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Jan 12, 2012, 11:45 am
It seems every year at this time the fitness world is flooded with the latest and greatest fitness products and programs. With the coming of a new year comes the perennial New Years Resolution. These resolutions are usually topped by the mantras to lose weight and get fit. The New Year to the fi... Comment - Like
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Oct 17, 2011, 2:37 pm
It happens to all of us, like it did me, one day we look down and see that we’re physically not who we want to be. We let ourselves go again. Yet with each passing day the only thing we do is think about how we should be doing something about it.
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Oct 10, 2011, 7:26 pm
There comes a time in everyone’s life, at least there should be a time, where we begin to question our heading in life. Questions like “Is this the direction I want to continue in?” and “Am I making the right decisions every day that will lead me to where I want to be?” might be familiar t... Comment - Like
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Jul 13, 2011, 12:23 pm
Recently eBay had changed the way eBay Partner Network (EPN) affiliates obtain data through their RSS feed, and was announced via this post. EPN had changed the request parameters from one form to another, forcing all affiliates to switch their applications. There was a bit of confusion about ex... Comment - Like
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Jul 11, 2011, 12:03 pm
I sometimes create posts to share, and sometimes to test things out. One particular post I created a ways back was about the tattoo on my toes. This post in particular not only shared a bit of me, but it has turned out to be a really great litmus test for Google image search ranking. Granted, ... Comment - Like
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Jun 29, 2011, 4:26 pm
I don’t claim to follow politics or know what the heck is going on all the time, but I can’t help but step in and say something this time. California Governor Jerry Brown is considering taxing online sales in the State of California, and as a result, Amazon is considering dropping California a... Comment - Like
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Jun 29, 2011, 12:43 pm
Sometimes when we make changes to our site, and we test those changes, we feel confident that everything is working right. Other times we might feel confident, but something in the back of our minds tells us that some users might be experiencing errors or problems. I’m currently having those e... Comment - Like
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Jun 11, 2011, 12:13 pm
As might know, these past months I have been doing a little planning and restructuring of how I present myself online, here on my blog as well as out there in social la-la land. One of the key aspects of my site that I’ve wanted to improve for a long time is the ability to collect information fr... Comment - Like
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Jun 2, 2011, 11:49 am
In case you’ve been off the web for the past few days, you’ve no doubt heard that Google has finally released the +1 button code for webmasters to use on their sites and blogs. In fact, if you were on Twitter yesterday, you probably couldn’t help but see tweet after tweet about the darn thin... Comment - Like
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May 11, 2011, 12:40 pm
I’ve been making some changes around here on WayneJohn.com. Popped a logo on top, themed out my install of Thesis a bit and just recently upgraded my comment form a bit. It’s taken me quite a bit of time to get it all done, but I’m really happy with the results so far. There is still ple... Comment - Like
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May 3, 2011, 1:18 pm
It amuses me when I read how bloggers talk about the anchor tag (that’s the link tag for those that don’t know) and the possible nofollow attribute that can be added, and when they say that you should always do one or the other. It doesn’t matter one lick to Google what you mark as nofollow ... Comment - Like
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Apr 18, 2011, 11:59 am
Leaving comments on blog posts and articles is a wonderful thing, don’t ya think? I mean, never in our life have we been given such a microphone to broadcast our thoughts about anything we want, to so many. I assume you’re not a news anchorman, by the way.
It’s an awesome power to have. W... Comment - Like
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Apr 12, 2011, 2:55 pm
This has to be a first in the world. Ya know, like cats and dogs living together…now we have cats and dolphins being affectionate with each other. Who would have thought? I certainly have never seen such a thing. In fact, I only recently discovered that there are cats that actually enjoy wate... Comment - Like
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Apr 8, 2011, 12:52 pm
If you are a member of the eBay Partner Network, you might have heard that there will soon be some changes to the format of their RSS feed coming up soon. Here are the salient points of the post the eBay team recently released:
We are upgrading our RSS Feed Generator to take advantage of eBay’s... Comment - Like
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Apr 6, 2011, 12:14 pm
Have you ever had to modify one of your WordPress plugins or themes? Have you ever made changes changes to your plugins or themes, only to lose them during an update sometime later?
