Ashley Bowers Blog » Blogs http://ashleybowers.com/blog Web standards, programming, operating systems, browsers, and more! Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:57:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Blogging as a side job! http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2008/09/15/blogging-as-a-side-job/ http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2008/09/15/blogging-as-a-side-job/#comments Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:15:36 +0000 Ashley http://ashleybowers.com/blog/?p=183 A lot of bloggers are now making money from there blogs by selling ads on the sidebars or in the posts of there blogs which I am cool with if you want to do it right in a SEO friendly way. But there have been several businesses over the years that have done this in a non friendly SEO way and that has put a bad name on the blog advertising industry but there are still plenty of great places on the web that do it in a way that search engines like or should I say do not mind you doing, also what is known as white hat techniques. And then there are ways known as black hat techniques that are bad and if you do them your website will be removed from the search engines once it is found out.

As you can see I have written over 160 posts here on my blog and have done so with no advertising money and wrote everything here on my blog basically as a place to store my thoughts and favorite websites on the internet! But lately having time to get online and do anything other than read email or read the news has been hard to do since I have so much going on in life at the moment and until the end of the year!

]]> http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2008/09/15/blogging-as-a-side-job/feed/ 1 What an exciting month it has been http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2008/05/16/what-an-exciting-month-it-has-been/ http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2008/05/16/what-an-exciting-month-it-has-been/#comments Fri, 16 May 2008 06:45:13 +0000 Ashley http://ashleybowers.com/blog/?p=181 A great group of guys and girls are getting together this weekend to start working on our next project for the web and I have been so excited about this new website we are about to launch that I almost want to blog about now but i can not so you will just have to wait for the official launch.

Lots going on around here and the world this month hard to keep up with it all sometimes but I try to. Recently my friends blog unsigned podcast had a make over and my friend Santi started a blog up last month but did not find it till this month. I am always excited to hear or find someone that has started a blog.

]]> http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2008/05/16/what-an-exciting-month-it-has-been/feed/ 0 Blu-ray is the clear winner http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2008/04/23/blu-ray-is-the-clear-winner/ http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2008/04/23/blu-ray-is-the-clear-winner/#comments Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:12:01 +0000 Ashley http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2008/04/23/blu-ray-is-the-clear-winner/ The war between the two formats blu-ray and HD is now over with all the major United States movies studious now backing the blu-ray disc as the format in which all there movies will be released on. With blu-ray being the better of the two when it came to data storage and looks i am glad that this day is here so we can all start buying one type of player and one type of disc instead of having to choose between two.

My friend would come over with new movies from Blockbuster but they were always blu-ray discs and all I had a was HD DVD player so it would not play them, so she would end up getting the DVD version of the movie instead so we could watch it on my HD DVD player but now that blu-ray is the winner I am going to trash my old player and by a new Play Station 3 because it has a blu-ray player inside.

]]> http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2008/04/23/blu-ray-is-the-clear-winner/feed/ 0 Mr Terreiro has one to http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2008/04/12/mr-terreiro-has-one-to/ http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2008/04/12/mr-terreiro-has-one-to/#comments Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:52:35 +0000 Ashley http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2008/04/12/mr-terreiro-has-one-to/ Thanks to Jon Terreiro I decided to go to college and make something of myself instead of just quitting high school early, at the time Jon just finished college and was at a job that was paying a si figure salary and living in a nice home, so after he told me that if kept learning for the next couple of years it would pay off in the end. Which it has and now Jon makes a 7 figure salary and own many homes and condos across the World.

If you get a chance swing by his blog sometime and check out some of his great writings on his blog, otherwise you just do not have any idea what you are missing out on!

]]> http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2008/04/12/mr-terreiro-has-one-to/feed/ 0 Coworkers blogging to http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2008/04/04/coworkers-blogging-to/ http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2008/04/04/coworkers-blogging-to/#comments Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:04:29 +0000 Ashley http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2008/04/04/coworkers-blogging-to/ Was wondering around my work place for awhile and while walking around peaking at other people computer screens as I walked by I found that a couple other people here have blogs, like me. I was kind of shocked to find out who had a blog and hwy they had one online but I managed to talk with some cool people in IT and found that both guys that run that department also have blogs and TJs blog along with Olivers blog is pretty cool when I was leaving work I walked by and found that our receptionist Pebbles also has a blog, was kind of weird seeing everyone blogging but was kinda of cool to. If you get a chance take a peak at there blogs like I did.

