I got tagged by myself to write a poem for the poetry meme I started to get more traffic to A few good notes. I converted this blog to a poetry blog, giving others the opportunity to write their own poetry. So here goes: When I get up out of bed Where I was sleeping [...]

In a recent post Matt Cutts of Google writes about How to report paid links to Google. He explains that Google is needs more sites for testing, because he (and the Google team) wants to tweak the existing algorithms for finding paid links. He makes it abundantly clear that they are not against paid links [...]

Note: For this article you need to have shell access or a way to unzip files in your hosting account. FTP is one of the fastest file transfer protocols. This protocol is used for the transfer of files from one computer to another, using the Internet. FTP is usually used to transfer web documents and [...]

I have finally reached the desired circumstances to really start monetizing my blog. The number of readers has grown to my set limit, I have enough quality content and I have more time to spend on my blog. At the moment I have 3 options available for advertising: Text Links, Image ads in the sidebar [...]

After writing the Payal vs Moneybookers article, I actively started letting people know that Moneybookers is the payment system I’m using. I was excited to see my first ever online payment come in. An Internet friend of mine paid via Moneybookers for the domain names he registered. Now, let’s hope more people start using Moneybookers, [...]

Sparked by Mitch Harper’s guest post on John Chow’s blog I started doing some research on the matter of the oh so widely discussed “code of conduct” which Tim O’Reilly would have set. Misinformation The title of this guest post is “Will You Adhere to the New Blogging Code of Conduct?” The following statement is [...]

If you look down to the bottom of my frontpage, you’ll see that my posts are divided over a couple of pages. The nice thing about this way of paginating is that people can move to whichever page they want to. This also works with categories. I was visiting John Chow’s “Rambling” category and I [...]

I read a couple of blogs where people say they don’t like Snap Preview Anywhere popup previews. Here’s my take on the matter. I’m a designer writing about (mainly web) design. When I browse the web, the look of a site is very important to me as to how much I value the content of [...]

Previously, I mentioned some challenges people are facing when they would want to switch from XP (or Vista) to Ubuntu (or other Linux Distros). After that I wrote about steps you could take to try out Ubuntu to decide for yourself if the switch is something for you. To show that it shouldn’t be difficult [...]

I got the idea of writing this article when I was reading about Flipping website in the blog of Dave and Jay. Dave visited my MyBlogLog profile, so I wanted to see what his blog got to offer. On the home page I saw “Website Flipping for Profit – Part 3″. I personally don’t like [...]