Apologies for the lack of updates over the past week and a half to 2 weeks, I was out of town over the Thanksgiving holiday and didn’t really have much computer access. Carin and I took the cross country trek to California to visit the family and stay with my parents. It was the first time she had met my family, and everything went off perfectly without a hitch and they all loved her. It was a much needed break from work and I wish it could have lasted longer. On a brighter note, I have posted a bunch of pictures from the trip to my Flickr if anyone is interested in seeing them. I will be posting more entries soon, so don’t worry Strum you’ll have something to read. =P
I’m on the train to work right now, thanks for broadband anywhere verizon aircard :), and my New Jersey Transit train has no heat or light throughout the entire train due to what they’re calling “mechanical problems.” For starters, aren’t they supposed to have a technician on every train. I recall past problems over the summer when the air conditioning would be out and they would stop the train to fix it. But since today is the coldest its been all year why fix the heat? Let the people suffer, those same people who we already rip off beyond imagination with outrageous fares. Oh and while I’m at it,
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Having worked in SEO for a while now, I’ve gotten pretty good at distinguishing good SEO from bad SEO. It’s no wonder the search engine optimization industry as a whole doesn’t have the greatest of reputations as being a useful marketing tool, most of the “marketers” engaging in SEO tactics for their clients have absolutely no idea what they’re doing and are unintentionally, or intentionally, ripping off their clients. You can easily guess by the tone of this introduction that this entry has rant written all over it, so let me just state for the record that the title tag is not a meta tag.
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Al Jazeera, the highly controversial Arab satellite TV station, announced that it will launch on Wednesday a global channel dubbed Al Jazeera English. It’s about time! Americans, whether liberal or conservative, democrat or republican, constantly bicker about the overarching bias of certain broadcasting networks. One that gets mentioned as often if not more than any other is FOX News. The bottom line, however, is that they’re all biased. American TV networks can claim to be as “fair and balanced” as they want, however the undeniable aspect of it is that they’re all biased, and
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For many people remote access to a computer is crucial. Traditionally software such as pcAnywhere or utilities like Remote Desktop have been used accomplish such a task. But how would you like to be to able to access your computer anytime, anywhere? No longer will there be a need to purchase your own domain name and configure dynamic DNS, Windows Vista will ship with Windows Internet Computer Name, a unique domain name for your computer.
The Windows Internet Computer Name is the result of advances to the Peer Name Resolution Protocol (PNRP) which came stock with Windows XP. Traditionally, domain name servers have been
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In a stunning change of position today Microsoft announced that it would allow open-source Linux software to work with Windows. What’s more, Microsoft even claimed that it will provide the support and technology necessary to achieve this end. This marks the company’s second open-source partnership this week, which signals an effort by Microsoft to inform an ever-growing Linux user base that the two platforms can co-exist, particularly in the server market where Linux is most competitive against the Redmond giant. For those who are unfamilair with Linux, it is open-source software, which means
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