I’ve had to mod my plugins and themes plenty of times, and when I do, I usually wonder if I’ll forget that I’... Comment - Like
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Apr 4, 2011, 12:15 pm
While doing a little redesign work around the old blog, I discovered after I had changed the background colors, my links would display an outline for a brief moment. Brief because after I clicked it, I left the page and landed on a new page…go figure. The outline only displayed itself afte... Comment - Like
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Mar 29, 2011, 11:59 am
If you ever hire a web developer, there will normally come a point where you need to provide administrative access to your host or back-end website administrative section. It’s all part of the process when you work with people like me who develop websites for a living. I routinely need admin a... Comment - Like
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Mar 26, 2011, 3:11 pm
If you have visited WayneJohn.com recently, you might have noticed that I’ve made a few changes to my site; namely the header and footer area. It’s part of my own effort to give my site a look and feel that I think fits and will be useful. I’m taking a slow approach to re-designing my site,... Comment - Like
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Mar 17, 2011, 1:25 pm
If you attended SXSW, which I didn’t, you might have caught word that the Blogger team at Google is near ready to release a long awaited update to the Blogger blog system.
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Mar 11, 2011, 2:05 pm
If you haven’t heard, Automattic has released a plugin called JetPack that provides self-hosted WordPress blogs some functionality that was only found on WordPress.com blogs (read more about that here). One of the plugins that the pack provides is called Gravatar Hovercards. Here’s what Auto... Comment - Like
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Mar 10, 2011, 11:47 am
I feel compelled to share with you a little story about how I screwed up a really good relationship. I’m not going to make any excuses, but I will share my thinking and how it came about.
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Mar 3, 2011, 11:44 pm
In the interest of being more transparent and open with everyone that visits my blog, I have adopted a disclosure policy that describes the exact nature of my relationship to the advertisers and links that you might find on my blog.
In my last post I asked the question “Should you identify affili... Comment - Like
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Mar 2, 2011, 12:19 pm
I’ve been pondering this for a bit now, and I’m not really sure exactly how I feel about it yet. Bloggers routinely link to other companies they recommend and I’ve noticed recently that more of the blogger that I read are starting to identify their affiliate links in some manner so that I, t... Comment - Like
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Feb 21, 2011, 12:36 pm
I was asked by Justyna Bizdra from RSS Marketing how I managed to relocate the output of the Twitter textbox on my comment form. It’s a good question, and simply replying to the comment wasn’t good enough since there are probably a number of users out there with the exact same question. If y... Comment - Like
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Feb 19, 2011, 5:04 pm
Sometimes inspiration takes some time to make it into the public eye. When Ari Herzog wrote his post on whether or not comments should be open or closed, he referred to his own comment policy, and I liked it. So much so that it inspired me to create my own. This was a little more than a year a... Comment - Like
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Feb 17, 2011, 10:40 pm
Finding the right retweet button for your WordPress blog is important. Don’t fall into the trap that many popular bloggers have. If you blog, or publish content that you want users to share on Twitter, are you making it easy for your readers to share it? I suspect that you might think you ar... Comment - Like
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Feb 14, 2011, 12:12 pm
It was when I was living in Arizona that I first realized that things don’t stay the same. My mother had re-married to a computer technician that worked for Hughes Aircraft back in 1970′s, and soon after the wedding, we packed up and moved out to Torrance California. I left behind the few fr... Comment - Like
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Feb 10, 2011, 2:56 am
Automating status updates to Twitter is really easy if you know what you’re doing. It just takes a little bit of code, some configuration, and a cron job. This walk-through will show you how to set up a process that will grab a random post from a WordPress database and tweet the title along with... Comment - Like
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Feb 8, 2011, 12:58 pm
Saturday night was a fun night. I was lucky enough to have heard about a speed dating event at Suds, a local tavern in Huntington Beach. The cost was $5 to speed date about 18 different girls. These aren’t your average girls though, these were Roller Girls. Bad-ass chicks that could easily... Comment - Like
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Feb 5, 2011, 2:58 pm
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You work hard on your posts. You spend countless hours researching content, doing fact-finding, or maybe it just rolls out of your head, through your hands and onto the screen. However the post makes it into a published state, as bloggers, we should be proud of the work we produce. We s... Comment - Like
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Feb 4, 2011, 7:04 pm
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I’ve been blogging for over three years now, and it feels like I’ve seen it all. Granted, I haven’t done many things that other bloggers may have ventured into, but I’ve seen enough to count the number of ways that blogging is good and fun, and a number of ways that blogging can be c... Comment - Like
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Feb 2, 2011, 1:33 pm
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My webhost, Dreamhost, has just emailed me a set of five invitation codes that I could share with my friends. Since my friends in real life don’t have a need or desire to have a website, they probably won’t have any interest in these codes. So instead, I’m going to share them with y... Comment - Like
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Jan 31, 2011, 12:30 pm
It took me about a year before I decided to join up with Foursquare and start announcing to the world where I’m at when I go be-bopping around town, and the world. I never liked the idea of leaving a breadcrumb trail of my daily habits, let alone announcing where I am at any particular moment. ... Comment - Like
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Jan 28, 2011, 12:57 am
How many times have you visited a site, and then visited the sites blog and it has a completely different style and look to it? I know I’ve seen that many, many times out there. What message might that convey to your visitors? Your site and blog should match in design and structure as closely ... Comment - Like
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Jan 25, 2011, 7:11 pm
My woman, damn I love her, she purchased us a 3 day vacation cruise to Ensenada, Mexico with Carnival cruise lines for my recent 40th birthday. We had a great time, and we took a few photos too, however, I wasn’t allowed to bring my laptop. This was a disconnect and party cruise. Although, I... Comment - Like
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Jan 18, 2011, 1:49 am
I’ve taken the dive and have purchased myself a developer license of the Thesis WordPress theme. Thesis is being used by a number of people out there that I respect, and while I usually don’t enjoy having all the bells and whistles of a prepared theme, as they tend to be pretty restrictive in ... Comment - Like
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Jan 15, 2011, 7:27 pm
The final version of the data file that contains all vehicles made and sold within the United States for the years 1896 to 2011 is now complete and available for download through my e-Junkie store.
