This post was guest blogged by Simon Koldyk of ScribbleWiki

If your running any sort of website you most likely have some sort of stats (if you don’t have one check out Google Analytics, its free!).  On a blog you have a RSS feed; but, you don’t know who is looking at that or who has that in their feed reader.

Enter Feedburner, which was bought by Google last year.  You can go to Feedburner.com put in your feed, it spits out a new feed for you and then you just take a Wordpress plugin (or whatever your blog software is) and plug that in.  Done.

Feedburner will give you a couple of things, in the first 24 hours it will just give you some live stats it is keeping.

Then after the 24 hours it will start giving you a feed count which is the amount of users that checked your feed in the last 24 hours whether you posted anything or not (RSS Readers check several times a day; but, will only count as one person).

You can then log-in to FeedBurner.com and click on the publicize tab and put a Feed Counter on your website.

This is good for showing off your readers and is really good for selling to advertisers.

Also, Feedburner since its owned by Google is already plugged in with Google Adsense so you can just put your Adsense publisher ID in and have it show Google Ads in your feed.

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Update: You can download the patch via my server here: http://www.stupidsucks.com/downloads/public/Battlefield2142-485and941A-to-1512.zip

Yes, I am a mac “gamer”. Two words that don’t belong in the same sentence. I’m not really a big gamer (I used to be) since I usually just work all the time now BUT for quite awhile I’ve been waiting on EA to release the 1.50 Patch for Battlefield 2142 for Mac users.

EA is terrible about supporting their Mac gamers. Everything comes WAY WAY later for Mac than for the PC guys. But, I guess you can’t blame them. The Mac guys are definitely the minority, lol. Anyway, the patch has finally been released! I’m downloading it now but it is going slow as heck so once I get it downloaded, I’ll upload to my server and post a link here for others to download it faster (who likes waiting an hour for a download? Not me.. ).

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So a few years back I used to ride a Yamaha FZR-600R, which was a great first bike. Anyway, I was just thinking back today about how great riding it was and remembered that I used to attach a camera to the bike and record while I rode.

Well, one day I was riding out on one of my favorite roads (Dashpoint in Federal Way, WA) and hit a bird. The crazy thing is that [...] Continue Reading…

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I’m still amazed at how many people out there despise Apple and their products. The most common thing I hear now is, “It has the same hardware as my computer (Windows/PC), it just costs $1k more.”, which absolutely drives me nuts.

Apple might use the same processor, hard drive, graphics card, etc. but they used the components better than any other computer manufacturer for the price. What gives Apple the edge over the competition? Their [...] Continue Reading…

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Until this last weekend I had been away for awhile and didn’t post anything. While I was away I had come across several sites I took note of whether I would be able to use it later or someone I knew. So here are some of the sites!

Often times I am in desperate need of inspiration, CSS help, complimentary colors and other ideas. I ran across the following websites that I found helpful or [...] Continue Reading…

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Apparently the Federal Government (aka the big stupid ass) is halting large-scale solar power projects for two years. (NYT) Why?

They want to make sure it isn’t hurting the environment or the animals. Oh, they are so thoughtful and caring. Either that or greedy bastards that want to delay alternative energy sources even longer. I wonder if they ever thought about the environment or the animals before they started using fossil fuels…yeah right!

Meanwhile the search [...] Continue Reading…

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