Garaphernalia 6.0

Analysis of my attempts to figure out blogging and podcasting

Entries for the ‘General’ Category

How to avoid results like the MN Senate Election

There are two things occurring in Minnesota right now which also occurred in Florida in the 2000 presidential election: 1) There is an extremely close vote. 2) There are a number of ballots which are ambiguous. Both of these things are unavoidable. Close elections will happen from time to time and it should be assumed [...]

Winning isn’t everything, its the only thing

Here are the results for the top keywords coming from Google over the last three days (Nov. 1 to Nov. 3): ulrur 22 travel blog 21 everything everywhere 15 gary arndt 13 november wallpaper 10 After all the effort I put into working the keyword “Travel Blog”, I am getting more traffic from a typo. [...]

Should it stay or should it go

I’ve slowly been getting rid of junk on my site. Mostly they have been widgets from blog networks. I have two left on my site and I think they are about to get the axe. BlogCatalog I already got rid of MyBlogLog. It drove about 3 visits per month. BlogCatalog is better, but not by [...]

Getting a new theme

I’m starting the process of getting a new theme for my travel around the world blog. When I made my last change, it was more out of desperation. I needed to change and so I got a theme which sort of worked and did the whole thing in about 24 hours. Since then, I’ve been [...]

Travel Around the World

If you haven’t figured it out, I don’t post information about the back end or business stuff on my main site because I don’t want to bore readers with the details of running a website. I’d rather bore them with the details of traveling. This is where I bitch about my website. For the last [...]