January 24th, 2010
With the rising interest in online shopping and a diminishing store presence in the "real world" the consumer market is starting to reap the benefits. When researching discounted cruise prices I ran across a website that has truly revolutionized the way I shop online, and hopefully will change others as well. This simple tool, known as [....]
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January 24th, 2010
By now we are all aware of the tragedy that has shaken the Nation of Haiti. It is times like these that separate true heroes from regular Joes. Seeing on the news the gruesome images of a nation that has been fully dismantled is heartbreaking to say the least, but seeing how the citizens of Haiti have pulled themselves together to help save [....]
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January 24th, 2010
For those of us .NET developers, working directly with SQL scripts and inline queries can be not only monotonous, but also very time consuming. Even though this was the norm, and quite frankly the "best" solution of the past, the advancement of Linq came to the rescue. For anyone not familiar with Linq, it will not only save you time and [....]
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April 1st, 2009
Have you ever had one of those days where you hit reply to all instead of just reply, or said something in accurate to someone to have it come back and bite you in the butt? Well, whatever you did or said was nothing compared to what UC San Diego did on monday.
Apparently, UCSD had already sent out their acceptance letters earlier in the month [....]
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March 27th, 2009
Today in some down time I decided to take the jump and download a copy of Joomla, the popular PHP CMS system that is comparible to WordPress in many ways. Just to set the scene for everyone I downloaded the newest version of Joomla, 1.5, and installed it locally running a wamp server. The download took a little longer than wordpress to [....]
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March 26th, 2009
I am sure you have seen them, the small laptops that look too small to do anything with? These new net books are the newest craze in the laptop industry. Now you probably will not see these flying off the shelf for college students, but you are sure to see them in the airport or at internet cafes world wide.
The main reason these net books [....]
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March 26th, 2009
Who would have ever thought that a little program for microblogging would become the next big thing in the world of internet communication. In a time when knowing everything about everyone at every second of the day is at its highest, why not create something that will allow your to update your status where ever and when ever? I must admit, [....]
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March 26th, 2009
It seems to be apparent that the newest trend in blogging is the idea of Do Follow. Do Follow blogs are blogs that allow the website links within the comments of the post to be crawled by the bots and allow google to index those pages as incoming links. This can help raise people PR (Page Ranks) as well as help generate a great backlink [....]
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March 25th, 2009
So over the past few months I have been leaning toward pulling the trigger on moving my website over from its old host and needed a new wordpress capible, Linux hosting box. After countless nights of comparing every option on all of the plans spanned across many companies, reality hit me. I needed an AFFORDABLE web hosting company with a [....]
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March 25th, 2009
I for one am happy about this. Michael Vick was released today from his federal Prison in Kansas. He is heading back to Virginia and has to be in court on a bankruptcy hearing April 2, 2009.
I for one am glad that he is out of Prison. Now before people going on passing judgment on me, let me say that I do not approve of what he did to [....]
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