James Laws

I don't always build websites, but when I do I prefer WordPress.


Freelance Tip: The truth about not trying

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Most people know I’m a web developer and I sell products and do freelance work over at WP Ninjas. Over the years I had stopped taking on clients in favor of selling WordPress plugins. It’s been a nice change but a couple months ago I decided that I would start taking on clients again. Since that decision I have been …

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My first race is tomorrow

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I have been running for about 5 months now and tomorrow is my first official race, the Chattanooga 4 Bridges Half Marathon. I’m excited but I’m also apprehensive. I just recently found out I have a hernia and so I haven’t really been able to run the two weeks leading up to the race. It’s unfamiliar terrain as it pertains …

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Faster isn’t always better

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For the past 5 months, as a runner, I’ve only focused on going faster and farther. The goal is to cover whatever distance at a faster pace than the last time I ran the same distance. That’s great for running but can be disastrous in other areas of your life. A couple weeks ago I found out I had a …

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Nike+ for WordPress

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I have an extremely obsessive personality. Once I get into my head to do something I do it with a focus like few have seen. I set some goals to lose weight and just improve my all around fitness level and have been going strong for several months now. I will hopefully have a big announcement about that very soon. In order to …

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Sub 200lbs – A huge milestone

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I hadn’t been comfortable for along time. Tying my shoes, riding in the car, pretty much anything that caused me to bend made me very aware that something needed to change, but for one reason or another it just had not become a priority yet. One day when I stepped on the scale it was like I got slapped silly …

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Some times you have to start over

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I started this blog in December of 2006. A lot has changed since then. I thought I knew exactly who I was and where I was headed. I wrote posts and put them into categories that I thought would live forever only to find that not everything can be categorized. I even tried to categorize myself. There was the spiritual …

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