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For the last couple of days I’ve completely unplugged myself from this computer.  I can’t tell how nice it felt to actually just walk away and not worry about anything.  I spent the last couple of days celebrating Canada Day and having a couple days off from my day job as well.  I spent my time with the family and down at the beach.

It has totally done me a world of good.  I really felt burnt out - loads to do and never really feeling like I was totally catching up with any of the projects I’ve got on the go.  Totally… completely…. burnt out.

Now I’m back again and I’m hoping that that feeling disappears soon and I’m back on track.

If you’ve not had a break for a while and you’re feeling the world on your shoulders - I seriously recommend a day or two (if you can resist) of not turning your computer on.  The online world you’ve created will not miss you for those couple of days and seriously it puts your mind in a better place.  Even gets the ideas flowing!

I’m just glad I had the break… and I’ve had the time to get back at it - open up my moleskin book and start writing ideas down, get things rolling online again - get into the PPC and see where it takes me (if I’ll ever be so bold to do so!)  and try to get a couple more sites up and running.

I’m also pretty pleased with my Adsense - it’s been up a dollar over the average I’ve been doing (doesn’t sound like much… but it’s been pretty steady… which is pretty unusual) - so knock on wood it stays like that at least for a little bit

Other than that I’ve got not much to report except that SPF 50 does wonders for my pale pale skin

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I was reading a blog this morning that had so much butt-kissing in it I was ready to throw up.  It wasn’t so much the post but the comments.  OMG.  It’s funny to see the “bigger” bloggers out there putting in stupid comments - just to get name play on the comments.  THAT’S JUST MY OPINION.  But damn people…  I realize that it’s a really tight circle of “friends and butt-kissers” but this is just stupid.

I also may be jealous that I’m not in with the cool kids

I also may be tired

But it is really hard to explain how I felt after reading a well known blog - and seeing the posts and thinking to myself - wow that is so easy to get sucked into all the brown-nosing commentary that was going on.  It’s a great little thing that this blog put out - but I’m like thinking it’s not the “only” one… it’s just currently what all the popular kids are wearing

I just wish it wasn’t so stupid.

Sorry, it’s so vague - I’m not in this to pick on that site - it’s just the whole premise of the commentary.

Maybe that’s what they call “networking”.  Blah.  Whatever.  Today I’m just not in the mood to play along.

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In case you ever want to Jazz up your WordPress blog - or perhaps you’ve got a kick-ass idea and no idea how to implement it… it might just be on this 40+ Most Wanted WordPress Tricks and Hacks. Seriously awesome - seriously you must get yourself there when you get a chance.

Things included on the big list:

• Display categories in a horizontal drop-down
• Add author bio to every blog post (handy if you’re group blogging!)
• Highlight author comments
• Format images for feedreaders
• Create a dynamic sticky
• Turn WordPress into a CMS
• Create a Peel-Away ad on your blog… for free!
• Protect WordPress blog images against hotlinking
• Add Ad stripe to improve blog earnings

The list goes on and on… obviously I have taken a couple of the ideas and have downloaded the plugins and I’m excited to mod my blogs!

I’ve been to HongKiat.com when I was having problems with uploading images to my newly upgraded WordPress blog - I didn’t know why I wasn’t able to “crunch” a new image and add it to my blog in their nifty Media Gallery - and it was really getting me aggravated. So I put my aggravation on the Internet and found HongKiat’s solution. And it worked!

So if you’re having problems with uploading images to your newly upgraded WordPress blog - go here and do what he says. Easy-peasy - step by step to get you through it. I’ve had to use this on a couple of my blogs - seems to only affect the upgraded sites… not the new freshly installed ones. I’m not sure why - but there you go - the fix.

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I have Entrecard running on my sidebar and I noticed this morning as I cruising through my blog that I have my default ad running there. There’s no problem with that - except that PinoyDealer should be running there currently and I have 4 other ads set to run there in the next few days.

Anyone else notice the glitch?

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