Apr 30 2009

iPhone and iPod Theme Added

So I stumbled across a new plug in for Wordpress which creates a Theme for iPhone, iPod and other handheld devices, and it seems pretty cute.
WPTouch  by Brave New Code is quite the plug in and I am testing it out on this site, with an eye towards putting it on Canadian Personal Finance in [...]

Nov 5 2008

How To: Redirect Blogspot to Point at Wordpress Hosted Blog

I wrote this post to myself on my personal blog in February while I was attempting to transition from my old site on Blogspot to my new site at Dreamhost. At the end of it, I over thought it, and should have simply shut down the Blogspot site after a month and not worried about [...]

Oct 30 2008

How to: Fix BCD Error on Dell Vostro Lap Top

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 file is missing required information
In [...]

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Oct 29 2008

Moving from Blogspot to Hosted Wordpress?

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 move from Blogger [...]

Oct 28 2008

How To: Blogspot Entries Cleaned Out

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 Blogspot web [...]

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Oct 27 2008

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 their [...]

Oct 22 2008

Wikinvest and Polls

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”, [...]

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Aug 12 2008

Links Repaired

So after spending most of my spare time this past weekend, repairing any links on my web site that pointed at it’s old Blogspot address, I am now attempting to tackle all of the rest of the broken links on Canadian Personal Finance blog, and it is turning out to be another behemoth of a [...]

Jul 18 2008

How to: Move from Blogspot to Hosted Wordpress — Internal Links

The more I learn, the more I realize how much I have to learn, is sort of how my week has been going for this blog.
After realizing that there must be BLOGSPOT based internal links in the content on this web page that points to my old Not How To Do It blog, I wondered [...]

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Jul 16 2008

A Pillar Post

The fine folks over at Unique Blog Designs (the designers of the basic version of the Wordpress Theme you are looking at, and the producers of a really nifty Wordpress Advertisement Rotor plug in as well), sent me a newsletter about how to increase traffic to my web sites. I found the newsletter informative, but [...]