Testing out 8i
I finally moved my wine club’s site and blog off Netfirms (which sucks) and onto 8i Networks, where I’ve paid for only one month in order to figure out whether they are going to work for us. There were a few minor hiccups in the setup, such as me somehow not receiving the welcome email [...]
Testing out Flickr plugin for Windows Live Writer
Just testing out the Flickr plugin for Windows Live Writer, which allows me to search for any Flickr user’s photos and pop them right into a posting in Windows Live Writer (which I now use for all of my blogging). Suddenly, I’m not so concerned about the problem that I was having setting up a [...]
WordPress hosting woes
I’ve never found the perfect ISP, and not for lack of trying. Moving all of my blogs (except for my business blog, which is hosted on an integration portal site) to WordPress a few months ago just highlighted a few of the problems with the ISPs that I do deal with, a point that I [...]
Rick’s back!
Just when I was about to delete him from my RSS reader, Rick Mercer came back from summer vacation and resumed blogging today. I look forward to his posts as well as the new season of his show.
Barthelme
Nice blog theme, eh? I’ve been in search of the perfect WordPress theme since I moved this blog to WP, and just discovered Barthelme this morning. Of course, I then spent the rest of the morning customizing it, but since it uses WP widgets, I was able to do a lot in a short period [...]
Post from Windows Live Writer
I’m trying out the beta of Windows Live Writer, which allows offline composition of blog posts — handy for the times when I’m disconnected for some reason, although my usual reason (while on airplanes) is out of whack right now. I was able to set up this blog, which is on WordPress, my business blog, [...]
BlogHer goes business
A welcome addition to the BlogHer lineup for next year is BlogHer Business in New York on March 22-23. As I mentioned in my wrapup post about the recent BlogHer in San Jose, I don’t want to diss mommy bloggers and craft bloggers, I just don’t have much in common with them. Of course, I [...]
Small business blogging
I often find myself explaining to people (sometimes complete strangers) about why I have a business blog, often describing it as an “online portfolio”. A marketing type at BlogHer used the phrase “to establish yourself as a thought leader”, which is probably accurate although I really hate that term. Then I saw this description by [...]
Backdated blogging
I’ve kept a sporadic personal blog on Blogger for a couple of years, and have decided to move the old entries over here under their original dates so that I can retire that one. I’ll leave my Getting off topic post that marked the beginning of the blog at this location, although that might not [...]
BlogHer wrapup
The past few days have been so hectic, I haven’t had time to blog or even read anyone else’s blog (except for Savage Chickens, of course). That means that my RSS reader is stuffed full of (literally) 3,500 unread items — very tempting to just clear all, except that I’m pretty sure that I’ll miss [...]
