After my previous hiatus, I wanted to let everyone know what I’ve been up to the past few days before I stayed out of touch for too long. This past Tuesday, I purchased a used bicycle from Bikes not Bombs in Jamaica Plain and have been enjoying the great weather we’ve been having here in Boston and biking around town. I’ll post an in-depth review of both the bike and the bike shop but for now here’s a picture of my new wheels:
Pretty sweet ride, eh?
I’ll post more (and better quality, non-iPhone) pictures soon but for now I’m off. A heads up, don’t expect a post tomorrow (though you might be surprised) as it’s supposed to be 70+ degrees here!
Something happened overnight to my site and it was not accessible this morning. If you tried visiting here this morning and were denied, sorry.
The issue seems to be fixed at the moment (knock on wood). I’m not sure if the issue was from wordpress or my theme or something else but I solved it by disabling the wp-cache plugin in my wp-config.php file (e.g. commented out the first line that referenced wp-cache), then loaded my blog, went into the dashboard and de-activated the wp-cache plugin, and cleared the cache. That solved the issue of my blog not loading, but it was reset to a basic installation of my theme without any customizations.
So then I scrolled through my plugins and noticed that the “Deactivate wordpress widgets” plugin had mysteriously been deactivated. Once I turned that plugin back on, the K2 sidebar manager returned and all my theme customizations were back. It was quite strange and I’m glad it’s fixed and hopefully stays fixed.
If you experience any issues feel free to send me an e-mail or leave a comment on this post.
All over the internet we’re seeing the rise and enduring popularity of social network sites. Digg, myspace, facebook and other social networks are among the most trafficked sites on the web today. Yet, with most social networks you contribute content but receive little to no compensation for your time and effort. Not so with a site I stumbled upon a few days ago; Savings.com is a social network revolving around sharing the latest and greatest coupons, promo codes, and discounts.
The way the site works is a user submits any online coupons or promotional codes they find to the site. Then, the coupon is voted on by the community and the top discounts get put on the front page. You can also browse for savings by company or site name and check out existing deals and their vote rating. For instance, a few days ago I was buying up a ton of domain names (for reasons I’ll reveal sometime soon) and went looking for GoDaddy promotional codes. Thanks to the voting system on savings.com, I was able to quickly find codes that actually worked.
There are tons and tons of coupons on the site for all sorts of stores so if you’re doing any shopping check out savings.com. I’m now slightly wealthier thanks to savings.com, which I can’t say for facebook, digg, reddit, myspace, pownce, or any other social network site. If you liked this post, there’s good news for you as I’ll be launching a site revolving around money in the coming weeks. The site will publicize saving opportunities, saving tips, and historical information about money. I’ll post to this site when it’s live, but subscribe to my feed to ensure you’re up to date.
Score: 4/5
It’s times like this when you start wondering if Google Adsense is worth it:
[Edit: Image removed but it was an ad for this guy.]
Is it the worst ad ever? All I know is I feel dirty now. Damn you contextual advertising, this post was not positive!
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