Nov 11, 2006 | blog
Ok, its late – 2:30am Saturday morning. But I’ve done it! RickMahn.com has a new layout. I’ve leveraged a 3-column theme here on the blog, and have gotten to use several new features that I had been planning on for some time. And it only took 4 hours to do!
The nice part about this layout is that the main body of every post has much more room for text and pictures. It also has a bit cleaner CSS structure for text, bullets and the like. Another neat feature was the support for sidebar widgets in WordPress – it made it much, much easier to set up all the specialized items that I had on the original configuration.
Well, off to get some rest – I’ve got a lot of work to do tomorrow. Hopefully, we’ll get a chance to go to the Power Sports show in downtown Minneapolis – one can hope anyway.
Oct 25, 2006 | blog
Do you have aspirations to be a “wireless” blogger? Micheal & Brian over at The Wireless Report would like to know about you. They are looking for a 3rd blogger to help support the site, reporting on the wireless industry.
Think you have what it takes? Would you like to (I would, but don’t have the time)? Then check out the link below for details. That would be a sweet gig.
Via: The Wireless Report – Want to write for The Wireless Report?
Oct 1, 2006 | blog
Congratulations to Neowin.net on their 6th birthday! You can really tell the ‘Net is getting mature. There are several reliable favorites for news and entertainment that have been around since the 1.0 bubble.
Neowin is one of them! To celebrate, Neowin has some significant changes in the works – read more at the link below!
Link to Neowin.net – Neowin Six Years Old Today
Aug 14, 2006 | blog
Hey! If you blog, I feel you need to try out Windows Live Writer.
Microsoft has IMO, a killer offline blogging tool. It does everything I wanted in an offline editor, and the tie-in to the Windows Live Toolbar is incredible.
WLW works with WordPress, Blogger, Moveable Type, and LiveJournal in addition to Windows Live Spaces. The functionality is at the right level, and allows you to preview, create drafts, store drafts online/offline, and work with pictures, maps, fonts, and colors right in the interface.
It also has my most desired feature – a spell checker built right in. While still in beta, it feels like a shipping product, and I’ve covered only a fraction of the features of this great freebie from MS.
For more information check out the links below.
Posted using Windows Live Writer!
Jun 9, 2006 | blog
Easton Ellsworth talks about how his passion and interest in reading sometimes keeps him from blogging and asks what is the biggest time-waster for everyone else. I know what he means, I’ve got around 120 feeds that I follow daily, and would not be able to do that if it were not for RSS Readers! It takes up a lot of time.
But even aside from reading, simply needing to do the work necessary for the day job takes up most of my time. While I love blogging, it currently doesn’t pay the bills, and I’m making a little progress in ‘climbing the corporate ladder’, so I might as well stick it out awhile longer.
Hmm, other than that I guess I’d have to add that simply taking time to relax and spend some ‘down time’ is another thing that takes time away from blogging for me. This is kind of frustrating in a way because I have a few ‘special project blogs’ that I’m trying to make progress on, and simply can’t find more time to get them to that magical point yet.
Anyway, I’m curious as well – what keeps you from, or interrupts you from blogging?
