If you are sitting in front of your computer, day in and day out, for hours on end… then this post is for you! Just a few simple tips for resolving “cabin fever” and “brain mush”, coming from a woman who has been in a home-office environment for almost 10 years now!

When I decided to move from Blogger to WordPress, I had two options. I could start fresh, or I could import all of my content here to the new WordPress platform. I actually put quite a bit of thought into that… and I decided NOT to import my old posts into this new blog. Find out why, and what else I did to make this a smooth transition.

PubCon 2006 Trip: Once I finally talked myself into going (100%, no backing out, definitely going), I spent three whole days (geez!) deciding on my exact travel & hotel arrangements. There were certain things that were important to me, though, and I’ll share with you what I considered and learned in the process - especially useful for those of you that are making the same trip!

Twice a year WebmasterWorld puts on a Conference called PubCon. This year the Spring event is being held in Boston, MA at the Hynes Convention Center. I have never attended one of the PubCon conferences… so I’ve decided to pack up & go!

ThirdSphere isn’t the perfect solution for everyone, and so I set out to find a less expensive web host that was still reliable and feature-rich. HostGator is the one that I chose. So yes, I still have my account with ThirdSphere, and I also have two accounts with HostGator. There are a lot of options when it comes to web hosting, but these are two that I consider reliable and super-easy to use. (read more)

I am looking forward to a quiet weekend, and a much needed one at that. I am actually planning to work on my taxes (woo hoo! ha!) and catch up on a little reading and housework this weekend. As boring as that might sound, some downtime will be welcomed because the past week has just been very busy and chaotic.

Work-at-home-Mom Caught Porn-Spamming! Jennifer is a WAHM who runs MommyJobs.com (yes, that’s in addition to the spam/porn involvement)… but it turns out that she is not even a mom! She admits that she lied about being a mother to everyone on her wahm site just for the sake of credibility with other work at home mom’s…

Usually when you create a post, WordPress will take a snippet of that post and use it as your excerpt on the category pages - and also in your Feed (if you chose to display excerpts instead of full posts). Find out why you should use the Optional Excerpt instead!