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The eBay auction ended with no bids. I just renewed the domain for another year. The economy should be heating up a little. The economics of politics dictates that there should be some loosening of the economy leading up to election day so that the incumbents can have a little good news. Some time in November [...]

With 30 watchers, my HarmonicaBlog.com auction ends in an hour. The domain expires in two weeks. If there are no bids I will renew the domain for another year. There seems to be enough interest in it that I should not let it go. I will post the results of the auction in a few [...]

I saw this today and I had to post it, because I will lose it otherwise. This is the code in WordPress to get a complete post with all the formatting and short codes included, suitable for emailing. global $post; $post = get_post( ‘some id’ ); setup_postdata($post); $processed = apply_filters(‘the_content’, $post->post_content); wp_reset_postdata();

My domain, harmonicablog.com, did not sell in spite of having 35 watchers at the end. The watchers seemed to say there was interest, but they might have been just curious. I don’t have any idea now if I can sell the domain. There is a truism in poker:  If you can’t bet smart, bet crazy. [...]

A long time ago I scraped a lyrics website and wound up with 60,000 song lyrics. I sat on this for a while and then put them on a website RockFind.com. Rockfind made me about $20 a month before the recession and about $8 a month since. This is not much, but since the domain [...]

I have never had any luck selling a domain. I have been letting some of my unused domain names expire, and I decided to test the waters and put a decent one up for sale. The domain is HarmonicaBlog.com. I have several harmonica sites and they make me money, but I never got around to [...]

I put HarmonicaBlog.com for sale on eBay for $9.99. I have never had any luck selling a domain, but I thought that this one might sell. I do well on my other domains, but this one never took off. I set it up as an automatic blog with software to convert google alerts to a [...]

There are several directories and bookmark sites where you need to submit your pages. I have been using Ycombinator.com lately for my techy stuff with some unexpected success. I might submit to Digg or Delicious for some things. Stumbleupon has been a source of traffic for me so I sometimes submit there. Lately, BoingBoing.net has [...]

I have a bunch of anti spam solutions installed in my sites, but I still keep getting spammer registrations. I have a site where I want people to register on the blog, but they don’t usually make comments. Spammers keep registering. The spam software keeps them from commenting, but I have to go through and [...]

Three years ago I was making a few thousand dollars a month off my websites and then there was a crash. My web based income dropped to almost nothing. The affiliate programs that I belong to changed their terms, and even if the economy were to get better, I would not make as much as [...]