Archive for the ‘General’ Category

More Than Scratch The Surface Receives Award

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

When I first started blogging, I wouldn’t have written a post about receiving an award from another blog. Back then, my plan was just to write original content. I saw memes, linkfests and awards as a distraction from that. (more…)

Guest Post For Snoskred’s Out Of Your Niche Series

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

I recently took part in Snoskred’s Get Out Of Your Niche series. This has been an excellent series with guest posts on a variety of topics. My own guest post was added to the collection last Friday. (more…)

Roundup - Plugins, Milestones and Storms

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

This is the first update / roundup style post on More Than Scratch The Surface. I originally thought I’d stick to articles, but I can now see the need to write about things that aren’t worth a full post. Expect to see these occasionally. (more…)

StumbleUpon Traffic Brings Record Post Views

Monday, October 15th, 2007

My Google Reader - Printing Full Text For All Items post has broken all post view records for my site.

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How Can I Improve My Blog - My First Meme

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

I was double tagged by Maurice Snell from The Cayman Host Blog and Josh Spaulding from the Make Money Blog to participate in The Blog Improvement Zone Meme started by Dane Morgan.

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A Host Of Changes (Not A Change Of Host)

Friday, September 21st, 2007

Return readers will notice some changes here at More Than Scratch The Surface. I normally don’t blog about changes, but in this case, there are so many that I thought it would be worthwhile. Here’s a rundown on them. (more…)

My Site Reviewed On Untwisted Vortex

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

A couple of days ago, my site was reviewed by RT Cunningham on Untwisted Vortex. I was happy with the review, but this post isn’t about the review - it is about the service provided by Untwisted Vortex. (more…)

Rundown On Programming Languages

Friday, July 6th, 2007

I stumbled across the following rundown on programming languages by superpogi. It is by no means complete, lacking more recent languages, such as C#, Python, Ruby etc, but it does present some fascinating history (okay I have no life!) of some of the major languages (more…)

Introduction - More Than Scratch The Surface

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

The birth of another blog! In this first post, I explain who I am and what this blog is all about. (more…)

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