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• Singing the Technorati Blues

  Published: July 27, 2007, 5:38 pm

  Tags: Internet Services

  Over the past couple of weeks, whenever I try to access my “Favorites” list on Technorati, I get this more often than I don’t: I contacted their customer support and this is the pertinent excerpt from the response I received: Please accept my apologies for any inconvenience. I’m afraid there is a known bug for the

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• Haute Secure Is A Blogger's Public Enemy Number One!

  Published: July 29, 2007, 5:00 am

  Tags: Security, Internet Services, Computer Software

  a visitor is browsing with Internet Explorer and has the Haute Secure application installed, the visitor will receive warnings in the upper left of the browser’s toolbar under certain conditions: You use FeedBurner for your feeds. An orange warning will be received. You display Google Ads. An orange warning will be received. You display

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• Redirecting with Alexa is a BAD Linking Strategy

  Published: August 6, 2007, 8:00 am

  Tags: Internet Services, Marketing Amp Amp Promotion

  A lot of bloggers seem to think the Alexa redirect will help them in their Alexa rankings. This is what it looks like: http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?www.untwistedvortex.com/. Go ahead, click on it. You know you want to. It'll boost my Alexa rankings for a little while. There are two problems with a link like that. First, it doesn't

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• Tips on leaving an online community

  Published: August 8, 2007, 1:51 am

  Tags: Internet Services

  you or just stop using the Internet so much. There is a life outside. Don't get addicted to social networking websites. It's fun once in a while, but they offer nothing more than a glorified contact list. Your real friends will always contact you by e-mail. The internet is a useful place to get information, but there are also

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• Putting My Money Where My Mouth Is Sort Of

  Published: September 4, 2007, 5:20 pm

  Tags: Wordpress Themes, Wordpress Plugins, Internet Services

  I published a sponsored post nearly three weeks ago about a free year of hosting on a Windows 2003 server. Since I have a few video-type posts on this blog, and I don't plan to do any more here, I thought it might be a good idea to start another blog just for videos — slideshows, movies, television, etc. What better way to do it than

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• A Web Hosting Second Thought

  Published: September 5, 2007, 3:06 pm

  Tags: Internet Services, Blogging

  On second thought, I decided not to go with another web host for my new domain. My plan under my current web host, HostNine, allows add-on domains. I did some checking and found that I'm not using that much bandwidth for this blog's domain and not that much web space either. I could probably get away with adding two or more blogs. I

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• Open Heart Surgery

  Published: September 6, 2007, 5:16 pm

  Tags: Internet Services, Computer Hardware

  I will be offline until I can fix this laptop and my DSL service is restored to normal. The laptop is shutting down on its own due to heat issues. There's probably a half inch of dust clogging the CPU fan because it no longer turns. I don't have the proper tools here and have to intercept my nephew (who has my tools) before he heads to

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• The Patient Lives But He Looks Like Hell

  Published: September 7, 2007, 6:44 am

  Tags: Internet Services, Computer Hardware

  After taking my laptop down to the bare metal and putting it back together again, a very lengthy ordeal, it now works without overheating. The pink vertical line on the display is still there and is probably incurable. No matter what kind of deal I come across in the future, I will never buy another laptop. I'm not mobile enough to justify

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• A Rambling Update

  Published: September 10, 2007, 1:53 am

  Tags: Internet Services, Computer Hardware, Blogging

  It appears that my DSL connection is back to normal. The key word is "appears". It didn't disconnect at all yesterday from what I could tell. A Subictel technician called me this morning to ask me if my service was operating correctly and I told him about yesterday. He canceled the "job order" and told me to call if the

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• A Not-Quite-So Rambling Update

  Published: September 10, 2007, 7:52 pm

  Tags: Internet Services, Personal

  I spoke, or wrote rather, a little too soon. Almost 20 minutes after my previous post, my DSL connection went bye-bye. I had intermittent connections for the next 8 hours. It was more "no connect" than "connect". I couldn't load a complete page most of the time before the connection was gone again. I called Subictel at

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• Free Website Services: adgridwork and reviewback

  Published: September 10, 2007, 10:49 pm

  Tags: Internet Services

  than both of them are free services. I'm still not caught up on the reviews that I have in my queue, so I haven't joined either of them yet and I won't until the rest of my reviews are cleared out. I recommend all three services. You want to get your blog publicized and get a lot of backlinks, right? These are ways to make sure

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• Sponsored Posts and Inbound Freight

  Published: September 14, 2007, 1:31 am

  Tags: Sponsored Posts Updates, Internet Services, Computer Hardware

  with other sponsored post services, besides PPP, but their opportunities don't fit me most of the time. Even when they do, it seems that other bloggers snap them up before I spot them in my email — I don't get to read that email until it's too late because of my flaky DSL. Well, I have to spell check, grammar check and

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• Blog Reviews and Blog Drive-Bys

  Published: September 15, 2007, 12:49 am

  Tags: Blog Reviews, Blog Drive Bys, Internet Services

  take me up on it. With free services like The Fair Review Project and reviewback waiting for people to join and exchange reviews, I was surprised. I have one more blog review to complete and then I'm joining services like those, while continuing to honor my offer. Incidentally, my last batch of blog drive-bys was published on August 15th,

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• IEC's Broadband World Forum Europe 2007 Features Emerging Convergent Media

  Published: September 28, 2007, 8:37 am

  Tags: Technology, Broadband, Broadband Internet Services, Broadband Networks, Convergent Media, Iec, Shapeshift

  The International Engineering Consortium (IEC) spotlights ShapeShift TV and BT's nm2 project at its Broadband World Forum Europe 2007 this 8-11 October; the plenary panel serves as one of 50 sessions presented at the IEC conference and exhibition

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• Stop Lurking, You Lurker

  Published: September 30, 2007, 11:43 am

  Tags: Internet Services, Computer Software, Blogging

  Jillian of CAUTION: girl underway passed me a link to The Great Mofo Delurk 2007. You're supposed to come out of the woodwork on October 3rd and leave a comment, if only to just say hello. I'm going to visit those two blogs and make it a point to comment on that day. If anyone else is doing something like this, please let me know

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