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Digging Digg. A way to improve traffic to your website for free
Have you heard of Digg.com ? If you want to improve traffic to your website, you should. Digg is the Web 2.0 version of a newspaper/newsource. Here is how it works: Users submit stories to Digg.com. This includes a headline, a brief paragraph and a link to the article The story gets posted on Digg.com where users can "vote" (called.. Read more
1&1 is a better value than GoDaddy
You certainly have seen the GoDaddy Super Bowl ads: A voluptuous woman teasing some stodgy people into running a commercial for GoDaddy while experience a “wardrobe malfunction.” The ad was so successful (it was really funny) that it made GoDaddy a household name overnight as well as the biggest web host in the world a year later. They definitely got.. Read more
Microsoft Internet Explorer Hotfix 912945 Breaks ActiveX
Microsoft is about to release a HotFix that will break Internet Explorer. Huh? If that is true, why is it called a "fix?" Because it "fixes" a patent infringement that Microsoft has with a little known company called Eolas, Inc. Internet Explorer Hotfix 912945 works around a patent Eolas owns a patent that allows objects to be embedded within a.. Read more
My MoFo MoBo: The Sequel. It’s over.
Just in case you were curious, I actually got the new Motherboard to work. I had to buy a 300W power supply (instead of the recently purchased 250W one I just bought). Once I got it, it powered up a-ok. I connected all the cables and restarted the machine with the Sysprep utility from Microsoft. It worked perfectly. It’s like.. Read more
My MoFo MoBo
I’m having a major cow with my home computer’s MotherBoard. It’s mostly broken: The power light doesn’t turn off The parallel printer port sometimes doesn’t work The floppy drive doesn’t work The COM Ports doesn’t work. But, everything else about the computer is fine. Of course, all of this happened, literally, one week after the warranty expired. Arggh. So, what.. Read more
Yahoo! Music: A Great Music Value
I’m obssessed with music. About a year ago, I digitized all of my (and Marni’s) music. We had enough music to play songs continuously for over 25 days! It’s amazing what one can acquire over time. While most homoapiens would be satisfied with that, I, of course, am not: I need more. Marni and I installed speakers into.. Read more
