The End of BlogRush
Thursday, October 30th, 2008When I checked my email this morning I found this letter from BlogRush (see below).
BlogRush was a blog widget that you could install onto your blog that would display feeds from other blogs within your chosen blog category. In return your blogs feeds were aggregated and displayed across the BlogRush network, potentially expanding your […]
What Steps Is Your Business Taking in Tough Economic Times?
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008Everywhere you turn economic news ranges from bad to truly depressing. What are you doing to help position your business to weather turbulent economic times?
As far as our business, we have a number of strategies that I believe will not only help us survive but prosper. These strategies I believe will not only make our […]
Kickin’ the Microsoft Habit
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008It’s one of those shameful admissions, but I have to say, I am still holding onto my Microsoft Office applications. I have clung to old habits for no other reason then habit. I have all the replacement software on my computer and set up, it’s just a matter of getting out of the habit of […]
Posted in How-to, Ruminations, Favorite Links, Web 2.0 | No Comments »>English Language Learners
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008Holly just shipped Literacy-Building Interview Activities for English Language Learners a 80 page workbook by Scholastic Inc. English Language Learners is a workbook for students for who English is a second language to help develop skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Interior design was done by Holly.*
*Cover Design by Maria Lilja.
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Happy Birthday Holly!!!
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008HAPPY BIRTHDAY HOLLY! October 23rd is Holly’s Birthday, I won’t mention how old she is, that wouldn’t be nice. Have a birthday haiku? Use the comments below!
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Is This the Future of Computing?
Monday, October 20th, 2008Get ready for on-slaught of low cost, small, green computers.
I remember in the mid 90’s, talk about how the future of computing was moving away from massive hard drive, application intensive computers to smaller, less application intensive computers that relied on the net for applications and storage space. The idea never took off, but things […]
Help Your Business Weather the Current Financial Troubles
Friday, October 17th, 2008The news isn’t good. Personally, I have had to turn off the CNBC because the news has been so overwhelming bad. I am not trying to avoid the realities of the current business climate but you can only take so much and ultimately the more important question is “How can I make my business stronger […]
Posted in Business Practices, How-to, Favorite Links | No Comments »>ISP’s Game of Chicken Little
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008Last week, I received an email newsletter from eMarketer about how the use of video on the internet has sent bandwidth usage through the roof. Projections done by Cisco systems predict that by 2012 bandwidth usage will increase by 10 fold (a 400% increase since 2000). Of course, Internet Service Providers are already sounding the […]
Posted in Rants, Net Neutrality | No Comments »>Mobile Blogging
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008I ran out to get lunch and I decided to give mobile blogging a second try after a failed attempt earlier this morning.
I like the idea of mobile blogging. It’s a great way to be able to post to your blog even if you are not in front of your computer. A tool like […]
Setting Up a Wordpress Site- Hosting
Monday, October 13th, 2008Hosting Explained
After you have your domain name you will want to set up hosting. Hosting is where your site will reside on the world wide web. Most hosting packages are shared hosting packages. This means that your site is on a server with a number of other web sites and all these sites share resources […]
I Woke up This Morning & the World was Still Here
Saturday, October 11th, 2008Yesterday, I watched the market open at 930am and it immediately drop 700 points to below 8,000 in the first ten minutes of trading. So at 940am we headed to our fortified concrete bunker anticipating the end of the world. When I realized that the apocalypse wasn’t upon us I checked the cabinfever blog and […]
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »>The Presidential Candidates on Net Neutrality
Thursday, October 9th, 2008There was a lot of talk at the Presidential debate on Tuesday but there’s no surprise that no one talked about net neutrality. This issue is under everyone’s radar. Why?! Net neutrality and the future of the internet, should be an important issue. Remember, the internet is a relative infant, imagine what television looked like […]
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