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My Hosting Debacle and Resolution

Last Saturday morning my blog was down for the count.  I had received an email from Are My Sites Up stating that Creeva.com was down.   It told me that my blog went down late night on Friday.    I verified on Saturday that it was still down, and I had wanted to do some writing on …

January 24, 2009 – 7:43 pm | By Creeva | Posted in Personal Writing, Technology | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

My Biggest Annoyance With Web 2.0 – Lack of Syncing

Image from here I’m the crossposting whore – I write once and I have everything designed to publish everywhere (well at least when things aren’t broken like Ping.fm to Myspace blogs).   This however is not syncing, it’s distribution and publishing.     A true sync across all platforms would be amazing. The example I would love is …

January 9, 2009 – 11:01 am | By Creeva | Posted in Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Throwing Money Away on Blog Posts – Going Against SEO Pro Advice

Image from here Every once in a while I get comments from SEO professionals that try to advise me on how to re-arrange ad placement.   They tell me I should put ads in the middle of the posts instead of at the end like I do.   Their theory is this would cause more people to …

January 7, 2009 – 12:04 pm | By Creeva | Posted in Personal Writing, Technology | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (8)

Twitter Phishing Scam – Proves There is Value To Twitter – Implications For the Attack

The recent twitter phishing scam had non twitter users scratching their heads on why this service would be targeted for a phishing scam at all.. Most people view little or no monetary value to twitter accounts. For most people this may actually be true. For people like Scoble or companies that promote themselves over twitter, …

January 5, 2009 – 11:38 am | By Creeva | Posted in Personal Writing, Security, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Today Is My 10th Wedding Anniversary

I think I knew from our first date that my wife was going to be the one I was going to marry.   Granted I literally broke up with my ex the day before I asked her out, but it all worked out.   Though I was twenty -one and she was eighteen it was the first …

January 2, 2009 – 1:25 pm | By Creeva | Posted in Family and Friends | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (3)

Why The Internet is Failing It’s Public Domain Promise

The Internet with it’s promise of a revolution has succeeded in it’s goal of changing the landscape of information and how it is disseminated to the public at large.   We deal with issues that new media and remixing is causing in the areas of old copyright.   I’m one of those that bemoan the constant increasing …

December 29, 2008 – 3:29 pm | By Creeva | Posted in Personal Writing | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (6)

NANOWRIMO failure once again

This year was the third attempt I’ve made at the National Novel Writing month, and my third failure.  I am neither heartbroken nor discouraged.   I did write over 50,000 words in the last month, it was actually closer to 75,000 words.   It just wasn’t’ all towards the novel.  For that I did about 10k words. …

December 1, 2008 – 10:22 am | By Creeva | Posted in Personal Writing | Tagged , , | Comments (0)