“What the…! You’re really taking the rise out of us readers Sharron! WTF does this have to do with technology?”

Oh loads; believe me. Forward-thinking technology that is; your future ability to find yourself in a situation where you can get the maximum of benefit from technology. – Where the Web 2.0 thing is all leading. I’m a visionary and I’m hopefully intending to lead you in the right direction.

Read on; things will become a little clearer as you do so: -

Not so long ago I said that I’m not going to advertise Blog Masters Club for around another 6 months. Well in the true course of a woman’s prerogative I’ve changed my mind and I’m going to do it again just this once for now.

Why? Because although the promotional fervour’s all died down, the doors are still open until next Tuesday 2nd February; which is the festival of Imbolc for Pagans such as myself. – That has absolutely nothing to do with anything regarding BMC, but I thought I’d mention it anyway.

Since everybody has the chance to get in until that date, I thought it only fitting that I announce the matter on my blog in order that those who haven’t heard all the promotional din that I and other bloggers have been making in regard to the course can have another chance to get signed up and in on the BMC in good time. – Quite logical really if you ask me.

Here are the facts: -

Most bloggers would like to get more
traffic and make some money.

I mean, face it. Most bloggers barely make
enough money to afford a cup of coffee.

It doesn’t have to be that way, though.

My friend, David Risley, has just opened
the doors to his Blog Masters Club.

http://www.davidrisley.com/cmd.php?Clk=3506052

Here’s the thing about David…

He has been making a six-figure income
as a blogger since 2004.

He did NOT make that money by teaching
people how to make money.

And, he’s now created a blogging course
which… well, it is FAR more than just
a course on blogging.

David’s approach is based on what works.
And he pulls no punches.

He shows you how to turn blogging into a
REAL business, not some small-time blog
stuffed with banner ads. He shows you how
you could even forget the banner ads and
make a REAL income with FAR less traffic
than you would need to run ads.

The last time he opened up his Blog Masters
Club to new signups was in July 2009. For
only one week, he is opening it again.

The doors close on Tuesday, Feb 2nd.

You don’t want to hesitate on this opportunity.

http://www.davidrisley.com/cmd.php?Clk=3506052

- So there it is.

Honestly; if you miss out on this as a blogger or prospective blogger you’re only shooting yourself in the foot in all reality.

There is a blogging explosion coming: You thought it had already happened? That was just the detonator going off. In short there are going to be millions, maybe billions, more people who will be yearning to know what this course teaches in the next decade. If you already know it all, having done the course and applied the powerful principles taught to you, then you, by default, are an expert in the field: That, then, gives you the authority and puts you in the position to teach others.

Knowledge is power, and power is money: You’ll be able to quit the job you hate and tell the boss where he can stick it. –Opportunity will knock massively for you as a qualified Blog Master; and for the nominal fee you’ll pay for the course you’ll be oh so glad of the investment in the future.

No – it won’t be easy: Don’t get me wrong: This isn’t a “Sit on your butt and everything’s done for you” course. Those courses are, in general, scams. This is a “Teach you and if you do it you could well be in clover” course. – Note: This requires you to do something; and it can be hard work, especially at first, but David will help you through. If you’re expecting a “Get-rich-quick” course than you’re out of luck: Those courses don’t get anyone but the vendor/con artist who sells them rich quick. This is an interactive course, and by taking it you could open all kinds of avenues.

I’ve said enough. The ball’s in your court now. Click this: http://www.davidrisley.com/cmd.php?Clk=3506052

In today’s post we’re going on a little car trip in the State of Florida, USA, with problogger David Risley.

Over to you, David: –

I’ve got a video for you. Go watch it right here:
Watch The ‘Car Trip’ Video

In this video, you’ll take a little car trip with me. We’ll leave the house
and make a run to the post office…
To see if I had any checks waiting for me.

The video is entitled "Life As A Pro Blogger" and I hope you enjoy it. I had fun making it.

Some people get a check every 2 weeks.
Me? I’ve got it coming in all the time + I want to help you do the same.

Consult my blog at http://www.davidrisley.com for details on how to RSVP for my webinar on Monday evening. This thing is filling up FAST!

Seriously, within the first 3 hours of me announcing this thing, it was over
a quarter full. GoToWebinar limits me to only 1,000 attendees. I checked the count an hour or so ago and we are now approaching the half-way mark on what I can accommodate.

I’m SERIOUSLY floored. It is going to be weird doing something in my office
with this many people watching.

CREEPY! j/k

But, for today, here’s the new video: -

Watch The ‘Car Trip’ Video Now

Talk to you soon!

Yours in Blogging Success,

David Risley

- Why not jump in and have a look at a bit of Florida? At the same time you could get some idea of he amount of income it’s possible to make from blogging as an online business.

After much deliberation and decision-making in the last few days; my final plans for this blog have been somewhat set in stone, subject to minor alteration as and when necessary and dependant upon circumstances as time goes by:

The plan is to continue posting to this blog until January 2010. Some of those posts will be duplicated on shazzalive.com; with video if practical to do so. Furthermore, some of the posts that have proven to be popular and valuable that are already posted on this blog will be rewritten/edited and posted on shazzalive.com along with audio and/or video.

