My thoughts (in no particular order)

1. I tried to copy the emails from my computer over to GMail, but it was setting all the dates to the day that I I have all my previous email stored on my computer, so I can reference it whenever I want.
2. GMail supports my own personal domains – so I can send and receive without people noticing.
   1. I find it offensive when Internet professionals and businesses use @hotmail.com or @gmail.com email addresses when they have their own domain.
3. I can still send and receive how I want from my iPhone.
4. I have IMAP configured, so I can still do anything I want with my folders, or as GMail likes to call them… “labels”.
5. I can access my email any time from anywhere, Internet connection permitting.
6. The spam filters are MUCH better than what Microsoft has done in Entourage. So far it hasn’t filtered any legitimate email to my spam box, which is always nice.
   1. I have many server rules setup to wipe out a ton of spam before anything has a chance to make it to my inbox.
7. Google Docs! It’s awesome, and now I can save attachments to that.
8. Viewing online of documents. No more needing to open the document in the application. I can view it in a webpage and save time. Yes dad, that means that all of those “amazing photograph” emails with 20MB powerpoints won’t be AS annoying – but please try to refrain from sending them anyways!  
9. I will not tell anyone my GMail address. I do not want to get email to it. If you want to know why, read point 2.1.

One of the items on my list has been to figure out a way to get my automated Twitter “life stream” hidden from the blog homepage. I figure, if someone wants to see my Twitter posts, they’ll either look at my Twitter page, or look at the Twitter category in my blog. I think it’s more important to showcase and highlight my actual posts instead. Plus, on my homepage I have the most recent tweets displayed.

I was going to script something to do it, but instead I came across the plugin “Simply Exclude” by CodeHooligans.

I’m quite impressed. After installing the plugin, within 1-minute I had the Twitter category removed from my homepage. No coding or scripting needed!

The only glitch is that if you tag a post in multiple categories, and one of those categories is excluded, it too will come off the homepage. Maybe this is something that will be fixed in the next version.

I did something interesting with my website. I took a look at my stats, and created a neat-looking word cloud, based on the keywords that people enter in search engines to get to my website.

It’s quite interesting to see.

dmpP website word cloud for 2009

It lets you run versions 1.0, 1.5, 2.01, 3.0, 4.01, 5.01, 5.5, 6.0, 7.0, and 8.0

Kudos to the developer.

More details can be found at: Final Builds Site – IE Collection

What do you think of it?

I think this is a keeper…  until I get bored of looking at it (again).

New web design is launched

Perhaps they should get a ‘dev’ environment to work on.

Rogers staff – if you need help resolving the problem, let me know.  :-)

The errors are numerous!

broken website

Totally different section of the site - just as busted as the first!

Serious errors displayed to the public. Tsk tsk!

The new blog design

So, I’ve embarked on a new design – again!  Tell me something…

What do you think?

Is there any functionality that it’s missing?

Any suggestions on ways to improve?

This can be viewed both from the end of the search engine and the internet user. Search engines will always lead readers or customers to highly relevant websites. SEO increases your visibility on the internet so you can reach out to your target readers or market.

SEO helps you to build your brand and make it among the top choices in the market. Visibility through SEO means fundability and accessibility from the end of the consumers.

Anyone looking to get me, I’m @davidpisarek or you can view my profile page at http://twitter.com/davidpisarek.

I had my blog setup to automatically create a new post whenever I sent a tweet, but it looks like that’s going to get annoying pretty quickly, so I’ve disabled that function.

Bring it on fellow twits!

I figured I would give it a shot… and it’s pretty cool. You can make an avatar of yourself for free, and have it saved out with an animation too!

Check it out, and let me know what you think.

Long live version 6!

Let me know what you think. Feedback is ALWAYS welcomed!