I was reminded of my fanatic MMORPG days as a little squee of delight escaped my lips when I discovered Tweety is posting again. It’s been ages since I’ve played EverQuest, Dark Age of Camelot, or World of Warcraft but I still miss them from time to time.

Speaking of geekery, I’m a kid?

Your Score: Micah Sanders

You scored 66 Idealism, 25 Nonconformity, 66 Nerdiness

Can we play Scrabble tonight?
Congratulations, you’re Micah Sanders! You’re good-natured, intelligent, perceptive, and naturally inclined toward technology. You’re also quite innocent and loving. You’ve got a fondness for computers and Scrabble.

Your best quality: You’re extremely perceptive
Your worst quality: You can be a little demanding at times

Geek is chic!

I’m surprised about the opinions regarding a relatively new service called PayPerPost. Dan over at Florida Venture Blog has a great write-up on the service that is getting a lot of attention on Digg. Personally, I’ve written a few posts but I haven’t been paid yet. They have a fairly eclectic customer base so far, and many advertisers even leave the tone of the post up to the blogger. I think this is a great marketing tactic, because it allows people to offer their real opinions about your product/site/service. Even negative feedback can benefit a company if they take it to heart. For bloggers, it is a great chance to make money blogging. It will be interesting to see how this all works out.

I’ve been messing around with redesigning my sites so that I can use widgets. While looking around at the widgets out there, I couldn’t find one that would let me put buttons (or chicklets) in the sidebar. So, I decided to write my own — Jax Buttons! (Creative title, isn’t it?) You can see a working example of it over at my sandbox.

Instructions
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- Unzip the file.
- Upload images to a folder on your server, such as /wp-images or /images.
- If you are not from Texas and would like to include your state,
upload a file named state.gif to your images directory.
- Open jaxbuttons.php and change $icons_baseurl=”http://www.yourwebiste.net/images”
to the website URL where your images are stored. Do NOT include trailing slash (/).
- Save changes.
- Upload jaxbuttons.php to your /wp-content/plugins directory.
- Activate plugin.
- Add the widget to an active sidebar and configure the options.
- Be sure NOT to include the http:// in the URLs.
- Save changes and you’re done!

I’m sure there are more buttons out there that should be included. Please let me know if you have any suggestions, or issues.
http://www.youknowyouwanna.net;/downloads/jaxbuttons.zip;Jax Buttons v0.5;

I spent a few days with my family in Houston last week, and so I missed the first edition of Change of Shift.  This is a new nursing blog carnival and looks to be a great way for nurses around the world to share stories.  By encouraging submission from medical, nursing and patient viewpoints, Change of Shift really succeeds in presenting a varied and lively perspective on nursing!

While we were at the lake this weekend, I was added to 25peeps.com.  It’s an interesting way to find new blogs.  If I get enough clicks on my picture and send enough people to 25peeps.com using my link, then I get to stay on the front page and gain visibility.  Check it out and let me know what you think.

Yes, I do have a MySpace. Baa!

It seems like everyone has MySpace these days. People don’t ask for phone numbers, they just swap MySpace accounts!

So, friend away:
http://www.myspace.com/jaxia

I finally found a forum that I like and want to use for my blog.  I wanted a solution that would integrate with WordPress.  I tried bbPress for awhile, but it is still too new.  This is a great, simple solution!

In order to comment, all you need to do is register an account.  It also has the added bonus of saving time when posting comments on entries, because once you log in, you won’t have to enter your user name and password every time.

So, stop by and say hello!  Let me know what you think!

PS - If you don’t see the email within a few minutes, then check your spam folder.  It’s probably there

Are you getting a bunch of emails from me lately? I installed a nifty little plugin that sends an email notification for any follow up comments. Personally, when I comment on a blog, I hate to try to remember where I commented. Then I have to check randomly to see if anyone else had anything interesting to say and it turns into a pain…

Since I like to be notified, I have the option turned ON by default. If you comment on an entry but don’t care to be notified via email when I respond or anyone else comments, then be sure to uncheck the box at the bottom of the comment form. You can always managed your subscriptions at any time by going to the subscription manager and making changes.

If you have any feedback, I’d love to hear it! Thanks for reading

Since my job involves website design and marketing, I spend a lot of time with Webtrends and monitoring search engine traffic patterns. While I can’t afford to use Webtrends for my personal site, I do love to look at my search engine referral logs.
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Miklb and I are still tinkering around with my header image. What do you think? Is it too big?