As already mentioned; most content will cease to be produced for this blog from January 2010., and I’ll be producing content for shazzalive.com only. – But that doesn’t mean all content will cease production for this blog. – For one thing there are my members-only newsletter subscribers who may well be in for a bonus if they remain subscribed. All existing members-only newsletter subscribers will have the email address that is on record put into the signup process for shazzalive.co.uk (Shazzalive.com simply redirects to shazzalive.co.uk. Shazzalive.com is easier to remember, easier to type, and is used as the URL generally.) as and when. Hopefully people will join the shazzalive mailing list also. If anyone on my list receives a confirmation email for shazzalive.co.uk but doesn’t want to join, then simply ignore that email. I do hope that everyone on my list will join up to the shazzalive mailing list, though, as there’ll be so much more on shazzalive.com: There’ll be videos, audio files, transcripts, probably reviews too. There will be some amazing offers, interviews, technical and business advice…

Of course, all this won’t suddenly appear on the new blog in January 2010 itself: It’s going to take time to build up contributors, readers, advertisers, writers… I don’t promise you the entire world instantly, as if I did I simply wouldn’t be able to deliver. What I am intending is to produce something bigger and better than kkomp.com; whist at the same time allowing kkomp.com to languish online as a reference library.

This week on kkomp.com has seen 3 new articles appear: -

Video

The first of these is simply called “Video”: Video is not something that I’m well practiced in, so I’m going to be creating a number of trial runs leading up to the opening of shazzalive.com. This was my first attempt. It could do with a few tweaks here and there; but it’s passable. The video advertises a product from David Risley; himself a well experienced video-jockey who produces some outstanding-quality videos; but not just videos: David has been blogging since before blogging was invented, and has accumulated a wealth of knowledge which has allowed him to build up and run an online-business generating a six-figure income, with which he supports a family and lives quite comfortably in his home in Tampa Bay, Florida.

Let David Risley teach you the basics of a six-figure problogger business in only 3 days. The course includes 14 videos, and has a 92 page transcript, checklist, and audio podcasts of all modules included. Download my FREE 5-page .pdf report on 3-Day Money

In 3-Day-Money, David shares his wealth of knowledge with you: From the fundamentals of starting up a blog, including choosing a decent market niche, right through to the techniques and marketing tactics he uses to continue to generate an income-stream and keep his entrepreneurship on the rails of success. 3-day-Money also acts as a great forerunner-course for David’s current project; Blog Masters Club, which will be opening its doors again in or around January 2010

How To Launch System Restore From a Command Prompt in Windows XP

- Tells you how to launch System Restore whilst in Windows XP’s Safe Mode.

List All Installed Drivers in Windows XP Professional is an article for those running Windows XP Professional that shows how to get XP Pro to list all installed drivers from the command-prompt.(This post is also duplicated on shazzalive.com.)

Keep watching this space for more articles that show you how to do more with your computer, give you practical advice on practical electronics, and add to your technical knowledge.

That’s all for this newsletter, Enjoy your weekend, whatever you’ve got planned.

Today there’s not-a-lot of a particularly technical nature to post: Rather, having spent the weekend setting up and testing various lighting and sound set-ups in the small amount of office space that I have, (That wasn’t an easy mission I can assure you: Finding the best positions for, first of all me, then the lights, the teleprompter screen, and the microphone was one thing; actually creating the room to put them in position was another.) then doing several takes of a promotional video, before editing and producing a final cut; I didn’t get any posts written, edited, and scheduled to go out this week.

That’s not to say that there will be no posts this week: Indeed I intend to write some and post them as they are produced. – But; what with this setback as well as trying to get shazzalive.com running, I’ll probably only be producing around 3 posts  a week, including the Friday newsletter. – In fact I think that once a week is currently a bit too regular for the newsletter – So in future, after this week, I’m only going to be producing a newsletter on a scheduled basis once a fortnight; bi-weekly in other words. I’ll still endeavour to post something every Friday all the same.

OK then; so after my weekend as lighting technician, sound recorder, producer, presenter, production supervisor, video editor… and everything else associated with making a video; you’re probably itching to see the result. – Well it’s passable in my opinion, but it could do with a few tweaks; such as the camera being placed more in-front of the teleprompter screen, as well as another light placed just below bottom-right of the picture as you see it.

This is in fact only my second video that I’ve actually produced and displayed publicly on the internet; so I’m not exactly well-practiced at the art of video-production. Recently I’ve listened to an audio-only interview that Gideon Shalwick did with Maria Andros over the phone; America-Australia. – The long-distance line held out fairly well all through.. This got me thinking, and I realised that I wasn’t putting enough content out there and that I wasn’t claiming enough real-estate on the internet, and my visitor numbers and search-engine ratings were suffering as a result.

