Category Archives: Business & Economy

Website Uptime Monitoring

1/14/2010 – 2:43 pm

lately i’ve been moving a number of my websites to new hosting providers. downtime was not my motivation for moving the sites, however after hosting most of those sites with one particular company for 10 years to hosts whom i have no personal experience, uptime is concern #1. with hosting companies you never know exactly [...]

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California IOU’s are Dumb and Dumber

7/7/2009 – 9:36 am

California’s state government is the poster child for how NOT to run a state. They’re printing up their own currency nowadays in the form of IOU’s. The smart banks are refusing to accept them.

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Billy Mays Checklist for Inventors Who Want to Be Seen on TV

6/29/2009 – 10:54 am

‘As Seen On TV’, Billy Mays summed up what he and his partners are looking for in an invention or product on the interesting tv series Pitchmen.
1. Does it have the wow factor?
2. Does it have mass appeal?
3. It is demonstrable?
4. Does it solve a problem?
5. Does it give instant gratification?
So now you know the [...]

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Google can crawl Javascript

6/8/2009 – 4:21 pm

Micro$oft might be spending $100,000,000 dollars to convince you that they have developed a better search engine than Google, but Google’s I/O conference stirred up some conversations about the ability of Googlebot to crawl JavaScript. That’s a tremendous step forward for search engines. If it’s true it’s also a serious game changing feature; one that [...]

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Slingbox SlingPlayer iPhone App is Available for $29.99

5/13/2009 – 11:53 am

the much anticipated slingbox iphone app has been published in the itunes store. but somewhat to my suprise it’s not a free app for slingbox owners. it’s currently listed for $29.99. the iphone slingplayer is now the most expensive iphone app i’ve paid for; i guess in a few weeks or months i’ll know if [...]

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Don’t Blame Me I Voted for Ron Paul

4/15/2009 – 7:38 pm

HAPPY TAX DAY!!!
RATM

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diggbar – better than tinyurl

4/3/2009 – 1:44 pm

digg might have been crazy for not selling out to Google or any other suitors by now, but they are continuing to develop. i personally feel that digg is a more likely business to return real dollar bills back to investors than twitter. sorry, i’ll use twitter while it’s free but i think that’s short [...]

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Electric Cars – Made in America, thanks Tesla Motors

3/27/2009 – 5:07 pm

a couple of years ago i saw “Who Killed the Electric Car“, for some reason i didn’t blog about it but here’s my chance to recommend it. this movie encourages the question “why don’t the oil companies bailout out the auto makers in Detroit”. it’s ironic to see up and comers like Tesla Motors pushing [...]

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It’s important to save money, see how it works

3/26/2009 – 1:00 am

on southpark stan learns about the importance of savings… “and it’s gone”

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GoldMoney, iPhone app and real gold make good combo

3/12/2009 – 11:50 pm

i’ve been using GoldMoney.com to buy and hold gold and silver bullion for just a little while, but i really like the service they provide. i was so happy to learn that they had released an iphone app a few days ago.. and guess what.. the goldmoney iphone app is the first one i’ve actually [...]

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