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Blogging Tip: Picking a Niche in Narrative

Bob: What should I blog about?  I want to make money off of my advice.
Fred: I don’t know, but what do you like?
Bob: I like playing golf.
Fred: Are you any good?
Bob: No.  I just started about 3 months ago.  My handicap is 38.
Fred: You shouldn’t blog about golf advice. Are you good at anything?
Bob: I’m [...]

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Tidbit Tuesday: Paginating in MSSQL

I don’t really work with MSSQL very much and was wondering how to do pagination similar to doing it in MySQL with the LIMIT command.  It’s MUCH harder in MSSQL, but here is how you do it:
SELECT * FROM
(SELECT TOP [size_of_record_set] * FROM
(SELECT TOP [end_record] * FROM [table] ORDER BY [field] ASC) AS [...]

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Scheduling Posts in Wordpress 2.9.x

The easiest way to release content on your blog is to write it all at once and slow release it over time.  This also works really well when you’re on vacation or otherwise indisposed.

Write your post like you normally would, but hitting the “New Post” button in the top right corner of your dashboard.
Look on [...]

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Making Great Chicken Wings

A follower of mine made this great video.  Unfortunately I didn’t get it up here before the Superbowl, but I still think it’s great

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The Twitter API

I’ve been messing with the Twitter API for the first time in the last few hours, and I’ve learned a TON.  I know – I’m jumping on the bandwagon late, but oh well.  I managed to create a script to retweet “stuff” based on the search functionality and I made a script to automatically follow [...]

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