Now this step will eventually filter down to my blog; in that I’ll be including more self-made video-content on it eventually. Whilst I am fairly certain that many of you will like to have articles in audio/video format, I’m aware that some of you would prefer to read text-only. This blog’s been mainly text-only up until now, and has attracted many visitors – Therefore I’ll provide at least a basic transcript along with the video when I am able to do so.

On that note, all that remains for me to do is to show the video, along with a transcript underneath it: -

Transcript: -

“Hi, and welcome to this video. My name is Sharron Field, and I’m the owner and creator of kkomp.com. In this video I want to tell you about someone who has made it big in the field of internet marketing:-

This person started off blogging as a hobby, even before it was called “blogging”. He’s now one of the biggest internet marketing gurus online. His name is David Risley; and you may have heard of him yourself. Having himself made it, he wants to share his success with others. He has a number of major projects currently running; one of which is called 3-Day-Money.

3-Day-Money is an online business-training course. It’s called 3-Day-Money because it can be completed in 3 days; although you can take as long as you like to study it. 3-Day-Money goes through, in detail, all of the steps you’ll need in setting up your own successful internet business. 3-Day-Money discusses everything from setting up your own blog through to business-models and techniques that David himself uses to run a successful online business generating a six-figure income.

I’ve purchased the product myself, and since then I’ve had time to put it to the test: This product comes with my personal recommendation as a 3^rd party.

I’m not going to rabbit on any further about it in this video though: I’ll let David do all of that himself. If you go to my blog at http://kkomp.com and scroll down the Welcome page, you’ll see a banner ad for 3-Day-Money. Just click on that and you can watch free videos, made by the product’s creator himself, which explain the course much better than I ever could. There’s also a free 5-page pdf document that I wrote myself on 3-Day-money advertised right underneath the banner ad: You can take a look at that if you like too.

Thank you for watching this video. While you’re on my blog; why not take the opportunity to join my mailing list and get extra free stuff delivered to your inbox?

Here’s to your success. I’m Sharron Field; owner and creator of kkomp.com.”

Download my FREE 5-page .pdf report on 3-Day Money

“Wait a minute… Why does the video say that I have to go to the Welcome page and scroll down to find the banner when the banner’s here all along?”

Well spotted. Here’s the reason why: The video is on You Tube; there’s no article on You Tube; just video, therefore people can’t get to the banner just by scrolling down the page there.

OK so why, after 36 hours or so since you released the video and post, have you just added the banner to the post?

Again; well spotted: I wanted to do a limited experiment to see what percentage of viewers actually bothered to go from here to the Welcome page and scroll down. – While the results aren’t fully processed yet, it appears that the answer is less than 50%

“Hasn’t that impacted on your campaign’s initial success?”

Maybe, maybe not. We geeks are scientists too; and no research comes without a price.

Haven’t you clicked on the banner yet? – What are you waiting for?!

URGENT ANNOUNCEMENT:

Yaro Starak & Gideon Shalwick’ s Become A Blogger course is taking admissions; but the admission window is only open for 5 days starting today!

Yes you read that right: You have a 5 day window open; that’s today, Monday 29th June until midnight Friday 3rd July, to join the Become A Blogger course!

This amazing course covers every aspect of blogging; from preparing yourself properly to start up a blog, through setting it up, SEO optimisation, killer techniques for getting excellent search-engine rankings and producing top-quality content, to full monetisation and generating a major income from your efforts.

Personally I’m on Tutorial 55 at this point; and there’s more to come, although I haven’t been able to implement all I’ve learned yet as there is simply so much quality content and expert tuition from a pair of experienced professionals.

I honestly have to say that if you’re thinking of starting a blog, or even if you have recently started one; you’d be crazy to miss out on this sensational course. If you do miss this window then there won’t be another chance to enrol on the course until sometime in 2010 at the earliest: I have this on good authority from Yaro & Gideon themselves.

You have 5 days, and the clock is already ticking; so you may in fact have less time than 5 days by the time you read this.

Don’t delay: Click the banner below and enrol NOW. – Before it’s too late.

Here’s the official confirmation:

Yaro Starak and Gideon Shalwick have just given me official permission to tell you that their famous blogging course is now open…

http://www.becomeablogger.com/go.php?offer=kkomp&pid=4&u=http://www.becomeablogger.com/signup/

But they are keeping doors open for ONLY 5 days, and then they will shut it again for the rest of the year!

Crazy I know! But they said that they needed to limit the numbers somehow. Last time they opened doors, they were bombarded with a flood of new members signing up, and they had to close the program to the general public for a few months to take care of their new members.
But I just wanted to make sure you get in this time.

It’s one of the best, if not THE best blogging courses out there at the moment, and is recommended by dozens of professional bloggers around the world.

Don’t take my word for it, go see for yourself over here:

http://www.becomeablogger.com/go.php?offer=kkomp&pid=4&u=http://www.becomeablogger.com/signup/

Happy blogging!

Sharron

PS: Don’t forget that you only have 5 days to get in on this. When the clock strikes 11.59pm on Friday, June 3, 2009, they will shut the doors, and then you wont be able to get in until next year!

http://www.becomeablogger.com/go.php?offer=kkomp&pid=4&u=http://www.becomeablogger.com/signup/

Don’t let this opportunity slip away: Enrol now.

