After finding Lulu.com, I am really considering the idea of writing another book. The only problem I have now is trying to find time in my work week to write that new book. There are no set-up fees. No minimum orders. No risks. They print and ship each book as it’s bought. Sound too good to be true? Now you see why I am thinking about writing another book.

I have a friend that just finished a comic book a few weeks ago as well. I might point him in the direction of Lulu.com to see if they have any options to publish his work. Even if it is just a copy for himself and a few friends. It is nice to see that it is so easy these days to get noticed. You no longer need a publisher, an agent or any of that other crap. All you need is a passion, an idea, and a little free time.

Need more? Read what Matt Hartley had to say about Lulu.com!

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Red Dwarf is simply the best space comedy ever produced. I have been a big fan for a while, but just recently picked up the first two seasons’ DVDs from Amazon. I was a little afraid the quality of the DVDs might suck, since this show isn’t exactly very well known, but I was wrong. So far I have been pretty happy with the quality of the disks.

If you haven’t ever seen an episode of Red Dwarf, here is pretty much the outline of the show (via the IMDB):

Three million years ago, a radiation leak killed the crew of the mining ship, Red Dwarf. The only survivor was Dave Lister, the chicken soup machine repairman. He spends his time on the ship with a holographic projection of Arnold Rimmer (his dead bunkmate), Cat (a life-form that evolved from Dave’s cat), Holly (the ship’s senile computer), and Kryten (a service mechanoid).

I never was much of a Star Wars or Star Trek fan, but in my opinion Red Dwarf beats them both hands down. Now I just have to order the six other DVDs.

Poderator looks to be a free podcast production solution. The catch? Well you have to come up with hosting for your audio files on your own. I guess it is one more fix for folks out there, but personally I don’t think I’d like having to run to several different places to get a podcast published. There are better ways of getting it done that will cost you little to no money at all.

Everybody needs help with CSS from one time to another. I have yet to meet the man or woman who can say they have memorized all of the CSS code lingo by heart. There is just too much there to remember. Then you can’t just memorize it. You have to know it, and know how to do it right.

That is where this article I found this morning comes into play…

Learning how to use CSS for creating web sites is a pain in the ass. It’s not easy and it will hurt you. Over the last several years I’ve been asked by many web designers and developers about how to best get started with building web sites using CSS and standards. Usually, I’ll just send them 300 links and wish them a lot of luck. This overview is sort of my penance.

When it comes to understanding the world of standards based design, you have to think medieval. Creating a web site in CSS is like building a manor. You are a lord, setting aside land for specific purposes, hoping the user rotates their content appropriately. Most of you will build villages attracting only a few peasants to comment on various decrees, some of you will build castles and a very small number will build what I can only describe as cathedrals—structures that warrant pilgrimages from thousands across the globe.

Feel free to check out the rest of the article over at particletree! It is one of the best CSS layout technique articles I have found in a long time.

This movie has to be one of the best ones I have seen in about the past ten years. I swear up and down to you that this movie is that damn good. Shaun of the Dead has the perfect mix of offbeat comedy with zombie blood and gore. It is like a marriage made in heaven! I picked up the DVD after seeing it on Cinemax late one night. The DVD is just as awesome as the entire movie. Loads of extras, commentary and fun things to play around with.

Lots of the camera angles and cinematography reminds me of the Evil Dead trilogy, more specifically Sam Rami’s work. So if you haven’t seen a good zombie movie in a while, I can highly recommend that you go check out Shaun of the Dead.

Blogbeat offers blog analytics and stats for your own corner of the Internet for free. So, what is new with that? Well the best part about Blogbeat is that there are no ads at all. No two dozen flashing boxes wanting me to beat up monkeys on this Web site.

Still have questions? Here are a few answers from Blogbeat’s FAQ Web page:

What is Blogbeat?

Blogbeat is an online service that can tell you all sorts of cool things about your blog, like who’s reading it, what posts they’re reading, what posts are your most popular, what other blogs are talking about you, how people find you, even what links people click on when they visit your blog. Simply register with us in a few simple steps, and you instantly get tons of cool stats on your blog! Everything is done in real-time, so as soon as someone reads a post on your blog, you will know about it.

How does Blogbeat work?

