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Basically what I have been doing is surfing for traffic every couple of days so that I can spend 15 - 20 credits each day on traffic to my blog... When I find blogs like that, I post a comment... Unless you have a blog with wide appeal and topic nature, it would seem like paying for a billboard ad in an unrelated space... Granted, the people who are all using this site all have blogs so some people will actually do what I do while surfing... I wanted my site to be remembered and stand out from the crowd... For one credit you can get 4 - 10 visits rather then one... Also you can visit a site on the blog rocket page, to be entered into a credit contest... It felt like it took a long time before my blog was approved in their system... … View Post »

Prize Unique Referred Traffic: www.endureonline.com Prize Quantity of Links: tidbitsandtreasures.blogspot.com Prize Highest Google PR: Tie Between endureonline.com and tidbitsandtreasures.blogspot.com, so the winner is determined by the most unique referred traffic so the winner is endureonline.com Congradulations to C.McComsey of www.endureonline.com , B.Sanders of tidbitsandtreasures.blogspot.com , and to all others who participated... If you would like to see more detailed information I have provided the data that the winners were determined by... This pdf is a snapshot of the google analytics report of referring traffic for the contest period... Here is a csv file that contains all of the links as far as yahoo has indexed... … View Post »

We got back last night from our trip to Ocean City, NJ... The little guy is at that age where he wants to do everything, touch everything, and always have his way so that made for a challenge... The drama of the story was the B & B that we stayed in was having some issues with the next door neighbor... Luckily for us, we already had packed up to head home... … View Post »

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I added some more information on the programming the Microchip PIC resource guide that I have been working on... I have added links to the pic programming software I have used... Also, I now have a list of compilers that will take a program in traditional C or Basic, and compile it for the Microchip PIC line of chips... If you have any special request for sample projects, let me know... The next section will be building an actual circuit and programming a chip... … View Post »

Growing up in this area and working for many companies, most I have seen utilize Microsoft based computer systems... In my seven plus years in the industry, I have started to see more and more Linux use right here in our backyard... If you have a business and wondering what the heck it is, or if it is a good fit for your business model now local schools are priming students with Linux as well as Windows administration... PS - Let me know if you spot one... … View Post »

So we were out to the photo studio the other day... We wanted to get some summer photos before the summer was over... … View Post »

I have been using BlogExplsion to get free traffic to my site for over a month now and hit over 1000 visitors... I have the BlogRush widget on this site and be lucky to have seen 25 visitors from that tool... One way you can get people to come, is by surfing through other blogs by members of their site... They call it surf member blogs and as you go to each site you earn credits that you can use to participate in the surf or other activities... I think I ll be giving blogrush the boot, and putting a BlogExplosion widget in it s place... … View Post »

If you are in need of a Linux consultant - I m your man... Experience with LAMP stack installation, configuration, and development... Feel free to post your Linux related questions, and I ll answer them in a follow-up blog post... … View Post »