As a new blogger, I've been keeping track of things which have either helped or hurt me as a blogger. One big thing that I have noticed is a large decline in traffic as I stop posting.

As a blogger, you have to consistantly blog. Every week, day, hour, or whatever other time interval you choose. The longest time I reccomend, however, is a week. Anything longer and people stop caring or remembering about you. A week is just long enough that people don't get sick of you, but short enough that they remember who you are. Keep this in mind as you go about your blogging.

UPDATE: Added the Firefox Plugin!

UPDATE: Added the Chrome Plugin!

UPDATE: Added a search button to Gmail

Nearly every single soul reading this post uses Google. Everybody tries to beat Google. Yahoo and Bing are it's biggest competitors. I'm not here to discuss that, though. Instead, I want to talk about my improvements to Google, Yahoo, and Bing that I want everyone to see.

I do a lot of things. Just ask anyone who knows me. They all know that I'm pretty knowledgable in just about any feild, situation, etc. Granted, there are things that I do not know about. I'll be the first to admit that. I do know enough to get by on lots of things though. I can repair cars (which I'm pretty good at, actually), do plumbing, electrical, carpentry, sys admining, antiquing, programming, and lots of other random stuff. My most recent problem, however, was with the sys admin part of my life.

While I was at the Kynetx Christmas party, my boss' wife asked me, "I want to understand this Twitter thing. Why do you use it?" I answered her question and thought that I'd post my response here.

There are two main reasons why I use Twitter.

Bit.ly, tinyurl.com, and many other places have started up link shortening which is usefull for Twitter, telling people over the phone, etc. But what it makes difficult is the fact that you have no idea where that link is really pointing to. As we can see from this post here, there are dangers with the way that Mozilla handles URI's. You could exploit those dangerous problems with a shortened link, and nobody would ever be the wiser.

When writing my Kynetx rules, I like to duplicate as little work as I possibly can. In fact, where possible, I use the same exact rule with a template which pulls from a data structure based on site. Here's an example as to what I mean.

Code:

global {

dataStructure = { "www.foo.com": { "location": "http://www.usbchainsaw.com/" }, "www.bar.com": { "location": "http://www.xkcd.com/"} };

}

rule template is active {

I was browsing the Classifieds section on http://www.ksl.com (the local classifieds these days in UT) when I stumbled across a funny ad. I'm not sure if it was a joke or not. The way it was written made it seem serious, but I just can't believe somebody would be that stupid. To help you guys know what I'm talking about, here's a screenshot.

I am not responsible for any damages occuring from following these instructions, whether those damages occur to property, pets, or people. DO AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Gorilla glue, one of the greatest substances known to man. That stuff rocks! It's like a mixture of spray foam and super glue. What I don't like about it is when it gets on my hands. The stuff is nearly impossible to get off. I have found a solution that works, and works quite well, might I add.