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As is typical for me I’m a bit late posting about my plans for 2009. This really isn’t a post about my goals and certainly not one about lame resolutions. I’m still working through New Year’s resolutions from 1986. I think striving to make improvements in one’s life and overcoming obstacles and bad habits is a 365-day a year effort.

At the planning level, things are a whole lot broader and it came down to identifying my strengths and weaknesses. I took a self-assessment test that Jerry West linked to on his blog. To be honest, I already had a pretty good idea what mine were as I think will all do. However, taking the self-assessment test confirmed things for me.

A regular and thoughtful commenter posted a question to me regarding my experience with the various PPC training courses I’ve purchased over the past year. All of these are big name courses and most were surrounded with a great deal of both hype and anticipation:

• PPC Clasroom v1
• PPC Classroom v2
• Black ink Project
• Commission Blueprint

Now, I don’t have to refer back to the original sales letters or wrack my brain too hard, but the only one that actually iived up to the full promise of its promotion was “The Black Ink Project I“.

I tend to want everything when it comes to my online efforts. My first affiliate site was all about getting top rankings in Google for my list of keywords. I diligently checked off all the required steps (the ones touted at the the time).

In no particular order this included:

• On-page SEO optimization
• Lots of article marketing
• Reciprocal link exchanges
• Continuously adding my own content
• Rinsing and repeating

The great W.C. Fields left the world many hilarious one-liners. His cynical view on life and stinging sarcasm was way ahead of his time and his influence can be seen in comedians as diverse as Don Rickles all the way through to Kathy Griffin today. Unfortunately, it appears that poor W.C. is all but forgotten today.

I’m sure Mr. Fields wouldn’t be too bothered by that and most likely would have another great one-liner at hand to brush it off with.

W.C. was famous for not being all that fond of children and animals and expressed that by remarking in one of his films:

The title of this post: “A Good Free HTML Editor“, has become an oxymoron by now. The old adage, “you get what you pay for“, really applies in this case. One of the best known free WYSIWYG HTML editors has been Nvu. I wrote a lament about Nvu a while back. It has since been replaced by another open source project called kompoZer, which despite some feature enhancements, is still plagued by the same annoyances that Nvu was so infamous for. I won’t enumerate those annoyances again here. If you want to know more about what they are, just read my previous post linked to above.