Money, Love, and Change

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We decided not to extend our warranty on our Dell Inspiron 9100 (from 4 years to 5 years) because of the cost. It would have been about $350, and we had just gotten a new hard [...]

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Yuck.  I tried upgrading WordPress earlier this week using the Automatic WordPress Upgrade plugin (which has worked fine in the past) to no avail.  It kept getting stuck on making a backup copy of my database.  I had not done the upgrade before the most recent one, so perhaps that had something to do with [...]

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Sometimes, I’m the last one to figure things out.  But just in case I’m not…
Frequently, when dropping Entrecards, I will open 10+ blogs at a single time.  In some instances, the blog will load, but not the Entrecard “Drop” zone.  I just noticed that you can right click on the frame for the Entrecard widget, [...]

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There are a number of posts out there on getting the Digg button into WordPress - I ended up using snippets from a couple of them, and thought that it might be helpful for someone else.
I added the following code to my archives, index, and single post files:
<div style=”float:left; margin-right:10px;”>
<script type=”text/javascript”>digg_url = “<?php the_permalink(); ?>”</script>
<script [...]

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I just wanted to write a quick post - my ISP has been having some issues, but things should be fixed by this afternoon.
I’ll post back as soon as things are fixed.  I also wanted to apologize to Entrecard droppers - things were just too slow over the past two days to keep up; I [...]

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I mentioned that I was trying to rescue the old Dell from the blue screen of death.  I was pretty convinced that a virus was causing problems, but after running some diagnostics realized that the hard drive might actually be fried.  This really sucks because we don’t want to get another computer right now.
What I [...]

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There are a lot of short classes on a variety of topics available for free at Hewlett- Packard’s Learning Center. Topics include Windows Vista, Microsoft Office programs, networking, and general business skills. The classes usually run for 6 weeks, and there are forums to keep things interactive.
I have taken one course so far; [...]

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It seems to have worked for me! I was having some trouble tonight after my hard drive started whirring on my (less than one-year old) MacBook. I’ve had the hard drive replaced once (this is why my published thesis is about 20 pages shorter), and was pretty ticked to hear it causing a [...]

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I am not sure what to think of the new Entrecard changes.  I really like being able to see how many times a blog has dropped on you in the past 30 days - I am using this information to comprise a drop list for myself.  I used to be a member of the Recipro-drops [...]

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As a blogger who is just starting out, I know that I need to increase my content and my traffic.  To date, I have not really been focusing on increasing traffic because I would rather spend my time generating quality content.  However, a recent post by Lazy Man influenced me to check out Entrecard, which is a [...]

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