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I should be able to hook our Wii up to our new TV soon

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Well I still haven’t been able to get our Wii to work with our new TV. That’s the problem when you buy the thinnest plasma TV on the market … it lacks a lot of ports in the back!

We’ve tried to hook up the Wii through our receiver and that hasn’t worked either so about two and a half weeks ago I broke down and bought a composite to HDMI converter that upconverts the composite cable feed to 720p. It’s supposed to work well with Wii consoles …. so if it ever arrives from Florida I guess I’ll find out if that’s the solution to our problem or not.

Why does it take so long for packages to be sent from the US to Canada?

I certainly wasn’t using our Wii as much as I should have been lately … but now that I can’t use it at all I’m quite disappointed. I’ve been using the Wii as a workout tool doing Golds Gym boxing and Wii fitness as well as a few games. It certainly helped to keep me in shape (or to attempt to get me into shape) throughout the winter.

Now I’m also looking into getting a KVM switch to hook up our three computers, but I think I need to learn a little more about them before I bi. Anyone use one of these things?





Our websites should be loading faster now

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In my last post I mentioned that I’ve been spending quite a bit of time this week getting our blogs up to date. I forgot to mention that I also installed a new plugin that should make this page load a little bit faster.

It’s WP Super Cache. I did have an old cache plugin that I’d been using for years, but Super cache allows me to gzip the blog which in turn should really make it load faster. Now, gzip can be a little hard on some shared servers, so I didn’t enable it on all of our blogs (remember we have 17!), but rather I only enabled it on our blogs that get more than 100 page views a day.

I wanted to make my sites faster for my visitors, and I also wanted to make them load faster for Google as it’s rumored that page load speed might be a factor in search engine rankings in the near future. I used a free seo tool or two to check the load speed of a few of our sites before and after enabling super Cache gzip and wow … the pages load a heck of a lot faster!

Do you ever work on your websites to make them load faster for your visitors?

It takes a lot of time to update all our blogs!

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I guess it’s been a little while since I last posted! I’ve been so busy lately with appointments and getting this and all our other blogs up to date!

I can’t believe how much I hate updating the version of WordPress each time it updates as well as all the plugins that update following a major WP version release. Not to mention the plugins that still work, but that for some reason I can’t access from the admin area without getting a “you don’t have permission to access this page” message. LOL So I’ve also been looking for WP plugins to replace the ones I can’t access anymore.

I think I’d rather be reading about adult acne treatments than spending two days or so in a row updating our 17 blogs!

I shouldn’t complain. It’s a lot easier to update all of our blogs now that WordPress has a built in updater, but still it takes time … time I don’t have.

Do you dislike having to update your blog whenever new releases come out?

Getting sidetracked

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I must be on a skin kick or something … I was just checking out various skin products (ie for my dry skin and scarring problem) and I came across this skin id review that sounds interesting.

Of course that product is an acne treatment and it wasn’t what I was looking for … but I know someone would probably be interested in it.

Do you ever go looking for something on the internet – say you’re researching a product or something, and you end up getting sidetracked as you find other interesting, somewhat related things? That’s been happening to me a lot in the last week or so thanks to me doing research on our new washing machine and dryer. LOL

Online University – the new way to learn

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It’s no wonder that with the economy the way it is, more and more people have been taking courses and returning to school. I see stories in the news at least once a week about people who’ve been laid off work have returned to University.

If you have children, still have a job or have to work part time to pay the bills going back to University full time might be impossible for some people. Luckily there is a way for you to get an online degree. I’m talking about Western Governors University.

WGU is a respected University serving over 14,000 students. The University offers accelerated courses and their programs are accredited.

Western Governors University offers a wide range of programs. You could look into getting an online business degree in Business Management, Information Technology Management, Humane Resources Management, Marketing Management or Accounting just to name a few. Other programs that are offered online include their Online Teachers College, Information Technology and health Professions.

If you’ve been thinking of changing careers visit WGU and see if they have a course or program that interests you.

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