Kontera removed
As some of you may notice I removed the double underlined links from Kontera today. I found them to be a bit too intrusive. It was hard to read the actual text and see where the ‘real’ links were.
No one was clicking them and I guess lots of readers found them to ugly to return here.
The Long Tail and The Diamond Age
I’m almost done reading The Long Tail
It is the kind of book where I feel I’ve thought of the basic ideas presented before. Not that I could have written it myself though. Far from. Chris describes the long tail as all the small niches that doesn’t get any shelf space at Best Buy, but are very lucrative when exposed on the web. This is because web sites like Goggle and iTunes helps bringing niche consumers and niche producers together. It also looks like more and more people are turning away from being hit consumers when it becomes easier to find just the right niche products.
Anyway; this infinite range of products got me thinking about The Diamond Age
My votes for Blog Project Three
Here are my votes for Blog Project Three.
- L’Amour De Blog: 3 reasons why blogging is like being in love
- Three Things to Do Before You Click Publish (and One Thing to Do After)
- Three is a Magic Number
- 3 Tips for Staying Focused with Small Children
- Three things I want my kids to refrain from saying on our upcoming road trip
- 3 + 3 + 3 Places Where You Can Get Free Icons For All Seasons And Reasons
- The 3 P’s for Creating a Successful Website – Passion, Persistence, and Patience
- 3 Must Do Things For A New Blogger
- 3 Things no one told you about web monetizing
- Three reasons to try a marathon…
- 3 Reason Why Entrepreneurs Succeed!
- Top 3 Reasons Why You Have to Work from Home
- 3 Signs that You are in the Wrong Company
- 3 Ways to Track Your Comments
Planning to switch web host
The paid posts I have started doing here is because I want to finance a new web host. The current one is unbelievably cheap. Cheap as in low cost. But I am starting to have some performance issues though. The service of Manufrog has been very good this far. I will probably keep a site or two with them even in the future.
My sites does not have very much traffic, but on days with a couple of hundred visitors I get server errors and time outs. I’ll stay with Manufrog for a while longer and hope it’s just a temporary glitch.
Anyway; I am thinking about moving to DreamHost but unless I pay for a year in advance there is a setup fee of $49.95. I can see why they want do do it like that, but I think it locks customers to them in an unhealthy way. It seems to be a common thing though.
I have used DreamHost before and was pleased with their service. I canceled the account because I couldn’t justify the cost for just having my own e-mail addresses.
BlueHost and HostGator are also quite compelling. Their offers a quite alike, but they have no setup fees. It is such a tough choice and it is hard to find honest reviews of web hosts. Most sites I find are full of affiliate links (like the ones in this post) so their opinions are questionable.
So… If anyone feel like helping me please go to jsiSoft.com and click the PayPal Donate button.
Blog Project Three: Final List
Here is the list of all submissions to Blog Project Three:
Blogging
- Top 3+1 Sites about Blog Contests by Lovedeep Wadhwa
- Why I am Still Addicted to Blogging After 3 Years by Ajay
- Increase Your Blog’s Stickiness by Jordan
- L’Amour De Blog: 3 reasons why blogging is like being in love by Phil
- 3 Trends that Shaped up the Blogosphere this Year by Ashwin
- 3 Times A Blogger by Rich
- 3 Ways To Get Back In The Blogging Spirit by Scott
- 3 Ways to Increase your Blog Stats by Ant
- Three Things to Do Before You Click Publish (and One Thing to Do After) by Jacqueline
- Three Things That I’ve Yet To Achieve as a Blogger by Rhys
- 3 Secrets of Writing for Blogs by Tejvan
- 3 Tips to Increase Blog Readership by Kyle
- 3 reasons why comment relish is not good for your blog by Vijay
- Top 3 Reasons You Should Stop Reading Blogs by George
- 3 Reasons Why You Should Use Storytelling by Daniel
- Top 3 tips to pick up girls/boys using blogs by Mario
- Three Reasons Why Group Blogging is Great by Mike
- 3 Ways To Get Me To Not Visit Your Blog Again by Sean
- 3+1 Things Blogger’s Should Never Ever Do. by Arpit
- How To Sell Your Blog in 3 Easy Steps by Ahmed Bilal
- Three essential steps to great blog posts by Corner Scribe
- 3 Sure Fire Way to Advertise Your Blog on a Shoe String by Engtech
- Three Steps to Keeping your RSS Feed Readers by Matthew
- 3 Fatal Errors of Blogging by Tillerman
- Three reasons why I like contest by Ashok
- 3 Reasons I Stayed On With Blogging by Tine
- July Blogtipping by Rob
- Top 3 Things Kermit The Frog Can Teach You About Blogging (and Life) by Dee
- 3 Good Blog Habits To Get Huge Traffic For Your Blog by Amey
