Category Archives: Blogs

WordPress Killer Theme: Headway Version 2.0 Released

The one theme to end it all released Version 2.0 today: Headway 2.0 Its not an affiliate link, and I don’t get paid, yada, yada yada…. If you run ANY WordPress at all, you have to check out that theme. What’s so special? Well, how about designing your blog in real-time with a drag-and drop…

Taking Back My Blog

Ever since I removed that plug-in that allowed me to punch in posts from the front page like it was a real-time chat, the amount of posts has gone downhill. We can argue the quality has gone up… One of the reasons for this blog is that I hate Twitter’s 140-char limit… So this doubles…

How to Accelerate your Site to Warp Factor 9.9 without paying $99 a month

Ever wish you could deliver web pages and graphics at blazing speeds without having to sell your firstborn? 99% of the content of this blog is now speeding from Amazon’s CloudFront Content Distribution Network. Check the page source code – whatever comes from “cloud.negbox.com” is actually coming from a server at an Amazon location near…

Blogging & Comments System

I prognosticate in-line commenting will soon be a standard feature of most blogs. Its a catch-22. If you have a blog with little traffic, like mine, you want folks to get what they came for fast and easy – so your homepage should be styled to give them what they want with minimum fuzz. That…

Wibiya Toolbar

Wibiya Logo

Check the toolbar at the bottom of your browser window when you’re viewing negbox.com. That’s the Wibiya toolbar. What a stupid name for an awesome app – I keep misspelling it every time I want to go to their site. I had this thing running on another site for a year or two and its…

Split-Testing Nightclub Music Mixes & The Science of Hedonism

Some folks are simply fucking brilliant, like Yale Fox. The guy wrote Inside the DJ Booth: How A Disc Jockey’s Strategic Track Selection Can Enhance Experience, Foster Loyalty, and Boost Profits Talk about testing – this time the patterns of how people move and buy drinks in a club depending on the songs played –…