COBRA insurance is the standard temporary insurance available to you after you quit or leave your current job. Most people assume it’s the only temporary insurance policy available so they just select it after their companies insurance policy expires (typically at the end of the month you quit).
I’ve used COBRA in the past and […]

I’ve recently had to transfer a number of my web sites to new web hosting providers because my traffic continues to go up. It’s a good problem to have but it’s also a pain to deal with. My latest domain move is a real estate blog which currently runs along with 5 other web sites […]

I came across this post on Jottings.com which lists the 100 oldest registered domains on the internet. For those of you who know about SEO, domain age is one of the factors in the quality of content according to Google. Boy do I wish I could purchase a couple of these for personal use. Talk […]

For those of you who use WordPress as your blogging platform, you know it’s the best blog platform out there hands down. I personally run several blogs, all of which run on WordPress version 2.0 or greater. And the great thing about WordPress is the availability of additional plug-ins that anybody could potentially write to […]

I’m a creature of habit and been using Homesite for almost 10 years. I’ve finally decided to break the mold and make my development life easier and install the OpenSource development platform Eclipse.
Most PHP developers find it easiest to work with a running web server of their local machine. This allows you to test your […]

I know most everyone has Tivo or some sort of DVR (digital video recorder) but it’s not necessarily easy to access or portable. Miss last weeks episode of Southpark? Forget to Tivo 24 Season 6 Episode 2? Not to worry — just visit Peekvid.com and watch it for free — streaming straight from your computer.
Peekvid.com […]

Search engine optimization (SEO) is no longer a secret weapon of cutting-edge, Web-savvy marketers. Even traditional companies have to make sure that search engines like Google and Yahoo find them consistently—because search engines are the primary way that prospects and influencers learn about products and services.
Too often, companies ignore search optimization or shelve requests for […]

When people refer to “organic SEO” (search engine optimization), they almost always use it as a blanket term to describe the unpaid, algorithm-driven results of any particular engine. However, a sophisticated search engine optimization company will often take the meaning of “organic” one step further. To such companies, the “organic SEO” is not limited to […]

I’ve talked about it for a while but I finally signed up for Nihonjin gakuen (Japanese school). I’ve taken Spanish and French in the past but never a difficult language like Japanese. I’ve been spending a lot of time in Tokyo off and on over the last year for work so taking a structured class […]

Alert! Additional card cage fan needed for PCI Express card over 75 watts. — That’s probably the message many of you have seen and hopefully I can help remedy it for you. The main reason I am blogging this is to help save others the frustration I went through to troubleshoot, research, order, and install […]