DISQUS

Cpanel + Fantastico + Wordpress + 'backup plugin' + 'plugin updater' plugin = Easy WP installs and upgrades. I used to hate having to upgrade WP after every 'security update'; now it's a breeze.

I read a smart comment on a webmaster forum, recently:

If you get a degree from a famous University like Cambridge or Harvard, it gets your foot in the door (and into a job, like as not). You also get to meet a lot of privleged people = networking.

Any other college degree and you can queue up like everyone else. It's scarcity and status.

So getting into debt spending $30,000 on a 'media studies' degree from LocalUni is a very bad idea; easy subject, high-supply-low-demand degree, non-status college.

Any course with 'studies' in the name is worthless.

If I had to do it again I'd research correspondence courses from _big name_ Universities in _high demand_ subjects. Otherwise I'd work out how I can achieve multiple, passive streams of income from my current advantages. Your youth is a golden time. If you go to college and get a crap degree and leave at 23 you have 12 years until you're 35 where you can trade on your 'youth'. After that, you better have something else to trade on.

Colleges are businesses. They're touting for your money. They don't care if it's a waste of time for you, job-wise. And working-class people, so proud the first one in their family is going to college, get suckered into the mediocre-degree-machine.

Just saw a picture of Joan Rivers in that slideshow, there. Such a shame when people go too far with cosmetic surgery. It was invented to help people with war injuries and birth defects, not to try to gild the lily.

Who _buys_ this woman's music, and that entire genre? E.g. "I'm a sassy young independent woman in control of my destiny gyrating half-naked like a belly dancer in my undies singing about men who I am independent of"

I try not to use beta software anymore. Let the early adopters get the bugs fixed.

I used to sneer at coupons, until I found ones for web hosting and domain names. Always worth going on forums where there list these.

9. I love staying in bed and avoiding work as much as possible.

Strangely, I find I come up with ways to do fewer 'chores' and be more productive that way. Sometimes it's good to take a step back from your personal madness.

The internet is where you loudly tell people that they are _wrong_, and then hide behind your PC. It's G00gle, so it'll do well.

Now if only someone would come up with a worthy challenger to G00gle in search, I'd be very happy.

It's charming. The cat wasn't being aggressive; it just wanted to get near 'The Source of Food and Warmth".

I agree. He should have sold that sucker while he had the chance. Now, with the current recession, he'll have to sit it out.

"Plurk to over take Pownce and Twitter?"

Heh, heh, if you'd said that to someone twenty years ago they'd have thought you had Tourettes, or something.

The end of the World will be caused by some guy not turning a screw because he'll be:

1. Hired by quota;
2. Hired by machine;
3. A contract hire, with no loyalty to the company.

People forget that the marches and the strikes of he early 20th century bought them the good wages and benefits we enjoy today. Otherwise we'd be as 'used and abused' as poor Third-World sweatshop workers.

I can handle Perl and PHP, but Apache Mod_Rewrite drives me batty sometimes.

He who can master it, however, shall be greatly pleased at the results. Oh yes.

Agreed. _So_ much easier to join a network. More chance of getting paid too.

You hit on a good point there:

Original content + 200 links = Win!
Duplicate content + 500 links = Win!

4. Make what you want the visitor to do _VeRy_ obvious. The 'Buy' button or ad link should be right in the visitor's face.

Silly name for a franchise movie. Guess I'm getting to old for all these violent films.

Once again, politicians interfere in a business they don't understand. Nice news for all the webmasters for who Adsense is the 'dole'. I hope 'nitpicky' is right.

Good luck with that. The thing about paper cards is that they hang around in people's wallets, leading to business years later. Someone finds your card somewhere, and gives you a call.

$10.7 BILLION? That's a lot of pasty kids gettin' fat in front of their PC's.

They forgot:

"I want to copy other artists' ideas shamelessly, and collect meaningless awards and fat cheques for doing it!"

It's the era of disposable everything.

This is a good idea. There are lots of these little external hard-drive caddies available very cheaply, whereas hands-on help from a technician can be very expensive.

There's sense in this. It boils down to whether a. There's a demand for the product b. Whether a fat profit can be made from it and c. Whether you can do it a lot better than the originator.

Better by far, by Gar, to drop your 'needs' one-by-one until you're left with the most essential. You'll feel a lot more financially confident near the end of the month.