What Good Are Wikipedia Links?
Wikipedia in an effort to combat posting spam changed all of their links to “nofollow”. What that means is that search engines will no longer apply any page rankings from the Wikipedia site to the linked site. Whether the spiders follow those links or not is not known for sure. Does that mean it’s not […]
Friday Just For Fun Site – Scamming The Scammers
Here’s something just for some fun on a Friday. (Not responsible if you get caught playing at work) If you have an email address you have gotten one from the so-called Nigerian Email Scammers. They are about to die or they need your help in smuggling $23.4 million dollars (US) out of their country and […]
Marketing Help For A Small Business
I am always on the lookout for good ideas to market my small business. One of the first thing that I advise my clients is to start a mailing list. When I first started this business all I had was a list of names of people that I had kept in touch with through e-mails. […]
Why Do We Need A Website?
Today I’m meeting with a potential new customer. This is a group of people who are divided on whether they need a site or not. A couple of them are pushing hard to have one and they have asked me to speak to them today. Rather than giving them the hard sell and telling them […]
Security Tools That Are Free and Work Well
It seems like there is always something new out there that wants to hurt or take over your computer. I don’t usually give virus warnings, but I am going to mention a virus named “peachy” because it’s the first time a virus has been found in a PDF file. If you get an email with […]
A Nice Weekend In The Mountains
We went to my brother-in-law’s cabin for a day and a half. It’s up in the mountains by 7Springs. It’s “rustic” to say the least (no running water), but it has a cool stream to float down. It’s pretty cool, but the water is always very cold. Cook over an open fire. S’mores! Watch the […]
Friday Just For Fun Site – Themagical Simulations
Here’s something just for some fun on a Friday. (Not responsible if you get caught playing at work) Ever wanted to run one of those rides at Disney. Here’s your chance to open the doors, load the elevators and run some of the best rides in the park. It is addicting. More…
Free Your Phone
Being a big supporter of Open Source Projects and with all of the hoopla around the iPhone these days I thought I would give my small bit of publicity to the Openmoko.org Portal Site. OpenMoko is an Open Source project to create the world’s first free mobile phone operating system. It is designed to “Free […]
Good Tool For Designers – All Elements
This looks like a very useful post by Jens Meiert on his Blog called “HTML: All elements from HTML 3.2 to XHTML 2.0” He lists a continuously updated index of all elements defined by the HTML 3.2, HTML 4.01 (covering all document types), XHTML 1.0 Strict, XHTML 1.1, HTML 5, and XHTML 2.0 specifications and […]
Happy 4th of July
It’s Independence Day here in the US. Wishing everyone a Happy and Safe 4th of July. Here’s where I’ll be
