As you all know, I’ve got a fancy new phone (the AT&T 8525) that can surf the web, check email, text, call people, and probably cook me dinner, if I wanted it too. Despite having a phone that can do it all, I rarely “do it all”. I call people with it, check email, and text friends. I’ve tried surfing the web a few times, and it was absolutely horrible. Trying to tap in a URL with my stylus was a disaster, and I was quickly irritated by how hard it was to navigate around the web. It’s SO not as easy as it looks in the...

When I posted my entry about that admin guy the other day, my sister left a comment and pointed out that her blog entries say admin. Uhh…that would be the blog that I set up. Where did I go wrong? I logged in and verified that her display name was set up correctly. It was. I poked around in the code, and found out that instead of using CODE to call the author name, it was hard coded in the theme to put “Posted by Admin” on each entry. Duh! It really threw me for a loop, considering that admin was the user name as well. The moral of...

I came across a new search engine today. I’m not sure why people attempt to take on Google, but the guy who developed the TigerTom search engine did a a reasonably decent job. I looked one of my blog names, and was #3 on the results list. Not too shabby, but when I use Google, I come in at #1 for the same term. TigerTom gives you the option of searching the web, news, images, shopping, or audio. I attempted an audio search, wondering it it would actually direct me to download an MP3, but I couldn’t find results for any of the terms I used....

I found a new Wordpress plugin some of you may be interested in, that’s sort of a way to take dofollow to the next level. The CommentLuv plugin will display the last post of the commenter within their comment. The plugin visits the site they’ve inputted into the URL field, and scrapes the last post made, and displays the link at the bottom of the comment they’ve left. I don’t think I’m going to implement this on any of my blogs, since I’m already pretty hot and heavy with dofollow, but figured I’d throw it out there...

When I decided to incorporate my website business back in 1999 or so, we used a lawyer who walked us through filing all of the necessary forms for incorporation. Once we were officially set up as a corporation, he handed us a big binder and sent us on our way, instructing my husband and I to hold regular meetings, since we were the only people on the board of directors. Huh? In addition to holding meetings, we had to take minutes and document anything. Keep in mind, this was a website business run by me, and now I’m supposed to document a meeting...

Earlier this month, I posted a clip of the Family Guy premiere that was shown at ComicCon. If you didn’t see it, you can watch it here – it’s a Star Wars themed episode, and it will be on Fox this Sunday at 9pm eastern. Set your DVR’s, your VCR’s (if you’re living in the stone age) or just make sure you’re in front of the TV at 9pm. It’s gonna be good!

Not a day goes by that I don’t pass someone on the road with one of those magnetic signs on their car advertising a business or website. I’m telling you, they work. I often find myself committing the details of the signs to memory, so that I can visit the website when I return home! Maybe I should get one with my URL? It would be great for blog traffic…of course, it would also enable the people I cut off to track me down. Regardless of whether I get one or not, if YOU need one, BuildASign.com has real estate signs, car magnets,...

I came across these funny fake corporate signs and posters tonight on Stumble Upon. I am SO tempted to print these out and put a few up around work, just to see who happens to be paying attention. Some are more obvious than others, like the one that says employees are allowed 2 trips to the bathroom per day, and additional trips must be approved by management. Others, like the one I’m showing here, would probably confuse a few people in my office. I’m thinking about putting the one that says “Maintain silence at all times” to...

California beach-goers are going high tech! Heal The Bay and Go Live Mobile (a mobile marketing company) have joined forces to update residents with a beach report card. Instead of heading out to a beach, only to be disappointed by poor water quality, people can send a text message to 23907 with the name of the beach they’d like information on. A text message will be sent in reply with that particular beach’s weekly grade. Heal The Bay has published the Beach Report Card since 1990, but this will be the first time that California’s analysis...

If you offer advertising on your site, do you offer exclusive opportunities? Let me back up a step. I was recently contacted by someone who wanted to advertise a product identical to a current advertiser. They even wanted to use similar anchor text. I declined (yes, I turned down money!) unless they could offer a different product or completely different anchor text. The advertiser-to-be emailed me back, asking if the first advertiser (the one with ads already up on my site) had paid extra for exclusivity, and even told me that they were willing to compete...