Dating and Social Media

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So online dating is the easiest way to land a date? That may not always be so true. With social media today, there comes the opportunity to reconnect with people from your past or meet new people. I have found that people I know, including myself, have had a few dates from social platforms like Facebook and Instagram.

With any online dating, there is no guarantee that you will have success, but dating someone you already know from your past puts ...

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Repairing a Crashed Table in phpMyAdmin

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I had a nasty surprise for me tonight when I realized none of my posts were available on my blog (the one you’re looking at now!). I could log into WordPress and see everything but my posts showed a count of zero (scary!). My first thought was to restore my latest backup only to realize my backup didn’t run this week. I did have the backup from last week so I logged into phpMyAdmin and this is where I found ...

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iPad Looks Great But I Still Love My Kindle

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With the release of the iPad today, I thought I would write about how much I love the Kindle 2. Everywhere I go online today I see the majority of people blogging or twittering about how the Kindle has all but been replaced. Really, any time Apple releases a new product the hype can get pretty crazy (and with a track-record like theirs it’s no surprise).

Now that I’ve seen the iPad, I suspect that Amazon’s first thought on seeing ...

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Installing Disqus on WordPress Is Amazingly Simple

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For a while I’ve been considering installing Disqus as my commenting system on this blog. Even with what I consider to be healthy traffic I get very few comments. I thought perhaps using a system like this might encourage a little more conversation. Then again…I am in the business of providing dating advice and sometimes I wonder if people shy away from being associated with needing such advice.

At any rate, I am simply amazed at how easily the install ...

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10 Dating Profile Headings for Software Engineers

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I’ve been thinking about doing some online dating profile heading testing (that’s a mouthful!). I’m hoping to share the results here as I currently have a theory that weird or hard to understand headings may work as well as any other. At any rate, while thinking of a good profile heading to test out I came up with first in the list below. I thought it wasn’t too shabby and thought I could come up with nine more for a ...

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Massive Drop in Google SERPs after Installing All in One SEO Plug-in

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Recently I decided I wanted to try and improve my traffic here and I ended up buying a book named Building Findable Websites by Aarron Walter. I really liked the book and would recommend it if you’re looking for a good introduction to SEO.

In the book, Aarron discusses the All in One SEO plug-in for WordPress so I went ahead and installed it for my website here. When I was setting this plug-in up, I decided to turn on ...

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Setting up Ruby on Rails with GoDaddy

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Back when I first got littleredrails.com (my original domain name), my intention was to utilize a technology known as Ruby on Rails. Over the next few months, due to situations out of my control, I realized I was not going to be able to use the site for my original purposes. Eventually, I decided to record my online dating experiences and that is how this site reached its current state.

I was looking through some old documents recently and found steps ...

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Online Dating Guide for Handhelds

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I was recently contacted by someone from the Plucker project with interest in converting my guide to a format for Palm handhelds that could be viewed offline. I was not familiar with Plucker but saw no reason to decline the offer so now the guide is available for handhelds here. Hopefully someone out there using a handheld who would never have found the guide otherwise will find it useful!

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Using WP-Cache on GoDaddy (500 Error)

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This post has nothing to do with online dating. It has to do with a particular error, 500 Internal Server Error, when using WordPress and the plug-in WP-Cache on a GoDaddy shared server. My hope is that others who experience the issues I had might find this post and (hopefully) will be able to avoid the hassle I went through!


The Problem
WP-Cache is a plug-in for WordPress that allows web pages ...

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