The Forclosure Crisis, Worst-Hit Areas

March 12, 2009

According to USA Today, 2008 forclosures are up 81.2% over 2007.  The article lists the states in order by their foreclosure rates .  As it turns out, over 20% of all foreclosures are confined to just four states; Nevada, Arizona, Florida and California.  Over 30% of all foreclosures are confined to just 10 states. Read [...]

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The Democrats Lied

November 4, 2008

Politics is not my favorite topic.

But, I’m not going to stand by and watch the Democrats get away with bold-faced lies.

They are lying about what’s been happening with the economy and who caused the problems and who didn’t catch the problems!

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Keepass – Encrypts Your Password Files Completely!

June 23, 2008

Keep Your Domain Information, Passwords, Program Set-ups and Registration Keys, Credit Card Information and Family Records (Insurance Policy Numbers, Bank Account Information, Lawyer Information) and General Information In A Password Encrypted Database That Doesn’t Break and Will Fit on a Thumb Drive. It is Totally Portable and Secure!

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CAPTCHA Scripts Get Hacked – Affects Google, MS Live, gMail, Hotmail

May 21, 2008

My past opinion was that Google, Yahoo and Microsoft had sufficient resources to protect my computer when I connected to one of their properties. That may not be true! I use both Yahoo mail and gMail to handle most of my email communications since I thought their platforms were well protected by industrial grade spam [...]

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Color Coordinate Your Web Site

May 15, 2008

For those of us who can’t come up with a pleasant color scheme to save our socks, there’s an online tool that may help save your “visual bacon.” It is called “ColorSchemer” and it allows you to pick a primary color and will then generate a 16-color matching palette showing the actual colors, hex color [...]

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Bill Gates, 11 Things You Won’t Learn In School

May 13, 2008

You may love him or hate him, but he sure hits the nail on the head with this! To anyone with kids of any age, here’s some advice. Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, [...]

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Illegals Cost US Taxpayers Billions

May 10, 2008

Well friends…Here’s a quick look at what illegal aliens are costing us (us as in the American Taxpayer which is the foundation of the U.S. government.) This is such a depressing topic, I have to tip my hat to Newsvine.com for their article “Estimated 30 Million illegal aliens and the cost to U.S. taxpayers,” by Curtis [...]

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Forced Continuity – A Lesson on Customer Abuse

May 9, 2008

Caroline Middlebrook blogged about a topic that hits close to home and has been a burr under my saddle for some time…forced continuity marketing. By definition, “forced continuity” means setting up a system where the consumer purchasing a product also incurs a recurring charge for some service or additional product. Usually it’s in the fine [...]

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“Get Out of Your Own Way” & Other Baloney

April 30, 2008

The next time you hear some “guru” tell you “anyone can do it” or they recite the Nike theme Just-Do-It, take note. You are about to be “conned”. If you think you can quickly become an internet marketer, or make fast money on the internet you are exactly what the “gurus” are looking for — [...]

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Easy HTML and CSS Turtorial at www.honestway.com

April 3, 2008

Terry Didcott put together a simple tutorial that takes you step-by-step through the process of creating an HTML web page, using a little PHP to make building a web site easy, and connects it all with CSS. I know there are plenty of books on the subject (I own a lot of them) but, I’ve [...]

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Vista SP1 Kills Your Computer,
Microsoft is Still in LaLa Land.

March 29, 2008

Microsofts latest venture into the psyche of the Windows computer user is called SP1.  It’s bad enough that MS "loses so much revenue" that they strong-arm the installation of the "Genuine Microsoft" software checker.  Now, they’ve taken it a step further by coming out with a service pack that has the effect of bringing your [...]

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Puppy Dog vs Puppy Robot

March 28, 2008

Here’s a cute clip that shows what you can do when you have entirely too much time on your hands.

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