Archive for May, 2008

I have found some useful blogs about WordPress that I have added to the feeds I subscribe to. In no special order they are WordPress Expert, All4wordpress, Hack WordPress and WordPress Max.

I had a manually created list of My Favourite Posts in the right hand menu before. It worked but not as easy as I wanted it too. Today I came across the Best Foot Forward widget which allows you to select which tags that shall be listed. I created a new tag, MyFav, and just [...]

At Put Things Off is a great article about Think Different – Buy a Bigger Envelope! which is about how to consider whether you really need a Macbook Air or any other new shiny thing.
This post gives 5 easy rules to help you discover whether you really need new kit, or if you’d just be [...]

I came across an interesting article at Signal vs Noise about How “Why Startups Fail” Fails. The article at Signal vs Noise comments on Why Startups Fail.
I love the end of Jason’s post since it sorts out responsibility:
Natural disasters are out of our control, bad business decisions are in your control.
Putting the blame elsewhere does [...]

The Manifestation Wheel is an interesting concept created by Alan Seale and partly based on the Lakota medicine wheel. It is an eight step process that takes you through the eight “houses” of the wheel. The concept is a mix of spiritual wisdom and scientific knowledge, it takes an open mind to use it. You [...]

Jason Alba writes about Happy Birthday To JibberJobber… and Buy-One-Year-Get-One-Year-Free!. The offer is for a limited time:
Through midnight, May 19th you can upgrade for $99 and get 24 months of premium features. This means that each month will cost just $4.13, instead of $9.95.
Congratulations to Jason and JibberJobber!

Freelance Folders posts about The Building Blocks Of A Successful Freelancing Career. There is an interesting question: Would I hire myself?
Want to leave your office and work elsewhere? Anywired has a post about Chasing Coconuts: From the Cubicle to the Caribbean.
Daily Writing Tips lists a few things all freelance writers can do to make the [...]

Chris Garret writes about Get a Gravatar. Scott Sehlhorst goes into details, How To Create Your Gravatar.
DailyBlogTips posts about Take Screenshots with Firefox 2.0. That is how I found out about Screengrab!.
Put Things Off posts about The Creative Sweet: Creativity Should Be Free, listing lots of free software.
Brent Hodgson posts The Story of the Three [...]

At Pick The Brain is a post about The Other Side of Productivity: Coincidences, Synchronicity, and Serendipity. The post lists “Three Methods for Attracting Coincidences and Serendipity”.
Believing in the phenomenon of coincidences and serendipity does not mean that you shun work and sit cross-legged waiting for the universe to deliver your dreams to your doorstep. [...]

I have been absent for a while due to another project of mine. For my coaching business I had two PHP-based websites, one in English and one in Swedish. Changing layout was a probleme even though I used CSS. I wanted the ease of WordPress and when I decided to merge my two coaching sites [...]