]]> http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2008/04/04/coworkers-blogging-to/feed/ 0 Found Gino Lopez you should to http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2008/03/23/found-gino-lopez-you-should-to/ http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2008/03/23/found-gino-lopez-you-should-to/#comments Sun, 23 Mar 2008 07:45:26 +0000 Ashley http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2008/03/23/found-gino-lopez-you-should-to/ It is amazing when you find great things as a result of other great things, for instance thanks to My Gaudi I found this great blog written by Mr Gino Lopez that is pretty cleverly written. If you get a chance be sure to add Gino Lopezs blogs to your bookmarks and add his feed to which ever service you use as well.

I always like finding other great blogs like mine on the internet or even ones that have nothing to do with mine but cover there subject well and in this case that is what Gino Lopez does is cover his subjects.

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]]> http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2008/03/19/reading-gaudi/feed/ 0 Oh yea, it is up and running http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2008/03/02/oh-yea-it-is-up-and-running/ http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2008/03/02/oh-yea-it-is-up-and-running/#comments Sun, 02 Mar 2008 09:37:34 +0000 Ashley http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2008/03/02/oh-yea-it-is-up-and-running/ Have been working closely with friends on helping launch this awesome website called Flashtising while sells online ads thru different various advertising platforms like blog reviews and text link ads. The website also sells flash advertisements and mobile ads and will continue to add more and more ways to run ads on websites but for now it is up online with a network of dedicated bloggers and webmasters running ads from advertisers.

If you own a blog then you should check out this great website that can help you earn extra income in various ways by selling advertising space on it with Flashtising ads.

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]]> http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2008/02/14/the-urster/feed/ 0 My new widgets and tags http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2007/11/10/my-new-widgets-and-tags/ http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2007/11/10/my-new-widgets-and-tags/#comments Sat, 10 Nov 2007 07:00:42 +0000 Ashley http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2007/11/10/my-new-widgets-and-tags/ Did an upgrade to my Wordpress and along with the upgrade came some cool things called Widgets and Tags. So now I can tag my posts instead of having to create new categories and with the Widgets I can add things like the most recent comments on to my blogs sidebar with ease. I am looking at all the plug ins right now and will probably add a couple more in the coming days. I have found this neat plug in that allows for visitors to add video and audio comments to my blog and I think I am going to give it a try and see just how pretty it is, and how well it works.

]]> http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2007/11/10/my-new-widgets-and-tags/feed/ 0 Granny bloggers http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2007/10/25/granny-bloggers/ http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2007/10/25/granny-bloggers/#comments Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:54:10 +0000 Ashley http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2007/10/25/granny-bloggers/ Seems that a lot of grand parents are starting to blog, and to me this makes a lot of sense, because who is better to give advice on certain things or should I saw most things in life but a grandparent. When I heard the Alice”s granny was blogging I knew I had to subscribe to the feed via my rss feeder reader which is Google reader by the way. Seems to me that everyone is getting there news via rss feeds now instead of going to the website address itself which may save websites a lot of bandwidth.

]]> http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2007/10/25/granny-bloggers/feed/ 1 Pass the NyQuil http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2007/10/22/pass-the-nyquil/ http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2007/10/22/pass-the-nyquil/#comments Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:42:35 +0000 Ashley http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2007/10/22/pass-the-nyquil/ Have been extremely sick for the past couple of days now and have not been able to sleep a wink. Called a girlfriend to come over and bring me some NyQuil so I could get some rest. Not sure what exactly I got but it has taken all the energy from me and left me in a world of pain. Anyways needless to say not much of anything will be getting done over the next week, I just hope I am fully recovered by Halloween so I can go out and party.

]]> http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2007/10/22/pass-the-nyquil/feed/ 1 Back that thang up http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2007/10/19/back-that-thang-up/ http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2007/10/19/back-that-thang-up/#comments Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:23:06 +0000 Ashley http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2007/10/19/back-that-thang-up/ Well I learned the hard way about not backing up my hard drive every once and awhile and before you suffer the same fate, make sure to put it on your to do list. Losing so much work almost makes me want to stop doing what I am doing and start a new career, yea it”s that bad. But I am managing to get on with life and work and redoing everything I have already done, again! Well this is my advice to everyone who owns a personal computer ” back that thang up “.

