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New Redesign of my Blog

J2 — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:03:54 +0000

I am very happy to announce that I’ve finally finished my new Wordpress theme for this site. I’ve been working on it on-and-off for the past couple of weeks and it has been finalized. If you see any bugs or any weird hiccups, please let me know. Blog Features: Designed completely from scratch Theme is Sandbox based, [...]

Updated My Portfolio

J2 — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:40:09 +0000

I just finished working on 2 projects and I thought I would be wise to list them in my portfolio page (check it out by clicking here!). I did 2 Wordpress-based blogs, integrating their existing designs into a full-fledged Wordpress theme. Also optimized the WP installations as well as configured/tweaked several plugins for SEO and [...]

Upgrade from a 3G to 3GS Iphone for $200 NOW

J2 — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:32:39 +0000

We all know by now that Apple announced the iPhone 3GS, an upgrade to 3G (the S stands for speed) which will be available this Friday (June 19th). Its faster and takes videos (reviews here and here). They also announced the upgrade options which produced a lot of uproar amongst people who purchased an iPhone [...]

Cheap Security Certificates from Dreamhost

J2 — Thu, 28 May 2009 23:40:13 +0000

I’m a sucker for funny and informative newsletter and blog posts, and the latest blog post from Josh Jones, head of Dreamhost (great hosting – read more here) is both of these characteristics and it introduces a new product (or just a deeply discounted one) – $15 SSL certificates. After a long rant about how [...]

Brand New Portfolio Page

J2 — Fri, 01 May 2009 23:00:54 +0000

I finally came around to completing my Portfolio page here on my blog/site. It is somewhat incomplete, there are some pages I’ve developed that aren’t there because: a: They are perhaps NSFW b: The sites were for start-ups that have gone under and I never took a screenshot of my work (bad mistake). So, have a look at [...]

Why You Should Host with Dreamhost too

J2 — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:17:09 +0000

I’ve been using Dreamhost for over 4 years now, and even though they’ve had their ups and downs in the past, I strongly believe that they are the best in their category, reliable and inexpensive hosting. After reading so many horror studies of awful customer support, bad service and unreliable servers with other Hosts (HostGator, [...]

Blogging Tips to Get More Traffic, Subscribers, and Readers

J2 — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:31:20 +0000

Photo by Timothy K. Hamilton Here is a list of blogging tips, to increase your readership and exposure. Some I need to apply more myself, but here they are: When writting a post for a blog, use bullet points, headers and try to keep paragraphs short. These things attract readers to actually read the post. Read Melissa’s [...]

Started a New Website, part I

J2 — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:16:02 +0000

I’ve been working on a couple of web projects lately and I feel quite proud of them so far. I want to start actively blogging and producing content again, and perhaps monetizing (read: make money) when and if the sites attract enough traffic. The first one, which I started about a month ago, was [...]

Why aren’t we seeing hybrid hard drives?

J2 — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:40:14 +0000

I’ve been seriously considering replacing my MacBook’s regular spinning hard drive with a fancy new SSD drive, then sticking an external case to the old 320 GB hard drive and using it as external storage. I can get away with just 32 GB on the SSD drive, more than enough for the OS and all [...]

Redesign Explained

J2 — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:03:00 +0000

As you can see if you are an old blog visitor, I’ve changed the appearance of things around here. This time, I didn’t create my own theme, I went the classic “buy a premium theme” route, and I’m quite happy with the results. My past experience with my creating my last two themes was very [...]