- What “The 3 Little Pigs” Can Teach You About Blogging by Jan
- 3 roads to blogging stardom by Jayson
- I’m Engaged! Now What? by Brittany
- Blogging in Three Numbers by Francesco
- 3 Reasons why I suck as a blogger by Ben
- 3 Ways to Track Your Comments by David
- 3 Reasons Why Daily Blog Tips Sucks by Bes
Business & Career
- 3 Easy Steps to Becoming More Effective by Ron
- 3 Great Alternatives to Paper by Using Web-based Solutions by Ryan
- 3 Signs that You are in the Wrong Company by Anne
- Top 3 Reasons Why You Have to Work from Home by Alfa
- 3 Reasons to Persevere by Anne
- Three Mistakes made by teen Online Entrepreneurs by Nick
- 3 Reasons Job Search Spam Should Scare You by Jacob
- 3 Reason Why Entrepreneurs Succeed! by Ray
- Finding Work and Steve, the Maintenance Man and That Third Thing by Hoffman
- Reducing Debt: 3 different Ways by Richard
Entertainment
- Three Things Wrong with Transformers by Nathania
- 3 movies that can change you by WebStuffScan
- The Three That I Miss The Most! by Jimbo
- Got Independence? 3 things you should do this July 4th by Joe
- Magnetic 3D Globe Jigsaw Puzzle by Marcel
- Three Free Willie Nelson Songs by Liz
- Three Great Anime Blogs and Maybe Anime? by Carlie
Health & Fitness
- Get Healthy In Three Minutes by Gal
- 3 Things I Have Done To Save My Own Life by Eric
- Top Three USA Worst Cities for Losing Weight by Cherry
- 3 Things I Miss About Being Fat by Anna Farmery
- 3 Reasons Why PowerTap SL is so Popular by Jasper
- The Top Three Reasons Why I hate Diets by Joey
- Three reasons to try a marathon… by Shane
- 3 Reasons Running is Good for You Alexander
Make Money Online
- 3 ways to use Digital Point Forums to Earn Money Online by Adheeth
- 3 Costly Internet Business Mistakes to Avoid by John
- 3 Things no one told you about web monetizing by Pedro
Technology
- Three Reasons You Should Hate the Prius by Michael
- 3 Ways to Use Social Networking For Your Podcast by The Freq
- 3 Reasons Why I dont Like GMail by Nirmal
- 3+3 free tools for moving your life and your stuff online by Tanya
- Add Impact To Your Photos With “The Rule Of Three” by Brian
- 3 coolest PC Mods by Madhur
- 30 curiosities about number 3 in the games by Marcelo
- Free PDF Readers by Deepak
- 3 Useful Del.icio.us Tags, Life Quotes, & Traffic Generators by Adam Pieniazek
Travel
- Top 3 Ways to Avoid a Crowd at Disney World by Winnetta
- The three places in Japan I would love to visit by Jamaipanese
- 3 Ways to Have a Luxurious Hawaii Vacation on the Cheap by Sheila
- Three reasons to Visit Cyprus by Rajaram
- 3 wonders of the world that designers should have voted for by Mirko
Web Development & Design
- 3 Huge SEO Mistakes I have Made by Jeremy
- How I built 10,000 links in 3 weeks by Patrick
- 3 Ways to Improve the Comment Styles on Your Blog (With Examples) by Ryan
- My three best traffic generators by Johan
- 3 really simple ways to speed up your blog by Hans
- Make your WordPress blog more Search Engine friendly by Shankar
- 3 Must Do Things For A New Blogger by Ramkarthik
- The 3 P’s for Creating a Successful Website – Passion, Persistence, and Patients by Sarah
- The 3 kinds of web statistic tools (or site traffic counters) by Planet Apex
- 3+1 Ways to Make Your Website Load Faster by Pallab
- 3 + 3 + 3 Places Where You Can Get Free Icons For All Seasons And Reasons by Joel
- 3 reasons why you must learn ruby language by Ruby Tips
- 3 Reasons Why I shifted from Blogger to WordPress! by Ashfame
- 3 + 2 Most Sexy and Stylish Firefox Themes For You by DJ Flush
- Top 3 Mistakes of Rookie Web Designers by Kevin
Random Topics
- Three things I want my kids to refrain from saying on our upcoming road trip by Juggling Frogs
- 3 Reasons to be Hopeful of the Future by Anna
- The 3 Easiest Ways To Ruin Your Truck’s Transmission by Jason
- The last three times I lost my wallet… by Johan
- The 3 Most Common Types of Collections by Jason
- Three bad foods that are really good by Graham
- 3 Reasons Why I Love the Bar Exam by Andrew
- Memorials to three dead bridges by Graham Richardson
- 3 Tips for Staying Focused with Small Children by Genesis
- What Happens When Three is Almost Enough: Go Irrational! by Simmone
- Me and three by John
- 3 Sexy Cover Ladies = Infinite Hotness by Celebrienne
- 3 little words by Paris
- 3 Things you can do to have a great sick day by Rich
- 3 things I want to do before I die by Just Me
- Three Reasons Why Superheroes Wear Their Underwear On The Outside by Brown Baron
- Ten things i didn’t know about the number 3 until now by Blaiq
- 3 Reasons to Play EVE Online by Adam
- The 3 Email Newsletters No Church Site Should Be Without by Mark Alves
- Three is a Magic Number by Mary
- Three Cheers for T-Shirts by Jay Wagers
The last three times I lost my wallet
…in chronological order:
The first time was not very dramatical.
