A “blog” is many things, and can be used for many purposes. I’ll begin by describing the things you can do with a blog, and let you decide what a blog really is, and what you can do as a blogger.

Things you can do with a blog:

• A blog can be an online newsletter, or an e-magazine, where YOU are the editor in chief!
• A way to create an audience for what you have to say.
• A way to exercise your FREEDOM of SPEECH.
• A business venture. Magazines have ads, so do blogs.
• A better website. Blogs are part of what has been called “Web 2.0″, where blog sites should eventually replace traditional websites.
• Software which allows you to syndicate your content to 3rd parties. This is done with RSS feeds.
• A way to share your ideas with the world.

What do you think a blog is?

First, create a new bookmark on the toolbar of your web browser. You can usually right-click on the toolbar, and choose “add bookmark”.

Next, give your new bookmark the name:
The W3C Markup Validation Service

For the location, use:
javascript:location.href=’http:/’+’/validator.w3.org/check?uri=’+window.location.href.replace(’#’,’|’);

This works in Firefox quite well. I also works in IE 6 if you can figure out how to add a link to your toolbar.

First, get your list ready for import. You’ll have to extract your customer list from your order database. Hopefully you have access to it, or you know someone who does. Then get it into a spreadsheet. The data fields you’ll need are: First Name, Middle Name, Last Name, and Email. I also recommend including the Customer ID if you have that field in your database. If you are including the Customer ID in your list, you’ll want to rename this field to Foreign Key. This lets your software know that this is a unique record.

Next, you’ll need a good email marketing software package to import your list into. After a little searching online, I came across a superior solution. It’s a program called PHPList. This is not Windows software you can simply download and install on your PC. It is actually for use on a web server. This is very cool, since you can do everything you need remotely, just using a web browser.

When it comes to promoting your online business, eBay is a fast, cheap, and easy option to get your name and products out there to the masses. It takes many months to get your website ranked well in search engines such as Google or Yahoo. However, it takes minutes to get setup on eBay to sell your products. Listing insertion fees are cheaper than the regular auction listings, and you have the option to list your items until they sell which will save a ton of time since you won’t have to relist.

1112223333@messaging.nextel.com

I don’t know about you, but it’s difficult to remember someones phone number, let alone an entire email address. However, with a free service called Teleflip, you don’t need to know anything beyond the phone number. Now, you can format the recipient’s email address as follows:

1112223333@teleflip.com

Needless to say, a much simpler solution.

Teleflip Home Page

Using the command line version of FLAC, you can convert a FLAC file to WAV format. Then encode to MP3 with LAME.

For example:

Decode FLAC to WAV…

> flac -d yourfile.flac yourfile.wav


Encode WAV to 128-bit MP3…

> lame -b 128 yourfile.wav yourfile.mp3


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