Web Tinkering

Abuse is a series issue and I’m sure everyone knows at least one person affected by different types of abuse. To help support abuse victims and rise awareness, join bloggers against abuse on September 27, 2007 (this Thursday) through BlogCatalog’s Blogging for a Great Cause Challenge. Abuse can be something really hard to write about, [...]

A good blogging friend of mine, Shaun, has decided to focus on his studies and has sold his blog, ShaunLow.com! After spending most of yesterday out of the house and not getting a chance to sit down to blog myself I read his post. I am really amazed and proud that he has taken [...]

Since my group writing project ends today at 12 m PST (don’t forget to send me your entries by tonight), I thought I’d spend my day today entering a few other contest from around the blogsphere. There are so many contests out there, but I would have to turn this blog into a blog that [...]

At the end of August Bush posted about changing what your’re about. Basically he said your about page should do more than just talk about yourself. Your about page should talk about your blog and what it is about too. I completely agreed with him, especially when I looked at my about page and realized [...]

Marco e-mailed me earlier this week to let me know he included me in his new viral carousel. I go back and forth on liking these and not liking them. I don’t know, I just think it is neat to see where your link ends up plus you can find some pretty cool blogs you’ve [...]

The scariest thing happening this month — new epsoides and series start on TV. Too bad Lost is not one of them! It is pretty much the only show I watch because I want to not just because it’s on. Oh, did I say I love that show? Plus it is filmed in the state [...]

FireFox downloads have now passed over 400 million according to the Spread FireFox website. That is simply amazing to reach in a span of nearly 3 years. I love FireFox and I have never looked at another browser the same since I’ve installed it. The sheer amount of plugins that enable me to configure my [...]

The response to the “How-to” Group Writing Project has been great and I’ve already gotten over 10 entries! I am surprised to see so many entries so early in the project, mostly because I am a procrastinator and figured the entries would come in toward the end. I’m glad that everyone is interested and helping [...]

August has been a great month for BlueJar. I’ve had a lot of great feedback which is very encouraging to keep up with what I’ve been doing and continue to experiment with different ideas. I’m continuing to learn what it takes to run a blog and I’m very happy with my stats from last month. [...]

It is really interesting to see which posts are well received during the month. This will help to determine what topics to keep writing about. Here are BlueJar.com most popular post for the month of August 2007:

The Woodcarvers Quotes #3 – I was thinking this post might offend a few people, but it turns out [...]