Monthly Archives: September 2010

How To Thoroughly Backup Your WordPress Blog

Tech Stuff
In this post I will show you how to backup the data which is your WordPress blog so that you will be able to restore in the event of your computer crashing, your server losing your blog, your blog randomly breaking or any other mishap that can occur. When my blog broke yesterday, there was no need for me to freak out because I was pretty sure I have all the bases covered when it comes to backing up my… Read the rest

How To Add a Backup Plugin To Your WordPress Blog Step by Step With Screenshots

Tech Stuff
This post is part of a series put together after I lost my blog on a holiday weekend. Thankfully because I had good backups in place I was able to restore it entirely aside from a few comments (which I was also able to replace). In this post I will share how to add a backup plugin to your WordPress blog so that you don't lose anything: for example, if your computer crashes, heaven forbid your web host crashes and… Read the rest
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Yakezie Alexa Challenge Now Has Its Own Website

Making Progress
I'm late in announcing this, but I wanted to share that the Yakezie Alexa Challenge now has its own website: Yakezie.com.  We began learning more about the members of the group on August 16th; how they got started blogging, how they learned about the challenge and a few details about their personal lives away from the computer. My introductory post is here: Yakezie Member Post – Out of Debt Again. I joined the challenge in March 2010 and my Alexa… Read the rest
Save On Auto Insurance

We Saved $318 on Auto Insurance!

automobiles
// It was that time of the year again… time to renew our auto insurance.  I've stuck with the same company for the past couple of years, and since we added AJ (our twenty year old son) to our policy I figured they were giving us the best possible deal. While visiting over at Bucksome Boomer's I read her post Shopping for Car Insurance… Again and thought maybe I'd better do the same. I mean, what could it hurt, right?… Read the rest