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Fifth Annual Report: My Success

On the 5th of December 2004 when I was 22 years old I changed my life 180 degrees. I quit my earlier very special life and moved back to Sweden to change my life totally.
I had no money, education, experience or connections and some people highly doubted that I could get successful – personally I [...]

Challenge In Building a CMS: Different Hosting Setups

This is the first article in a serie about the Clesto CMS – my first PHP project (I am still a kind of noob, feedback appreciated).
There is a huge difference in building something for yourself and something that you release for a lot of people to download. The Clesto CMS has now been tested in [...]

Fire Sale! 80+ Web Sites And Domains Must Go

Over the years I have bought a lot of domain names and web sites. I especially bought a lot of web sites in 2006 and 2007 to use for link building to clients but as I sold my link building services and 40 web sites in October 2007 I have had almost no use of [...]

Version 2 of my CMS, The Clesto CMS

After a lot of hard work and learning I have now finished making a complete new version of my Clesto CMS.
It is still flat file based without a database and now it has both visual editor and HTML editor for making the pages – similar to that of Wordpress. Focus has been to make it [...]

Make Firefox run up to 4 times faster

Firefox is an excellent and already fast browser but can be made to run up to 4 times faster – I kid you not.
If you are using Internet Explorer … please change to Firefox now. Also if you are using an old version you should upgrade. Download here.
Adjust your configurations
These settings are for those that [...]

Redesign of JimWestergren.com

There comes a point where your feel so ashamed of your old design you did a few years ago that you just have to sit down and change it.
Writing the CSS and XHTML from scratch took only around 4 hours. I was little surprised by that as a year ago it would probably have taken [...]

Display Links to Latest Items of a RSS Feed

With a simple RSS parser you can very easily make a list to latest items of a RSS feed, server side with PHP.
The uses of this is great, especially if you manage several web sites. It is great for users to see directly new fresh links and it is great for SEO and ranking in [...]

Hacks to boost your WordPress 2.7 blog

Wordpress 2.7 is overall great and I recommend you to downloand and upgrade. There are however some fixes and recommendations I deem as important.
Solving problem with duplicated URLs with comment paging
Wordpress 2.7 introduced a new way of displaying comments that is turned on by default.
Unfortunately the way that this was constructed is leading to [...]

Fourth Annual Report: My Success

On the 5th of December 2004 when I was 22 I changed my life 180 degrees. I quit my earlier very special life and moved back to Sweden to change my life totally.
I had no money, education, experience or connections and some people doubted that I could get successful – personally I took it as [...]

Latest news of 2008 so far

I have not been posting any updates or reports on this site since the end of last year so here comes all major things since the last 3 and a half months. There has been quite a lot of positive things that has happened.
Major consultant work for Svensk Internetrekrytering AB

In the beginning of [...]

Intention is Cause!

Have you ever in your life felt that you had a so strong intention that you just know that nothing can stop you from achieving or reaching a certain thing?
In the elite organization I worked in during 1999-2004 we received mental training how to achieve this mental state. For me after leaving this organization to [...]

24 Qualities That Geniuses Have in Common

I am reposting here an excellent article that I first read about 5 years ago. It was first printed by the National Enquirer in 1980 and later reprinted and re-distributed by L. Ron Hubbard (source). I have read it many times since then and I feel I just need to share it, it has worked [...]

Life As a Game of Chess

You might have seen in my earlier essays that I like to see life as though it was a game. Now I want to compare life as if it would be a game of chess. I think of it as I am representing the white and black is what I have to overcome in order [...]

Third Annual Report: My Success Online

On the 5th of December 2004 I changed my life 180 degrees. I quit my earlier life and moved back to Sweden to change my life totally.
That is now 3 years ago.
This is the third annual report on how I with no money, education, experience or connections could sit down and learn, observe and start [...]

SEO Fusion Acquired by Epiphany Solutions Ltd.

SEO Fusion represented the non-Swedish part of my company. I am very happy to announce that I have just finalized a deal with the british SEM company Epiphany Solutions Ltd which will help me reach the new life I strive for as well as turning over a big part of the company to someone elses [...]

An update, what helped my success and what happened then

During March to June my company grossed around $30.000 a month (a total of $95.000). For two of those months we had a result of over $20.000 after all salaries, taxes, payments to partners and other expenses paid. Most of the money left over was invested to buy new PR6 and PR7 web sites and [...]

Text Surrounding Link: Final Proof

Already more than 2 years ago I asked for feedback about text surrounding links on WMW but I have never gotten hold of solid examples so that I could see it myself.
I am happy that today I have seen the final undoubted 100% proof.
Let me explain.
Another SEO company ordered a directory submission from us [...]

Finally Some SETI Progress: Gliese 581 c

During the last 10 years or so we have located over 200 exoplanets but not until very recently, on the April 24, 2007, we have found one planet that is most probably located in the habitable zone. This is the first time and a major breakthrough in my opinion.
Research-team member Xavier Delfosse said:
Because of its [...]

My Philosophical Beliefs

I met some trouble recently trying to explain my philosophical standpoint as there are no term in the field of metaphysics nor philosophy that would properly describe it.
The closest I get is “supernatural libertarianism” but who understands that? And it is still not a good term to use for my view of the world.
So I [...]

Best month so far: March 2007

In the previous month I surpassed all expectations in terms of income, establishment and investments I could possible imagine.
Income
Here is my graph of the monthly gross income since my company started June 2005:

And so far this month (5 days) we have gotten in 40% of the amount of the previous months income!
Most of our clients [...]