I actually didn’t know I had lost the wallet until a nice gentleman called me. He told me he had seen my wallet flying of the roof of my car when I drove out of the car park. He declined any cash reward so I offered him a lunch during a work day, but he never called me again.
The second time is by far the most dramatical one.
Funny enough it is also a story about my wallet flying from my car roof. Maybe I should move to a place where the sun shines all the time so I can have a car without a roof.
Anyway. Me and my family was on summer vacation. We were planning to spend the day at a water park. The, expensive, tickets were bought and paid for. Well secured in my wallet. At least that was my belief. In the morning when we were going to the water park I couldn’t find my wallet anywhere. After some frantic searching it struck me that I had put the wallet on the roof of the car last night when we were going ‘home’ from the small town we spent the day in. We stayed about 30 kilometers from the town. This being the summer vacation Mecca of Sweden I was starting lose hope of the water park, my wallet and the mood of my family the remaining vacation.
Not wanting to give up right away we took the car and started to drive towards the town. We were planning on having breakfast at the park so everyone was already hungry, angry and somewhat screaming. I was not on the nomination list for the ‘Best Dad’ award that morning.
When we were almost 10 kilometers from the town I saw something looking like a credit card laying in the middle of the road. The road was heavily used so I couldn’t stop right there and check it out. I drove another 500 meters and parked the car. During those 500 meters I saw lots of litter at the verge of the road resembling the content of my wallet. Hope was returning.
If it was the content of my wallet littering the road it must have stayed on the roof of the car for 10 kilometers. I thought someone had found the wallet in the town and thrown it out of their car window. It didn’t make sense though. The content were spread on both sides of the road for 500 meters. It had actually ridden on my car roof all the way. It had then fallen on the middle of the road and been hit by cars going in both directions.
I felt I was the luckiest guy living when we found every single thing except a ‘loyal customer’ card from the local coffee shop.
The third time was an indication of lack of sleep.
When it was time for lunch at work I started looking for it in my bike bag. I didn’t find it so I thought I had left it at home.
When I got home and couldn’t find the wallet where I usually put it I panicked. It struck me that I had emptied most of my bike bag at the central station in Stockholm. It was raining in the morning so I had to put on some rain protection for biking to work.
I reported the loss to the police and started calling banks and so on to cancel all my cards. There was not a lot of money in there so it didn’t actually bother me that much. No one had used the cards so I took a chance and did not cancel the drivers license. The last time I got a new drivers license was a real hassle because I had no other means of identification. It is a little Kafkaesque to try to collect a new drivers license when the drivers license should be the identification.
Recent readers of my blog already know what happened. I had put the wallet out of the bag at home in the morning. My wife found it in a bookshelf. I’m not sure my already overloaded brain needs a lot of new codes to learn but at least I have some shiny new cards.
This post was submitted to Blog Project three.
Found wallet
As it usually turns out when I have lost something, it wasn’t really lost. Just tucked away somewhere safe.
I really have to stop trying to do things in the mornings with the kids running around my feet.
Lost my wallet
Bummer!
I lost my wallet at the train station i Stockholm yesterday. I think it dropped out of my bag when I was putting on some rain protection for biking to work.
I have canceled all cards, except the drivers license hoping that someone have left the wallet at the stations office. No one had done any shopping on the cards. At least that is a relief. I told the police I had dropped my drivers license but I haven’t canceled it yet. the last time I got a new one it was a real hassle because I have no other form of identification.
Woops; I had a bad RSS link
I just found out that the link to subscribe to my feed was broken.
It is fixed now so if you want to subscribe click here.
Top 5 – Group Writing Project Day 4
Today was the last day of the Top 5 – Group Writing Project
My entry from day one is here.
As usual, here are the ones a have read:
- Top 5 technology websites
- Songs That Make Me Insanely Happy – The Top 5
- Five Ways to Make Money Scrapbooking
- Five Killer Apps That Keep Me Using Kubuntu
- The Top 5 Google Tools I Use Every Day
- The Top 5 FREE Software Programs Every Writer Should Have
- Moving online journalism to Linux: Top 5 programs
- 5 reasons to use Ubuntu and not Windows
- Top 5 Autopilot Moneymakers for Your Website or Blog
- (Re)Fill Your iPod: Top 5 Ways To Find New Music
- Top 5 Board Games I Grew Up Playing
- Top 5 Easiest Ways to Solve Almost Any Problem.
- …$10 is a lot of advertising?
… and here are the ones I subscribed to:
- Top 5 Ways to Find What Makes You Happy
- Top 5 Things You Can Do For Your Kids…EVER
- Fantastic Five: 5 Freeware Apps You Don’t Know About
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