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Thursday, November 16th, 2006
Or not. You know the drill: you have a broken appliance but you’re dreading calling Cheeky the Repairclown. Good news: you don’t have to! Fix it yourself and save big bucks. This website is all about helping you fix your own appliances so you don’t have to gouge out [...]
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Thursday, November 16th, 2006
This website has over 3,000 pages packed with pearls of appliance repair wisdom just waiting for you to feast your bleary, blood-shot squinties upon them. Just use the search form below.
In my vast and awesome experience running this website for 10 years now, I’ve realized that most people don’t know how to use a [...]
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Thursday, November 16th, 2006
I can’t believe it was 10 years ago this month that I registered the domain name, Fixitnow.com, and started this do-it-yourself appliance repair website. Yay me!
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Tuesday, November 7th, 2006
So, we just completed a detailed and exhaustive accounting of all the income and expenses associated with running Fixitnow.com and the Samurai Appliance Repair Forum and we discovered something verrrry interestink: the forum generates less than 7% of the revenue that the main site, Fixitnow.com, does yet it comprises more than 82% of the [...]
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
We made it! Last night, I moved the entire repair forum, whole and intact, over to a Virtual Private Server (VPS). This should give us more resources and greater reliability resulting in a faster server and more uptime. Things could be a bit bumpy for the next day or so as the domain name [...]
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Sunday, September 10th, 2006
The Samurai’s very own appliance store is up and running! The
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Friday, September 8th, 2006
The Samurai Appliance Repair Forum, the Mecca of DIY appliance repair help, is temporarily down while we resolve some server issues. Should be back online tonight or by Saturday morning at the latest. In the meantime, I’m available for quick questions via AIM, my screen name is Zenzoidman.
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Thursday, June 8th, 2006
After you’ve been kicking around the Web a while, you find that you’ve scattered your photo albums among several photo-sharing websites. As newer, slicker photo storing websites come available, you start using them; I never bother to transfer my photos from the older sites, waaay too tedious and, besides, I have important things [...]
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Monday, May 8th, 2006
Just realized that this month marks my six year anniversary of blogging about (mostly) appliance repair topics. How do I do it? More importantly, WHY do I do it? I still wonder that as I swill cheap beer and pick black flies out of my nostrils. I mean, sure, making two-bits [...]
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Thursday, November 10th, 2005
1. New Look and Feel
2. New Blog Posts During October
3. The Samurai Appliance Repair Forums
4. Got Parts?
1. New Look and Feel
The biggest news this month is the total make-over of Fixitnow.com. You can read about all the details in this post but what I want to emphasize here are [...]
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Sunday, November 6th, 2005
If you’re one of those enlightened and extremely intelligent individuals who visits this site regularly then you’ve noticed the make-over. Yep, I finally got fed up enough with Blogger to convert my entire site over to WordPress. Much greater control over the site, the ability to group posts by category (dryer repair, gubmint, [...]
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Thursday, October 13th, 2005
Did you know this website, Fixitnow.com Samurai Appliance Repair Man, has over 2,000 pages of free, easy-to-understand appliance repair help for the do-it-yourselfer? Oui, oui, I shi’ite you not. While I do have a site map that I keep updated, it’s just not an efficient way to find what you need if you’re [...]
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Monday, October 10th, 2005
Yes, Grasshopper, now you, too, can receive the Samurai’s secret pearls of appliance repair wisdom delivered to your email in a discreet brown wrapper. Taunt your friends and delight your enemies with your amazing new knowledge! Just enter your email address below. And, no, the Samurai would never stoop to selling or sharing [...]
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Monday, July 4th, 2005
In case you’re wondering why I haven’t been posting as frequently of late, it’s because I’ve been so busy answering posts and tending to my duties as HMFIC at the repair forum, a.k.a., the Samurai School of Appliantology. With more than 20 new grasshoppers and 100+ new posts every day, it keeps me and [...]
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Sunday, April 10th, 2005
In case you’re wondering why I haven’t been posting much lately, it’s because I’ve been busy setting up the new dojo for the repair forum, also known as the Samurai School of Appliantology.
Until recently, the forum was hosted at MSN Groups. I was becoming increasingly disgusted with MSN’s crude forum features: no search [...]
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