Ok, you might not really need a street light, but it’s a great example of how you can get pretty much anything you like online. I found a website that lets you purchase any sort of commercial lighting including street lights. The website actually sells a whole collection of different lights, both residential and commercial and what I find really cool are these lights called “Grow Lights” which are designed to help plants grow.
Great how you can find anything you like online
Here’s a cool tool which you can use to help optimise your websites. You know that you need to focus on keywords at time, to try and attract the right visitors to your website. Well, Google have a Keyword Tool that can help you find the right keywords for your website. Let’s say you have something hard like teryx exhaust all you need to do is key in the phrase, fill in the Captcha and the website will come back with ideas for you to try.
It’s a cool idea and a website you should keep in your arsenal for when you next need it.
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I was speaking to Leo today about Only Webcams a subsite here I had built some 5 years ago aimed at ranking different webcam sites around the Internet. Here’s how it worked:
Only Webcams consists of a ranked lists of Webcam websites submitted from all around the Web. When a Webmaster adds his/her site to the list, they are given a graphic or text link which enables their viewers to vote for their site. The more votes a site gets, the higher it’s shown in the list; hence the best sites get shown at the top. This system also benefits Webmasters who join in, as when someone is redirected to this page, they will choose one of the shown sites to exit from the list.
That was a long time ago and I had to take the site down because of the amount of spam it was receiving. It would be good to get it back up again, but it really boils down to time available to do anything. With enough time, you could built websites to do anything, to sell anything from peanuts to unlocked cell phones, to talk about your life, just about anything.
One day I’ll have enough time to do everything I want to do …
I’ve just noticed that I’ve just surpassed the 50,000 mark on Akismet. That’s quite a bit of unsolicited comments and this blog has been particularly busy on that front in the last couple of months. And it varies, from messages offering credit card 0% APR 15 months all the way to data center automation. Akismet protects me from all that.
There are really two types of spam comments on this blog. Some are just plain garbage, using foreign characters or streams of question marks. Those I don’t care for. Some others may be interesting so I sometimes do check them out if they’re about something that interests me. It’s weird what you can find interesting sometimes.
It’s great to see that there’s a new beta of Wordpress 2.7. It’s currently in Beta 3 and looking just fine! I have it running on a couple of websites and it’s only time that has stopped me rolling it out to my other blogs. My favourite feature is the fact that a couple of essential plugins have been rolled into the main build. For example, the ability to upgrade WordPress to the latest build at the touch of a button is just genius.
It doesn’t matter whether you’re running a website about fat burner pills or a blog dedicated to live video casting solutions, I’m still favouring Wordpress as the best way to build a web presence.
That’s my $0.02 anyway 
I was speaking to a friend of mine who was having a hard day and he was going on about how some clients are harder to deal with than others. He was doing a job in a hotel in Las Vegas and was getting all sorts of stick from the boss’s PA. The man in charge seemed to be happy, but his PA was a real pitbull and just wouldn’t let go. In the end he just walked out and didn’t finish the job!
Sometimes client don’t realise that you’re just trying to get a job done and whining away at you isn’t going to help the job get finished sooner. Luckily there are tools like remote access and automated OS recovery products that can make things easier for you as they reduce the pain of solving a client’s problem.
Do you have a great holiday shopping confession story to share? Well, if you pop down to ShopandConfess.com you can share your experiences and see what other great stories other shoppers have left. And you can win some great cash prizes for sharing your story if you’re lucky. Here’s something to give you a taste:
Here’s how you sign up. Head down to the Registration Page and sign up there. If you’d like to give me credit for referring you, just pop the URL of my main blog into the URL field on the signup form (that’s http://www.u-g-h.com). It doesn’t matter if your online shopping experience is about jewellery, jazz shoes or polaris performance; if you have a great story .. join the contest, share it! .. It could make you rich!
