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Bloggy Thursdays: Backing Up Your Blog

Jan 26. 2012

Welcome to this installment of Bloggy Thursdays, where I share with my fellow bloggers tips and tutorials to maximize and better your blog. While I do not consider myself an expert, I do like to think that after 10+ years of blogging — in addition to my technical knowledge — I know more than the average blogger when it comes to making your blog more appealing to readers. Do you have any comments, questions, or topics you’d like to see covered here? Please send me a message via my contact form. Enjoy! I have stated in an old WordPress Plugins post that I use WP-DBManager to backup my blog. Well, times change and so do preferences. My current backup plugin of choice is BackWPup, which,...

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Apple, Art/Design, Cool Tool Tuesdays, Gadgets, Geek, Personal, Reviews

Cool Tool Tuesdays: What I Use to Clean and Protect My MacBook Pro

Jan 24. 2012

Welcome to today's installment of Cool Tool Tuesdays, where I feature a favorite item from my life and spotlight it so that others who are not familiar with the product may also benefit from it. A cool tool can be any book, gadget, software, hardware, material, or website that I have personally tried and love. Do you have any questions about today's cool tool? Would you like an item featured in the future? Please leave a comment to this post, or send me a message via my contact form. Enjoy! Some people like to rough up their gadgets, add personalizations, and give it some character. I am not one of those people. In fact, I am the complete opposite: I like to keep my gadgets...

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Christianity, Personal

My First Night as a Volunteer at the Homeless Shelter

Jan 23. 2012

This past Saturday, I left the girls with J and his parents and joined a small group of volunteers from our church to lend our hand at the local homeless shelter. It was tiring. It was heartbreaking. And it was totally worth it. Prior to joining this church, I had never even considered the possibility of a homeless shelter in the area. While J and I live in an city with great income discrepancies — and are exposed to poverty on a regular basis as a result — our church is located in Bergen County, NJ, which one of the wealthiest counties in the United States, and is even home to the most expensive zip code in the country! There couldn't possibly be as...

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