AZDana

Archive for January, 2008

I’ve decided to do some updating and change a few things, but before I do that, I am going to do some organizing, dealing with some old paid posts, changing categories, etc. So if you don’t see me for a day or two, I’m feeling fine, I’m just getting everything ready for the big move.

One of my favorite bloggers, ChadWSmith, is offering a great deal on a MacBook he’s listed for sale on ebay. Personally, I know very little about Mac products, but the specs on this nifty laptop seem to be pretty impressive and he’s added all sorts of goodies. More importantly, his notebook has achieved the notable distinction of receiving over 35,000 views on YouTube, a statistic many of us only dream about. Chad posted complete details and included informative videos in the ebay auction, so take a look, bid early and bid often.

Just think, if you’re the lucky winner, the laptop may be just the tool you need to achieve financial success like this:

I just read about a company that is offering absolutely free hosting. I haven’t checked them out, but Tyler Cruz gave them a pretty thorough review. As a matter of fact, that’s one of the reasons I respect Tyler Cruz so much is that he puts so much effort into every review he does. I find it very interesting, that while everyone else is accepting less money for paid blogging, Tyler seems to be the only one that has increased his rates. IIRC, he started off charging $60 per review, and is now charging $110 per review. Personally, I think that even at that rate, he is giving his clients a great deal and I think all paid bloggers would do well to emulate his style and give the customer more than what they paid for.

Okay, I didn’t mean to go off on a tangent like this, and this is by no means a review of Tyler’s site. I just want to suggest that if you’re a blogger and you’re looking for free hosting, go read Tyler’s review, and while you’re there, take a few minutes to check out his approach to paid blogging.

Caveat: I didn’t sign up for the free hosting, and although they’re new, they seem to have a few unhappy customers out there. Personally, I would probably never put my main income generating site anyplace with less than a stellar reputation, but if your money’s tight, or if you want to test drive a concept, I’d say it would be worth it to try a free host. Besides, paying for your hosting doesn’t necessarily guarantee good service. Another favorite blog of mine, InvestorBlogger, details their recent nightmares caused by Dreamhost, their hosting company. From what I understand, Dreamhost erroneously overbilled most of their clients and had a 7.5 million dollar surplus in one day, mostly caused by improperly tapping into the bank accounts of those that had signed up for automatic payment. Dreamhost’s blog post about the situation was far from comforting and may have even alienated their customers further.

Okay, that was another tangent… getting back into the swing of blogging seems to be more challenging than I thought it would be. I need to get back in the habit of staying on topic, and work on ending a post with style.

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Wow, I am so rusty at this. Its rather hard to write an update when I haven’t written anything for so long. So I’ll briefly touch on what’s been happening, and then go back in-depth and talk more about it in a few days, after I’m warmed up.

When you hear the term “migraine”, you think of throbbing pain. However, I found out through first hand experience about something called ocular migraines, aural migraines or retinal migraines. It doesn’t hurt, you just see auras that block your vision, making you unable to do simple things like reading or driving a car.

Here’s a video I found at youtube, it kind of shows what its like:

Thankfully, I am doing much better now, and I firmly believe that most of my problems were caused by diet soda. In my opinion, that stuff can be poison for some people. I’ll have more to say about that later. In the meantime, I have tons of stuff I need to do in order to get caught up online.

Gee, I wonder what Google’s done to my PageRank lately?