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07 May 2012 ~ 0 Comments

How to Take Full Advantage of Life

You’ve heard people talk about this before, but I’m going to try to make this extremely simple. There are three basic ingredients to being happy. They include providing your body with the proper inputs, ensuring it can function without limits and ensuring it is actively outputting what it wants to. Inputs The body is like a machine [...]

30 April 2012 ~ 0 Comments

Baby Formula Should be a Controlled Substance

Let’s say that you’ve got a drug or a treatment that has the following documented side effects: Reduced immune health Increase prevalence of infections Increase risk of sudden infant death syndrome Increases chance of developing diabetes Increase risk of childhood obesity Increased tendency to develop allergic diseases Increased chance of necrotizing enterocolitis in premature infants Increased risk of asthma (5,500 people die [...]

25 April 2012 ~ 0 Comments

Who Pays Their Fair Share of Taxes?

In the United States political realm you can’t go far without hearing someone mention ‘their fair share’ of taxes. From the Obama administration this is usually directed at folks like Warren Buffet who pay millions in taxes. Have they ever sat down and asked themselves what someone’s “fair share” really is though?

29 March 2012 ~ 1 Comment

Inflation – Wipe Your Ass with the US Dollar by 2115!

Wipe Your Butt for Cheap!

I saw this image being shared on Facebook by the Bastiat Institute. It’s funny, but it’s ridiculous.. right? No, it’s not unrealistic that someday we will wipe our ass with federal reserve notes. It’s actually inevitable. If you know anything about the Federal Reserve and it’s target inflation rate or anything about it’s history of [...]

31 January 2012 ~ 0 Comments

Using Event Tracking with Google Analytics

Creating a New Goal

Google’s Analytic software has a neat feature that allows you to track arbitrary events opposed to page visits. That means you can track activity on your site such as when a visitor clicks an affiliate link, when they click your Facebook link or when they do anything else involving an action on your page. Why [...]

25 January 2012 ~ 0 Comments

How to Find the Post ID or Page ID in WordPress

Finding Post ID

Looking for your post’s ID? It’s actually really easy to find if you know how. Simple Answer: Edit the post that you want the ID of. Once the editor is up, check the URL of your web browser. You should see something like this: In this case, the post ID is 98. If you’re editing [...]

25 January 2012 ~ 0 Comments

Syncing WordPress with Twitter

Remember a few weeks ago when I wrote about strategies to drive traffic to your site? One of the important parts of being a good author is to give your audience ways to subscribe to your future content. This way, when you publish something they get notified by their favorite social network. Some people use [...]

18 January 2012 ~ 8 Comments

Installing WordPress at Nearly Free Speech

Putty Settings

Yesterday I went over the cheapest WordPress hosting options and came to the conclusion that Nearly Free Speech is the clear winner if you’re willing to do some technical stuff yourself. If you’re not willing to do some technical stuff and potentially deal with some technical issues, then HostGator is probably your best bet. So what is [...]

16 January 2012 ~ 0 Comments

Cheapest WordPress Hosting

A lot of people start their WordPress blogs hosted right at wordpress.com (yourblog.wordpress.com), and there’s nothing wrong with that. However, as you expand and want to install plugins, themes and otherwise customize or monetize your site, you will be very limited with the hosted solution at wordpress.com. The alternative is to pay for hosting. For many people [...]

16 January 2012 ~ 0 Comments

Using FeedBurner in WordPress

Final Widget

Once you’re creating content and people are reading it. The next thing you should do is hook your WordPress blog up to social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and e-mail. What if you don’t use Twitter, or what if you don’t like Facebook? Too bad. The reason you need to hook your blog up [...]