It’s Wednesday 24th June 2009 and it’s kkomp.com’s first birthday today. It feels like I started this blog aeons ago, (Really, it does. It feels like I’ve been blogging for a number of years; yet it seems like only yesterday I had my 40th birthday.) and also only a few days ago too. In the year since this blog started I’ve made about 430 posts in 24 categories. – That’s not to mention the pages. My initial intention of enough content creation to place this blog on the blogosphere map has to all intents and purposes come to fruition, and some.

A year ago the world was facing the fact that we were in a global recession courtesy of the greedy international banking system. From what I hear lately, the UK appears to be pulling out of it: The economic growth report for March 2009 appears to indicate that GDP and growth returned to a positive figure in the case of UK. Although one leaf doesn’t make a summer; it appears that there are definite signs of a recovery on the way for Blighty.

- But; as some prominent bloggers have asked; where exactly is, or where exactly was, this massive economic downturn? More than not it appears to have been largely created within the minds of negatively-biased individuals by a media-led frenzy. The press will do anything to sell newspapers. A few businesses disappeared, true: That can and does even happen in times of economic prosperity though. Were there people claiming that the end of the world is nigh, that the commercial system as we knew it was going into meltdown? Of course there were: ‘Probably the same doom-mongers who did the same thing in the last recession, and the one before that too. – But the car-parks are still just as full at the shopping-malls as they always were, the traffic still flowed as per usual on the highways and byways, the world continued turning.

I accept that the world financial institutions made crazy speculative investments which lost them billions: perhaps they’ll now learn that putting spotty teenagers with a constant hangover and greedy out-of-control excuses for businesspeople in charge of the world monetary system is a definite recipe for its doom.

As we hopefully begin to emerge from this major economic turbulence we find that the world is still changing in our favour: By “our” I mean those of us who are building our world online. Social networking and global communication has, and will most likely continue to, cause the storm-clouds to depart and to build bridges of co-operation and opportunity for businesses globally. The remainder of the commercial entities will be forced to follow suit. Unfortunately for those of the old-school; opportunity and inter-corporate/interpersonal connectivity will continue to elude them, and they will fade away to be replaced by those who are operating under the new electronically-connected socio-commercial framework that has arisen from technological and societal advancement and the evolution of civilisation that has ensued as a result of that progress.

As I pointed out earlier, during the last year this blog has accrued around 430 posts, mainly of late technologically-orientated material dealing with basic practical and theoretical electronics and/or computer hardware and software, punctuated here and there by a news item or two which stood out to me, along with the odd mystical/Pagan-themed post.

Like a human child; this blog started without form, just a cell of an idea, fertilised and conceived a year ago on a whim, following a suggestion from someone who was already a blogger. Having no womb to mature within, it slowly took form in the wild, evolving with the mainly indirect assistance of a number of professionals who advised and directed with regard to its construction, renovation, changes, layout, and to a limited extent its content.

My naivety during the first couple of months of managing this blog was a little more prolific than I’d imagined it would be. I remember my first move as my brainchild came into existence was to announce on the social media channels, which I’d only recently become familiar with and had managed to pick up 1 or 2 followers, that I now have a blog: here’s the URL; please come visit. Well 1 or 2 people did visit, for about as long as it took to hit their back button on their browser.

I’d heard of people making fortunes on the internet; but somehow connected it with the dot com boom of the turn of the century, and regarded it as a thing of the past. Spring 2008 turned to Summer, my web 1.0 website at kustomkomputa.co.uk didn’t appear to be attracting much if any business, and I was starting to become extremely despondent. – Then a pro-blogger by the name of David Risley suggested I start a blog using WordPress. – Well what I was doing at the time wasn’t working; so in for a penny… Why the heck not?

I had been using Word 10 as an html editor to build kustomkomputa.com: It was difficult, cumbersome, and the resultant pages were full of so much unnecessary html that they took quite some time to load even with a broadband connection. Despite this I’d become used to Microsoft Word, and I even understood most of the crap html in it.

WordPress was a totally different kettle of fish though. I downloaded it, looked at the files and their contents, and screamed inside. .php – I’d never learned any php. .css – I had even less idea about css. Html: No problem; even Microsoft Word. – Especially Microsoft Word. Php and css, though, looked like Chinese to me.

By the time I’d installed WordPress on the server my head was so drenched in sweat I thought I’d just washed my hair! – But I’d done it. – And it didn’t work. Check: Had I done everything right? Yes. I’d triple checked everything before I started, and triple checked it again after every stage while I was doing it. having triple checked everything afterwards I eventually discovered that fasthosts.co.uk Windows servers were no good for running WordPress on. I’d specifically asked them beforehand: -

“Are your Windows servers able to run WordPress?”

Answer: “I don’t know. Nobody’s ever run WordPress from our servers before.”

