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Re: Telus to Launch Motorola Droid in Canada?

Lgr — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:04:18 -0000

I would even consider getting a contract for a Droid, and I hate mobile phone contracts.

Re: Google PageRank: Joke Of The Blogosphere?

Lgr — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:50:58 -0000

Great post. Will there ever be a reply from the famously tight lipped Google from any official channel (meaning not Matt Cutt's blog).

Nothing like a bit of a PR mistake on the part of Google. Yahoo and MSN should be jumping at this chance to do something better than Google for a change.

Re: Google PageRank: Joke Of The Blogosphere?

Lgr — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:50:58 -0000

Re: Best Of Ebay – Ebay Sellers Christmas Opportunity

Lgr — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:07:31 -0000

I wonder if they might integrate the 2 in some way, allowing you to Stumble the Best of Ebay.

I hope not. That was one of the things I was worried about when Ebay bought StumbleUpon. That we would be seeing Ebay auctions as we Stumble. If they do offer it hopefully we could turn it off. Like Stumbling Flickr or YouTube.

Re: Best Of Ebay – Ebay Sellers Christmas Opportunity

Lgr — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:07:31 -0000

I wonder if they might integrate the 2 in some way, allowing you to Stumble the Best of Ebay.

Re: Posting Comments On Other Blogs

Lgr — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:52:26 -0000

So very true. I can tell on my blog when I have been busy and not out reading and commenting on other peoples blogs. Traffic goes down and their is not as much conversation going on.

Re: Do Your Morals And Values Affect Your Writing?

Lgr — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:26:57 -0000

While I don't write for a living, I have turned down jobs because I did not like the purpose of the website. Without getting into the details of the sites they were just not the kind of job that I wanted to be associated with.

<abbr>LGR’s last blog post..Color Scheme Designer</abbr>

Re: Preparing for a Small Business Disaster

Lgr — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:58:04 -0000

Most hosts allow you to create complete backups that include the databases, files, users, and email etc. Creating and downloading that backup should be a webmsters primary job. Site goes down, take the complete backup/move file open a new account at another host, restore your complete backup/move file, change your nameservers to point to the new host. That puts you back up and running in less than a day. All cPanel hosts I have dealt with allow you to create that complete backup/move file, I am sure there must be a Plesk and other web host control panel options that do similar things.

Backup, backup, backup!

<abbr>LGR’s last blog post..WordPress 2.8 Released</abbr>

Re: WHAT SHOULD WE DUMP CABLE TV FOR? BOXEE | My Philly Network

Lgr — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:20:14 -0000

Wow sounds like fun. I'll give it a try if there are some left. Hope it works in Canada.

Re: Create a timeline with Dipity

Lgr — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:13:38 -0000

That looks great. I will have to play around with Dipity a little. Thanks for the resource.

Re: Released WP Greet Box Version 4.0

Lgr — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:43:59 -0000

Nice updates! I like new admin interface. Makes it quick to see what is activated and what is not. Keep up the great work!

Re: WP Greet Box WordPress Plugin

Lgr — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:55:36 -0000

Really like your plugin and it works great on one site that I maintain. On another site however it is not working so well. Here is what I have discovered.

It looks like it is a jQuery call that is the problem. On the site where it work the GET request looks something like this:

http://www.website.com/permalink/index.php?wpgb...

and that works.

On the site where it does not work the permalink structure is different and is set to contain .html as well. So the permalink looks like this: http://www.website.com/blog/2008/11/permalink-n..., the jQuery request then looks like this:

http://www.website.com/blog/2008/11/index.php?w...

Which returns a 404.

Thought I would let you know. I have deactivated the plugin for now until this can be fixed since my error log was getting rather full.

Re: WP Greet Box WordPress Plugin

Lgr — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:16:28 -0000

@Thaya Kareeson,
Well maybe that is the difference. On the site where it does not work WordPress is actually installed in a subfolder as per the codec (http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its...). The difference is that WordPress is installed in the folder called blog.

The permalink structure is this: /blog/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html

Don't know if that will help. If there is anything else you need let me know.

Re: WP Greet Box WordPress Plugin

Lgr — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:33:30 -0000

Changing the one line to /index.php fixed it right up. Thanks a lot!

Re: WP Greet Box WordPress Plugin

Lgr — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 09:16:40 -0000

Daily Blog Tips has a write up on Referral Detector in case you did not know. Might want to let people know about the original version.

http://www.dailyblogtips.com/referrer-detector-...

Re: 2008/06/02/graphicleftovers/

Lgr — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:53:05 -0000

Interesting idea. Could be a great place to start to help new clients with logos.

Re: 2008/09/02/google-chrome-2/

Lgr — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:49:39 -0000

I am impressed with Chrome. It is fast, lighter and has some nice features. There are still some things missing from it that might come yet. I like the way Firefox can be extended using addons and if/when Chrome supports addons and/or similar features I can see me using it more.

