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The DazzlinDonna Blog Celebrates Its First Year

Donna — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:30:29 +0000

Wow, the first birthday of this blog almost snuck right past me. I was checking out the past entries for another reason yesterday, and noticed that the first entry was almost exactly one year ago. But as fate would have it, I noticed, and so today, we celebrate the first birthday of this blog.

I guess I should go ahead and give a slight history of the blog. It started because I didn’t have a place to post non-SEO-related thoughts. I’d been blogging regularly for a couple of years on my SEO Scoop blog, but was frustrated by being cornered into one topic there. So, I decided a personal blog would make sense to have. Thus, this blog began as a “personal thoughts” blog where I could just be silly or post about anything really.

Eventually, that changed as well. More and more people started asking me how I make a living. Friends and relatives wanted to understand the concepts, and some were even wondering if they could do the same. That’s when the focus on this blog changed. I decided to start documenting what I do – and how I do it – so that everyone who wanted to know, could easily find out. So that’s what I’ve been trying to do for the better part of this year. I hope I’ve managed to help some of you understand what it is I do, and I hope some of you have put the information to good use.

I apologize for not organizing some big celebratory bash or contest, but the whole event snuck up on me. Still, I probably wouldn’t have done much more than this anyway, because this blog is a small fish in a large pond. A big party would have seemed a little silly. So to you … thank you for coming around over the last year. Hope to see you all lots more. Have a little piece of cake today to help me celebrate, ok?

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Photo fun time

Donna — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 01:39:34 +0000

I’m bored, so I thought I’d bore you too! It’s just like visiting your inlaws house right after they return from vacation, and you have to sit through their boring slides. That’s right. Today, you get to look at some DazzlinDonna photos. Woohoo!

First up is a glamour shot of me when I was 30 years old. This one always cracks me up.

Next is me on my wedding day nearly 5 years ago.

Here we have a pic of one of my dogs when he was just a puppy. Awww, isn’t he cute???

Next up…my front yard…

And now…the back yard…

And this is my sweet, sweet granddaughter, McKayla…

Finally, yes, you finally get to the end, my most current pic from my vacation a few months ago.

What? You’re still awake? LOL. That’s it, folks. You can go back to whatever you were doing before I interrupted you.

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Why I am here

Donna — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 18:52:13 +0000

For many years now, I’ve owned a vanity domain that housed both my ColdFusion scripts as well as my personal website. As I’ve aged, I’ve gotten rather rusty with my ColdFusion programming skills (as well as a few other things), and my ColdFusion scripts are badly showing their age. Unfortunately, I don’t have the ability or the will to update them, so I made a decision. I’ve deleted everything off of the donnafontenot.com domain and redirected that url to this blog.

The ColdFusion scripts will now be housed at funscripts.net, where they will be available for free! (Well, all but one). Of course, with the new low, low price of zero dollars, comes one gotcha. There will be no support for them. Download them, use them for whatever purposes you wish, edit or mangle the code to your heart’s content. But don’t ask for support, because there won’t be any. And that’s mainly because I’ve forgotten most of the code I wrote, so I wouldn’t be of much help to you anyway.

So what is this blog going to be used for, you may ask? Well, I already ~~have~~had my main work-related blog, SEO Scoop, so while this blog may occasionally touch upon the search engine world now and then, it isn’t designed for that purpose. This will be more of a personal and educational blog, where you can find out more about the inner workings of DazzlinDonna (aka Donna Fontenot). I’ll blab about whatever I fancy – life, work, politics, self-employment, whatever. This is where I get to have a bit of fun, and hopefully, you will too on occasion.

So, that’s why I am here now.

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