Real Estate Blog Lab

What the heck, it is just a hobby blog, right! So I pulled the plug and upgraded to 2.5. I might even be so bold as to try and add an image to this post. WOW, going out on a limb there hey.

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When I first started blogging about 18 months ago I heard the term “splog” from time to time in a rather derogatory manner. I had no idea what splogging and scrapping were all about. Then I heard the term “Content Thieves” now that made sense.

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I was in my Google Webmaster Tools yesterday clicking around as the PR update continues to make its way from data center to data center. I’ve often found a correlation between PR updates and “New Google Toys” to play with in the Webmaster Tools. Content Analysis with emphasis on Meta Tags and more.

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PicLens is hard to describe until you try it and once you do you will never look at images the same way again. You can’t use it to view all images (YET) but we can only hope. It works with IE 6+ Firefox (Windows and Mac) or Safari browsers. It works with Google Images, Flickr, Yahoo, and more.

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Google went away from the supplemental indexing or at least from reporting the supplemental results. Which left some of us wondering what might be going on. Personally I like having everything in the index or at least most pages and post are doing better these days.

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MyBlogLog was purchased recently by Yahoo. I thought okay no big deal, till I had to log into my account and start making changes, like they didn’t know what my avatar is so I have to create a new one. Like I can link to my Yahoo account if I want to, etc. etc.

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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The last post here at the Lab was about the font legibility on IE 7 vs Firefox. I looked and looked to find a way to make them as bold and easy to read on FF as on [...]

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I’ve waited for a very long time to update IE to version 7.  Our local MLS software was not compatible with IE 7 when it first came out.  I recently checked again to see if any of the recent work they have done on the software changed this.  It is now functional with IE 7 [...]

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The 2.3.2 upgrade was painless. So there is no smoke in the Lab just this picture of Prickly Pear Cactus since upgrading Wordpress continues to be a prickly situation with which to deal. There was still the issue of the spell checker not working so I had to move the spellchecker directory from the previous install to this one.

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The last day of the year, the time when everyone does the “Let’s look back. . . ” or the “Lets see what the future hold for 2008.” I’m sitting here like I do so many days seeing there is yet another update to Wordpress version 2.3.2. I didn’t bother with 2.3.1 and now there is talk of 2.4 just around the corner.

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