The Virtual Voice of David Niall Wilson

Category: 'blogging'

Why Twitter Kicks Facebook, Myspace, and other Social Media’s Ass

08/22/08, 5:50 AM

I’ve been thinking about this, and after leaving several comments on blogs I don’t have time to read every day yesterday, all of which provided me things I DID have time for that particular day, and all of which I…

WordPress Backups, MYSQL DMP FILES - Import / Export ARGH!

08/18/08, 10:51 AM

Just a word to the wise for WordPress users far and wide.  Use the XML Export function to backup your WordPress data, and do it often.  You can back up the MYSQL database as well, but here’s the thing.

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Site Moved, Words Flowing, His name is REALLY MIKE - GoDaddy Support

07/26/08, 6:37 AM

Well, we have successfully, more or lesss, moved our web sites from the aging dinosaur that is Hypermart to the snazzy - if a bit more commercial than I’d care for - new digs at Godaddy.com.  We heard a lot…

Well, We’re Back - After Sending out a Twitter Bomb …

07/25/08, 10:49 AM

Word of warning.  If you export your blog to a file, move the blog, and then import it again while Twitpress is activated…it WILL try to tweet every freaking blog post as it returns to your site.  This pisses off…

Today I built a new blog: The Tiki Lounge for Cargo Cult Press

07/22/08, 8:19 PM

While I did not write anything earth-shattering here, or in any of the files associated with my career…I did do something creative.  Give it a look!  The content is only filler I made up and cut and pasted for now,…

Giant Candles, James Dobson, Jacob the Jeweler - Huh?

06/24/08, 6:20 PM

There’s a cool widget on IGoogle now that shows you the hotness of topics on Google…but all I can say since I loaded it is….HUH?  What in the hell makes Giant Candles and GiantCandles.com important?  I went - I looked…

I made a Wordle…hmm Based on Hallowed Ground the Novel

06/19/08, 1:12 PM

Hallowed Ground Wordle…pretty cool. Not sure what it’s good for, but it’s based on the text of HALLOWED GROUND - the novel in progress in collaboration with author Steve Savile.

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Google Index Problem Solved… keywords are weird again!

06/18/08, 10:24 AM

Just a quick note…after turning off the WordPress privacy thing that somehow got turned on when I upgraded, removing all robots.txt files from my site, and working with the sitemap for a while, Google is now cheerfully sending people here…

Twitter…I’m there, and so is Storytellers Unplugged

06/17/08, 11:32 AM

I’m not sure yet exactly what is good, or bad about Twitter. It’s a micro blogging web site - a social network of sorts - another irritating numbers game. I watch it mostly with half or even a third of…

Google Indexing on the Mend? Got an index hit…

06/6/08, 10:48 PM

I’ll try to get back to regular posting tomorrow.  I’m going to be reviewing Anansi Boys and Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman shortly here, and I’m well into Brian Hodge’s MAD DOGS - which I’ve been waiting for a long time. …

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