Ben Griswold on September 8th, 2006

I’ve been on a hunt for “the best blog editor” for some time now. I have tried out a handful of products, but I haven’t been completely happy with any of them yet. Perhaps I’m too picky… At first I focused on desktop blog editors only. This may have been foolish since WordPress provides it’s [...]

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Ben Griswold on September 7th, 2006

Perhaps you have noticed the JohnnyCoder icon appears in your address bar and favorites now? How was this done? I cut out Johnny’s right eye and pasted it into my favorite icon maker application. I then saved the .ico file to my site and added the following line of code to the Head of the [...]

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Ben Griswold on September 6th, 2006

After the success* of the Google AdSense experiment, I had to try my hand at incorporating a PayPal donation button on this site. Now, either I’m getting smarter or PayPal makes their implementation even easier than Google. Literally, ten minutes after my second experiment started, I had a functional donation button on the blog (note [...]

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Ben Griswold on September 4th, 2006

Undoubtedly, you have noticed the obnoxious Google Ads sprinkled about the site. I must explain. 1. Though nearly all legitimate bloggers have sites plastered with Ads, this is not my attempt to conform and become a real blogger overnight. 2. This is not a shameless attempt to make a few pennies each month. Granted, some [...]

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Ben Griswold on September 3rd, 2006

Recently, a reader asked, “What is del.icio.us?” Well, at the risk of undoubtedly plagiarizing what’s already published about del.icio.us, it is a collection of everyone’s favorite articles, blogs, music, restaurant reviews and more. It is an example of social bookmarking where your favorites can be shared with friends, family, colleagues or virtually anyone with Internet [...]

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Ben Griswold on September 1st, 2006

My son was born 41 days ago and I felt it was my parental duty to show him off to the world (or at least to family and friends.) Since I spend most of my day online, I figured a blog would be super convenient (and non-intrusive) way for me to share photos of my [...]

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