All websites reach a point where the owners have to make a choice. Stay with shared hosting or go with a dedicated server. HMTK.com is about to hit that choice.I started HMTK.com about six years ago, it was June 22, 2002 to be precise when I first purchased this domain. In the early days it…
Tag: Blogging
How positive thinking and quantum physics can work for you
Have you ever seen the books at the bookstore about the power of positive thinking? Are you familiar with quantum physics? Believe it or not, these two things work together to make your life better.Let me warn you right now that this post is going to be a little bit “out there” so don’t feel…
“Be all you can be” — HOOAH!
This post was guest blogged by Roy Wood aka esofthub of My SysAd Blog and FreeAdLists. HMTK asked me to guest blog and share some of my military experiences with you. Let me preface this post by saying that I always thought I had the potential to make great strides in my life, but I…
Embed videos to make money?
Believe it or not you can make money with a blog. Very few bloggers make enough money to quit their day job but a lot of us do make enough to afford a few video games and other bits of tech to make out lives better. Does the work to reward ratio work in our…
About sponsored postings
In a recent blog post HMTK.com reader Jez asked me where I found the information that I blogged about. I replied that it was a sponsored post.What does a sponsored post mean and why should you care? A sponsored post means that someone gave me money to blog about something. It does not mean someone…
Mom Has A Need….For Speed
The phone rings. I pick it up. The person on the other end states, without preamble:”I don’t like the donut.””Hi, Mom…what’s up?”As usual, I was stumped. Mom speaks with the assumption that everyone knows what she’s thinking and is able to follow her down the rabbit hole with occasional side trips through a wormhole.Destination…unknown.”Donut?””Yeah. You…
Mondays are for eBay
A few months ago I signed up for AuctionAds, ShoeMoney’s new venture in affiliate marketing. At first I was not very impressed. I had a lot of zero dollar days. Then, something strange happened.After running the widget in my sidebar I began replacing my Amazon affiliate blocks with AuctionAd$ affiliate blocks. Let me tell you…
Speed Linking for Friday May 18, 2007
I have not done one of these in a long time! Partly because I have been busy but mostly because I’m just lazy.Links worth looking at10.4.9 + 1 = 10.4.10 But Don’t Cut Off the Zero – Parislemon points out that even though Apple is great for making cool looking products they don’t know basic…
Do You Follow?
After reading Do Follow, D-List, and No No-Follow on Make Money Online Free With Court Growth For Persistent, Intelligent People. about the Do Follow plugin for WordPress I decided to check it out.Even though my top commentators list is set to spread the Google juice I did not know my comments were set not to….
Do some bloggers not want comments?
I visit a lot of blogs. A lot. One thing that always gets me is the blogs that require me to jump hurdles just to leave a comment.Do these bloggers not want people to comment?Do they understand that blogging is all about communicating with your readers?GRRRrrrrrr. It just drives me mad!Just a little while ago…
Five Blogs that I read
‘I just wanted to give a quick shout out to five of the blogs that I read often.Jane May Blogs – Jane May is part of the writing team over at Career Ramblings. She uses her blog to talk about things that do not fit on the Career Ramblings blog. She does not update daily…
The Spammers Do Try
I get a lot of spam comments here on HMTK. Most days I get between 600 and 1,200 spam comments. Since I ported the blog over to WordPress back in February I have gotten hit with 53,666 spam comments.Akismet grabs 99% of them and has only mislabeled one comment as spam. Well, I think it…