- When pressed: “Well I can’t see any reason why it wouldn’t work on a Windows server. If you install it and it doesn’t work properly then we can always put you on a Linux server instead. The transfer won’t cost anything, our Linux servers cost exactly the same price to use as our Windows servers, and it’ll only take a few minutes to swap over.”

It didn’t work on their Windows server. – As promised they transferred me to a Linux server, and I installed WordPress again. This time it worked straight off and without problem.

Advice:

1) If using fasthosts.co.uk as your host for a self-hosted WordPress blog; always choose their Linux servers as your server.

     1a) Always use a Linux server wherever possible: Linux is a much better server platform than Windows.

2) Don’t use fasthosts.co.uk, unless you want to be wound up in red tape.

I hope you like reading; There’s more: -

To start with I didn’t really bother too much about presentation as far as the pages were concerned, which was my first mistake: After a false start earlier in June 2008, where it ended up that I took the entire blog down and restarted from scratch due to some kind of major problem. – I can’t remember what exactly, I downloaded and used a pre-built theme, threw up a Welcome page – almost literally by the previous look of it, and concentrated on turning out content.

I decided to break the mould of how most blogs were operating early on, by having a Welcome page initially, which visitors not linking from a link to an article would arrive at, rather than having the entire content of my posts appearing in chronological order on that initial page. Unfortunately the element that was missing was a contents listing, other than a table of the ten latest posts in the sidebar. This was a matter that wasn’t remedied until 2009, which was another major mistake I made. I agree that it would have been more sensible to attend to the matter earlier, but as things turned out it didn’t happen that way. We live and learn.

Although I’d written a number of papers over the past few years; I didn’t then classify myself as a writer, and maybe it showed. A few of my articles at the time were articles featuring content throughout that I’d created myself, but they were mainly seemingly less than quality content. In the main I concentrated upon relaying news items that I found to be of interest more than anything else.

Quite obviously, since there were an almost infinite number of alternative and better-known sources of the news that I was relaying; people stuck with what they knew, and other than a few visits sent by Google I didn’t get much traffic at all. Also, although I’d downloaded and installed the tools for search-engine-optimisation, I hadn’t configured them properly, (- As I actually wasn’t aware that they required further configuration in the early days, and I also didn’t know how to do it anyway, had I even been aware.) which didn’t help either.

During July 2008 I’d started to introduce advertising via advertisments that I’d created myself with links back to Clickbank. This however generated very little, if any, revenue.

By September 2008 I’d started to relay the news items whilst also including my personal take on them. Although this helped, it still didn’t have that much upwards-effect on my traffic figures. Despite having trained in electronics, as well as having a number of years of experience with computers, I felt at the time still very naive and vulnerable when it came to blogging, pretty much throughout 2008. Despite this though, I noticed that this blog was nevertheless ranked 5-million and-something-th at the time.

In October 2008, I think it was, I began to properly configure my SEO plugins, such as All-in-One-SEO-Pack, Google XML Sitemaps, etc. This did begin to have a positive effect, and the number of unique visitors began to increase somewhat. I also began utilising further free tips from David Risley, which also helped.

By December 2008 the blog was attracting a more realistic audience figure, and I set my attention upon the blog’s homepage, as well as the header and footer.php files, with the intention of tidying it up and making it look more attractive. Php still worried me, as although it was quite easy to understand, I was constantly having issues with the syntax of anything I wrote. Also most of what I wrote clashed with the style.css file of my theme. Although my effort eventually improved the page considerably, the resultant page was too crowded, not designed well, and the colour scheme failed to convey the theme of the blog. Many female readers liked it; but since the blog was attracting a mainly male, older, audience, I felt that it wasn’t a sensible option to allow things to continue that way.

I worked on and designed an entirely new home (Welcome) page, in addition the the header and footer, and implemented in during January and February 2009. I also edited and redesigned the theme to be more in tune with the central subject material of the blog.

Previous to this, although the subject matter had been mainly of a technical bent, I hadn’t really had a theme for the blog as such, nor had I used the blog’s design to clearly indicate the subject matter to my readers; which probably left some readers in somewhat of a quandary as to exactly what it was that I was trying to convey herein.

Also the footer, (footer.php) at one point during 2008 had a serious php error in it which caused a number of problems. These issues were rectified when I almost totally rewrote the header using a lot of html in addition to attending to the php already present – which was enhanced, and also in addition I repaired and enhanced the footer.

In doing so I introduced a header banner, which I enhanced over a number of weeks. I’ve since moved the RSS link into the header, and provided the mailing-list-subscription link high in the sidebar, above the fold, by writing its script into the sidebar.php file. I also introduced a contents page,clearly linked to from the header as well as the Welcome page.

A lot of the inspiration for the redesign came from Yaro Starak and Gideon Shalwick’s “Becomeablogger” course, which I bought into earlier this year, admittedly a little late. Whilst I haven’t yet implemented all of the suggestions within the course material by any means yet, it has nevertheless helped me out no end. The Becomeablogger course will be having its second run soon, and the enrolment window will be between 29th June and 3rd July 2009. As soon as the window opens I’ll be advertising it in the header of this blog, so if you’d like to join up you’ll have the opportunity to do so via this blog.

