February 28th, 2009 
Zander 
Posted in This week has been hectic, to say the least. We rolled out a new layout on 32 of our blogs, and it introduced a WORLD of problems. I’ve posted in the past about how you should reduce the number of PHP calls in your template files in order to reduce the load on your server, [...]
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Spending Time With Your Parents
I spent 6 hours at my parents’ house today. Why? Their computer was acting up, and they wanted me to reinstall Windows XP for them.. What should have been a 1-2 process turned into a much longer ordeal, as I had to first back up over 15GB of digital pictures and data. Even better, the [...]
Some Great Bargains In The Stock Market
I was a professional day trader from 1998-2000. It was an amazing time, and the money was insane! Unfortunately, the bubble burst, and things got ugly in a hurry! I lost a TON of money in a matter of days, and walked away from the market. After that, I simply watched the market (with morbid [...]
Effective Time Management
In order to succeed, you need to learn how to effectively manage your time. Even with the best intentions, we often get derailed for one reason or another. But if you plan your day ahead of time, you’ll be better off in the long run. As I’ve mentioned before, I have a TON on my [...]
Do What You Love.. The Rest Will Follow
In 1962, Scrully Blotnick began a study focused on 1500 new college graduates. He divided those 1500 people into two groups. Category A said they would pursue money first and follow their passions later. Over 1,245 people went into that group. Category B made up of 255 people said they would seek their passions and [...]
Back From My Mini-Vacation
I just got back from Phoenix last night.. Flying commercial sucks, and having a layover makes it that much worse! Because my wife hates flying red-eye, we wasted the ENTIRE DAY yesterday flying back. We left PHX at 9:55am, and didn’t land in PHL until 9:30pm! We would have come in an hour earlier, but [...]
Cleaning Up Your DB After Ultimate Tag Warrior
Did you use the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin prior to the release of WordPress v2.3? In version 2.3, WordPress added native “tagging”, which made UTW obsolete. Prior to that, those of us who wanted to use tags had to turn to an external pluginn the most popular being Ultimate Tag Warrior. When WP 2.3 was [...]
