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 Tips on Productivity: From ‘The Princess Bride’

 


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February 27, 2008 | Filed Under Business, Guest Post | Leave a Comment 

Kicking Myself…

photo by psd

The other day, I was thinking about a website that I used to run. It was an alumni site for my High School…it got a fair amount of traffic (not much), mostly from people who were interested in seeing who was doing what these days.

I also noticed that many of my users were also members of other alumni sites. Sites that charge money to allow you to keep up with your friends. *shudder*

Of course, that was a few years ago. And this is the part where I kick myself.

Why didn’t I monetize that site? It would have been a great idea. Unfortunately, I was a bit less intelligent in those days when it came to business.

Perhaps I shall have to revive that site. I’m wondering if my host allows multiple sites on my hosting plan? If not, I know some other inexpensive hosts who’s entry-level plans would do the trick for hosting that site. After all, it was a small school!

My question is this: have any of you had the misfortune of regretting a business decision you didn’t make (other than Google stocks or something like that…we all regret not getting into that)?

Do tell!

 


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February 24, 2008 | Filed Under Business | 1 Comment 

Contest Winner Announcement - Weather Underground Membership

Wow…even though there were only 7 entries, it’s still more than I honestly expected! So I suppose that means I have to pick a winner.

Thanks to the folks at random.org , we can randomly select a winner. I’m going to do that right now!

Please hold while I try that extension…

And here are the results:

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

1

Timestamp: 2008-02-23 23:10:42 UTC

Huh…go figure.  That would be Mary Ann!  WooHoo!

Hey, go check your email!

 


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February 23, 2008 | Filed Under Contests | Leave a Comment 

URL Annoyances Galore!

Well, I finally fixed the URL issue (showing the actual path to the site on the server), but now I face another annoying URL annoyance - making the titles of my article show up.

I’ll admit, I haven’t done a ton of web-work in several years, so I’m a bit rusty. The thing is, now my address shows up as this:

http://thesugarbuzzproject.info

…even after clicking on an article title. I want it to look like this:

http://thesugarbuzzproject.info/contest-1-year-membership-to-weather-underground

What am I doing wrong here? The permalink URLs work fine, but they don’t display in the title bar, which is what I want.

Grrr, Arrg.

Can anyone please help me?

Oh, the contest is scheduled to end this coming Saturday. If you haven’t already entered, now would be a really good time to do that.

 


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February 21, 2008 | Filed Under Audience Participation, Site News | 4 Comments 

What? Another contest?

Just wanted to pass this alog…Chris Brandrick (from ChrisBrandrick.com) is having a contest as well.

He’s giving away a custom drawn avatar. Wow, I wish I was talented enough to give away cool prizes!

Go check it out…then come back…please!

Here’s a sample of his work:

 


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February 20, 2008 | Filed Under Contests | Leave a Comment 

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