Re: 2008/12/28/best-blog-post-of-2008/

Lgr — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 23:29:13 -0000

I wrote this post up quickly about rebooting a Windows machine by SSHing into my Linux machine and people just seem to love it. It has become one of the best posts of the year.

http://www.lgr.ca/blog/2008/04/shutdown-windows...

Re: Digg Founder Launches WeFollow, A User-Generated Twitter Directory

Lgr — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:26:05 -0000

It certainly is easy to add yourself. Only takes a few seconds to send the tweet to get listed so that is nice.

Re: MyAlltop: Alltop Gets a Custom Feed Reader

Lgr — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:48:57 -0000

Great so Alltop might actually become useful. Funny I remember talking about how Alltop could become useful back in June last year.

"They could start by offering accounts with more personalization options. Allow people to add other RSS feeds to their own accounts and become a news reader application for those that want it. Offer the ability to add friends, share news items between them and let people to comment on news items something like Friendfeed."

Think I'll stick with a real RSS reader.

Re: Twittl: The Love Child of Digg and Twitter

Lgr — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:46:10 -0000

Isn't this what Dwigger (http://www.dwigger.com/) tried?

Re: Walking with Dinosaurs

Lgr — Sat, 02 May 2009 04:53:46 -0000

I took my son to see it as well. It was great. Your photos and videos turned out pretty good. Mine were pretty blurry.

Re: How to Run Web Applications Seamlessly on Ubuntu

Lgr — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 01:29:12 -0000

That looks great. I will have to give it a try. Nothing I hate more than having Firefox crash while I have docs open and Stumbling at the same time.

Re: Register Dot Com Offers Free Domain Names

Lgr — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 14:53:15 -0000

The catch is easy, you need to renew it at their LOW $35.00/year rate. At that price I can register 3 domains at another registrar. Register.com is still living in the past with their prices, not to mention it is almost impossible to transfer a domain away from them. The headaches they will give you are not worth the price. One of the worst registrars on the planet.

Re: Newbies Guide to Twitter

Lgr — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:29:38 -0000

Thanks for the guide. I will give Twitter another shoot and see if I can make more sense out of it.

Re: What Does Facebook Actually DO for Me

Lgr — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 03:05:23 -0000

I did not see this in the comments about. Good post but I think there is one point you missed about "What Does Facebook Actually DO for Me?"

Waste your time!

Re: I’ve been Stumbling through the Web

Lgr — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 10:47:00 -0000

StumbleUpon is great! It is a great way to discover new sites. I use it all the time to find interesting sites that are usually very on topic with what I am interested in. A lot more fun than MySpace.

Re: Facebook screws iFart author

Lgr — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:31:22 -0000

I have never really understood why they have a 5000 friend limit to begin with. Just another reason not to work to hard to build up your profile on other people's networks when it can be taken away in a second.

Re: An Open Letter to Kevin Rose

Lgr — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:16:58 -0000

Good letter but somehow I don't think Digg will care. Pack up the Digg shirt and move on.

Re: Crime and Punishment: Are Big Bloggers Taking Dirty Money?

Lgr — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:17:04 -0000

I think the problem starts because people can't tell who is being honest and who is a low down dirty scoundrel. Look at all of the one page sales pages out there. 99% of them push crappy products that are just scams. There are also a lot of bloggers that, to be honest, are just out to make a buck and never actually try or use the service or product they are reviewing. They take the sales copy, expand on it and try to make it sound good. Take a look at some of the products John Chow pushes. 3/4 of them are BS and not worth spending money on but people see his monthly earnings and want a piece so they do the same thing.

I have no problem with people having affiliate links, product reviews etc. People have to make a living, and if the review is good and HONEST then they should make a dollar from it.

<abbr>LGR’s last blog post..Color Scheme Designer</abbr>

Re: Sync Your Browsers Across Multiple Computers with Mozilla Weave

Lgr — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:03:20 -0000

I use Foxmarks to sync bookmarks across multiple computers and it has worked great. They also support passwords now, so they have filled the void I had lost when GoogleSync disappeared but I will have to take a look at this.

Re: The hypocrisy of digg and spam

Lgr — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 16:52:42 -0000

Has the domain recently been unbanned along with others recently? Just wondering since some other domains that were banned recently were unbanned. I have to wonder if Digg has reached the point that it will start to fall apart.

Re: The hypocrisy of digg and spam

Lgr — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 16:53:45 -0000

Opps should have read the comment above...sorry about that.

Re: Digg Mafia Strikes Again

Lgr — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:23:23 -0000

"He just built a good community"

Did he really build a good community if this is what they are doing? Last time I checked good communities know how to behave themselves.