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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
Having been a cigar blogger for more than four-years, it is not uncommon for Stogie Review to receive questions on how to handle reviews and articles being republished, without permission. Under most circumstances this type of problem is the direct result of a scraper site. To make our blogs convenient, we package our work into [...]
Saturday, July 31st, 2010
Over the past couple of months I have been doing my best to regularly participate in creative writing groups across the web. I not only find it enjoyable to write in a fictional fashion, I also enjoy reading from the huge pool of short stories. Both Fiction Friday, by Write Anything, and #FridayFlash, by JM [...]
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
Being a new father, one of the things that I’ve quickly learned is that being able to multi-task is a must-have skill. No matter what my wife and I are doing, when my daughter needs our attention we must set down our tasks and tend to her. Some activities, such as reading or watching tv, [...]
Monday, January 18th, 2010
As I’ve said in the past, I am a fan of Darren Rowse and ProBlogger. I subscribe to the ProBlogger RSS feed and for a fair amount of reading throughout the week. A couple of weeks ago, Darren had a guest post outlining the thirty bloggers to watch in 2010. The following week, he posted [...]
Monday, January 4th, 2010
At the end of 2008, I decided that it was time to stop procrastinating and create a personal blog to use as an outlet for things that did not fit on Stogie Review. For months I had put it off, even though I had roughly two weeks worth of articles written and waiting. I decided [...]
Friday, December 25th, 2009
One of the most appealing things about my personal blog, is that it can be anything that I want it to be. One week I can talk about books I plan on reading, and the next I can talk about dreaming about a crypt in my basement. The freedom of choice in regards to content [...]
Monday, December 21st, 2009
Not terribly long ago there was a new service that hit the internet and spread like wildfire. Google announced a project called Google Wave and before long, it seemed as though everyone on Twitter was mentioning it. Not having invested any time into trying to acquire an account, I thought I would wait until after [...]
Monday, November 30th, 2009
Some time ago I posted about falling into routines. In that one particular post I talked about how I always seemed to be watching the same re-runs on television before getting dinner started. Similar routines exist elsewhere in my life as well, especially when it comes to the internet. Each day I get to work [...]
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
As my New Years resolution in 2009, I stopped procrastinating and started a personal blog. It was something I wanted to do for some time and coming up with a New Years resolution was just the motivation I needed to get my butt into gear. Because this site is of a personal nature, I didn’t [...]
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
Well folks, March has come to a close and its time to take a look at the statistics to see if were reached my goal. Unfortunately, we came up a little short on comments this month. On the other hand, we were well over my visits goal! I would like to thank everyone for visiting, [...]