This file contains over 437 models by vehicle manufacturers that are selling vehicles within the Unit... Comment - Like
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Jan 14, 2011, 11:59 am
I’ve been watching a few fellow bloggers do guest posting with some success, and after I think about it a bit, I think it’s time to open up an invitation to those of you that might want to guest post here on my site.
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Dec 26, 2010, 1:05 pm
Roger Waters has finished up his US leg of The Wall 2010 tour, and I was lucky enough to make it to 6 of the shows. Yeah, I know, what the hell, right? 6 shows…I went a little off my rocker, I know. I can temper such madness with the fact that this all started with the Roger Waters show in V... Comment - Like
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Dec 16, 2010, 2:33 pm
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I’ve never been one to enjoy a cell phone. Beyond the initial coolness of owning a cell phone comes the stark realization that you’re now on a leash. Anyone can contact you at any time of the day or night, unless you turn it off, of course. I usually don’t turn m... Comment - Like
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Dec 10, 2010, 11:40 am
I’m trying to get back into the swing of writing and “being a blogger”, as it were, but I’m going to change some things to better suit my way of doing things, and to maybe encourage more comments from real people, and reduce the spam this blog receives in one fell swoop. Here’s what I’... Comment - Like
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Dec 7, 2010, 12:44 pm
I haven’t used Twitter for about a year now, and most recently I’ve unfollowed nearly all the people I was following. During my absence from Twitter, all my tweets were automated. I’ve set up cron jobs to do all the tweeting for me. I’ve tweeted what I’ve been listening to, I’ve tw... Comment - Like
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Sep 30, 2010, 11:46 am
I stumbled upon Google’s Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide by sheer accident. After reading a few pages of this PDF, I had to share it with everyone that reads my blog. It’s direct from Google and filled with bits of information that will help you rank your sites within Google’s searc... Comment - Like
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Sep 26, 2010, 3:23 pm
You might recall that I had compiled a list of vehicles made and sold within the United States for the years 1896 to 2011.
I have updated the United States vehicle data file that is available for download through e-Junkie. This update contains an expanded list of 2011 year, make, and model data.... Comment - Like
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Sep 17, 2010, 12:06 pm
Aside from this guy being a complete idiot while riding his motorcycle down Southern California’s infamous 405 freeway in rush hour traffic, it reminds me how much I miss riding.
I used to ride to and from work every day. It was fun…especially since I worked about 30 miles from home. It gua... Comment - Like
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Sep 13, 2010, 12:24 pm
Want to learn how to create a WordPress theme? I’ve found an awesome WordPress theme tutorial that rocks, and I want to share it with you. I’ve used this tutorial to help clear up some of the issues and questions that I have had about WordPress theme development, and if you’re interested i... Comment - Like
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Sep 9, 2010, 5:06 pm
When I look at the world, I see objects. Everywhere I look, an object, or a collection of objects. More often it’s the latter, as it’s apparent to me that everything in this universe, all the complex processes and diversity can be broken down, and defined, by treating it like a simple object... Comment - Like
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Sep 5, 2010, 2:09 pm
I can’t get this out of my head: “I’m backing up, backing up, backing up, cause my daddy taught me good”. The Gregory Brothers over at YouTube have outdone themselves big time. They used a KMBC news bit and put it to music…the final result is a catchy, entertaining bit of work. Here, che... Comment - Like
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Sep 3, 2010, 4:59 pm
Ready to make some money with your older posts on your blog or site? Listed below are 10 awesome affiliate marketing alternatives to AdSense. You can use these to help provide you with a large array of niche partners to use in certain circumstances. Circumstances such as trying to find a partne... Comment - Like
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