I’m sorry…

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I’ll admit that yesterday’s post was not particularly good, I am sorry and I will try to do better. It didn’t quiet make sense and there are a bunch of spelling and grammar mistakes and well wasn’t my best work.

I apologise and promise to try make up for it, in my defense I do want to say that it was late I wasn’t in the best of moods and the topic wasn’t as gripping as it was when I first started writing it.

No this isn’t my “next big post” but rather a little starter to hopefully get me “into” this whole writing business, it’s alot easier to write something if you actually write something.

How do you make money with a website?

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I want to know how people make money off there websites… I’m not talking the couple of cents they make from AdWords I’ talking real money.. the kind that lets you buy cars, plans and small countries.

The last few weeks I’ve been spending alot of time looking at online business’s with a particular eye towards how to make money with them and somethings got me very puzzled how do they all make money?

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I’m doing it again…

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I’m building up a collection of half finished posts for this site and not actually finishing any. I’m not sure why I do this.. perhaps it’s because I’m not sure that I want to air that particular dirty laundry or because it’s not “polished” enough or maybe I’m just scared or something. So I’ve come up with a plan…

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It’s like riding a bicycle (re-learning PHP)

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So today I decided to fixup a few things on stuff.za.net and while I’m at it add a few cool plugins to wordpress.

One of those plugins was Now Reading which is pretty cool plugin that allows you too keep track of the books you’re reading. Of course once I added it I wanted to make a few “minor” changes to the templates so that it fitted in with the rest of my site better… that was about 4 hours ago. Continue reading →

The New Server

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Welcome to the new server and home of stuff.za.net…

As usual things didn’t go as planned, but I finally completed the move across to the new server today at around 3pm. Everything should work like it used to.. although I have updated WordPress and the theme I use K2 and added a few things (see below). Let me know if you think something is broken or gotten lost along the way.

I’m now running this all on Linux instead of Windows. It’s still on a shared host but that’s ok… for now anyway.

Changes that I’ve made:
(I’m putting these here so that I don’t forget them.)

  • Put the Flexible Width back into the K2 theme. I use a 19″ and a 27″ Widescreen LCD’s at home so I like to have my website take up a reasonable amount of space. I also use a 12″ notebook so it makes sense to have the screen as wide as possible rather than high. I currently have it set to about 80% width which isn’t too bad.
  • Next up I added the Extended Live Archive Plugin. I’m not sure yet if I like it’s cool and if it doesn’t cause too many problems I think I’ll keep it.
  • Scrobbler Plugin with the Scrobbler (Last.FM) Sidebar module, so that you can see what I’m listening too.
  • Now Reading Plugin and lots of hand editing the templates and style sheets to get it too look ok and do what I want.

And bunch of editing of template files, style sheets and other stuff to get it all to hang together and generally not totally suck.

    Stuff.za.net is moving

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    Just to let you know that stuff.za.net is moving to a new server…
    The new server runs Linux instead of Windows it’s with the same hoster though.

    There shouldn’t been any interuptions but just in case… I’m letting you all know.

    This should all be completed by tommorrow (9th September 2006)

    Warning – Consumption of alcohol.

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    Warning
    Consumption of alcohol:

    • May make you think you are wispering when you are not.
    • Is a major factor in dancing like a wanker.
    • May cause you to tell the same boring story over and over again until your friends want to smash your face in.
    • May lead you to believe that ex-lovers are really dying for you to telephone them at 4 in the morning.
    • May leave you wondering what the hell happened to your trousers.
    • May make you think you can logically converse with other members of the opposite sex without spitting.
    • May Make you think you posses mystical kung-fu powers.
    • May cause you to roll over in the morning and see something really scary (whose species, and/or name you can’t remember.)
    • Is the leading cause of inexplicable rug burns on your forehead.
    • May lead to traffic signs and cones appearing in your home.
    • May lead you to believe you are invisible.
    • May lead you to believe that people are laughing with you.
    • May cause an influx in the time-space continuum, whereby small (and sometimes large) gaps of time may seem to literally disappear.

    Found on a menu

    It’s a Bug

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    “Dear Google,

    I have found a bug in your Google Maps service. A big one indeed.
    In fact, I worry for my life, that it might come and eat me.
    So please, won’t you fix this bug in a hurry? I’m sure you can ask
    the German military to aid you in the struggle against this bug.

    The bug in question can be sighted here, in all it’s scary godzilla-like
    mean self: Link to Bug

    Yours truly.”

    A post on TheDailyWTF forum by nobody.

    Fonts

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    Been messing around with doing a little design work this morning… and discovered Pengiun Fonts.

    If you’re looking for “free” fonts that look cool and instructions on installing them on your linux distro of choice this is the place to go look. Oh and if you’re using Ubuntu and want to install the fonts easily just open Nautilus goto the location fonts:/// and drag the font in…

    Article on Online Retailing

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    A really good read.. this article gives a very different view of the world of online retailing.

    The articles called A view from (under) the long tail.

    I really love the following bit from the article:

    Where Amazon?s normal customer service seems to be run by suspiciously cheerful MBAs from Stanford, who break off from counting their stock options to write apologies and deliver refunds, ?Amazon Advantage?, the ironically named system for selling wares, is clearly based on the last days of the Soviet system.

    Found via Slashdot?