Last night, I upgraded to WordPress 2.1. I was expecting the worst, so I very carefully did a database backup (using an export from phpmyadmin), did 2 backups of the files, and followed the instructions carefully. I must admit I did skip the part about disabling the extensions, and that save some time. Instead of [...]
Home Business Carnival, 3rd edition is up
by Pascal on September 1, 2006 in Business, News
The third edition of the Home Business Carnival has just been published by Wendy of eMonsAtHome . The theme of this new carnival is “balancing home business and home life” and Wendy has done an outstanding job at categorizing and outlining the very best submissions in a muti-page post: Work life balance, an exhaustive Post. [...]
Announcing a new Home Business Carnival
by Pascal on May 18, 2006 in Business, News
Today, I went out looking for a Home Business Carnival, but could not find one. So I created one! The home page for the carnival is at hosted here at Start a Side Business and entries can be submited at Blog Carnival. I purposefully kept the rules simple and I will try to fit as [...]
Analyzing ‘Side Business’ trends with Google Trends
by Pascal on May 16, 2006 in Business, News
A few days ago, Google released Google Trends. Basically, this is tool that can help you analyze how many people searched for a given Search Term over time. Where it gets really valuable is that it provides the ability to display several results when the search terms are separated by commas. Of course, this not [...]
CSS Reboot
by Pascal on May 1, 2006 in Business, News
It was time for a redesign, or as www.cssreboot.com would put it, it was time for a reboot. I like the previous look a lot, but I could not make everything work as I wanted to, so hopefully this new layout will accomplish that. The new theme is based on the latest k2 for most [...]
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