better blogging

How to continue blogging with a newborn

January 24, 2012

I’ve been asked, how do you do it? Blogging like you don’t have a newborn to take are of? Like you don’t sleep? Yes, I have a 12 week old baby whom I love so much, the baby I’ve been waiting for, for years. I love sleeping too, especially after the baby arrived (new moms [...]

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Review: Thesis Theme & Kristarella

June 17, 2011

As you can see, this blog is finally getting smart by using the premium theme Thesis Theme from DIY Themes. Now I believe it is easier on the eyes because of the typography, has got the functionality I wanted and most importantly loads faster than the free themes I have used before! I don’t know [...]

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Finally, Thesis theme

June 9, 2011

Hi, if you’re reading this blog from your feed reader, you can’t see the changes to the blog theme. So please pop on over and see! Finally I’m using the Thesis Theme, the premium, SEO friendly theme that’s fast loading, easy to customize and use. I am still on the process of checking out glitches [...]

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Messy theme no more

June 2, 2011

Hello everyone. I suppose this time the blog is not an eye sore anymore, yeah? If you’ve visited the last few days, you know what I’m talking about. It was messy. It seems that a plugin caused some unpleasant display of the blog theme that made my blog posts unreadable. I get annoyed when that [...]

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Is Linkworth, worth it?

May 30, 2011

Thinking of getting something out of your time spent on blogging? I’ll tell you something that works! (I know that sounds like a desperate saleman but…here’s a true story) I’ve been receiving ad money from advertisers via Linkworth regularly since the start of 2011 so I would like to share it to readers who are [...]

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Apparently, I’ve been blogging long enough

January 24, 2011

Photo credit When I look at blogs based in Dubai or the UAE in general, I can almost tell how many years the blogger has spent living in this region. If most of the posts are about places they’ve recently been along with a string of photos, it’s most likely that they’re new here. On [...]

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Blog Comment Spam

January 14, 2011

I have two different wordpress plugins (Akismet and Bad Behavior) to fight spam comments on this blog. So far, they have served me really well especially lately that I’ve been receiving a lot of ridiculously insane spam commenters who come and litter my site with trash. On the average, I get 100 spam comments on [...]

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New wordpress theme

August 9, 2010

UPDATE: Duh moment!! I forgot to turn off the Theme Tester plugin that allows me to make changes only I can see…meaning, I’ve been talking about a new theme that’s not visible to anyone! It’s ready now though. Tell me what you think about it. I’ve been a bit bored with my old wordpress theme [...]

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