Happy Twenty-o-Eight!!!!

Published in December 31st, 2007

Heading out to help prepare midnight breakfast at church for watch-night services. Happy New Year to everyone in the MartyBLOGs readership community. Twenty-o-seven was a great blogging year and Twenty-o-eight will be a ground breaking and earth shattering year in the making!
Please be safe and Happy New Year!!!

Prayers of Healing for a Friend and His Fiance

Published in December 30th, 2007

Posted by Marty in Faith

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I just heard at church this morning that an old school mate of mine, Rev. Mark Lee and his fiance Rynetta Washington, were involved in a horrible car accident in Memphis, TN a few days ago during holiday travels to see their families. Mark is the pastor at Bell Baptist Church in Auburn, AL. I’m […]

Classic Rock Licks on a Saturday Night…Juke Box Hero

Published in December 29th, 2007

Posted by Marty in Music

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Some of my favorite contemporary music jams thru the years have been the great story songs. The rock and roll genre has definitely had it’s share.
Have you ever fantasized about being a star when you were a kid and pictured yourself on stage behind the mic or with your fave instrument? Then you will […]

Experimenting with WordPress Features

Published in December 26th, 2007

Posted by Marty in WordPress Tips

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I FTP’d the all-in-one-seo-pack into my WP directory with all my other WordPress files and activated it this morning. While doing that I stumbled upon this file default upload feature that was part of the existing theme and I think I know how to add picture files to a post now.

Yep it works. Now […]

Saving Thoughts on Our Saviour’s Birthday

Published in December 25th, 2007

Posted by Marty in Faith

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Guess what I got for Christmas? My wife bought me a miniature copy of John Ortberg’s “If You Want to Walk On Water, You’ve Got to Get Out of the Boat”. It’s based on the premise of Peter’s walking on the water to Jesus during the storm.
Here are some cool thoughts I want to share […]

Time to Get Hot and Put Some Life Back into the PageRank

Published in December 21st, 2007

Posted by Marty in SEO

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Now that the needle is moving in the right direction again I’m targeting particular mileposts once again to grow my readership back to the point were we were this time last year. Currently on Technorati I have an Authority of 15 and a rank of 550,426.
Here are the particular goals I’m shooting for in the […]

Microfinance and the Flat World

Published in December 20th, 2007

Posted by Marty in General Interest

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Chapter 13 of The World is Flat has a section about the guy who won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. The path to the prize started thirty years before the award. Thomas Friedman describes him as a social-entrepreneur-activist.
The person he refers to is Muhammad Yunus of Bangladesh. He founded the Grameen Bank in 1976 […]

Technorati Search and Rank Theory OR Can Ron Paul, Britney Spears and DevPay Really Pull Traffic for You?

Published in December 20th, 2007

Posted by Marty in SEO

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This is a fun research post for my own purposes folks. You may actually want to try this at home and see what comes of it for you. What am I refering to?
I’ve been curious to delve more deeply into how effective Technorati’s own search metrics are in drawing traffic for us blogger types if […]

Chaka Khan - ’nuff Said

Published in December 19th, 2007

Posted by Marty in Music

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My boy Yobachi went back in the stacks on this one. I can do no justice but to share the link showing Chaka on the drums and singing “Tell Me Something Good” on two different YouTube clips.
If you remember the Mike Douglas Show and Soul Train then you’ll really like these. Here’s your funk and […]

Tuskegee Golden Tigers National Black College Football Champs

Published in December 18th, 2007

Posted by Marty in General Interest

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The announcement from the Sheridan Broadcasting Network is official. Read the exciting press release below. Go Alma Mater! Hey Tuskegee!, whoo!, whoo!, whoo!
(Pittsburgh, PA – December 17, 2007) – The Tuskegee University Golden Tigers have captured 2007 SBN Black College National Championship honors. Under the leadership of head coach Willie Slater, the Golden Tigers finished […]

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