{"id":21,"date":"2006-07-12T05:17:22","date_gmt":"2006-07-11T21:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/?p=21"},"modified":"2006-07-12T06:22:44","modified_gmt":"2006-07-11T22:22:44","slug":"waking-up-nice-and-fresh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/uncategorized\/waking-up-nice-and-fresh\/","title":{"rendered":"Waking up nice and fresh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It hasn&#8217;t been easy over the last month or so. The hours have been a killer. I have been sleeping only 4 hours a night.<\/p>\n<p>But then on the other hand, I have been having the time of my life.<\/p>\n<p>Each afternoon and night I spend trawling the Internet, checking out forums, websites, user guides, all in the quest towards creating a new career in the area of Internet Marketing. <!--adsense#wide--><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s always a learning curve involved in every new venture and this definitely is no different.<\/p>\n<p>I can remember sitting in front of a Unix box for the first time, knowing only the commands &#8220;ls&#8221; (to list the files in a directory and &#8220;chmod&#8221; (to change the read\/write permissions for files).<\/p>\n<p>Beyond that, I didn&#8217;t have a clue what I was doing.<\/p>\n<p>I can empathise with those guys who might be stuck for inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>Well, there&#8217;s always the &#8216;idiots&#8217; and &#8216;dummies&#8217; guides in the bookstores and I refer to them all the time too.<\/p>\n<p>The first time I saw a &#8220;C++ for Dummies&#8221; book, I was like &#8220;what???&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t imagine being able to make such a complex language accessible to newbies.<\/p>\n<p>I was wrong.<\/p>\n<p>I bought the two volume set and it was done in a very accessible manner.<\/p>\n<p>I checked out Amazon and saw<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>HTML 4 For Dummies (Html 4 for Dummies) by Ed Tittel and Mary Burmeister<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Creating Web Pages for Dummies, Sixth Edition  by Bud E. Smith, Arthur Bebak, Bud Bud Smith, and Arthur Bebak<img align=\"right\" title=\"blogging for dummies screenshot\" alt=\"blogging for dummies screenshot\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whoisandrewwee.com\/images\/blogging-for-dummies-jpg.jpg\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Html for Dummies Quick Reference by Deborah S. Ray and Eric J. Ray<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Blogging For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer\/Tech))  by Brad Hill<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Syndicating Web Sites with RSS Feeds For Dummies \u00c2\u00ae  by Ellen Finkelstein<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Starting an Online Business For Dummies, 4th Edition by Greg Holden<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Starting a Yahoo! Business For Dummies (For Dummies (Business &#038; Personal Finance))  by Rob Snell<img align=\"right\" title=\"website for dummies book cover\" alt=\"website for dummies book cover\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whoisandrewwee.com\/images\/website-for-dummies.jpg\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So there&#8217;s no shortage of stuff to borrow from the library or buy from the bookstore (these are priced about $15-20, a great buy!).<\/p>\n<p>Go forth and read!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It hasn&#8217;t been easy over the last month or so. The hours have been a killer. I have been sleeping only 4 hours a night. But then on the other hand, I have been having the time of my life. Each afternoon and night I spend trawling the Internet, checking out forums, websites, user guides, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}