http://www.damienriley.com online diary of a dreamer Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:08:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Click on image to view the Excel spreadsheet. This month's theme: "Automation." Here are the textual results: Postcards from the Funny Farm - PFTFF 9,651 Backlinks 8,630 Visits (in June '09) Dynamite Lesson Plan - DLP 3,123 Backlinks 2,030 Visits (in June '09) Damien at the Speed of Life - DATSOL 5,376 Backlinks 1,422 Visits (in June '09) Net for all blogs= ... http://www.damienriley.com/blog-stats-june-2009/ Everyone has been telling me since my kids were born that one day they would rebel.  Looking at some "then/now" pictures of Amy Winehouse on a blog tonight really made that fear a reality.  Click on the image above to see the "after" pictures. Here is a hugely talented girl with ... http://www.damienriley.com/amy-winehouses-father/ This is truly a good day to be me! Read more details at my blog Postcards from the Funny Farm. http://www.damienriley.com/photo-of-me-with-my-first-google-check/ I've written two previous posts on Entrecard in the past few months. You'll find them linked below. This post will be my 3rd and serve as a conclusion to the many items I left unanswered. Entrecard Time Tracking Entrecard after a Month I titled this post the way I did because ... http://www.damienriley.com/promoting-blog-posts/ I ran across this.  It reminds me of the apple carving my dad did for us when we were kids.  For the life of me I do not know how the artist did this one.  I don't think it is Photoshopped. http://www.damienriley.com/kevin-van-aelst/ I've been looking the blog world over for almost 3 years serious and a couple before that off and on. I have some set opinions about what it is and where it's going. Many commercials reference "Twitter" and "Facebook" nowadays and I want people to know these trivial ... http://www.damienriley.com/blogging-and-microblogging-are-wholly-different-animals/ Dynamite Lesson Plan is an education-related blog featuring posts on teaching, parenting, psychology, and education. My Other Blog Thanks to my readers here at Damien at the Speed of Life (DATSOL). I'm excited to tell you about my "other" blog today. Around July 2008 I launched a teaching-oriented blog entitled ... http://www.damienriley.com/check-out-dynamite-lesson-plan/ Hopefully this post will help people understand the commonly misused spellings of these homophones: to, two, and too and there, they're, and their.  I wrote a series of worksheets on these for the Cerritos College Writing Center when I worked there at age 26 in 1996 :)  My then boss, ... http://www.damienriley.com/commonly-misspelled-homophones/ http://www.damienriley.com/childhood-innocence-and-coca-cola/ I've noticed that blogging draws people for a million reasons, it isn't just the desire to share your life online anymore. But whether you are looking to make money or  just experimenting with  a journal, there are three areas you'll want to increase.  I use the acronym CAN to ... http://www.damienriley.com/for-those-just-getting-into-blogging/