Items Tagged "blog"

Some site enhancements for SEO, Gravatars, Xbox, and Zune

I’ve just updated ViNull.com with a few fixes and additions. The first change is a fix to my sitemap protocol page. Thanks to Google’s webmaster ...

Posted By Mike On Friday, May 15, 2009
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An SEO and Usability look at ViNull.com

At the start of this year, I changed the design of ViNull.com. I was tired of the old design, but I also felt the old design was bad on usability. ...

Posted By Mike On Tuesday, April 28, 2009
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Papa’s got a brand new blog

Welcome to the new ViNull.com! -ed. This post was originally titled “Meet the new blog, same as the old blog” but the Who references have been many and ...

Posted By Mike On Thursday, January 01, 2009
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It's Tasty, It's Healthy, It's DevLicio.us!

I'm now a syndicated blogger! Over twitter yesterday Brendan Tompkins announced they were looking for bloggers to join devlicio.us - a sister blog ...

Posted By Mike On Thursday, April 10, 2008
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A blog in the life of Mike and Cicelie

I've often called them "grilled cheese" blogs. This is because much of their content feels like reading "...then I made a grilled ...

Posted By Mike On Sunday, February 10, 2008
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Bad DownloadSquad, Bad...

It's not uncommon to read about companies who should know better making dumb mistakes with their user base. Facebook is a perfect example, so much ...

Posted By Mike On Thursday, December 13, 2007
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Switching to Google Reader

I've used Bloglines for almost 2 years now. I like the interface, I like the way "Keep New" works, and I like the fact I can share my OPML and use ...

Posted By Mike On Tuesday, July 31, 2007
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Windows Live Writer Beta 2 Released

Microsoft has just released a major update to Windows Live Writer today, and I'm giving it a test run with the post. Windows Live Writer is ...

Posted By Mike On Thursday, May 31, 2007
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My 0.15 seconds of fame

An a-list blogger quoted me. This made my day. Update: It happened again.

Posted By Mike On Friday, April 20, 2007
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iBlog, therefore I am

I got home tonight, and saw the Perry tagged me. The topic is "Why do you blog?" I think these "memes" are what happened to the chain-letter ...

Posted By Mike On Wednesday, April 18, 2007
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Ziki enters Social Thunderdome

Two sites enter, one site leaves... ahem, sorry got carried away. Yes, there is yet another social networking site open. Does the Internet ...

Posted By Mike On Wednesday, January 03, 2007
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I've been squatted!

Cybersquatting is a nasty thing, and yet it continues with no effort to stop it. The spammer grabs a domain name they think someone else will want, sets ...

Posted By Mike On Sunday, December 17, 2006
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Moving to CodePlex

If you're not reading this though RSS you might have noticed the CodePlex logo has replaced the SourceForge logo. This makes sense, as the ViNull ...

Posted By Mike On Wednesday, December 13, 2006
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Del.icio.us in FireFox 2.0

As I've posted before, del.icio.us fills a need for me to "mini-blog". It's never been useful to me as a bookmark service, and this was due to the ...

Posted By Mike On Tuesday, December 05, 2006
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The 100th Download

I've been watching the downloads of ViNull Siding (the open source project I run that is the code for this site), and today SourceForge reported ...

Posted By Mike On Sunday, October 29, 2006
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Blogger's Oct Meetup Post Mortem

We just wrapped up the meeting, once again running two hours long. This month, Perry, Tish, Cicelie, Maja and Lidia gathered as we looked at various ...

Posted By Mike On Thursday, October 19, 2006
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October Meetup: Ready, Set, Blog!

Hosted by the KnoxBloggers.Com When: Wednesday, Oct 18th 7:00pm Where: Mike's Place (directions when you RSVP) What: Getting Started Blogging and ...

Posted By Mike On Monday, October 16, 2006
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ViNull Mashup

By popular request, my Del.icio.us bookmarks are now available in an RSS feed combined with my blog posts. To subscribe to this feed, point your favorite ...

Posted By Mike On Tuesday, October 03, 2006
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Golden, Blogged, and Del.icio.us

If you are reading this post on my site, you may have noticed you had to scroll down a bit to see the blog posts. Maybe you thought I made 3 new ...

Posted By Mike On Friday, September 15, 2006
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ViNull.Com: Relaunch

When I set out to build my blog from scratch, I had grand plans. These plan had to be put on hold for various reasons, and I ended up launching a ...

Posted By Mike On Monday, September 11, 2006
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Knoxville Bloggers Meetup: I, Pod

The first was a success, so we decided it's time for another one! When: Wednesday, Sept 20th 7:00pm Where: Mike's Place (directions when you RSVP) What: ...

Posted By Mike On Friday, September 08, 2006
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Knox Bloggers Meetup a Success!

(I was going to title this Knox Bloggers Meetup Post Mortem, but Daryl beat me to it.) Last night's meeting went very well, if not longer than expected. ...

Posted By Mike On Thursday, August 24, 2006
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Knoxville Blogger's Meetup

When: Wednesday, August 23rd 7:00pm Where: Mike's Place (directions when you RSVP) What: Knoxville's local bloggers get together to talk about tools ...

Posted By Mike On Friday, August 18, 2006
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I'm Google's Bitch

Google Notebook, GMail, Google Calender - I use all of these daily. I have two videos on Google Video (one and two). I love Picasa, perhaps ...

Posted By Mike On Sunday, June 11, 2006
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ViNull.Com Launch

Welcome to the new blog site! I'm still unpacking, so rooms are a little bare at the moment. Also, a few spots need some spackle (the RSS feed ...

Posted By Mike On Thursday, May 18, 2006
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Do not remove this tag under penalty of law

Daryl posted a bit on Wesley Chrusher's (aka Wil Wheaton) take on flock, and the impression of tags. Tagging is very Web 2.0, and that's a shame. Web 2.0 ...

Posted By Mike On Friday, March 17, 2006
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New Blog Site Coming; ViNull.com

Soon, I will be moving my blog to a new site - one that I am developing myself. The re are two main reasons for this; one I need to be able to organize ...

Posted By Mike On Saturday, March 04, 2006
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365 Days Later

Today marks the end of my first year of blogging. Looking over the posts of my first year brought back many memories...In February 05, I started by making ...

Posted By Mike On Tuesday, February 14, 2006
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Mike Sells Out

Don't let the new design fool you, after learning what my blog is worth, I'm here to collect. I'm not sure why, but google thinks the best way for this ...

Posted By Mike On Saturday, November 12, 2005
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I got yer blog... dangling

Well, I think all the heavy lifting is done. I have a few more ideas to add to my new blog site here on blogger, but they will wait. Since I know there ...

Posted By Mike On Saturday, August 27, 2005
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Division by Zero

There must be an error in the world, because I am making a blog post. Now that I have this power, to post bits into cyberspace needing only my whim, how ...

Posted By Mike On Monday, February 14, 2005
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About Me

Michael C. Neel, born 1976 in Houston, TX and now live in Knoxvile, TN. Software developer, currently .Net focused. Board member and President of ETNUG, and organizes CodeStock, East Tennessee's annual developers conference. .Net speaker, a Microsoft ASP.NET MVP and ASPInsider. Founder of FuncWorks, LLC and Feel The Func podcast.

Proud father of two amazing girls, Rachel and Hannah.

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