Johnathan Ward

Make Money Online: Documenting 10 Years of Failure

By John Ward / March 20, 2015 / 65 Comments

This is the history of my experience trying to make money online over the past 10 years or so. This is by far the longest post I've ever personally written and it's more of an autobiography than a blog post....

IBM Watson Explorer

By John Ward / April 6, 2015 / 1 Comment

I'm going to talk a little bit about IBM Watson Explorer (WEX). A few people have contacted me about what I do at my day job as a Watson Explorer Consultant. Since this is my personal site I don't usually...

I Made an Automated Pancakeswap Prediction Bot

By John Ward / October 14, 2022 / 0 Comments

A few weeks ago I got the idea to try to automatically bid on Pancakeswap's Prediction game. So I decided to try to build a Pancakeswap Prediction bot to take on the task. I did this just to learn about...

My 2022 Recap and 2023 Plans

By John Ward / January 13, 2023 / 0 Comments

I haven't been posting to my blog that often, but I wanted to recap 2022 and lay out some of my plans for 2023. Overall, 2022 was a pretty good year for me, and I made some progress on business...

Watson Explorer vs Elasticsearch for Enterprise Search

By John Ward / May 12, 2020 / 0 Comments

Are you interested in IBM Watson Explorer vs Elasticsearch? Recently, I had to do some comparisons between IBM Watson Explorer and Elasticsearch for a project. I spent some time going through the features of both platforms and found some interesting...

One AdSense Change Dramatically Increased My Earnings…

By John Ward / March 9, 2015 / 12 Comments

... and I have no idea what it is. I used to blog actively on my tutorial site, TeamTutorials. In it's prime the site would see over 100k page views per month. Even in the prime the site barely met...

What is IBM Watson

By John Ward / July 24, 2020 / 0 Comments

There is a lot of confusion about what exactly IBM Watson is? I'm going to try to clear that up a little bit in this blog post. I'll go into the history of IBM Watson and what IBM is doing...

Are Products the Road to Prosperity?

By John Ward / May 13, 2015 / 1 Comment

A few weeks ago a wrote a somewhat popular post about my past experiences trying to make money online. I went through the ups and downs of working as an affiliate promoting other people's products. At the conclusion of the...

What’s the Future of XRP

By John Ward / September 20, 2021 / 0 Comments

The XRP token was a fast-growing cryptocurrency until the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a lawsuit against the parent company, Ripple, back in December of 2020. This left many people scrambling to dump their XRP holdings and several...

IBM Watson Explorer Connector List

By John Ward / March 4, 2020 / 0 Comments

IBM Watson Explorer Foundational Components include many out-of-box connectors for various types of data sources including web, filesystems, shares, databases and content management systems. This allows Watson Explorer (WEX) to be a very versatile tool for ingesting and indexing from...

Going Full-time as a Work from Home Employee

The office I work out of is running out of space. A few weeks ago I was asked if I wanted to give up my desk to become a full-time remote employee. There are a few reason I was chosen as one of the people asked to give up their desks. First of all my commute … Continue reading Going Full-time as a Work from Home Employee

IBM Watson Explorer

I’m going to talk a little bit about IBM Watson Explorer (WEX). A few people have contacted me about what I do at my day job as a Watson Explorer Consultant. Since this is my personal site I don’t usually focus on what I do at my 9-5. I’m going to write a few posts … Continue reading IBM Watson Explorer

Overcoming the Anxiety of Publishing Online

You know the feeling. You’ve just spent a small chunk of your life writing a blog post. As you slowly scroll to the right, your mouse hovers over the publish button. With a finger on the mouse button, you pause for a second. As you stop to think your palms get clammy. The beating in your chest … Continue reading Overcoming the Anxiety of Publishing Online

Make Money Online: Documenting 10 Years of Failure

This is the history of my experience trying to make money online over the past 10 years or so. This is by far the longest post I’ve ever personally written and it’s more of an autobiography than a blog post. I feel like I need to purge some of this stuff from my head so … Continue reading Make Money Online: Documenting 10 Years of Failure

One AdSense Change Dramatically Increased My Earnings…

… and I have no idea what it is. I used to blog actively on my tutorial site, TeamTutorials. In it’s prime the site would see over 100k page views per month. Even in the prime the site barely met the $100 Google AdSense monthly payout threshold. After 2-3 years of not posting it now … Continue reading One AdSense Change Dramatically Increased My Earnings…

Hello world!

Wow, it’s been a few years since I’ve actually blogged regularly. To the point that I actually killed my old blog and don’t think it would be valuable to revive it. So I’m starting from scratch, again. If you came here looking for an old post that was linked to I apologize but they are … Continue reading Hello world!

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