There are a lot of good email marketing companies out there, however there are a lot of PR “professionals” that don’t follow the rules outlined by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). These companies think they can spam everyone and get away with it, but you can report them easily. To report an email, forward the […]
Want to know if your site goes down? I do. That way I can get it back online ASAP. I’ve been researching site monitoring services lately and most will check a site every 15-30 minutes unless you pay. 30 minutes before an alert is way to long. If you run WordPress, you can get your […]
If you’ve been reading my blog, or following me on Twitter, than you know I’m now managing my own server and I’m having some issues. It’s not this site, it’s a different one. I’ve tried a lot of things to make the site better and it seems better, but will sill randomly run out of […]
Nerds love to make fun of Internet Explorer so his one is for you IE. Thanks to vectorfresh for some of the artwork.
I love Calvin and Hobbes comics. I read them growing up and still love them today. Turns out I’m not the only one. There are still plenty of people making parodies of the dynamic duo.
A few days ago I wrote about how WordPress’ Heartbeat and cron jobs were killing my server. Turns out I was wrong. John Havlik connected with me and helped me troubleshoot some things. Turns out that the real issue is the server settings. Now, I’m not going to tell you what to do to optimize […]
Google rolled out the ability to manage pages in the Google+ app quite a while ago, but the user experience is so bad that it took me quite a while to figure out how to do it. Once I figured it out though, I also figured out how to mange other Google+ profiles. To manage […]
Update: It’s not heartbeat and cron, it’s your server. My journey down running my own server has hit a snag. It seems my machine likes to spike to 100% CPU and get stuck there until I force restart it. So I’ve been digging. One of the ideas I came across was disabling WordPress’ heartbeat. It […]
A conversation with a Twitter friend over who’s going to win the Super Bowl when neither of us know who’s playing.
Sassy cat only does tricks on her own time. You can’t tell her what to do.
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