5 Ways To Increase Your Blog Traffic

Wordpress IconFellow bloggers, here's a nice list of easy ways to increase traffic to your blog. I'd add a sixth — consistant posting. This will not only help build a faithful reader base, but will also keep search engine robots coming back on a regular basis to crawl your new content.

5 Ways To Increase Your Blog Traffic

Chickenfoot Update: 2nd Album News, Live DVD News and More

ChickenfootDuring the Super Bowl tonight, I'm positive one of the CBS lineup commercials had Hagar or Chickenfoot playing, and was hoping this update would shed some light. It doesn't though. I'm also glad to hear that Hagar isn't going to be a temporary replacement for Steven Tyler in Aerosmith. I'm definitely looking forward to the sophomore Chickenfoot album.

Chickenfoot update: 2nd album news, live DVD news & more

Cheap, Easy and Effective Way to Clean Up Greasy Hands

Cycling SignWorking on your bikes can be a messy, greasy task. Every time I work on one of my bikes, no matter how careful I am, I always end of with black grease smeared on skin and clothes alike. My cleaner of choice for clothes is good old liquid dish detergent. This works OK on skin, but it's not great. But a few months back, I found a great and cheap thing that works wonders at the local Advance Auto Parts. It's called GoJo Creme Hand Cleaner A 14oz tub is under two bucks and should last years. You rub the cream on your hands, skin, etc. and after a bit of rubbing it around, you add a few drops of water. I was amazed at how good of a job it does removing grease, and with very little elbow grease.

7 Ways to Find Your Focus

Here's a great list of ways to find your focus in the office. I especially think the "propose later" bit to be very useful and effective. I'd add to "change locations" working from home for those that have it available for their given jobs and given workplaces. I can't tell you how many days I've worked from home that have been so much more productive, and it all has to do with focus and limiting your interruptions. It's amazing that not being at your [work] desk can ward off plenty of unimportant interruptions and channels some of the others of more importance into a more manageable and controllable medium — email (or instant messaging).

7 Ways to Find Your Focus

More Exercise Better in Long Run, Study Finds

Cycling SignLike a teammate said, time to do a few long rides and print and frame this for spouses.

More Exercise Better in Long Run, Study Finds

Pure CSS Coke Can

A co-worker sent this too me. It's a rotating Coke can that's done all with CSS — no Java or JavaScript or anything of the sort. It's actually all CSS1 stuff with a little CSS2 thrown in the mix. It works with displacement maps for the background image. I must admit though, I've only seen displacement maps in

Pure CSS Coke Can

Improvising On Two Wheels

Tyler and Daddy in the SnowSo central North Carolina got its annual one snowfall this weekend to the tune of about 6 inches here at the Keefers' abode. Last year, we got a similar amount just a few weeks earlier in January. Being born in Pennsylvania and growing up in the early teens in Baltimore, it's still funny to see how poorly the roads are taken care of here. It's hard not to laugh. Anyway, our hilly neighborhood is at an even bigger disadvantage — the roads have yet to be finished with their final grading, meaning manhole covers, water main access, etc. continue to protrude higher than the rest. This means a snow plow could never plow our neighborhood streets.

But as it turns out, it doesn't really matter.

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iPad? iDon't Get it

Apple Logo - iPadSo all the rumors leading up to yesterday's announcement by Apple of their tablet, the iPad left me wondering why in the world I would want this product as a current owner of both an iPhone 3GS and and Macbook. After reading on its features and all, I still don't get why I would want this, nor why a lot of others in the same boat.

I thought maybe it'd be good for traveling and watching movies, but that's debunked and a detraction after reading this article: Watching Movies on an iPad: What You See is What you Get. If you read the articles comments and his later revision of his graphic, it's not as bad as first reported, but the thing still has a lot of wasted space top and bottom for cinematic viewing, but as the commenters point out, that happens in theaters and your HDTV as well. Regardless, it's better than watching on a smaller screen iPod/iPhone, but you'd still be better off toting your MacBook for movie watching.

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Clients From Hell

File this under, "Funny cause it's true." This is a collection of client horror stories from designers and developers and so many hit way too close to home. Thanks to Bret for sending me the link.

Clients From Hell

Bike Carson Ride-On Diet Versus Taco Bell Diet

Cycling SignIn response to Taco Bell's new drive-thru "diet," here's a Carson, Nevada cyclist's ride-on diet — a much more realistic and fun diet, in my humble opinion. Awesome retort and suggestions.

Bike Carson Ride-On Diet Versus Taco Bell Diet