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  • Brent Logan

    Brent Logan <3 Suzi!

    For Valentine’s Day, a temporary blog rename is appropriate. :-)

  • I Got Winered

    I Got Winered

    A big thanks to Dave Winer for tweeting my last post. I got a spike in traffic, above the fold in the search results, and a warm feeling. :-)

  • 2011 Year in Review — My Favorite Posts

    These are some of my favorites posts from 2011, sorted by month. Which were your favorite posts? January 2001 Honda Odyssey EGR Port Fix for P0401 Code. After fixing a check engine problem on our Honda Odyssey, I wrote about the fix. This has turned out to be one of my most popular posts ever.…

  • Picture Reset

    Christmas is over. Time to go back to the old profile picture. I changed it nine places. I wonder if I forgot any. Let me know if you see my Santa hat profile picture anywhere.

  • My New Christmas Profile Picture

    My New Christmas Profile Picture

    Ho! Ho! Ho!

  • What If I Built a Blog and Nobody Came…

    What if I built a blog and nobody came? Would I care? Now I don’t. Notice, that is. Care, maybe… Let me back up. For years, I’ve tracked site visits. I could tell where you came from, what you’d searched for, how long you stuck around, which pages you’d viewed, etc. Last week I turned…

  • A Zippy Blog

    You might have noticed blogan.net is a little zippier. A few things have changed recently: My web hosting service moved my site to a new, faster, shared server. Thanks, WebHostingBuzz! This is what inspired me to make more changes. I combined my print CSS into my regular CSS file. One less file to download. I…

  • I Learn Something Every Day

    I learn something every day. For example, a web hosting company that includes “web host” in its name doesn’t consider whether the sites it hosts are web-accessible in its uptime statistics. I found the following in my inbox today in response to my reporting yet another instance of blogan.net being “down”: Please take into account…

  • Embed Your Quora Activity on a WordPress Page

    Embed Your Quora Activity on a WordPress Page

    Quora seems to be the next big thing. It’s certainly a very useful site interesting. I display my Quora activity on a WordPress page. It’s not hard. Here’s how you can do it, too. Download and activate the RSSImport plugin. Create a page and use the RSSImport shortcode to show your Quora RSS feed. Your…