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Blinksale

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Two weeks ago I wrote over at NICKED Up about using Blinksale for invoicing, but wanted to make mention of it here as well where I think I have a few more readers. Let me tell you…Blinksale kicks ass!

The easiest way to send invoices online.

Blinksale

I’ve had a chance to really get my hands dirty in the last couple of days while getting all of my advertisers across the NICKED Up blogs into my account. Recurring invoices are what I’ve used for just about everything and I really love how it estimates out the monthly and yearly revenue. I’ll no longer have to worry about renewing advertisers online because they’ll be sent an invoice a week before their ads run out. The $12/month I’m paying will be paid for over and over with the time I’ll save and the advertising renewals I’ll no longer miss.

Feeding Readers With a Feed Reader

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I’ve been using FeedLounge as my feed reading service since I was accepted into their alpha (or was it beta) phase months ago. It’s a great service and I was happy with it. When they came out of alpha and beta tests I was given 2 free months of service. That went by and I couldn’t access my account anymore, so I paid the $5 for another month. Last week my month of paid subscription expired as well.

I was prepared this time though. I had already made an export of all the feeds I read and I’ve started using Rojo to track my feeds. It’s a nice service, but not as nice as FeedLounge was. But Rojo is free and provides all the functionality I need. Free is better in my book even if it’s a little bit slower. I can’t justify paying $5 a month when FeedLounge isn’t providing me with anything that I can’t get from a free feed reading service.

I’d really prefer to use Bloglines but haven’t been able to access their site from work in a year or so and our “network gurus” can’t figure out the problem. I need a service I can access from anywhere. I’d also like to be able to use Google Reader but I don’t like the interface. They make it way too hard to browse by tag/label and that’s the primary way I read my feeds (or is it “feed my reads”?). Update: Looks like Google has added a dropdown list with the labels. I’ll be trying out the Google Reader as my primary for awhile now.

What are you using and why?

Rotors and Pads

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I took my TrailBlazer in to get checked out this morning because it started making some grinding/rubbing noises in the back when I was going at slower speeds. Turns out I need new rotors and pads on the back and front. I just love putting money into a vehicle…don’t you?

Performancing Metrics

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Performancing came out with a free public beta of a blog tracking service earlier this week, called Performancing Metrics. I haven’t used it a very much yet, but it looks very promising. Most statistics services and packages are bloated with useless data. PM gives bloggers access to the data they’ll need most often and it works great. The site responds quickly and stats are updated every hour. Best of all…you can track multiple blogs from one account!

Good Service

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When I go out to eat I expect good service from my waiter/waitress. You don’t have to be over the top, but I don’t want to feel neglected. I expect a fresh drink when my glass is full. Bring the check after we’re done eating or if we’re taking a really long time at least ask if we’d like our check at that point. Come back to the table to see how things are going, but don’t come so often that I don’t have time to eat my food and enjoy the company I’m with. My sister has been a waitress since high school so maybe I have high standards when I go out to eat.

Last night I went out to Hooters with my brother and some of his roommates. They have $6 pitchers and $0.35 wings for Monday night football each week. The view isn’t too bad either. I ordered a pitcher of beer figuring a friend would show up and he’d help me drink it. It turns out he was already there and I didn’t see him with some other people when I did a quick look through the place. So…needless to say, I had a whole pitcher to myself.

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Service Me

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Last night I stopped at Rally’s for some food on my way to watch the NCAA Championship. I was the only vehicle in the drive-thru and waited at least 5 minutes for my food. After driving off and opening the bag, I found they had give me a free order of fries. Now that’s what […]