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On blog traffic…

by Lon on October 31, 2007

Blogrush just upgraded to v2, and I just added it to the sidebar here. I’ve been using it on my other blog, SolarCrash, and it’s had a bit of traction, though it’s still hard to gauge.  You can give it a try with my referral here. Regarding Google adsense, it’s been almost a year I’ve [...]

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Picasa Photos…

by Lon on August 10, 2007

Continuing the technology series on how I get things done… For me, Google Picasa is the only way to go in terms of photo management. I’ve got about 22,000 photos right now and Picasa handles it all with style and ease. 1. You can organize through folders or albums or search via tags and descriptions. [...]

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Facebook…

by Lon on August 1, 2007

If you’re not on it, I just don’t know why… Of all the social networks – myspace is too messy, friendster‘s too old-school, linked-in is a bit too business oriented, and google-sponsored socialstream is still just a dream – facebook is clean and it works well. One in three Canadians use it, and Toronto has [...]

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Firefox / Comments

by Lon on July 21, 2007

A fellow voxtropolitan has just informed me that comments aren’t working. I just verified, it seems to only be my site at the moment when browsing through Internet Explorer or Opera. Everything seems fine on mozilla based browsers ie. firefox, flock, seamonkey. I’m not sure how long this has been going on or when the [...]

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Online security

by Lon on July 14, 2007

My wife and I were discussing last night how much of our lives we should be sharing online. Between various social networks, photo sites, and blogs in particular, a lot of our personal identity is accessible to the world. What are you comfortable with? In particular I’d love to hear from those of you in [...]

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