Posted June 11, 2008 
Comments(0) …not that I had an old-one, lol, but as I got myself a new digital camera today, I thought I’d start a photoblog as part of ingoal.info. It can be found here. Let’s see how long I can keep it uptodate with photos…my plan is to post a photo every day, let’s see how that works out. If you would like to follow my photoblog, check in regularly or subscribe using your favourite feedreader…
Posted June 3, 2008 Comments(0) Presenting ZZ.GD the url shortener that’s even smaller than tinyurl…not yet as know as tinyurl, but that’s just a matter of time…hopefully ;-)
Spread the word…thank you :-)
Posted April 1, 2007 Comments(0) I’m usually a “collector” type of guy, but it’s time to let go. Last week I decided that I would let go of my proxy network (browsetastic.com) and put it up for sale at the MarketPlace of the great SitePoint Forums, where I’m an advisor (moderator).
Although the number of inquiries was huge, the number of bids was little…at least in the beginning. Then, it happened pretty quickly. After I posted a BIN, it was sold within 24hours…which leads me to believe that the BIN (12x net monthly revenue) was a little low, but hey, I’m not the type of guy who’s whining afterwards. I’m happy that I sold it at the price I did and all that’s left is to wait for the money to roll in and then getting everything setup to make the transfer smooth and easy…
…and on the upside, I’ve still got more than 40 sites to my name, so I’m not really retiring from the website business…and with the cash raised in the sale, I’ll get myself a new laptop (among other things) which will be put to good use in my upcoming diploma thesis… 
Posted March 10, 2007 Comments(0) Well, it was time to move to a bigger server (more ram, better cpu, etc)…so it seems that everything worked out nicely, apart from the fact that all posts are displayed empty. They are in fact not empty (all the post text is in the db), but for some reason that isn’t displayed..hmm…I guess I’ll have to go bug hunting/forum searching…
Posted September 3, 2006 Comments(0) After the recent lack of updates around here, I thought it was time to bring this blog back to life. I started off by getting a new template, after all the last one has been online for ages now - maybe some tweaks here and there will follow, but I already like the template how it is atm.
So, why so little updates in the last few months? Mostly because I didn’t have much to blog about around here. Now things are getting back to normal, so there should be more updates again as…
That said, it’s time to wrap up this post with a quick request: if you come across any problems with the new layout (looks good to me in Firefox, Opera and IE), feel free to contact me or just comment on this post..
Posted January 15, 2006 Comments(2) Wow, it’s been a while since I last posted something around here. With all the christmas, new year and different other stuff coming up, it was hard to find the time, but now I’m back.
Server, Domains, etc: Although Ingoal’s Insight… is still hosted with Dreamhost, I’ve got my dedicated server up and running now, finally. So, I’m probably moving this site over sooner or later, as there’s no point in paying twice, although Dreamhost’s hosting packages have just been updated once again: quatrupled (space) and octupled (bandwidth) to be precise, so you can get 20GB of space along with 1 TB of bandwidth for as little as 7.95$/month. Check it out!
Apple: Does MacBook Pro ring a bell? Intel Core Duo (dual core Pentium M) along with the possibility to run Windows (although not officially supported by Apple). This is certainly good news, and I’m really considering switching to a Mac in the near future (although I’ll wait for the update of the iBook, MacMini and PowerMac series before I make a decision about which way to go).
Fantasy Footie: After the good run in the old year I started to drop in ranking again and it’s going to be a hard fight until the end of the season, I’m not sure I can surpass Mr. Price, but at least I’m giving it my best shot - and one way or another, it’s has been fun.
Uni: I’m currently taking some time off and I’m in the need to find an internship, as this is the last thing on my todo list before I head into the final exams in March/April…then I can start my diploma thesis, which I can hopefully complete before the end of the year.
Ingoalnetwork: The sites are finally completed and some network sites have been added, for news about the network head over to the new network blog.