One of the biggest issues for me over this past year has been avoiding clutter, both in the sidebar and on the Welcome page. The sidebar is an area which I’ve particularly concentrated upon in this respect, along with its appearance, as the sidebar appears along with almost every page and post. My intention has been to not let it detract the reader’s attention overly from the main article. I hope I succeeded in that.

That’s summed up some of the main points of the blog’s evolution over the time since its creation. No doubt it will continue to evolve further with time; hopefully in a positive manner.

The Future

So what will I be doing on this blog in the future? For the immediate future nothing much is scheduled to change. I’ll be writing more free content fairly regularly, plus making the odd tweak to the theme perhaps. I’ll be adding further advertising of top-quality products from other bloggers and online businesspeople, plus also I will probably be writing more reviews of a number of them.

At some point I’m hoping to be adding podcasts to the mix – Maybe followed by video too. I don’t have a schedule for doing so planned out at this point, so I can’t be any more definite than that at this present moment.

A year has passed, and the blog is still up and running. I have the feeling that the following year will contain many profitable and beneficial additions; both for you the visitor as well as for me the blogger, plus any help in the form of people that I take on in the future.

That’s about it for this post then: A year older and wiser.

Enjoy the rest of the Summer if you live in the upper Northern hemisphere. If you live in the lower Southern hemisphere you can take heart in the fact that midwinter has passed. Wherever you are, enjoy the rest of the year, and don’t forget to return regularly to kkomp.com to see what’s new. If you happen to be in space or on another planet then enjoy the break, and if you aren’t part of the Human Race from Earth and you actually live on another planet then I invite you to make contact with the us Humans. – We’re a peculiar civilisation, but most of us still have some semblance of normality left I believe.

If you’re not on the mailing list then it would be a good idea to subscribe to it and get notified by email. You might also like to subscribe to the RSS feed for notification too.

Finally I invite comments/constructive criticisms/remarks… You know the drill.

This is totally awesome: In an earlier post; in fact the last Newsletter. – This one. – I promised you that I’d be advertising Yaro Starak & Gideon Shalwick ’s Becomeablogger course during the signup window from the 29th June to 3rd August… Well I still intend to stick to my word on that; but something came in an email this morning. – And I’ve only just read my email now.

‘No time to find pictures: I just must tell you.

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STOP PRESS:

I interrupt this exciting news to bring you the following message:-

Hey

This is crazy…

CLICK THIS LINK

Inside the video, Yaro talks about what he calls "Impact Marketing Techniques" – the kind of tricks he’s used himself to drive hoards of new traffic to his own 6-figure income blog. Now, what makes this video so special? Well, normally you’d have to pay for it.

But not today…

You can watch it at no cost right now, without one of those silly optin forms – nice for a change, really:

CLICK THIS LINK

In any case, I just thought I’d let you know about this powerful video, because no matter what you do online, you can never know enough about how to drive crazy amounts of traffic to your blog.

Subject 1: how to rapidly grow your blog traffic

Subject 2: keen to try these blog traffic power tips

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What I have for you here may be a kind of back door with which to get in on the Becomeablogger “reserved-place list” just a little in advance of the sign-up window: Let me explain a little further: -

World famous blogger Yaro Starak just sent me a note about a powerful report he released that caused an upheaval in the "blogosphere" (cost =zero)…

http://www.becomeablogger.com/go.php?offer=kkomp&pid=4&u=http://www.becomeablogger.com/roadmap/

If you are interested in starting your own blog and becoming a super successful blogger, this may be just the information you’ve been looking for.Check this: The report has now been downloaded over 20,000 times! That’s gotta tell you something about the quality of the report. I mean, heck, 20,000 downloads? That’s enough people to start a small city! The report reveals a step-by-step guide that takes you from absolute beginner to blogging pro in 5 easy milestones. Once you have it all set up, you’ll also learn some extremely powerful "X-Factor" strategies for driving truckloads of traffic to your blog using a range of multi-media tools and the latest social media tactics.
And of course, you know what that means right? The more traffic you get, the more bucks you can make online! But you should really check it out for yourself and see why so many other people around the world are raving about this report…Here is the page again:

http://www.becomeablogger.com/go.php?offer=kkomp&pid=4&u=http://www.becomeablogger.com/roadmap/

Oh,also, Gideon tells me that he’s also programmed in a powerful 7-part mini course (at zero cost) that accompanies the Roadmap Report… And he says that people have been lapping it up!
Better check it out here now:

http://www.becomeablogger.com/go.php?offer=kkomp&pid=4&u=http://www.becomeablogger.com/roadmap/

Well; you can imagine my instant surprise when I saw this email; so I just couldn’t stay quiet about it. Since you are either reading this article in my blog &/OR you’re subscribed to my mailing list I’m letting the cat out of the bag right now as a way of saying “thank you” to you.

