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Saturday, October 27th, 2007
It had been a while since I wrote in my blogs. There has been a lot that has been happening in my life that influenced this.
The move
On August 25 my wife Barbara and I moved to our neighboring country Guyana. She got a Deputy Program Manager position at the Caricom Secretariat. In the period before […]
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Wednesday, July 4th, 2007
Due to a heavy workload I had to set my blogs on a lower priority. But it was all necessary, to be able to get things rolling again.
I figured out that, if I want to ease my schedule, I had to finish all the work that was piled up. This is also important because I’m […]
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
As mentioned earlier I upgraded my Wordpress installation to version 2.2. Everything went OK. This upgrade would have normally taken about 15 minutes, but due to the Internet problems in Suriname it took me over an hour to do the upgrade.
All seems fine. I don’t have too much time to test everything our at the […]
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Tuesday, May 15th, 2007
I’ll be upgrading to Wordpress 2.2, the latest version that was released today. The announcement came about 2 hours ago in the Wordpress blog, so it popped up on your Admin Dashboard. David Pitlyuk brought it to my attention.
If you see strange things happening on my blog or in my feed, please be patient, it […]
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
The number 1 ISP in Suriname, Telesur, got a major blow this weekend when there were problems in the Americas II fiber optics line that feeds French Guiana, Suriname and Guyana.
This has happened a couple of times before in the last 18 months, but this time it seems as if the problem may take a […]
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Sunday, May 6th, 2007
I’ve been thinking about the Future of Online Advertising Conference the whole day. In a previous article I wrote about how ecstatic I was when I got a $995 ticket for free. The thought that was playing in my mind all day was that I don’t have the funds available to go to New York […]
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Friday, May 4th, 2007
After reading around about the nofollow attribute, I decided to remove it from my comments.
The “nofollow” attribute is added to a link, when you want to let the search engines know that you don’t vouch for that specific site. This way, the search engines won’t count this particular link as a “vote of confidence”.
As many […]
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
In the recent update of PageRanks by Google, my blogs, this one and A few good notes were promoted to PR4. You can’t imagine how happy this makes me.
In the 2 months I’ve been blogging, I managed to raise my unique daily visits to an average of 150. I hit 450 once when I tried […]
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Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
May 1st is Labor day in Suriname. This is the day labor is celebrated. A lot has been going on in Paramaribo, but I decided to spend my day cuddling up to my wife, watching TV.
Around 4:30 pm I went to the Independent square, where our Telecommunication company had organized a walk/run event. I had […]
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Monday, April 30th, 2007
I just received an email from AGLOCO telling their members that the Viewbar will be released soon. This is the first time I write my thoughts about this …mmm what should I call it. Here are some thought from the mail:
Members will be invited to download in groups of 50,000 a day for a two […]
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