Have you checked out my new web site TravelVoyeur.com yet? It’s really a fun site with some great travel videos and slide shows. Check it out and let me know what you think. And if you have a travel -related site, let me know if you want to trade links. Or if you have ideas on who I can trade links with, or ideas on increasing traffic, let me know as well.

Here’s Mount Everest Climb 2004 an example of a typical blog entry on the Travel Voyeur site.

Mount Everest Climb 2004

Have you dreamed of climbing Mount Everest? Now you have chance to see what it’s like in an awesome, short video posted to Youtube by user rahulrathan. There are no credits so I cannot tell the names of those who have made the climb. But it is an incredible film of a May 12th - May 16th, 2004 climb by several men from Base Camp to through the Khumbu Icefall at Camp 2 at 21,300 ft (6500 m) to the summit at 29,028 (8848 m). Narration by one of the climbers along the way.

Britannica on Mount Everest:

Peak on the crest of the Himalayas, southern Asia. The highest point on Earth, with a summit at 29,035 ft (8,850 m), it lies on the border between Nepal and Tibet (China). Numerous attempts to climb Everest were made from 1921; the summit was finally reached by Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay of Nepal in 1953. In dispute is whether the English explorer George Mallory, whose body was discovered below Everest’s peak in 1999, had actually reached the peak earlier, in 1924, and was descending it when he died. The formerly accepted elevation of 29,028 ft (8,848 m), established in the early 1950s, was recalculated in the late 1990s.

For more information, see the Answers.com entry on Mount Everest.

I had this site written in Expression Engine instead of Wordpress for a change. Let me know if you have any questions about EE, not that I’m an expert yet.

If you’ve got a blog, you know I’d love it if you could mention TravelVoyeur.com!

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I swore I would not do it again, but I did. I have a new site called TravelVoyeur.com. I actually put some effort into this one and farmed out the work. Instead of using WordPress, I instead had it set up on Expression Engine because 1) I wanted to check it out and 2) there are some integrated modules that EE has that could come in handy for this site — like a gallery, forum, wiki and other things.

I’m still testing it all out, but am live.

I think it’s an interesting idea. What do you think?

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I’m going crazy. I’ve got 1500+ names now and trying to keep them all organized in my Excel spreadsheet is not working out so well. I’ve searched for some software that organizes names for owners, but so far, I’ve seen nothing come close to what I need. Not sure why. So I’m left with trying to do something myself.

I used to be a programmer, but that was a long time ago. But, I could handle building a database on my PC. Right now I’m trying to decide if I should use Microsoft Access 2002, which I already have on my computer, or buy FileMaker Pro 8 for about $300. I downloaded the Filemaker trial yesterday, but of course it’s giving me an installation error and I’m waiting for tech support. It’s always something isn’t it?

I’m going to set up a simple relational database that lets me track all the info for each name, along with offers and counter offers. I’ll create categories, from which multiple one can be assigned per name. I think I’ll also create a table for names I’ve made offers on.

It’s pretty simple stuff. But, I’d rather not spend a few days learning the database program, when I could be out wasting more money on more domains. Anyone out there know of any software, or database template, like this before I get going? Would any database experts out there like to put together a database for me?

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Two days ago I mentioned the three free domain software tools from from Softnik.com. At that point I had only tried Domain Name Filter. Since then, I have been using Domain Name Analyzer quite a bit. I can tell you that I am blown away with this free program as well. Even more so!

Domain Name Analyzer is a brainstorming tool that will help you to come up with new domain names to purchase. There are a lot of things you can use this for, but let me tell you how I have been using it

I’m not going to tell you exactly what I used it for since many of you are competing for the same names I am. But, follow my hypothetical example. Let’s say that you think that the word “Tasty” followed by a food name (Like TastyTomato.com) would be a great name to own. You could just grab a list of foods and go to Whois and try keying all the combinations to see which are available. But, that’s a lot of work. Instead, what you can do with this product is go online and find a list of foods that you can copy into a text file. Then, start up Domain Name Analyzer and import the file (or cut and paste the words) into the “Construct Names” function. Tell it you want to try “Tasty” in front of every food, and which TLDs you are interested in. It will instantaneously create a list of Tasty[food].TLD names and place them in a window. You then tell the program to check which are available. When completed (very quickly), you can export the available names to a file for your use. Voila! Instant names!

I had a great idea for this yesterday and it generated hundreds of names of which I ended up registering around the best 50-60!

There a multitude of ways to use this fantastic tool, but it’s easier if you just download it and give it a try, than it is to explain it all to you.

Next, I’m getting into the a Domain Name Status Reporter. I gave it a quick test run and it looks like another very useful program.

No, I’m not getting any payment from Softnik. They don’t even know I’m pumping them.

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