Twitter and me

I thought about starting up a Twitter account so I could interact with my readers more. Then I thought about have a Twitter account for my dog so I could put his barks and yips on there. I know, dumb. Then I looked at some of the Twitter accounts that do that already and they are big hits. I don't think I have the humor or at least can't write the humor down that would attract readers or followers. Most of my tweets would read like this:

• I sleeping, don't bother me
• Where is my breakfast
• I want out NOW
• Let me in NOW
• Can I have some of what you are eating?
• Who's at the door - BARK, BARK

As you can see, very limited.

Blog update

Playing around with the blog today. I added a section to the sidebar that has the most visited blog posts for the week and tweaked the layout a bit. I would love to add a page just devoted to coupons and free stuff for dogs but I can't seem to find any. All of the places that I found want you to join, which is not my idea of "free." I found plenty of places that had coupons for big ticket items and non-dog stores, I even found a place that had sears coupons that I might even use but alas no dog coupons. All I wanted was some that have a few dollars off a bag of dog food.

I'll keep looking and see what I come up with.

Blog updates

If you have not visited my new page called "Resources and Links" please take a look at it. It has lots of links to some very informative articles on dog care. There is also a nice link to a blog that has coupons and free stuff for pets in general.

So how do you like the new look to the blog? I am enjoying adding some extra widgets and that extra page. If I can think of another page to add I will do that, any ideas?

I would like to get some more of you to leave comments, of course spammers can move on especially the ones who leave links to gaming sites and pushing diet pills or some other junk that is not related in any way with dogs.

Spam comments on the blog

I don't know what possessed me to check out my approved comments section in my dashboard just now. But I am glad I did. Somehow several really weird comments got published and I am not even sure how that happened. Then again maybe I do. I allow ping backs to appear in the comments section. Normally they are just excerpts of the blog post that wrote about my blog post, but I think that someone has done something different. Both weird comments were completely off topic (isn't all spam that way?). One was inviting me to join a blogging community, no thanks I have my own blog and the other one asked does hoodia really work?

I am going to have to keep a closer watch on ping backs since those things are sneaking through the approval process.