Digg.com is an amazing seo tool. Of course you need something interesting but you do anyway. Once you have that piece, its pretty easy to get some good traffic.
The ole build it and they will come adage just doesnt work in my short life experience. I wish I had known that as a kid. My life would be different now. OOps. I’m digressing.
Anyway, you can build it and then submit it to Digg and they just may come!
This is the best linux command line tutorial I’ve read so far. The language is clear and easy to read and the content relevant and useful.
Ok, this is some pretty funny stuff. I realize I’m a pawn in a viral marketing scheme but this stuff hits on so many hotbuttons. I just can’t help it. I guess that is the point.
http://www.bigfix.com/softwaretruth/hearing-opening-statements.php
This book is showing great promise for me. I have not yet implemented the major components but I can see that they could be very good.
In particular, I often feel like I have way too much crap to store in my mind. Sometimes, this just feels overwhelming. For example, you start thinking that you have to go to the library to return the book but you already have another book late and you realize you have to get an oil change but there that phone call you have to make in a day or two and that is when your anniverserary is but you have to remind yourself to get flowers.
Does that sound familiar? This book really aims at curbing that type of problem and offers a concrete methodology to move forward.
An amazon link for more info. GTD by David Allen.
Got some great feedback from one of my first tutorial writers. James Brown from Outreach Media. I kinda knew about the issues but theres so much work left to do on it that I pushed them back.
Sometimes, your wife is hogging the tv watching Sex and the City and you just can’t do that. First, there are too many commercials. Then the content is pure drivel. But lets not rant.
So, off I go to the internet in search of adventure. I find it! If I can’t watch interesting shows on tv, I’ll watch them on the internet. Its kinda like youtube except your not just randomly finding movies to watch.
On Democracy, you find channels that you like which then contain shows. You then pick the shows that you wish the democracy player to download and it will do it in the background. So, you could start 40 downloads and then watch them all at your convenience. It has a categorized search and a random most popular view.
Yet another way to waste my time! Its almost becoming hard to figure out which is the best option for procrastination.
This is by far my favorite cup of joe in denver. It has a marvelously complete taste. It actually changes flavors a bit as it cools. It has a hint of chocolate and a nice smooth earthy texture. Alas, its only there about every 4th time I go in.
I saw a commercial for baby toilet paper. The salespitch was given by a lizard who actually used the product. Yes, the lizard wiped his behind on tv.
I just downloaded launchy from www.launchy.net. Hey, its pretty cool. I dont know if I’ve saved more than 10 minutes during the whole week but I do enjoy using it.
Basically, it indexes your start menu. Then when you wish to launch an app, instead of grabing your mouse and clicking on an icon, you hit alt-space. This pops open a little form that you type in. It guesses what software your trying to type and if it shows the right name, you hit enter and your app is launched. So, if you wished to launch Trillian, you would do alt+space then tr and enter. Thats it! No moving your fingers off your keyboard.
I’m pretty lame with my testing mac (hey, its only got 4 gigs of hard drive space on an absurdly slow machine! but it runs just fine. Actually, I’m amazed. Each version of osx works just fine on ancient hardware. HELLOOO MICROSOFT!!!!) but its similar to a program called Quicksilver for Macs. Actually, there are others but I figured to only list the free one.
ITK needed a scheduled task so in my effort to get better at linux and php, I investigated Crontab. Hey, this is pretty good and seems far more reliable than the Coldfusion Scheduled task system. Plus my host has an interface for it so implementing was cake. I like!