As long as I’ve been a member of eBay, I’ve only ventured into selling once before, and it was years ago. It didn’t work out so well—basically a waste of time because there was no interest in the items I was selling at all. I guess there’s just not that many people looking for 1955 Chevrolet rear doors. It was worth a shot though, right? I do wish that the fees were what they were back then though.
The past few days I’ve listed a few items up, and really was blown away with how complex the fee structuring is nowadays. So many combinations, final value fees, fixed listing fees, extended length fees—you name it. eBay definitely knows that they have the online auction market, and has no qualms at all about charging an arm and a leg for their user-base. But hey, if I can manage to find some buyers and make a few bucks even after all the fees, I’ll be happy.
I’m all the time sending YouTube videos that may only have a relevant or specific part that I want to show someone. Instead of having to tell them where to skip forward to, it turns out to be pretty easy to set the video to start at that specific time instead.
Just add #t=XmXs to the end of the url, replacing each X with the time you desire—the first X for the minute and second X for the second.
For example, if I were wanting to link to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-ONhpNeWQA and wanted to show you the segment that starts at 28:40, the url would look like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-ONhpNeWQA#t=28m40s
What Cancer Can’t Do has actually been online for 17 months now, and has been long deserving of an introduction. It started out as an idea from a piece of paper that my Mom brought home from treatment. I had a hard time with everything about Mom having cancer, and sometimes found myself hopeless and needing something to lift my spirits. My ultimate hope was that someone else out there, even if just one soul, would find a little glimmer of hope in any of the quotes or scriptures that the site currently contains. The work put into the site, updating it and adding new quotes as I can find them, is worth every ounce of time that it takes, because while I was sure by watching the hits to the site that other’s might be finding some piece of benefit from their visit, finding the comment below on a blog with a link to the site confirmed it all.
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I’ve been an eBay user for well over 10 years now and have never ran into someone trying to rip me off until recently. Two times in the past 2 months, with the most recent being below and taking place last night.
After wrestling with trying to get Google Chrome to reinstall for me after a spontaneous MSE notification caused it to close out and be removed from my system, I happen to run across the following:
On September 30th, 2011, an incorrect detection for PWS:Win32/Zbot was identified and as a result, Google Chrome was inadvertently blocked and in some cases removed from customers’ PCs. We have already fixed the issue — we released an updated signature (1.113.672.0) at 9:57 a.m. PDT — but approximately 3,000 customers were impacted. Affected customers should manually update Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) with the latest signatures. To do this, simply launch MSE, go to the update tab and click the Update button, and then reinstall Google Chrome. We apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused our customers.Microsoft
Just Write is a minimal theme meant for you to do exactly what the title says, Just Write.
Some highlights:
The fact that it took until yesterday (because I was forced to) for me to use the new Yahoo! Mail speaks volumes about my desire to stay with the old one, but after changing, I love it! It just seems so much faster when loading messages. And the arrows to move to the next message (up or down) just makes my life so much easier, as I always found the previous/next text link to be confusing. They’ve gone a little overboard adding Facebook and Yahoo! Messenger in, at least for myself, but I’m sure others find it extremely useful. Bravo Yahoo!, for taking your email a step forward, and not a step backwards like I had first thought it would be!
The New Yahoo! Mail
Shane Holden – Please keep my mom in your prayers. She starts chemo & radiation today for colon cancer. Thank you.
I officially hate the ‘On This Day In’ feature of Facebook now. Not to mention all of the other tweaks that they keep making. Reminds me of how often eBay has changed their site over the years.
The need to prevent images from displaying in the post content came up with some feedback to my Instapic theme. The user was using the WordPress iPhone App, and while making a picture post, it automatically adds the image into the post content. Since the theme uses just the featured image feature of WordPress to display the image, having the image inserted in the post content made it appear twice in the theme. He didn’t mind the need to just delete the inserted image from the post content, but I can see where that could eventually get annoying, and I want the theme to ultimately work as flawlessly and easily as possible.
The function below prevents images from being displayed in the post content when it’s placed in the functions.php file of your theme, and the_content(); is changed to the_content_no_images();
Instapic is a fun theme styled after the popular Instagram, allowing you to mimic the features that Instagram offers (minus the photo filters), yet run the photo blog on your own. Instapic features Google Map support, as well as a ‘like’ counter to keep up with what your followers most enjoy.
Instapic is my first WordPress theme that I’ve created to release. It’s bound to need some fixes or have adjustments made, but as with all things, it’s got to start somewhere. I’m really pleased with the functionality, and how the overall theme has turned out.
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.
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