http://kickjoey.com My take on just about everything Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:00:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A month has now passed since I began the experiment for KickJoey and lo-and-behold Googlebot has finally caught up with me! I've managed to rack up a PageRank of 2, which considering the amount of time I've spent on the site and getting a few links pointed at it. So the next ... http://kickjoey.com/2008/pagerank-experiment-update-2/ Though it's still in a very early Beta stage, WordPress 2.7 is set to impress many of the WordPress community who've been less than impressed by recent editions of the software. A bit of background... Earlier this year, Automattic released version 2.5 which provided a substantial redesign to the administrative back-end of ... http://kickjoey.com/2008/wordpress-27/ Well the one week deadline to try and get the site ranked in Google has come and gone, and not to anyone's surprise the site still doesn't carry a PageRank.  But, not to fear, I'll be continuing to write content for the site reviewing everything from software to hardware in ... http://kickjoey.com/2008/pagerank-experiment-update/ If you use a mac or linux on a regular basis and find yourself wanting to use Windows applications this may be the fix for you.  Go and download a copy of CrossOver for Mac from the CodeWeavers website.  Their regular website is offline at the moment because the got ... http://kickjoey.com/2008/free-software-run-windows-apps-on-your-mac/ I recently had occasion to switch phones and retire my Palm Treo 700wx.  The phone of choice for the replacement is the BlackBerry 8330 "Curve". The Curve is a great light handset.  I found the BlackBerry menus easy to navigate and simple to operate.  The pre-loaded software worked correctly right out ... http://kickjoey.com/2008/blackberry-8330-curve/ Here's the relaunch of KickJoey! I'm relaunching with a bit of a project in mind: get this site from a PageRank 0 to a PageRank 1 in 7 days.  Impossible? Probably, but I'll try it anyway. Why PageRank? Because I'd like to start doing reviews here that I can collect on. Yes, ... http://kickjoey.com/2008/explaining-the-google-wordpress-experiment/