Comments Update
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Comment relish turned out to be a bit of a non-helpful plug in, as it continued to send thank you e-mails to folks it had already thanked, and I actually got a couple of complaints about it, so I have removed it from the Finance Site. I have added Comment Luv to the systems to [...]
How to: Fix BCD Error on Dell Vostro Lap Top
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Dell Vostro and the Corrupt Vista BCD This post is mostly a note page for me on how I fixed my wife’s DELL Vostro 1400. This morning I woke up and tried to boot my wife’s Vostro and got a “Screen of Death” of sorts. File: \Boot\BCD Status: 0xc0000034 Info: The Windows Boot Configuration Data [...]
Moving from Blogspot to Hosted WordPress?
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Simply use a 301 redirect with some devilishly ingenious code from TechCounter: 301 Permanent Redirect from Blogger Beta to WordPress 11. May 2007, 10:51 By Ryan Ferone Most Bloggers start out with free blog hosting with the most popular of the free services being Google’s blogger where you get a yoursite.blogspot.com address. Now you want to [...]
How To: Blogspot Entries Cleaned Out
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So after figuring it was long enough wait I have destroyed and recreated both original entries of my Blogs. Originally this site was Not How To Do It on Blogspot and it held pretty much an exact duplicate of a lot of the entries in this site, however, I did the following steps: Log onto the [...]
Book Review: Essential Blogging
I took this book out of the Ottawa Public library just to see what interesting tid bits I might pick up, as I usually find all books by O’Reilly and Associates very informative. The book itself is an excellent resource for beginner bloggers who want to start out and figure out how to set up [...]
Using Alexa To Clean up
I have been trying to find a smart way to clean up my old blog on blog spot Canadian Financial Rants, but I finally bit the bullet and deleted it and then recreated it. That purged all of the entries on the site, and now it has a single entry telling whoever trips over the [...]
Wikinvest and Polls
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Tried out a poll from the new Polldaddy plug in on my site on my post: Rates Are Down by 1/4% but haven’t had much interest in the poll. Figured I would see if anyone is actually interested in that kind of interaction with the web site, it seems so far the answer is “No”, [...]
Commenting and Relish
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Added the Comment Relish plug in from Justin Shattuck to Canadian Personal Finance Opinions to see whether sending e-mail to first time commenters causes more traffic through the web site. Seems to work just fine, we shall see if this actually causes folks to wander through my site or not. My Alexa inbound link number [...]

