In years gone by, keeping your home life and your work life separate was easy. At the end of day you left the office behind and went home to relax. Even in recent times, with the proliferation of telecommuting, it was possible to close the door to your home office and leave the work behind. [...]
If you read this blog, you’ll probably be aware that we use Text Link Ads to provide some regular income. Text Link Ads is by no means perfect, but they are certainly the biggest and are probably the best outfit out there at the moment for selling links on blogs and websites. Recently, a competitor [...]
This post has been written as weekly challenge issued to the members of the Better Blogging community, a collection of people passionate about blogging and committed to becoming better at it. It’s an open and friendly group, and you’ll be made to feel welcome. For this weeks task we’ll be putting our archives to work [...]
As a user of “the internet”, I’d be willing to guess you are currently subscribed to quite a few RSS Feeds. Feeds are a great way to ensure you stay in touch with your favourite sites and saves you the hassle of going round to each site every day to see if something new has [...]
In years gone by, when the vast majority of work was manual, back aches were a real problem for a large percentage of the population. Modern techniques, and a shift towards non-manual work for large portions of the workforce means that back ache isn’t as prevalent as it used to be. That’s not to say [...]
A new, blogger targeted, traffic exchange system has just launched. Blog Rush places a link to your blog every time its widget is loaded on one of your pages. This is a system that’s been used before and typically has some problems, which I’ll run through in a second. Firstly, I wanted to let you [...]
I had a bit of a crazy day yesterday. By mid-afternoon I had added five new blogs to my feed reader. This is quite a big deal for me as I’ve already got quite a few subscriptions in my feed reader, far too many in fact. But nevertheless, I still love finding new blogs. You [...]
Linking is the lifeblood of the internet. Without the ability to link, the internet would be a very difficult place to frequent. The same is true for sites and blogs, without links to expand on ideas, provide further reading and guide your readers to usefull content, a blog can become a very unwelcoming place. There [...]
I just received a very interesting email from the Text Link Ads people. After the recent “merger” with Auction Ads, they are offering $25 to Text Link Ads account holders who sign up to Auction Ads. That’s $25 dollars, essentially for free. I’d recommend doing this right not, and then following the steps below to [...]
You may have noticed that the site’s design has been tweaked a bit. Specifically, I’ve tried to go for a much easier to read colour scheme, which also happens to be much lighter than the old one. Hopefully there aren’t any bugs as I’ve kept the main structure and layout of the site largely the [...]
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