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Malicious code found on your blog?

In addition to yesterday’s problem (click here to read if you havent done so already), I had another problem that was a tad bit nastier. I dont know if the same hacker did this or some other hacker. This is what was happening.
In IE, I type my domain into into the address bar and the [...]

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Has your blog ever been hacked?

I have a blog that I started about a year and a half ago. This blog was an experiment so I used an alias and never associated it with any of my other blogs. I only made about 5 or 6 blogpost on it and forgot all about it. The weird thing about that blog [...]

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I had a little web host problem

When getting a hosting plan for your blog, it is good to make sure you know all the limits and rules that the hosting company has. Ive been with the same host for over a year but ran into a problem that I was completely unaware of.
My allotted mysql database space was full.
For those that [...]

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Next, get a theme for your Wordpress blog.

If you have been following my "how to set up a blog" line of blog post, you should now have your domain name, your host, Wordpress installed and ready for the next step. For those that found just this blog post, heres a little review.

So you want to start a blog - This starts things [...]

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You got a host yet? Heres how to set up wordpress.

If you were following my "how to start a blog" tutorial, you are probably waiting for the next step to setting up a wordpress blog. Following yesterdays blog post, you should have all you need to get started. You have a domain name, and a hosting plan now you have to make them work together.
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So you want to start a blog and dont know where to start? Part 2

Yesterday I talked a little about where you can go to set up a free hosted blog, today Im going to talk about another option that you have if you want to set up a blog.
Wordpress
I know what you are thinking, I talked about wordpress yesterday. That was the free hosted version of wordpress at [...]

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So you want to start a blog and dont know where to start?

A few weeks ago, a friend of mine asked me about setting up a blog for him. I figured so many people are blogging these days that everyone would know how to start a blog. Guess what, not everyone know where to start. I haven’t gone over to set up his blog yet but I [...]

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I think Im going to give Twitter another shot…

Ive said plenty of times before, I listen to a LOT of podcast. Lately Ive been hearing a lot of talk about Twitter. There are people out there that really love and are hooked on using Twitter. If you remember, when Twitter was first released, I tried it out for a week or so. Needless [...]

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Beware, some of those forum avatars could be quite embarrasing

The past 2 days I was talking about blogs, bloggers, and blogging. Today I want to talk about another part of the internet that is pretty useful. Message boards, or Forums. Many useful bits of information is found on message boards. As a matter of fact, almost every "social thing" to come about with the [...]

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Is everyone that read your blog a blogger? If so, Whats the point?

Yesterday I talked briefly about the Blogger pyramid. Like I said I think we are in the section D right now (check out yesterday’s post to see what I’m talking about). How do I know that we are in Section D? Take a look at the comments on many tech blogs out there.
Do you [...]

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