Is LinkWithin Causing Facebook Issues?

June 16, 2010

Many people have commented on Twitter about their Facebook thumbnails dropping out and not displaying when they post a link on their wall. This is my theory: it is the dynamic images that are causing it. LinkWithin is just the first service that comes to mind.  The way LinkWithin works is every time someone visits [...]

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Finally booked a room to TBEX10

June 14, 2010

Woo Hoo!  This weekend I finally booked my room for Travel Blog Exchange ’10.  After my kidney incident I drug my feet a bit not knowing whether or not I should go.  I knew I’d regret it if I didn’t.  I booked the airline ticket earlier in the week which only left finding a room. [...]

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Top 100 Travel Blog List Reranked by Facebook

June 10, 2010

Since there seemed to be quite a bit of interest in the Twitter list I reworked. Over the last couple days I have put together another, this time reranked for Facebook.   The couple surprises are how many sites have neither a Twitter presence or one on Facebook.  This time 38 sites did not link to [...]

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Top 100 Travel Websites Reranked by Twitter Followers

June 8, 2010

This post has taken a bit longer then I had expected. Every couple weeks I take a look at the Top 100 Travel Blog Sites just to see how where everyone ranks. After reading it this week I thought humm, I wonder what this list would look like if you reranked it by Twitter followers? [...]

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The Best Flight I Ever Missed, the last Part

June 5, 2010

Continued from:  The Best Flight I Ever Missed, Part 3 (or I <heart> Delta) While I’m laying in bed I remember hearing about a volcano going off and didn’t think much of it until my mom came. She told me I was very lucky that I didn’t make that flight. It was then that I [...]

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The Best Flight I ever Missed Part 3 (or I heart Delta)

June 4, 2010

Continued from: The Best Flight I Ever Missed Part 2 It’s not until I am giving Josh the details of my flight that he tells me it’s almost 4am. “Don’t call mom it’s to late,” I say. I know she has to get up early for my stepdads cancer treatment and I didn’t want her [...]

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The Best Flight I ever Missed (or an Ode to Morphine) Part 2

June 3, 2010

Continued from:  The Best Flight I ever Missed Part 1 So into my brothers SUV I go, feet on the dash. Fortunately he doesn’t mind or at least that’s what he says. The emergency room is full as I get checked in. The pains down to about a 6-7 now. Although I’m still groaning with [...]

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The Best Flight I Ever Missed (or an Ode to Morphine) Part 1

June 2, 2010

Continued from Not the start I had been hoping for: At work I was wrapping up what I could and was trying to mentally pack everything I had laid out on my bed. I was debating whether of not I really needed to bring each item or not. When I got this pain in my [...]

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Not the start I had hoped for

June 1, 2010

Well this hasn’t been the start I had planned on.  I had planned on April being my month.  It was the month I was going to make my big start or at least get the ball rolling. A flight to Amsterdam where I would spend a couple days then the train to Paris with a [...]

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I heart Planes

February 26, 2010

I love planes.  I like the sound they make flying over my condo when they are taking power off before landing, it’s always the slow spool down sound that you can mimic by drawing air in slowing instead of whistling.  I like how planes look sleek with the menacingly powerful engines hanging from the wings.   [...]

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