Down On Our Luck » Blogging http://downonourluck.com My emotional and financial recovery from having a spouse with a gambling problem. Sun, 07 Jun 2009 14:34:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 An appology to Romelo at I-Tong.com http://downonourluck.com/an-appology-to-romelo-at-i-tongcom/ http://downonourluck.com/an-appology-to-romelo-at-i-tongcom/#comments Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:36:34 +0000 Bcarter http://downonourluck.com/?p=124 SEO Software of choiceI’m sure other bloggers have been effected by this, but there seems to be a huge amount of spam going around these days. I haven’t heard of any knew comment software coming out recently, but all of these spam comments have the same format, a bunch of links in a list. Of course, spam is the reason that I always manually approve all comments carefully.

I should say, almost always approve all comments carefully. Today, I was racing through 28 comments to be approved and a legitimate comment from Romelo I-tong slipped through. Hopefully, this post will make up for my mistake.

Romelo had made a comment on my Wordpress host transfer post stating the following: “10 hours is not that long, how many blogs did you move?” This is going from memory so I may have a word or two wrong, but you get the point. To answer his question, I moved 3 blogs to the new webhost. The first blog took the longest at a whopping 8 hours. Once I found the easy way in the Wordpress Codex things were a lot easier. My mistake was made when I tried to install WP 2.5 on the new server, but the old blog was only running 2.3 so I’m pretty sure the database tables were incompatible. Once I trashed this idea and decided to upgrade to 2.5 after transferring all was good.

Has anyone else noticed an uptick in spam over the last week? How do you handle it?

]]> http://downonourluck.com/an-appology-to-romelo-at-i-tongcom/feed/ 1 10 Signs You May Be Addicted to Social Networking http://downonourluck.com/signs-you-may-be-addicted-to-social-networking/ http://downonourluck.com/signs-you-may-be-addicted-to-social-networking/#comments Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:48:28 +0000 Bcarter http://downonourluck.com/?p=102 Bloggers know the importance of social networking to get the word out about their blogs and websites, but knowing when to stop and get some work done is very important. I have seen signs of this in myself lately and have come to realize it’s time to get back to business. I won’t say which of these signs I have exhibited, but if you’re trying to run a business online going down this path can be very non-productive.

  1. Your friends on Facebook know more about you than your spouse.
  2. You have found 7,000 people to follow on Twitter, but haven’t called your mother in over 2 weeks.
  3. You haven’t seen the light of day besides going to work in over a week.
  4. You have dropped 600 Entrecards every day for the last month; the old fashioned way.
  5. You’re best material is left in comments.
  6. You check Twitter every 5 minutes because you’re afraid of missing something.
  7. You can’t remember the PIN for your debit card, but you know the passwords for all 200 sites that you belong to by heart. FYI, I do not belong to 200 Social Networking Sites. Only 100; JK I really only use about 10 or less regularly. I’m not sure where I’d find time for more than that.
  8. Joe Schmo from New Mexico giving your Stumble home page a “thumbs down” throws you into a deep depression for over a month.
  9. Sex, what’s that? I might miss a Tweet.
  10. I have a blog? What’s the URL again?

This post is not really meant to be serious, but it could be a heads up to those of you trying to make money blogging or running any other type of online business.

What are some other good signs of social networking addiction that you can think of?

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