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Broadcast Your Blog to Your Professional Network with the New WordPress LinkedIn Application

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Welcome! Thrilling Heroics is a site for young professionals and college students who want to pursue an unorthodox, exciting lifestyle & career. If you like what you read here, subscribe for free and get tips on personal development, entrepreneurship, branding & lifestyle design delivered to your email inbox or RSS reader. Today, LinkedIn has joined the application [...]

WordPress 2.6.3 Security Fix

Sunday, October 26, 2008

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In anticipation of the upcoming WordPress 2.7 redesign, there is a temporary security upgrade for 2.6. Apparently there is a small security risk in the software that displays the external RSS feeds on the user dashboard when you’re logged in to your administration panel. From the WordPress development blog: A vulnerability in the Snoopy library was [...]

Check Out ThrillingDesign.com If You Need Help With WordPress & Blogging

Monday, August 4, 2008

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There have been several recent changes in my online empire. In addition to the new blog community search tool I recently introduced to the blogosphere, I’ve mentioned my new freelance site a few times, and my recent interview at ABCnews.com, but I wanted to take this opportunity to officially invite you all to visit ThrillingDesign.com, [...]

Announcing an Awesome New Community Search Tool for the Blogosphere!

Thursday, July 31, 2008

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Ever since I discovered Google Custom Search, I’ve been using it to pinpoint the exact kind of awesome articles, tips and tricks I’m looking for much quicker, and to increase my efficiency and decrease the time it takes me to find answers or write up blog posts. Personally, I’m a big fan of productivity lists, how-to’s, [...]

Thoughts on Working From Home and Starting Out as a Freelance Web Worker

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

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As a follow-up to my post the other day, How to Make Friends with Career Columnists and Influence Mainstream News Organizations, I’d like to share some more of the insights from my conversation with ABCnews.com columnist Michelle Goodman. She asked a number of really great questions, and naturally only a very small part of our [...]

The Benefits of Using WordPress to Publish Your Blog

Monday, June 23, 2008

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WordPress is a free, open source blog publishing platform. There are freely hosted accounts available at WordPress.com, or self-hosted software available at WordPress.org (we deal solely with the latter). The platform was developed by Matt Mullenweg and a large online community of software developers, which means there is a lot of support available out there, [...]

It’s Time for Some Thrilling Heroics: Commit to Pursuing Your Wildest Dreams with Me in 2008!

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

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Over at CodyMcKibben.com in November, I wrote about my experiments with freelancing, and about my desire to shift my career so that my work is not just means to pay the bills, but more of a way to express my passions and continue to increase my personal growth. See the post here. In response [...]

Experimenting with Career Options

Monday, November 5, 2007

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It’s been a while since I really wrote regularly on either of my blogs. Somewhat unfortunately, I’ve been tied up with work. In the last several weeks, I’ve experimented with a few different things. I left my full-time employment at Sacramento State University almost two months ago, after which I took a short break while my [...]

My First WordPress Freelance Blog Design Project Goes Live!

Thursday, August 23, 2007

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I just recently finished my first freelance blog design project for a fantastic client in Silicon Valley, Rajesh Setty. I became friends with Rajesh through the blogosphere about a year ago; he is President of Suggestica.com and Foresight Plus LLC, Chairman of iPolipo, Co-Founder of CIGNEX, published author, and much more. In other words, he [...]