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You've found the blog of Jere Matlock, a web designer and writer. This journal is mostly about writing, web design and getting sites to the top of the search engines (SEO is my business). It is also full of opinions and observations about pretty much everything. If these things are not of interest to you, feel free to go now. Go on, shoo!

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By the way, if you feel like taking offense at something posted on this site, go right ahead, it won't bother me a bit. Kingsley Amis has a nice quote about that, in which I take solace and some pride when the flames arrive:

"If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing."

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JMBlog Archive for July, 2003

put my newly learned PHP and MySQL skills to us

Tuesday, July 29th, 2003

Almost finished with a new site where I’ve put my newly learned PHP and MySQL skills to use, here: ArtandSports.com. That site is not pretty (I didn’t do the graphic design, just the back end work on it). The DNS name server changes still need to be made to point the domain to the new site, but the numeric IP address linked to above works. I am very enthusiastic about all that can be done with PHP and MySQL. It’s FAST and easy to use. Next up is a re-design of ChristmasGifts.com – which I have …

I was a kid before dirt was invented

Monday, July 28th, 2003

Bob Hope died. What an icon he was for the 20th century. When I was a kid (back before dirt was invented) I read one of Bob Hope’s books published in ‘47, as I recall, from which I remember two things: He talked about the fog in London being so thick he walked three blocks trying to find a stoplight he knew was just ahead, only to discover it was his own cigarette he’d been following. And his main complaints about living into the future were that we didn’t all have rocket packs and zip around that way, and …

Hip deep in learning MySQL and PHP

Friday, July 18th, 2003

Have been hip deep in learning MySQL and PHP. Also learned how to set up the LinksManager.com software here so that links display properly for one of my clients.

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