I’ve found that it’s very difficult for me to stay motivated on projects from home. At work there is a boss breathing down your next, but at home you don’t have that pressure. Sure, no boss is one of the benefits to working for yourself. But having a boss certainly helps to stay motivated. What [...]
Have you ever spent way too much time looking for a solution to a problem? Ever felt like smacking yourself in the head when you finally found the fix? Well today I spent about half an hour trying to find out why a MySQL INSERT query wasn’t working. I was working on a logging table [...]
A change in AdSense is making the clickable areas smaller. While before a click anywhere on the ad would take the visitor to the page advertised and credit the publisher with the click, now only the title and URL are live as shown in the graphic below. My thought is that this change will result [...]
I’ve noticed that the Slurp bot that Yahoo throws around has been going crazy on a couple of my forums over the past few days. Right now there are Slurps coming from 23 different IP addresses on one of my forums. Sure, 23 isn’t all that many but it’s a small forum with only about [...]
The Google buying spree continues as the big-G picks up FeedBurner, a provider of syndicated feeds. The rumor is that Google will start selling ad space on the 700,000 syndicated feeds that FeedBurner provides. For more information visit the blog postings on the subject either at Google or FeedBurner.