]]> http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2007/10/19/back-that-thang-up/feed/ 0 Why I am voting Democrat http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2007/09/05/why-i-am-voting-dmocrat/ http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2007/09/05/why-i-am-voting-dmocrat/#comments Thu, 06 Sep 2007 02:24:47 +0000 Ashley http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2007/09/05/why-i-am-voting-dmocrat/ Gas prices are the reason I am voting Democrat in the coming elections. In my opinon the current Administration has failed the American people in so many ways, one of them is failing to bring gas prices back down. I am not sure which Democrat I am voting for but Hillary Clinton has caught my eye and Bill Richardson has to but I would have really liked to have had the chance to vote for Al Gore. Maybe he will run as Vice President if Hillary Clinton wins the Democratic parties nomination.

]]> http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2007/09/05/why-i-am-voting-dmocrat/feed/ 2 Google or Yahoo http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2007/07/27/google-or-yahoo/ http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2007/07/27/google-or-yahoo/#comments Sat, 28 Jul 2007 00:13:45 +0000 Ashley http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2007/07/27/google-or-yahoo/ Which is your favortie search engine to use when looking up information online? Notice there are several engines missing but none of them do I use for anything but if you do use any of the ones not listed then please put them in your comments and the keywords you use so I can do a comparision.

]]> http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2007/07/27/google-or-yahoo/feed/ 0 Medical marijuana yea or nea http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2007/07/05/medical-marijuana-yea-or-nea/ http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2007/07/05/medical-marijuana-yea-or-nea/#comments Thu, 05 Jul 2007 10:51:05 +0000 Ashley http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2007/07/05/medical-marijuana-yea-or-nea/ There seems to be much debate everywhere about medical marijuana and I for one am for it. I think that if someone is sick or dieing and want to use marijuana to help ease any type of suffering it should be allowed not just on the State level but on the Federal level as well. I am very interested in hearing what everyone else thinks about this subject and I hope it makes it to the National Presidental Debates. We should in NO way be locking up non violent drug users along side violent offendeers. Why someone should have to sit in a cell because they smoked a joint along with a murder or rapist is just beyond in reason to me.

]]> http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2007/07/05/medical-marijuana-yea-or-nea/feed/ 2 Congrats NASA http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2007/06/23/congrats-nasa/ http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2007/06/23/congrats-nasa/#comments Sun, 24 Jun 2007 02:08:26 +0000 Ashley http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2007/06/23/congrats-nasa/ I read that the Space Shuttle made it back to earth today in California and that everyone was safe and on the ground. Was happy that everything turned out well for the crew aboard Atlantis and the Space agency after several problems were reported before the shuttle was schuelded to return to earth.

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Offline weblinks. The circular sequence of black and white blocks represents a url, any url you want, for example to your products website or a point of sale. The ShotCode reader understands this code and connects the end users mobile phone to your location in three clicks or less! Aloowing for example people to buy tickets to a concert from a poster. Alot like QR Codes but instead of the coding being in a box they are circle.

]]> http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2007/05/11/shotcodes/feed/ 0 1-800-GOOG-411 http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2007/04/29/1-800-goog-411/ http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2007/04/29/1-800-goog-411/#comments Sun, 29 Apr 2007 10:41:26 +0000 Ashley http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2007/04/29/1-800-goog-411/ Google Voice Local Search
Search for local businesses using your voice, from any phone, for free.
Dial 1-800-GOOG-411

Using this service, you can:

search for a local business by name or category.You can say “Giovanni’s Pizzeria” or just “pizza”.
get connected to the business, free of charge.
get the details by SMS if you are using a mobile phone. Just say “text message”.

And it’s free. Google doesnt charge you a thing for the call or for connecting you to the business. Regular phone charges may apply, based on your telephone service provider.

Found this new service in Google labs and thought it was worth a blog post.

]]> http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2007/04/29/1-800-goog-411/feed/ 0 Free storage Billionaires http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2007/04/28/free-storage-billionaires/ http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2007/04/28/free-storage-billionaires/#comments Sat, 28 Apr 2007 05:31:46 +0000 Ashley http://ashleybowers.com/blog/2007/04/28/free-storage-billionaires/ Me and some friends had a great conversation about what makes a billion dollar company and we noted some recent companies that were all Billion dollar companies and all they did was give away free space. First example is delicious it let people have a place to store there text link bookmarks. Then Flickr which allowed people to store there photos freeley. Then YouTube which allows people to store videos freely. Myspace which allowed people to store all sorts of personal information. So all these sites have one thing in common for sure and that is they allow people to store information freely on there server. And my last example but favorite one is Google which stores a snap shot of everything on the internet that it can see, then sells ads on the sides of the information it sorts. All of these companies have another thing in common, they all got rich off others people stuff.

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