So I’ve been halfheartedly trying to setup a new Wordpress installation for a client that I subcontract for and I kept running into permissions errors when trying to update the Wordpress installation and plugins from inside Wordpress.

I generally just upload a customized folder set that has the same themes I use on all installations and the basic plugins I setup for all of my clients.  I thought that somehow, Filezilla might have done something strange while uploading this folder set.

Figuring that since it was a new site and it would take more time to track this crap down then it was worth, I just re-uploaded a fresh Wordpress installation (keeping the old wp-config.php to save time).

I’ve been working on my first html template to Wordpress theme conversion and every thing was going great (aside from having millions of tabs open trying to figure out how to best use the template tags), until I started working on a theme options page in functions.php.

Originally this was working ok, and then after one save BAM!  The damn thing crashed on me.  So I opened Dreamweaver back up again and it was working just fine, until again, I opened the functions.php file and it crashed.

So if you are in the internet marketing space at all, you might have heard the name Jonathan Volk.  Not only does Jon, make a ton of money online…. but, from what I hear he’s a pretty decent drummer also (10 bonus points for this).

So why the hell am I writing about Jonathan Volk?  Because, I want to win the dual 22″ monitors he’s giving away.

If you aren’t on twitter then you either don’t care about social networking or are still stuck on Myspace thinking it’s the greatest thing in the world.  I’ve been on twitter for several months and it’s the easiest social networking platform I’ve been on.  There’s just too much “stuff” on Facebook and Myspace.

Recently I heard about getting paid for sponsored tweets, or ads, or whatever you want to call them.  Monetizing twitter was bound to happened, and I know that if I’m going to share my life 140 characters at a time I wouldn’t mind making a little bit of money off of it.

Currently there are two relatively easy sites (that don’t seem scammy) to use to sign up for sponsored tweets.  The first is Sponsored Tweets – this is the only one that I’ve had any offers on so far.  The other is ad.ly.  Both are very easy to sign-up/use.

Ok, so recently I’ve wanted to start reading again – well, decided to try to get back into some fiction.  Most of the things that I have read in the past 5 – 10 years have been all non-fiction or text books.  Since I don’t have much time to read I decided to start listening to audiobooks.

This has also helped because I now have in car entertainment and was able to cancel my xm subscription.  I love listening to music, but when I’m driving I prefer to listen to talk.  Talk is dynamic and changes frequently.  Your favorite song, as great as it may be will never change.

Since there aren’t many talk shows worth listening to on FM and I get a horrible AM signal, audiobooks have been a great substitute….. until recently.

See, the ipod doesn’t like audiobooks that are over 12 hours long.  I recently accidentally lost my place in a book that I was listening to at almost 15 hours in!

So I looked around on the internets and found a solution that seemed much better then holding down the fast forward button (that would kill my thumb).  Essentially the solution is to hit the center button once you have selected your audiobook.  This will change the time scroll bar at the bottom to show a diamond.  Once this happens you can use the circle pad to scroll forward rather quickly, right?  Well, almost.