I have so many new Technorati fans that, as of this writing, my blog has moved up to number 69 on the Technorati 100 Top Favorited Blogs list. All I can say is "thank you" to my new fans. The number is growing rapidly enough that I have to dedicate my time to my fans for the next, as well as todays…

If you like Apple products like the Mac, iPod, etc., then you'll like the iPhone. If you want to know everything there is to know about this product, you have to read this blog. Andrejs at the Biggest Apple iPhone Blog recently wrote about a book that contains 116 pages of Apple accessory goodness. All of the news on the iPhone means that the release of this gadget is imminent, maybe sooner than we think.

Wendy shared the joys of potty training with us at Let the dog in!. The three things the books fail to tell us about it are given to us in complete detail. I was a lucky father and wasn't around to deal with it during that period for both of my sons (doing the military thing). Thank God!

Where I live now, I'm deprived of some of the delicious foods that I was forced to give up and I'm reminded of them every time I visit a food blog of some kind. Anne at Cooking with Anne published a recipe for Smoked Shredded Buffalo Jerky Cheese Log that made my mouth water. Now I'm hungry and I just ate a full meal two hours ago! Wait! I know what to do. I have some teriyaki beef jerky downstairs! It won't be the same as what I read, but at least it'll stop me from salivating uncontrollably.

This young lady shared eight random facts about herself at Two Write Hands. She apparently has a dislike of Ants and guys relating UFO stories but likes Chinese food, Dove chocolate and almonds. The question is who let the dogs out?

Neki wrote about how his blog started taking a new direction at ffprod66. What he doesn't realize is that if he isn't careful, it might go in several different directions. His niche is photography and illustrations, but it's so easy to go off on a tangent sometimes. Staying "focused" is a challenge in itself.

Karen has been writing an interesting series of articles that started with "9 Secret Steps To Life Transformation: Story 1 (Part 1)" at Visualized.Feel.Abundance. It's worth reading and I won't give any of it away here. You really have to read it to appreciate it.

I don't know how it happened, but I actually stumbled on the article about "5 Ways to Test Web Pages Across Several Web Browsers" at Project Afterlight before I intended to. Perhaps it leapt out at me as I was going through my Technorati Fans earlier in the day. Anyway, Gabriel lists 5 different ways, both online and off, to make sure your pages look like they're intended to look on all the popular browsers. I think I'm going to have to work with one of those ways when I start designing my own theme.

Rick's explanation of "Simple Start-Up Basics" for small or home-based businesses at WahMedia Blogzine makes it all seem so easy. The reality of it is, it really is that easy. I ran a small business for myself for about 5 years and only gave it up because I had other, unrelated issues to deal with that didn't allow me the necessary time to devote to it. That's number 2 on the list. You have to have the time.

The Sweet Girl at My Life and My Views shared her eight random facts (this is a meme going around, of course) about herself. She's Indian, wants to get married, but doesn't like pets. I agree on the pets part. People spend money on pets that is better spent on… people!

Anne Marie passed some information on a girl that was found, who had been missing for nearly a year at Nonsense, fun, tears, happiness and anger all rolled into one!. The girl was apparently held captive at a family acquaintance's home. This kind of story gives parents of still missing children a glimmer of hope when all may seem hopeless.

Mike (from Phoenix!) posted a tip on how to add your FeedBurner feed count to your blog at new2blog.com. I'm willing to bet it's another JavaScript-coded widget and as much as I want to put one on my blog, I've been boycotting sidebar widgets that rely on JavaScript only. It would probably be okay in my footer (where an Alexa widget currently resides) but no one would probably take the time to look down there.

Ernest at Journey Before Death posted three of the things that irritate him about the bad manners of drivers in Singapore. I hate to say this, but those three don't even make it to the bottom of my list for drivers here in the Philippines. (I almost started to list some, but I'm afraid I could write an entire article on only a few, so I won't get into it here.)

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I will never be able to figure out StumbleUpon. Maybe someone could comment and enlighten me. An article I wrote on May 14th, which was stumbled nearly 2,000 times, was again stumbled today almost 500 times. How does that happen? I looked at the review page and there was nothing new, so I'm at a complete loss for an explanation.