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You may want to do it for money, you may do it for vanity, or you may just have a lot of great ideas, stories, and information you wish to get out to the masses, but everyone wants to get more eyeballs looking at their blog. Other than telling their grandma or co-worker to view your blog, what are some of the other ways of driving traffic?
I've given you several ideas to help you get started...
Real Life Robots
The Boston Globe has posted an excellent pictorial showcasing robots both in the lab and in the mist of performing their real-world applications.
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The World's Best Street Food
Don't look at them as "junk food"; some of the world's best cuisine can be found at the street merchants from around the world.
Mayonaisse-covered frites, huge banh mi sandwiches, fresh tortilla tacos, currywurst, tripe sandwiches, arepas, Jamaican jerk pork and jerk chicken are just some of the fare peddled at food stands that should appeal to most westerners.
http://www.concierge.com/ideas/foodwine/tours/2274. Note: the link forces you to load a new page to view each food item, but you can click on the "next" and "previous" links above the photos to navigate.
Salsas and Sauces, The Fiery Foods Show at the Sandia Resort and Casino Parts 1 and 2
Some brief but great coverage of the 2009 Fiery Foods Show, by John George of the Albuquerque Ethnic Foods Examiner:
Salsas and sauces, the Fiery Foods show at the Sandia Resort and Casino. Part 1
Salsas and sauces, the Fiery Foods show at the Sandia Resort and Casino. Part 2
Fiery Foods Show 2009 Diary From Buddah
Here's a trio of event reports from chilehead Buddah, when he attended the 21st Annual National Fiery Foods & BBQ Show this past weekend in Albuquerque, NM. Links are courtesy of TastetheFear.com:
Review - Sweet Baby Ray's Hickory and Brown Sugar Barbecue Sauce
Everybody's got their favorite "go-to", everyday use sauces. One such sauce in my kitchen is Sweet Baby Ray's Hickory and Brown Sugar Barbecue Sauce. Sure, it may be one of the most commercially-available condiments currently out but that doesn't cut down on it's tastiness one iota.
Review - Trader Joe's Baked Jalapeño Cheese Crunchies
Trader Joe's Baked Jalapeño Cheese Crunchies are one of the most disappointing food products I've sampled from the grocery chain. Usually they maintain a consistent degree of quality with most food they sell, but this time they've fallen flat on their collective faces with this snack.
Take Charge of Your .Htaccess Files with These Online Tools
If you run your website on an Apache/Unix server (which includes most of you if you have a 3rd party web host), you're really not getting all you can out of visitor control with an .htaccess file. What is an .htaccess file, you may ask? It is a small-sized text file that resides in the root directory of a web folder to which you're wanting to customize access, such as redirecting visitors to another page, password-protect sections of you site, creating error pages, and more. It's really one of the most indispensable tools you can have in your webmaster belt.
But what code do you add to an .htaccess file to make it work for various functions? There are two sites that take the pain out of figuring that out.
The first one, .Htaccess Editor, has a very simple and intuitive interface and will give you the snippets of text that you can copy and paste into your already existing .htaccess, including the code to: deny all access to files; basic authentication; set up custom error pages; set up default pages; create redirects; and restrict access to certain folders and files.
If you have a little .htaccess editing experience already under your belt, you may want to give the more complex .Htaccess File Generator a shot. The page has quite a few more options on its form and gives you most anything you would ever want for basic or intermediate web file and folder access control.
Web Developer's Handbook - A Gargantuan List of Tools, Checkers, Testers, Tutorials and More
If you're any kind of web developer or designer, you definitely need to bookmark this site ASAP - the Web Developer's Handbook 2.0. With this gargantuan page, you'll have literally hundreds of online tools, checkers, testers, blogs, tips, tricks, apps, tutorials and more at your disposal. It's certainly not the most comprehensive collection of links I've ever seen, but with this you'll have plenty of tools to help build and fix your website, whether it has to do with CSS, layouts, menus, HTML, accessibility, AJAX, color tools and schemes, JavaScript, DOM, RSS, fonts and typography, CMS, blogging and...
World's Tallest Stack of Pancakes
Courtesy of the Daily Mail:
Two hotel chefs today claimed to have toppled the record for the world's tallest pancake stack.
Sean McGinlay and Natalie King of Glasgow's Hilton Grosvenor hotel measured their pancake tower at 29.5 inches (75cm) - beating the current title by 0.4 in.
The chefs mixed about 100 eggs, more than 17 pints of milk, 11lbs of flour and 6.6lbs of butter for the challenge, a hotel spokeswoman said.
The hotel's general manager Stuart Nelson said: 'It was a bit shaky towards the end but somehow we managed to pull it off...
Restaurant Review - Brother Junipers - An Honest Review
Brother Juniper's Bakery and Restaurant in Memphis, TN has received numerous awards and accolades for being one of the top-notch breakfast places in the region. The following review is from my recent trip to Memphis when my wife and I visited to see if it really lived up to the hype. Does it? Not so much, unfortunately.
Restaurant Review - Charles Vergos' Rendezvous - Barbecue Ribs Like No Other
If you spend any amount of time in Memphis, it's an unwritten rule you've gotta eat some local barbecue. There's no better BBQ rib joint than Charlie Vergos' Rendezvous.
Strolling up Second Street in downtown, my wife and I found the building in which the restaurant is located and hunted around for the door to enter. Hmmm, no luck... We lurked around the side of the edifice to finally spot a green street sign pointing us to the alley behind the building. Rounding the corner into the alley way we straight-away smelled the luscious BBQ smoke and saw the sign overlooking their front door. We knew his was the place...
North Market Fiery Foods Festival Report Pt 2 and 3
More on the exploits of Jon Passow and his buddy Chem at Columbus, OH's North Market Fiery Foods Festival.
Passow Takes A Chile-Head To The North Market – Part 1
Passow Takes A Chile-Head To The North Market – Part 1
Buddah's North Market Festival Update
TastetheFear.com contributor Buddah has provided a must-read report on last weekend's Fiery Food Festival in Columbus. Contains tons of great photographs:
http://www.tastethefear.com/?p=1743
Want to Save Any Site to View Later? Try BackupURL
Ever bookmark a site or web page only to return to it days or months later and find that it's been taken down? Have you wanted to take a working "snapshot" of a site as it appeared at a certain date and time? Something you want to look at that hasn't been stored in the Archive.org wayback Machine? Then BackupURL is just what you've been looking for.
Enter any website address into BackupURL and it will cache all elements of that page, including images and links, just as it appears at that very moment. BackupURL will allow you to access that page through a special URL even if the original page is temporarily down or even long gone.