I had a bug that can only be called a “latent bug” on Only Postcards that I fixed recently. It was basically caused by not properly validating some data coming out of a database and falling over when a particular field was empty. I’m still considering whether I should rewrite the whole thing in PHP or just drop the whole site.
The great thing about it is that I’ve amassed an interesting collection of photos. I could almost imagine getting some slideshow software, relaxing in a massive armchair (I saw some great home theater furniture on a website yesterday) and watching a brilliant presentation on a giant screen. Heck, if I got myself a mobile satellite service, I could organise an outdoor viewing.
In my dreams huh?
Interesting idea down at Snowlist.com, a free classifieds site for the Utah Mountain Community. They are giving a free lift pass to all members who submit 10 free items in their free listings section. It’s bound to attract some traffic and help improve the presence of the website.
Here’s the press release
FOR NEW AND RETURNING SKIIERS, SNOWLIST.COM
OFFERS SKI GEAR AT THE RIGHT PRICE: FREE
Utah, date here—Snowlist.com, an online resource for mountain enthusiasts living in and visiting Utah, is making it easier to try skiing for the first time—or to hit the slopes after a long hiatus.
The web site’s classified ad listing not only offers ski equipment for sale or trade, but also an ever-changing list of free gear that can help both skiers who are new to the sport—and those who need to update their equipment before they return to the mountains.
“The Free Stuff listing gives news skiers a chance to test out the sport by minimizing their investment in ski gear,” said Snowlist.com founder Sarah Langridge. “And it’s a great way to clean out your closet and get rid of equipment you no longer need.”
Placing classified ads on snowlist.com is free.
Carter Gregory, a former ski racer and now Snowbird Race Team coach, grew up on the slopes of Park City, where his dad Tom taught him to ski. Last year, Carter was able to return the favor by replacing his dad’s outdated skis—for free.
After spending more than 20 years on the National Ski Patrol, the elder Gregory, took a break from skiing. When he was ready to start again, Carter knew the transition would be easier for his dad with a pair of skis that were more ‘new school.’ He found a free pair of Volkl Cross Rangers on Snowlist.com.
“The free price tag was perfect and it was a real boost to his enjoyment of skiing again,” said Carter Gregory.
Snowboarder Mickey Vriens was excited to share his joy of sliding down mountains with his eight year-old son Ashton. But it wasn’t long before Ashton wanted to give downhill skiing a try too.
“I didn’t want to spend the money to outfit him with alpine gear, but I was able to find a free pair of kids Rossignols on Snowlist.com,” said Vriens. “This made both of us happy… the price was right and he is now learning both sports. We’ll see which one he prefers in the long run.”
Because free stuff listed in the classified ads of Snowlist.com tends to move quickly, Langridge recommends that online visitors sign up for an RSS feed on the site, which will alert them by email when new listings for free equipment are posted.
Snowlist.com serves residents, visitors, ski racers, Realtors and businesses in Utah’s mountain communities by offering the ability to:
find a place to stay by distance to the lifts
buy, trade, sell or find free ski equipment and other mountain gear
peruse the menus of local restaurants and listings of ski shops
find a ski partner
get local race results and check out ski forums
find a mountain home to buy
check out the weather and avalanche forecast
link to any of the 13 airlines serving Utah’s mountain regions and to car rental companies
find a job on or off the mountain.
Giving away freebies is always a great way to draw eyeballs to your website. It helps increase your credibility and is a great way to encourage readers to recommend your site to other people. And to top it off, people will blog about it (like I am); and you know you can never have too many inbound links.
If you’re planning a trip to the Utah mountains, check them out.
Well, I think I need to start getting ready to migrate this website off a Windows platform; and the best way to start will probably be by trimming off the excess that’s no longer used. These are old bits of the Only Network that really served as proof of concept and never gained any traction. These include:
I don’t really need to carry these over with me, so they will be the first to go. It’s a pity I can’t give the website an alli weight loss pill or something similar to watch the excess fall away. But what has to be done, has to be done so I may dedicate a couple of evenings to it.
