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Archive of posts filed under the Technology category.
The Boy Who Saved Christmas
For Christmas 2007, my wife and I made a movie with our 8 year old nephew playing all of the roles. It turned out pretty well. My sister-in-love and brother loved it, it was definitely a surprise. Filmed with a Canon GL2, edited in iMovie HD.
Evolving PlanetMike.com: Chapter 5 – New Name
Currently most, and soon all, of the content at PlanetMike.com is related to technology and web design. So I took this opportunity to rename the site from “Michael Boyd Clark Journal/Blog” to “PlanetMike’s Technology Journal.” I am now adding new GoogleAlerts to monitor for the new name appearing in splogs (already found two!). I also […]
Ticket Sales Advertising
Since the Google PageRank storm last October, I have changed how I place ads on my sites. Some of my sites, like here on PlanetMike.com, I don’t have advertising at all. Other, like
Evolving PlanetMike.com: Chapter 4 – Copying the Database and Redirecting
Ok, I’ve moved a whole bunch of posts from PlanetMike.com over to my personal site, MichaelClark.name. While tedious, it was a pretty straightforward process. Install WordPress on your new domain. Make sure it is the same version as the one on the old domain! Copy the active theme to the new site’s theme directory. This […]
Renting movies from Apple via iTunes
I wrote an article about my experience with renting a movie via the Apple iTunes store. It’s published on TheAppleBlog.com.
Creating a “GoTo” URL For Your WordPress-Powered Site
For one of my other sites, I’ll be doing some postal mailings in which I’ll need to include the URLs of some of the posts I’ve made. I really don’t want to force people to have to retype those horribly long URLs. I could use a service like TinyUrl.com, but I’m not happy giving a […]
Evolving PlanetMike.com: Chapter 3 – Moving Content Between Domains
I’ve made a good start on splitting out personal stuff from PlanetMike.com, and moving it to MichaelClark.name. Jokes, photo galleries, and a handful of categories from WordPress have been moved. I’m moving a few more categories today, then I’ll share some of the lessons I’ve learned. Hopefully you won’t see too many problems on any […]
Overview of Web Site Traffic Analysis Tools
The first of the year is a time for looking back at what was accomplished in the past year, and to set goals for the coming year. If you run a web site, one way to do that is to look at your site’s traffic and see what happened. I run my own server, so […]
Spiders: How Often Is Too often?
Recently I have been paying closer than usual attention to my apache server logs, and noticed a few new services that are visiting much more frequently than I think they need to. It’s really not necessary to come every 30 minutes, is it? No, it’s not. A spider service should use a more intelligent method […]