These impromptu posts are becoming quite the norm of late eh? Don’t worry; I won’t as far as I can see be deluging you with any more of them. – But I just had to tell you about this. Now if you get the free report and course then I get a definite feeling from reading between the lines of Yaro’s email that there is a good chance that you’ll find yourself with an open invitation in due course to get one of those already limited places on the Becomeablogger course.

No it isn’t free in this case, but there’s no obligation involved to spend any loot if you don’t want to. having said that, this is an offer that’ll be too good to be true. I’ve already done a lot if not most of the course; I was in on the first run, and believe me it is hot!

Whether you decide to go all the way, or you just settle for the report and mini-course for free, it’s your choice. – But if you don’t click now you might miss out on something you’ll later regret not looking at. Here’s that link again. ‘Last time: -

http://www.becomeablogger.com/go.php?offer=kkomp&pid=4&u=http://www.becomeablogger.com/roadmap/

Go on; click it. – You’ll be glad you did.

Please please please do not miss out on this. – For your own sake.

Enjoy.

Happy Blogging.

Success to you.

When I first started this blog in June 2008 I was fairly clueless about how to do anything regarding blogging.

As time went by I kept certain files and folders that I used or wrote / altered on my computer(s). Some of these were deleted deliberately or further altered beyond recognition over the course of time. A few somehow got lost or buried due to hard-drive failures, computer renovations/rebuilds, corrupt backup folders, etc.

I assumed that I’d lost the original theme folder that I used when I first started the blog. It was a publically-available WordPress theme at the time, was called Serenity Pink, and was initially authored by Fredrik Fahlstad. It had been re-edited in Front Page by Tina Silva. (The link to her blog may take a long time to connect; and although Serenity Pink is featured on that blog, when the download link is clicked it goes through to WordPress.org, who appear to have pulled it altogether.)

Clicking the download link in the image will take you to a WordPress Themes page on wordpress.org, where the theme should be, but isn’t.

I’m still using it to this day; although I’ve customised the hell out of it and it looks very different from the original.

Having recently rediscovered the original theme folder buried on my hard-drive, I zipped it up and FTP’d it to my server with the intention of making it once again available; as, correct me if I am wrong, but I’m unable to locate it on the internet it via means including a Google search or a search on MSN. – Therefore I assume that it’s no longer available.

To preserve posterity, despite a lack of links with my posterior; other than a person thinking that it’s a load of arse, I’ve made it available for download here, should anybody wish to use it. As far as I am aware this is the theme as it was when I first started using it. If I have edited it at all then any such edits are so minor as to be virtually unnoticeable.

So without further ado; if you want to download this theme in zip format you can do so by clicking here.

Enjoy.

I know you’re busy, so I’ll let you in on what’s
happening…

I just heard from Gideon Shalwick and Yaro Starak
that they are closing their doors to their popular
Become A Blogger Premium course.

See here for more details:

http://www.becomeablogger.com/go.php?offer=kkomp&pid=4&u=http://www.becomeablogger.com/signup/

So far, over 850 people have signed up and the
course has already had some raving reviews. For
example, here’s what Christine, one of the
members, said recently:

“Honestly Gideon your videos are great!

Now that I’m looking at doing business on the
internet and watched a few videos from others who
claim to be gurus; theirs are really awful, too
fast to see what they’re doing and not explaining
things in a logical sequence as if done on the
fly.

Your teaching skills and videos are in a class of
their own. Keep up the good work!”

So, obviously, people are loving the course so
far.

But now, Yaro and Gideon want to close the whole
thing down since it’s becoming a bit too popular.

They said they want to focus their energies on
their members, and frankly, getting too many of
them could spread their attention too thin.

So, I thought I’d better let you know about this
if you still wanted to get in before they shut the
doors indefinitely.

Here’s the scoop:

- What: Become A Blogger Premium is closing doors

- When: Friday, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:59pm USA EST

If you don’t want to miss out on this, make sure
you head on over to the following page before it’s
too late:

http://www.becomeablogger.com/go.php?offer=kkomp&pid=4&u=http://www.becomeablogger.com/signup/

I hope you can still get in!

Sharron

PS: Make sure you have a look at the bonuses -
they are worth more than the whole membership
itself!

Don’t procrastinate: Procrastinators miss every opportunity. I know this from experience; and hence the reason why I now grab the bull by the horns and make the most of every open doorway before the door closes again.

When is that door closing again?

“- Friday, February 6 at 11:59pm sharp!”

The way I see it you have two options here: -

1) Save yourself a few dollars by ignoring this notice. Let the door close and move on, learn slowly and by bitter experience, and watch the bloggers who enrolled on this course surge ahead of you because they have been given a head-start.

2) Invest a few dollars in this course while you have the last chance to do so, pass through the open door before it closes, and gain a head start by being taught all the top-tips and techniques by bloggers who’ve made a successful blogging career, earned money by monetising their blogs, and are sharing their knowledge with you. The result of which will be that your blogging efforts stand out, lead the way, due to your foreknowledge and insights, and aren’t wasted while those in the know get all the results.

