This is the thirteenth entrant in The Blogging Essay Contest from WeblogToolsCollection.com If you would like to participate, please email me your entry at mark at wltc dot net. Please rate this article using the star system below. The competition will be judged primarily on the input from readers like you. Thank you. This is written by Claudia Pena Entry 9-21-06: Mayans and many Mexicans today still have a delicacy of quail in rose petals…wow, they can say their fecal matter smells like roses and be honest. Are there any more cultures that have such delicacy? On that same month I also wrote one of my longest pieces about my strained relationship with my mother and took a political stand on the climate fear on my website. I spent hours on the computer. From the time I came home from work at 5 until midnight, I was writing, reading, searching, […]
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A very Merry Christmas and a Happy Holidays to all. Even though most holidays are working ones for me anymore, I am very thankful to have a wonderful family to spend Christmas with. I hope everyone gets to enjoy some time off and have a safe and happy holiday. This is also the time to donate money to the poor and help those in need.
[Continue Reading...]WP Plugin: Wii Edition Detect visitors from Nintendo Wii’s Opera browser and display your WordPress blog in a format that the Wii recognizes. Based on Alex’s Mobile plugin. Also, map your Wii Number on a Google Map to find other players with MapWii.
[Continue Reading...]WP Theme: Visual Tomfoolery Two column, fluid, dark background, light header, two column theme for WordPress with widget support. The embedded links are a very bright pink.
[Continue Reading...]Time Person of the Year: You Time Magazine chooses the individual web user as Person of the Year (though obviously a misnomer). “the World Wide Web became a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter”. A very interesting read. Thanks BloggersBlog
[Continue Reading...]WP Plugin: DupPrevent DupPrevent WordPress Plugin helps you avoid being penalized by Google for duplicate content by inserting NOINDEX meta tag in pages that might trigger Google’s duplicate content filters. Plugin also contains a robot.txt file to disallow spider access to files that need not be included in engine’s index.
[Continue Reading...]WP Plugin: Slideshare Easily add Slideshare slides to your WordPress blog. The blog is not in English but the plugin works. If it breaks, Koen fixed it on their blog. Behold the power of slides! 🙂
[Continue Reading...]AdSense and image placement We ask that publishers not line up images and ads in a way that suggests a relationship between the images and the ads. If your visitors believe that the images and the ads are directly associated, or that the advertiser is offering the exact item found in the neighboring image, they may click the ad expecting to find something that isn’t actually being offered. That’s not a good experience for users or advertisers. This is important for many AdSense publishers. From the examples that have been provided, if you are using a plugin like AdSense Beautifier, you might be violating Google’s AdSense policies and might want to look into removing the plugin.
[Continue Reading...]WP Plugin: Barunio Administration As an extension of the Custom Admin Menu Plugin and as a redesign/theme for the admin interface of WordPress, Barun has released his Barunio Administration plugin that transforms your hosted WordPress backend (no pun intended). Installation is simple but I seem to have run across a bug with italics. Looks very smooth and it is a better layout if you use the custom admin menu plugin to create nested submenus.
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