It’s not exactly special sauce, but we’ll skimp on the exact details of how we make the magic happen. But basically it’s the same as if you were adding Google’s AdSense ads to your blog. You add one line of Javascript code into the HTML of your blog software, and we get notified when someone visits your site.

All you have to do is cut and paste some Javascript into your Web site. No banners or little badges here.

There were only 167 spots left open in the beta when I wrote this, so if you want to try this out, you had better act quick.

There is a new search engine on the block! Well there is nothing new with starting a search engine, there are thousands out there today. Well this one searches RSS feeds! Okay, so that narrows it down some. This one also searches podcasts! Okay, now you have my attention.

I have to say Feedzie has a lot to love. It reminds me of Odeo a little when you are “searching audio”. Here are a few of the goals Feedzie wants to achieve:

Enabling you to find feeds and podcasts with the best quality

There are millions of feeds out there. Showing the ones that make you read or listen with pleasure is the real problem for us. By labeling and updating our search indexes, we are trying to do everything we can to help us locate the feeds of your taste.

Labelling to make the real content visible

Tagging enables you to navigate qualified feeds. The advantage of labelling over searching is its ability to guide you based on what is available other than what you expect what is available.

Creating web-based back end for Newzie and Ziepod

Feedzie has two sisters; Newzie, information aggregator, and Ziepod, podcast receiver and player. These two software applications are high quality toolkits with state-of-art feature sets. Both have connection with Feedzie so that users, that is, you, can easily subscribe to feeds.

Check it out, and let me know what you think!

It is that time of the week where I let you know what happened on this week’s edition of the Web Hosting Show, the one and only voice of the Web hosting world. We covered a lot of great topics this week from head to toe. One of the most exciting ones from this week would have to be the news about the new Web Host TV project. The other is me trying to reason with Web hosts about the jargon words they use.

[Download the Web Hosting Show, Podcast 26!]

I am very excited to see what is in store for Web Host TV. What, you haven’t heard about it yet? Web Host TV promises to change the way you take in your Web hosting media each and every day. Others have tried to change things, but have fallen flat on their face. Web Host TV hopefully will not follow where others have failed.

I’ll have more details on it for you when there are more details to say. I will just leave you with this… remember that Web Hosting Show video I did a while back? Think about being able to see that, along with a plethora of other content all in one place. All aimed at folks in and around the Web hosting world. Sounds pretty exciting, doesn’t it?

This week’s Web hosting tip of the week is all about Web hosting jargon. You know those big words that Web hosts like to toss around and the regular folks out there have no clue as to their true meaning. One thing that really gets on my nerves is when Web hosts refer to regular old Web hosting accounts as virtual hosting account or shared hosting accounts.

Why? The guy walking in off the street just wants hosting. He doesn’t know what a virtual hosting account is or a shared hosting account means. All of these names are pointing at the same kind of hosting account. The one that 99.9 percent of us use every single day. Web not just call it regular hosting?

So don’t be confused. No mater if it is virtual hosting or shared hosting, they are both your standard Web hosting account.

There are some really helpful Firefox extentions out there today. That is what the whole extention experiance is suppose to be about right? Things that help you out in one way or another. Things that make your life easier. Well, there are some twisted folks out there, and I guess they have needs as well. These are some of the oddest Firefox extentions I have ever seen listed.

Abe Vigoda Status

We all love Abe Vigoda right? How many of us can say we are just waiting to see him kick the bucket though? Apparently folks want to keep up to date with old Abe in Firefox. The Abe Vigoda Status extention does only one simple thing. It tells you that Mr. Vigoda is alive or dead.

Clines

Stupid games have also made it into Firefox extentions. Clines is only one of many out there today. The point of Clines is to “move balls from one square to another one in order to build lines”. Yeah, that is it. Funny thing is, I can do the same thing with a sheet of paper and a pen. I could make lines go up and down. I could make lines go from left to right. If I felt really motivated, I could even make lines go diagonally.

TickerFox

I like Firefox, don’t get me wrong. I don’t like it so much though that I feel motivated to know that four more people have downloaded it though. TickerFox allows folks to see the latest download count directly from the status bar of your browser. Do I have to ask where the “watch paint dry” extention is?

So these are only a sample of some of the odd Firefox extentions out there today. Do you know of one that is even more odd than these. Let me know!