We'll Do It Live
You might have noticed that I had several test posts today. Normally, I do testing on a local server, but the issue I was trying to track down was a problem with my webhost. I had no other option so I...
Tag: websites
Replacing Politics with TV
Two of the biggest things I blog about are politics and TV. I blog about those subjects so much I started sites on the topics (the long abandoned Political Jackass, Grand Old Parody, and Let's Talk Ab...
Let's Talk About TV
You all know that I love TV. In fact, I love it so much I created a new site dedicated to all things TV. I present to you Let's Talk About TV. There are still things I am tweaking, but I decided to ma...
How I use Twitter
After reading Owen's post about Twitter Influence there was a brief discussion in the Habari IRC channel about who people follow and why. One part of the conversation was about celebrities. One person...
Website Backups are Essential
Everyone who has ever had a website disappear on them knows that having a current backup is essential. I have seen the poor soul who has had his server crash and lost years worth of blogging way too m...
Clicky - Great Looking Real-Time Stats
I recently signed up for Clicky Web Statistics, a great looking real time stats package. I'm nuts about statistics on my website but found Google Analytics to be lacking. I want data in real time, not...
Please Stop Using Internet Explorer
Dear Internet Users Across the World, Please stop using the horrible piece of software that came pre-installed on your PC known as Internet Explorer. Not only do you make the job of web designers a lo...
Feed Migration
Feeburner is being moved to Google and as a result at the end of February all Feedburner feeds will be migrated to feedburner.google.com. Yesterday, I migrated all my feeds. Everything should be worki...
Domain Change
In case you haven't noticed, I've changed the address of my blog from mikeschepker.com/blog to pieceofshep.com. I figured the title of the blog is piece of shep so I should use that domain name. I'll...
Why Habari isn't Ready for Me
I'm writing this post so I don't have to constantly explain my reasoning to everyone in #habari. This is not a post describing how bad Habari is, it is a fine product. It's just not ready for me and I...
Our Social World
I was thinking about how connected the world has become with the social aspect of various websites. It really is amazing how connected we've become with other people. I think that in the future we'll...
Lifestreaming with Sweetcron
Yesterday I found some really cool software called Sweetcron. What it does is gathers all the feeds you add and displays it in a variety of ways. It's a self-hosted lifestream. There are a few themes...
Too Many Sites, Too Little Time
I've not been updating this site much lately, besides the two posts over the weekend. Things have just been really busy for me. Busy at work and busy at home. With last week being the RNC, Political J...
New Domain Names
Vanity domain names seem to be the current fad. Apparently .coms are no longer cool in the web world. I've been debating a move from mikeschepker.com for a long time. Since the title of the blog is pi...
Last.fm Makeover
In case you haven't noticed, Last.fm has received a makeover. The new site looks fantastic compared to the old one. It probably has to be one of the best site redesigns by a popular website that I've...
TBS: Very Annoying
There are a few shows I watch on TBS. I missed an episode of one of them. Luckily, at TBS.com you can watch episodes for free. Or not. I go there to catch up on a missed episode and guess what. We're...
Goodbye msnbot
Yes, I've blocked you msnbot. I'm tired of finding you in my stats coming from random searches that don't even show my site in the search results, such as "keeping," "album," "comments," or any of the...
My Life has Disappeared
I use a service called Lifestream.fm to aggregate my online life. It gathers my tweets from twitter, pictures from Flickr, my Diggs, recently played songs, my Del.icio.us feed, and blog posts from thi...
Searchme
For the past several months I've noticed I've had a regular visitor to my site that would hit random pages multiple times throughout the day. Yes, it was a bot. The bot was indexing my site. The IP re...
What Will Happen to Flickr?
Ever since Microsoft began its attempt to takeover Yahoo I started thinking about the future of Flickr. That's really the only Yahoo service I use (and I pay for). Microsoft does not have a good histo...