Should I move to the big city some day? I’ve been going to New York City once a month for this entire year and the long trips are quite a drag. Now that I have finished reading all the guidebooks on New York City, I have begun to read some guidebooks on Philadelphia, the other [...]
Yesterday I discovered what may be an unknown and undocumented Google search operator for listing the backlinks to your web site. A backlink is an incoming link to your web site. The number of backlinks to your web site is a factor in how well it will rank in the search engines. The Yahoo! Site [...]
Today I drove west to visit Lock Haven PA, the county seat of Clinton County. This is part of my personal project to explore the region. I have several reasons for making these little trips: I am extremely bored and need a change of scene. I may need to visit various towns in the area [...]
Today I found this article on http://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/, 23 Doomsayers Who Say We’re Heading Toward Depression In 2011. The severity of the economic downturn is already apparent in state budgets which are far in the red. With unemployment benefits running out and state budget cuts closing social programs you can expect to see more visible signs [...]
Yesterday I made my pilgrimage to the East Village. To appreciate the significance of this trip for me, you need to be familiar with some counterculture history. Although Greenwich Village has always been the bohemian neighborhood of the United States, gentrification pushed the artistic community to the East Village by the mid 1970s so the [...]
I have not been blogging enough about my business. I have been blogging about my travels just to let clients know when I am unavailable. At least that is my justification for blogging about my trips. Recently I have been gaining expertise with Drupal, the Content Management System. Drupal is a web application framework which [...]
My next trip to New York City will be on April 3rd. I will be taking a Susquehanna Trailways bus to New York City to spend the day at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. After I visit two more museums on subsequent trips I plan to explore the Greenwich Village neighborhood and Alphabet City where [...]
I’m making another trip to New York City on January 23rd to see a play on Broadway, David Mamet’s “Race”. http://www.raceonbroadway.com This play is currently running at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. I plan to take several “daycations” to New York City next year until I have seen all the landmarks and done all the typical [...]
Today I went to the Christkindl Market in Mifflinburg. A Christkindlmarket is a German holiday market. I’ve read about this tradition in my travel guide to Berlin, although it used the term Weihnachtsmarkt. I almost did not go because my furnace stopped working last night and I spent two hours this morning trying to get [...]
Yesterday’s trip to New York City went pretty well except for the weather. I’m going to describe this journey in detail because I plan to make this trip again. I got up at 4:00 AM and left at 4:45 AM. I drove down Route 15 to Harrisburg. This is a two hour drive on a [...]
I have removed the following AJAX demo applications from the menus because changes in APIs have made them nonfunctional: Stickam, Technorati, Amazon, Yahoo! Video Search, YouTube Favorites. Some of these relied on web services that are no longer provided. My client dry spell appears to be over because I am now doing some work with [...]
On Saturday I will be taking an Amtrak train to New York City to attend a gathering for Vloggerheads, the Ning site for vloggers. We will be having lunch at Hill Country Restaurant. I recently read a tourist guide book on New York City, National Geographic Traveler: New York, 3rd Edition by Michael S. Durham. [...]
I am on the warpath now! I’ve been reading about how the banksters are raising the interest rates on everyone’s credit cards before the new law intended to curb such action goes into effect. You can read about how some corrupt GOP senators are trying to block this bill at: The Raw Story: GOP senators [...]
Tonight I saw “The Great American Trailer Park Musical” at the Lycoming College Theater. I have not seen a play in a long time so it was good to get out of the house and do something special. I like to go out at night and tonight it was very warm outside. I did not [...]
My next trip abroad will be to Berlin so I am studying German. It will be a long time until I can afford to do any more traveling so I have plenty of time to learn German. I have not been putting in much time on my German but I have gathered all the necessary [...]
I’ve been working on my blog comment threading modification of Elgg for the last few days. As I was copying my files to my iBook to test my instructions on how to implement the changes, I noticed something weird. When I opened a PHP file in my code editor I would see the current code. [...]
Yesterday I added another AJAX demonstration to my web site using the Reddit API. http://www.williamsportwebdeveloper.com/reddit.html The reddit API provides dates in the UTC number format which forced me to spend some time figuring out how to convert it into other date formats. Since I frequently deal with different date formats in JavaScript I decided to [...]
I’ve allowed my client list to dwindle down to just one but now I need to look for more freelance work. Pennsylvania has not passed a budget for the 2010 fiscal year and instead of issuing IOUs like California, they are not paying state employees, vendors, suppliers, and non-profit agencies. This has caused an emergency [...]
I have not been putting as much time into my professional development as I used to but I still make incremental advances. ASP.NET technology has outpaced me since I managed to catch up with ASP.NET 2.0. I have not learned anything about MVC and very little about Linq or Silverlight. Now that Silverlight 3.0 has [...]
I have started a personal project in order to see if I can make any money by producing content on the Internet. I’ve recently read a book, YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture, which got me to thinking about how much time I spend contributing content to online communities. Many web sites are making money [...]