The choice is yours: You have only a short while left to decide which choice you’d rather make: One which will affect your whole future blogging career.

The door closes: “Friday, February 6 at 11:59pm sharp!”

Time is ticking away.

http://www.becomeablogger.com/go.php?offer=kkomp&pid=4&u=http://www.becomeablogger.com/signup/

I’m listening to izeafest online, which has started in Orlando, Florida, USA: I’m hearing, through the interruptions in the Ustream feed, about experienced bloggers making money by blogging about how much money they make. It works; and good for them – I won’t knock it – but I have problems there because I don’t make a fortune from this blog so I ask myself if I should make money by telling you how I’m not making that much money? Honest perhaps…But maybe not that impressive.

I’m looking at running a competition soon; after I’ve got a prize sorted out – It won’t be a holiday in Florida, (Unless the winner lives in Florida and they pay their own expenses ) but it’ll be something worth having. Give me a while to think on that. I’m glancing at a second-hand 1GB stick of DDR RAM with an evil smirk on my face…I mustn’t be so tight lol .

Controversial content – Hmm all my content is controversial isn’t it? Or do I echo the views of everyone else that they keep quiet about, and people just think “I agree”, and continue to stay silent?

- Yes I’m talking, in the paragraph above, about the number of comments … Oh I forgot; zero isn’t a number. OK then I’ll rephrase that: I’m talking about the lack of comments. Holy crap if the comment pool stays this dry I’ll start publishing the spam just to fill space!

Incidentally – completely off-topic – I was reading PCMech.com yesterday; (I guest-post on there sometimes…OK I have guest-posted once on there so far: I’m talking from a projected outcome. I intend to do it again; and as far as I know nobody has any objection to my doing so.) and I read Jason’s short article about the importance of using a paper-shredder in these days of identity-theft.

Being a resourceful type girl I took that a step further; and I suggest buying an industrial model that will double as a machine for making chips and french-fries.

Of course it’s a different kettle of fish if you live in the UK: The UK Government have a scheme which removes the necessity of having to shred unwanted personal documents: It’s called “Incompetence”; and guarantees that a number of UK Government officials will do things such as lose millions of personal records stored in an unencrypted format in transit on physical media, or leave a laptop with the personal details of millions of people on a train for anyone to use as they wish – Therefore removing the need for security by means of previous disclosure to all and sundry.

Enough about the afflicted; back to izeafest: Due to the time differential of 5 hours between the UK on British Summer Time (BST) and Florida on Eastern Standard Time (EST) I’m having to multitask to an impossible extent: That is to say that I’m currently typing on one computer while listening to izeafest on another, and at the same time watching a TV program I particularly wanted to see and tidying my desk to some extent. You’ll have to forgive me if I miss something somewhere.

OK lastly I was intending to say something about guest-blogging: I’ve actually had non-bloggers who have a point of view asking for a guest-slot on this blog. Unfortunately it appears these people are ideas-only people who liked the idea of appearing on Beyond but couldn’t be bothered to write the material – Which is probably the reason why they’re not themselves bloggers. FAIL.

Eventually I will ask someone to guest-post; or if you’d like to write a post I’ll eventually make it possible for you to do so and submit it to me for consideration for publication.

…And one more thing: The Large Hadron Accelerator at CERN didn’t end the world on Wednesday – Just in case you hadn’t noticed. – So much for 666 and the speculative interpretations of alleged prophecies of Nostradamus based upon uneducated guesswork with the occasional exaggeration or streak of complete BS thrown in… So maybe those sending the physicists death-threats might be able to find something else to do – Although I dread to think what.

Actually this was a bit of an ad-lib post today; but who wants to hear the latest hot articles here every day eh? Everybody’s covering those one way or another: Ok I present a few of them from the way that I see them quite often; but who wants news day in day out from whatever angle? It’s a good thing to diversify every once in a while.

That’s it for this post then: Yes I want to write more just as much as you want to hear more; but time’s not my friend right at this moment – So keep watching this space, goggle-eyed, for my next work of wonder – and don’t allow the suspense to get to you to such an extent that it becomes unbearable.

You can watch izeafest below: Until next time…

Twitter, the No.1 micro blogging site, has been targeted in the same kind of attack that befell MySpace and Facebook yesterday. A bogus Twitter profile with a malicious payload has been spotted by security firm Kaspersky.

The link; which says that it is a link to a pornographic video, downloads the dodgy version of Adobe Flash Player; the file “codecsetup.exe”; just as with the occurrences reported yesterday: http://kkomp.com/archives/827 And exactly the same result too: You’re suddenly a part of a botnet, sending span, phishing attacks, and DOS attacks.

Variants of the worms are already appearing according to security firm Kaspersky; who spotted this and yesterday’s two attacks also.

The attack appears to originate in Brazil, a conclusion based upon the use of the Portuguese language, the location of the servers that download the trojans, and the email addresses used also.

Once again only Windows users are vulnerable to these worms etc; so therefore would it be logical to conclude that the perpetrator is a South-American Linux zealot with an axe to grind?

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