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Thursday, July 31, 2008 1:30 AM

Six Years

Today is the 6th anniversary of the date I started the blog. Yikes! It has started to become a tradition for me to give some stats so here we go: In the past six years, I have made 2710 posts. That's 1.24 posts per day or 1.73 posts per work day since...
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Monday, June 23, 2008 1:25 AM

Painted Into a Corner

I feel like I've painted myself into the proverbial corner with my current web hosting. When I joined GoDaddy in 2004, I spent a long time getting Community Server running. It wasn't a supported application at the time and I had to make a bunch...
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Sunday, May 25, 2008 9:20 PM

Photo Reorganization

While I was watching the races this afternoon, I finally got around to reorganizing the photo gallery. The gallery groupings have been growing unwieldy and hopefully I've got it under control now. This unfortunately means that many of the photo gallery...
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Friday, April 18, 2008 11:50 AM

Survey!

It's time for the first ever Studio711 (Lack Of) Satisfaction Survey. I pretty much post whatever interests me, but I'm interested in how different things about the site are received by you. It's only 10 questions and shouldn't take more...
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008 7:24 AM

Reclaim Space in Community Server

Over Christmas, I ran into a bad problem with my Community Server installation on GoDaddy. My database was full so I couldn't make any more posts. I emailed GoDaddy and they kindly increased my database size for no cost. Make a backup NOW . I take...
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 9:59 AM

Comment Moderation

Spammers have become more and more of a problem lately. To combat them, I have turned on comment moderation for now. All this means is that when you submit a comment, it won't show up on the site quite as quickly as before. I'll get an email and...
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Wednesday, January 09, 2008 12:30 AM

Web Stats

I just checked the stats for Studio711 last year. 7000 people saw my site and requested 26,000 pages. Visitors came from 81 countries with the US, Canada, Britain, Germany, and the Netherlands leading the charge. 70% of you use IE and 26% use Firefox...
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Thursday, January 03, 2008 8:03 PM

Facebook Status

You may have noticed that there is a small new addition to the site. My current Facebook status is displayed in the gray bar just below the logo at the top of the page. For those of you who don't use Facebook, your status is a short, quick way to...
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007 12:30 AM

Domain Names

Ever since the dawn of time, I've been cyber stalking the owner of benmartens.com. That domain has been taken since 1997. In fact, if it had been available 5 years ago, Studio711.com probably would never have existed. I randomly check the status of...
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Tuesday, September 04, 2007 10:50 AM

Site Update

Last night my site was down completely and this morning it's back in action. Unfortunately it's pretty slow (even more than it has been in the past couple weeks.) Hopefully it will speed back up as the caches rebuild themselves, but who knows...
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Thursday, August 02, 2007 1:35 AM

Contest Winner!

In my best cheesy gameshow host voice: Congratulations to Kevin and Heather of Chicago, IL! You've won Liz Lovely cookies! Please send me your address and I'll ship you the goodies.
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007 1:30 AM

Five Years!

Release the balloons! Throw the confetti! Dance with the chimps! I've been blogging for FIVE YEARS! The blog has already gone through a number of iterations, both visually and intellectually. Hopefully I succeed every once in a while in telling you...
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Thursday, February 15, 2007 12:30 AM

Take Fiber for Regularity

"Ben, nobody reads my blog, what can I do?" My answer is always "Post something every day." If readership is really what you're concerned about, you have to establish a regular pattern of posting. Don't believe me? Take a look...
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Monday, February 12, 2007 10:07 AM

Scroll Down

Studio711.com Tip #182: If you're reading the moblog entries, make sure you scroll down to see if there is any text below the photo. Many of the photos won't make sense unless you read the description.
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Thursday, January 04, 2007 12:35 AM

Cute Kid

My camera got quite a workout over the weekend - over 200 pictures in two days. I filtered them down and got them uploaded. The photo shown below is from one of those mall photo booths. Head over to the photo gallery to see more. Tim posted his pics in...
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