Chitika: After the bad experience in October I stuck around and since then they’ve been working hard at improving their overall solutions (the product of emini-malls themselves, almost real time audits, etc) and I’m happy to report, that their reports are now much more accurate and with the addition of european support the clicks and hence the revenue has really been stabilised. On another note: I receive the first payment (for november) just days ago, so I’m really satisfied now, I’ll keep you updated about it the following months…in the meantime feel free to check their blog and our give their emini-malls a test run.
Poker: For all the newsworthy stuff about my new passion poker head over to my poker-blog.
Posted November 6, 2005 Comments(0) I just wanted to let you know that there was a major server problem earlier which caused this blog (along with all of my other sites) to be down for some hours. There was something wrong with the mounting of the hard-drives so the home shares couldn’t be mapped to the domains. Everything seems to be up and running again though and the customer support responded within an hour…so I’m not totally happy, but at least relieved to see the sites all up and running again…
On another note: I decided to get myself a dedicated server for the likes of Proxytastic.com as they’re too resource hungry to be run on this shared hosting account. Watch out for an announcement once the dedicated server is up and running….
Update:…and another server outage, this time the DB server…this is starting to get annoying…
Second Update:Support got to it, although it was sunday morning quite quickly…the db server was filled up…now it’s been trimmed down to around 80% of it’s capacity, but it seems that they need another storage solution or something for this particular server…so…for now everything up and running again…
Posted October 30, 2005 Comments(3) As you may have noticed I’ve switched ads to Chitika after I’ve seen them on other blogs. So far I’m really satisfied with the results and I’ve started to add the Chitika eMiniMalls to some of my other sites, too - namely:
If you’re looking for an alternative to Google Adsense, Clicksor, Bidvertiser and similiar have a look at Chitika and their variety of advertising programs (eMiniMalls, RealContext, BlogContext) and if you would like to do me a favour do so by using my referral link: Chitika. Thank you!
Posted August 25, 2005 Comments(0) Oh my! One year of Ingoal’s Insight… and I totally missed to write about it. Not a biggie though as I’m only two days late :-)
How time flies! Ingoal’s Insight… started on August 23rd 2004 and a lot of stuff happened since then. “The design” of the site was changed numerous times or at least fine-tuned to the point where it is now (latest addition: the too cool for IE button bottom right). I’m planning to do a “facelift” sometime in the near future, but don’t pin me on a certain date (busy times).
Some statistics:
I want to thank all the readers, visitors, contributors, friends, family and colleagues who are, at least a little bit, interested in the stuff I write and I’m hoping for many more years to come! As it’s the 1yr anniversary I think there should be some sort of contest/give-away or whatever, I shall think about that and announce something soonish!
Posted July 28, 2005 Comments(0) It’s been a long time since I installed something new around here - today I installed Alex’s wildly popular Popularity Contest in it’s new version 1.1
Posted May 12, 2005 Comments(1) Today I took the time and installed the following plugins:
Posted February 16, 2005 Comments(2) The new version 1.5 of WordPress is out, get it here.
But be advised - there might be a lot of work to it (if you’ve customized a lot of stuff!).
My To-Do-List:
Sidenote: The only thing that bothers me is that they included the whole no-follow thing and there’s no way to turn it off (yet) :tdown: - Fixed thanks to John :tup: !
Posted January 22, 2005 Comments(0) The new shiny contact form can be found directly here or via the right hand menu.
Now you’ve got the chance to contact me directly if you feel the urge to do so :mrgreen:
Thanks to Vinnie providing the working source code behind it with his recently released template Way too Clean 1.0!
Posted January 16, 2005 Comments(0) I decided it was time to “implement” a real blog-roll as it was really painful to update the link-list manually - and like everything else which is painful: you tend to not do it.
So I created a blogrolling account, deleted the old manual link-list and replaced it with the new, dynamic blogroll.
Posted January 12, 2005 Comments(0) Alex has just released the new version 1.7 of WordPress Mobile edition (see here).
Just upgraded, so the mobile edition is uptodate again, although the prior version was working alright on the pda I tested it on (Kai’s HP iPaq h6340).
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