The Personal Site of Dan Masters

  • A Late Chrsitmas Present – Page Rank 6!

    Well it seems that Google is handing out Christmas presents a little late this year but better later then never! The Christmas present in question is the move from pagerank 4 to 6 for this site. Sweet. I did a quick check of several of my other sites and all…

  • Upgraded to WordPress 2.1

    Well I have been refreshing the WordPress Download page all day to see if 2.1 has been released and finally this afternoon it has been – cool. The first thing that I did was get this site upgraded to this latest stable version and everything seems to be in order.…

  • WordPress 2.1 to Be Released Today

    Cool, WordPress 2.1 is scheduled to be released today. I have been testing it out for several months already and have to say that it is the best version of WordPress yet. I think that the thing that is most significant about this release is that it allows WordPress to…

  • Zoundry Launches Blog Writer 2.0 Blog

    One on my favorite Desktop Blog Editors is Zoundry has just launched a development blog for their version 2 (code name “Raven”) blog writer. The idea of the blog is to create some buzz about their next generation blog writer and to get other developers to start creating plugins to…

  • Staying Up on Your Affiliate Links

    I have had more interest recently on making money from the couple of well ranked pages I have for some “As Seen On TV” products. One of these products is the Hercules Hook which I currently have a # 8 spot on the first page of Google results. From that…

  • Cardroom Supply Website Review

    Recently I was contacted and asked to provide my input as to how I would make improvements to the cardroomsupply.com website. Cardroom Supply is a e-commerce website that sells game tables, chips, and supplies for the game of poker. I must note that I am being compensated for this review…

  • Live Writer Works with WordPress.com

    Ok, so I tried uploading an image to WordPress.com this morning and now it works – kind of weird. Maybe WordPress.com was having an issue. I am now testing Windows Live Writer with this blog and uploading images because I was having image upload issues here. This is my official…

  • Microsoft Responds to Windows Live Writer Issue

    I have received a response to my post – Windows Live Writer = Love / Hate – where I talked about the issues that I as having uploading images via xmlrpc to WordPress.com. I was really surprised and totally stoked that 1.) they are out there seeing what people say about WLR,…

  • Windows Live Writer = Love / Hate

    Microsoft, you either love them or hate them or both. For me it is both. They create Windows Live Writer which is one of the best Desktop Blog Editors that I have used but they have terrible support for it. The issues that I am having is that I cannot…