: Writing
Here’s a free plug for Helium.com. If your interested in getting some writing practice and a little exposure than Helium may be the place to begin. Once you sign up, you can begin writing on available topics or create (upon approval) your own topics.
The articles are rated by a peer rating system and they move [...]
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By Emma on Friday, June 15, 2007Filed Under: Writing
In my second post I used some information from Paul Brians website. I also sent him an email asking if this was OK. He responded and sent a link to part of his website that has his book and more useful English links. Here is the Link.
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By Emma on Friday, June 15, 2007Filed Under: Technical Skills
I’ve been trying to find a clear definition of a trackback and a pingback. A trackback is where you leave a comment on your blog on another blog post. Huh? A pingback is similar except the server does the heavy lifting for you. Whatever! OK, I’m just going to try it. By linking to an [...]
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