http://www.stevecoursen.com Diary Of An Underworked Programmer Tue, 04 May 2010 00:18:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In the strange, forgotten places of the world, things gather and forces swirl. They call out for someone—anyone—to remember them again, to walk their paths and tread the earthen trails. And in some of those places, darkness gathers, peeling away at the fragile corners of reality, exposing the worrisome and ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheTwistedWriter/~4/L7ZQsp0AZYQ" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.stevecoursen.com/193/prologue-for-my-latest-work-in-progress/ From Slashdot: "According to the US National Institute for Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland, scientists have discovered a remarkable similarity between the genetic faults behind both schizophrenia and manic depression in a breakthrough that is expected to open the way to new treatments for two of the most common mental illnesses, ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheTwistedWriter/~4/9YLmao0_RMQ" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.stevecoursen.com/159/link-found-between-schizophrenia-and-depression/ Here's the next "chapter" of the unedited 2008 NaNo project.  It never got a name.  It never got finished -- although it came very close.  Anyways, read onto the next chapter... James sat on the edge of his bed. Sure, he felt a certain sense of smugness about having been ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheTwistedWriter/~4/6G_5-CqXAbo" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.stevecoursen.com/150/more-of-the-2008-nano-writing/ Or, at least, the first few pages of it.  I've run out steam a bit on some fronts -- mostly due to trying to get a business up and of the ground.  So, I decided to put forth some unedited awfulness ... a bit of my 2008 National Novel Writing ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheTwistedWriter/~4/Hqe_nBSj0SM" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.stevecoursen.com/149/behold-the-nano-project-from-2008/ I maintain/manage some Websites that are developed by outsiders.  Some of them are stuck (for one reason or another) using older tools and software packages ... namely Microsoft FrontPage.  In one of the websites, in particular, the previous method of showing a larger/zoomed-in version of an image was to open ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheTwistedWriter/~4/lSyvfP_WLz0" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.stevecoursen.com/148/quick-and-easy-image-zoom-using-jquery/ I have an old Linux server that sits, sad and muted, unused in a corner. I decided to blow the dust off of it, and see what I can wrangle out of it. For the morbidly curious: it's a Fedora Core 1 install, running on a Dell Poweredge server. ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheTwistedWriter/~4/fHHetIJ14SE" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.stevecoursen.com/147/social-bookmarking-web-20-using-old-web-technology/ Cake or death:<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheTwistedWriter/~4/SmOCjl8OVWY" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.stevecoursen.com/145/cake-or-death-eddie-izzard-too-funny/ If you have any Web presence -- and you try to make money off of it -- you know that the adage that you need traffic to make money is 100% correct.  There's many ways to get traffic to your programs, websites, or offers, some of which rely on creation ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheTwistedWriter/~4/r13oGp20wfI" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.stevecoursen.com/142/a-new-program-of-traffic-building/ The past two weeks have been hectic and a little more than frenetic as my family and I moved 2600 miles from New Jersey to Montana.  That's right, I traded in the traffic jams and hazily polluted air for life on a horse ranch. My daughter's enrolled in school, resumes have ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheTwistedWriter/~4/ENCHhW8hO3M" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.stevecoursen.com/141/the-move-is-finished-mostly/ I've seen a lot of these "viral networking" websites that are designed to get traffic to your web site.  I've also seen a bunch of websites that help (or at the very least, provide tools) to build your referrals in places like traffic exchanges and other online tools. Since I've run ...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheTwistedWriter/~4/msCLjPigTTQ" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.stevecoursen.com/140/my-new-pet-project-er-website/