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Entries for May, 2007

Search Engine Placement Made Easy

I’ve done close to the impossible. On Friday May 11th, I purchases a domain. I set up a site on the domain that evening. I also posted a couple of posts to the new formed blog. Today (May 14th) I noticed that it was number one on Google search for the two words I wanted […]

Everyone has problems…right?

I have this problem. The thing is I am a collector. I’m one of those people that would rather save everything than throw away anything. Mind you this sometimes goes in spurts. For awhile I will get pretty good about throwing things away but then all is lost and I resort back into the same […]

Happy Mother’s Day, Mom!

I felt inclined to share a story about my mother, who has come a long way with technology over the years. I remember when she first got email, she would send me a message and then either call or email me again, just to see if I had received it. Another funny thing was I […]

School’s Out for the Summer!

Today is a good day. I finished my classes for spring semester and can enjoy the summer weather for a few months now! Look what those wacky scientists are up to now: Cigarettes without the Consequences I also got a project I’m working on in the background… More to come next week… Technorati Tags: college, […]

The Downfall of Debit Cards

With more and more people using debit cards exclusively these days, myself included, there comes more problems. I’m starting to see more and more stories of people either being overcharged or having holds placed on their accounts for various reasons. Here are some of the downfalls I’ve seen of using debit versus credit cards: some […]

WordPress Export/Import

This is an open call to Matt and his team on how to resolve this export/import problem that many users are facing as indicated in this thread. I’ve tried to export my blog and import it to my own install many times over the last few months, trying any method I can find in the […]

Headline of the Decade

You’re right Jason, but I doubt most people will see the pun: Skywalkers in Korea cross Han solo (To those that don’t get it: It’s a play on words related to the movie Team America) Technorati Tags: Team America, headline, pun

Regular Expressions, Easy at Last

Being a programmer, I can always appreciate a well written technical tutorial. This has to be the best tutorial ever written on Regular Expressions: The absolute bare minimum every programmer should know about regular expressions Technorati Tags: regular expressions, tutorial, how-to

Raise your gas prices or be fined!

MERRILL, Wis. – A service station that offered discounted gas to senior citizens and people supporting youth sports has been ordered by the state to raise its prices. Center City BP owner Raj Bhandari has been offering senior citizens a 2 cent per gallon price break and discount cards that let sports boosters pay 3 […]

You can sell anything online

Case in Point Technorati Tags: online, e-commerce, sales