I know a lot of bloggers like to display their traffic numbers to impress their readership. Up until now I have been against the practice but, I’m going to indulge my audience this one time with my traffic numbers for the year thus far.Month Unique visitors Number of visits Pages Hits BandwidthJan 2007 16772 24990…
Month: April 2007
Dungeons and Dragons
I started playing Dungeons and Dragons way back in the early 80’s. I still remember getting my dad to take me to a B. Dalton bookstore to buy my original basic and expert Dungeons and Dragons sets.I still have some of those original materials but a lot I have sold off over the years. One…
How To: Use SQL to read private messages on a vbulletin forum
This applies only to super users who have db access rights. This feature should not be abused. It should only be used in cases of harrasment.A problem that sometimes arises is that of users sending nasty-grams via PM to each other. Unlike some forum software, vbulletin does a good job of keeping private messages private.If…
Why I am dumping sitemeter (and you should too)
Recently I encountered some news about Sitemeter selling out to an advertising company that wants to place tracking cookies on all sitemeter member sites. At first I thought this was bogus but then I checked.Sure enough, after clearing my cookies and looking at my site I found a cookie for “specificclick”.I have also noticed a…
The Power of Networking
I learned early on the power behind networking. Through all my days on Wall Street, networking got me far. As Senior vice president of a consulting firm, I recruited high net worth retail brokers throughout the country;” it wasn’t always what you know as much as WHO you know.” Even today, as a single mom,…
Blog Review: Kelly Cho – Catch a Falling Star
This be the last winner from my March Technorati contest.So, without any further ado I present to you Kelly Cho – Catch a Falling Star!Kelly Cho’s blog is relatively new as she only started this blog in March of 2007. Now, it may be new but that does not mean it is not good. In…