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March 12th, 2006

No, I don’t want to join your MLM!

If I want to do something, I find out how to do it independently where I’m the one who takes the risk and, therefore, the one who benefits most from the success.

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March 3rd, 2006

404 Header Fix for WordPress Google SiteMaps

If you use WordPress with a Google SiteMap Plugin and you tried to verify the ownership of your blog with Google, you’ve probably seen the error, “We’ve detected that your 404 (file not found) error page returns a status of 200 (OK) in the header.”

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February 10th, 2006

Burt Rutan’s Mailbox

This picture almost needs no comment.

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February 9th, 2006

I got a sales call from E-Results Inc.

They found me through pay-per-click ads for my DupliQuote.com site and although I have no intention of paying them $2000 to write 20 doorway pages for my site and get me banned from Google, I let them give me the full pitch.

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February 8th, 2006

Report Spam Search Results to Google

I hate spam search results. There’s always some nitwit trying to deceive (spam) Google with hidden text, cloaking or doorway pages and it gives Search Engine Optimization a bad name. If websites had better content that was organized in a logical manner, search engines would be 100 times more useful.

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December 24th, 2005

FDR Radio Address - Christmas Eve, 1943

Address of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Broadcast from Hyde Park, New York Christmas Eve, 1943

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November 11th, 2005

All laws should automatically expire if not enforced.

I believe any law that’s not enforced for two years should automatically expire.

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October 10th, 2005

eHarmony Needs a 30th Dimension of Compatibility

Dr. Neil Clark Warren,

Ok, so I’ve worked my way through 147 eHarmony matches now and it’s yielded only one brief and frightening experience at Starbucks. (Actually, it wasn’t brief enough, it was 35 minutes of trying to come up with a polite way to jump from the table and run for my life.) Read the rest of this entry »

September 24th, 2005

The Devil In The White City by Erik Larson

The Devil in the White City, is a true story (two actually) about the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 and America’s first famous serial killer, H.H. Holmes. It’s quite fascinating and keeps moving at a good pace. The author rather humorously shows his own liberal bias in a few places, but it’s not so heavy handed as to detract from the story.

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July 10th, 2005

Definition of a New Word - Exclued

Exclued \iks’ klüd\ 1: (adj.) something that is so boldly un-cool that it is actually therefore cool. Examples: William Shatner, Adam West, the Chevy Corvair, the VW Thing, the calculator watch, multi-colored bowling shoes, polyester sport jackets (especially if they’re reversible), tuxedo pants, military surplus clothing, any clothing with farm implement or seed logos, any beat-up full-sized pickup truck (especially if the driver is a hot chick), Las Vegas, Hawaiian music, lounge music, PDA phones, the wifebeater t-shirt, the bomb shelter or being a preacher or a missionary. 2: (vb.) to transition from being cool to the masses to cool among the really cool few. Examples: Mark Wahlberg, Brooke Shields, Robert Mitchum, Carrie Fisher, the Pontiac Trans Am, low-res Fisher Price video cameras, cigars, Frank Lloyd Wright houses, WWII airplanes, ballroom dancing, swing dancing, the harmonica, anything in that awful 1970’s green, ice breaker games at parties and hacky-sac   

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