However, I know there are people (Hi Mom!) who don’t follow Laura or I on Twitter or befriend us on Facebook, and want to know what we’re up to. So I found this nice plugin called Lifestream which combines lots of feeds together into a simple page.

So now just take a look at the Lifestream page and you’ll see what’s going on. And if I have something really important to say, maybe I’ll make a blog post.

Unique Blog Designs has been in business now for 1 year, and to celebrate they’re having a contest! I love contests, especially when I win Rebecca has been borrowing my iPod quite a bit, so it’s about time she gets her own. Then I don’t have to keep High School Musical and Camp Rock on there at all times.

So if you’re looking for a WordPress theme that truly reflects your style, check out Unique Blog Designs; and if you’re looking for a way to win an iPod, check out their 1-year anniversary contest!

I Make Money Online by Telling People How Much Money I Make Online

Well, good for him. For some reason, he’s got almost 15,000 regular readers of his blog. These people love reading about networks that John Chow finds with a 2-tier affiliate system, so he refers them to the network, and when they do the hard work, he makes money, or he writes about what he had for lunch that day. In case you were wondering, here’s my lunch today:

Someday, these readers will wake up and realize the only reason John Chow makes money online is because of them. He’s built up an army of bloggers, affiliates and wanna-bes to make money for him. And as more signup for the Chow army, he can charge more for his reviews and ads.

But to blog 5 times / week? Can I do it? Really, cutting out much of the TV I used to watch gives me a LOT of free time to read. Reading makes me think, and thinking makes me want to write. I think it helps that I work from home, alone, so I don’t have the typical water-cooler gossip that a lot of traditional workers get to talk about.

In all honesty, in an hour I can write 3 pretty good posts, and just change the timestamp so they are published throughout the week. So hopefully in 2008, you’ll see > 250 posts from me. I’ll have to install some sort of WordPress statistics plugin to get those numbers to you.

If you want to hear about something in particular, leave the idea in the comments, or email me. I’ll try to get to them.

Here’s Steve’s daily stats for this month:

And here’s mine:

Here’s a screenshot of digg.com, when my name is on the homepage linked to Steve’s blog post:

This spike increased my AdSense earnings 1,250% that day… to $0.80

• Mike Switzer
• Kim Nagel
• Holly (mom) Nagel

Thank you!

Then I put it back on my default monitor, and it was bland. So after adjusting the settings on my monitor for some time, I finally found settings that made the colors stand out, but kept the text nice & sharp.

Not that you care, but someday I may screw up my monitor & need to know the settings again, so here they are:

• Brightness: 100
• Contrast: 39
• Phase: 16
• Color (red, green and blue): 50

Maybe someday I’ll get a Huey Monitor Color Correction system, to keep things in line.

Oh well – now I’m safe & secure, with the latest version. Now… to find all of the new features…