Personal Blog of Mike Bowden

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URL Redirections? Why and for how long?

Some of you may have typed in a specific URL and reached this website. Some of those URL’s may be the following:

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General Updates, Rants and Rambles

Recently I have been extremely swamped with my day job and haven’t had much time to get anything else done that I’d like. I have however started a new schedule that I hope will allow for more “spare” time to work on other passions in life. My current job is one that I’ve recently acquired, I have worked for myself for the past 4 – 5 years and this is the first time I’ve had a “9 – 5″, or more like 10 – 7 in this case. It’s new, it’s different, it’s fun and by all means it’s stressful.

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10/GUI Demonstration

The title of this entry is probably vague for most of you, unless you’ve heard of 10/GUI. Don’t feel bad if you haven’t, I just recently found out about it myself. But I must share it with my readers as I believe this to be the next level of computer interaction. We’ve already seen a lot of this same “type” of technology implemented in some of the devices we use on a daily basis, such as an iPhone of Microsoft’s Surface.

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Household Budgeting (The Total Money Makeover)

Recently I have gotten into the habit of listening to audio books on the way to work. The commute to the office is roughly around 45 minutes and sometimes can be well over an hour, depending on the traffic we hit. Currently I carpool with a co-worker and good friend Zach Coles.

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Getting Close, Due Early March

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving, I know we did. It was pretty tiring however, we went to a few different places to eat and see family on both sides. When we got home we decided to decorate for Christmas. We’re keeping things simple this year and being minimal on our decorating as well as our tree. While I was taking pictures I asked my wife to show me her belly just to get a progress shot and my son decided he needed to be in it as well. Read the rest of this entry »

AlternativeTo Releases Mobile Version

Seems one of my favorite websites has released a mobile version. Not the kind of mobile version that allows you to view it on your iPhone or smart phone. AlternativeTo is a website that is dedicated to pairing applications to other applications.

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Synchronize Your Life, Work and Computers… Backups Too?

When I initially decided to write an article on how I’ve organized my life, it started out simple and straightforward. Touching on the basics of organizing personal, freelance and work life. From this I’ve branched out into multiple articles and in the end decided it would be best to write a series on the entire process I’ve gone through and frankly still going through.

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Update – New Job, New Life, New Everything?

It has been a very long time since I’ve written a blog entry. For that I apologize, I do have a small reader base and I haven’t been taking blogging seriously. That will be changing however, as I plan on putting a great deal of time into this blog. Which will include my portfolio and posting some projects that I’ve been working on. You know, those things that keep me from actually being able to blog, outside of my full-time job of course.

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Wordpress as a Portfolio. Good Idea or Bad Idea?

Wordpress, we know what it is, we know what it does. But have we stopped to think of its use as a portfolio? That’s what I’ll answer in this piece; the perks, the faults, useful plugins and portfolio themes. Most of us look at Wordpress and immediately think… blogging! And that’s correct, that is what Wordpress is, designed for, functions as and is synonymous with, it’s a blogging platform.

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Google Adsense eCPM?

I’ve been noticing the eCPM of my Google Adsense account going up and down in drastic amounts. I’m not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing. From my understanding, this would be a good thing, meaning that are more people advertising than there were before. But there are still a lot of other factors involved with the eCPM for each web site, traffic, click count and so on, just to name a few.

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