All the parties I have attended have always been for adults only. They are pretty simple to set up – just make sure the booze keeps flowing. However, the Microsoft Company Picnic is held for the employees and their families. Most MS employees have kids and finding stuff for the kids to do during the picnic can be tough. Well, […]
Read MoreThe yearly Microsoft company picnic is the biggest picnic I have ever attended. It is so big that it’s held over three days. Microsoft employs over 30,000 people in the Seattle area and while Mountain Meadows Farm can accommodate that many, the employees are allowed to bring their children and a guest. So, instead of a picnic for 30,000, it’s […]
Read MoreIn my Why I Allow Comments On My Blog post, I said that a blog that doesn’t allow comments is no longer a blog. Markus Frind of Plenty of Fish fame is asking if some of those blogs listed by Business Week should even be call blogs. In his recent blog post, Markus contends: The article talks about “bloggers†making […]
Read MoreSarah and I are getting a head start to the weekend by doing a road trip down to Seattle. We’ve been invited to the annual Microsoft company picnic at Mountain Meadows Farm. This yearly shindig is held for all the employees and family members of the big software firm. Microsoft employs over 30,000 people in the Seattle area so you […]
Read MoreGood news for all you webmasters who use Firefox (that’s like 90% of you), Alexa and Firefox has finally became friends and released a toolbar for Firefox. And it’s way better than the Alexa toolbar for Internet Explore. The Alexa toolbar for Firefox doens’t even look like a toolbar. It takes up very little browser space. The traffic, trend and […]
Read MoreThis is a follow up to my post about offline blog promotion ideas. In that post, I told you to make some business cards because it’s a great promotional tool and helps to legitimize your blog and build your brand. I get my business cards from Unico Print Media. They charge $85 for 1,000 double sided full color cards (it’s […]
Read MoreHow much time do you really have in a day? Many people, me included, have full-time jobs. And sometimes, these full-time jobs are more than your average 40 hour/ week job. With that in mind, you have to ask yourself one question, and you have to be honest with yourself, do you have time to start another blog? Since starting […]
Read MoreI first wrote about WP Text Ads back on May 19th when Alex Choo emailed me about his WordPress plugin. WP Text Ads allows WordPress publishers to sell text links directly to advertisers and bypass services like Text Link Ads. While selling your own text links and killing off the middleman sounds like a good idea, it doesn’t work that […]
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