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I’m Freezing, I Wish I was a Bird

January 18th, 2008

Why would someone complaining about a frigid January Minnesota day be wishing they were a bird? Don’t birds stay out all day and night, don’t they freeze to death?

That’s exactly my point; why don’t birds freeze to death while I know I would, even with all my gloves and jackets. Birds fly high and don’t seem to freeze even on a windy -5 degrees F winter morning.

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Misc

80MB Disk for $12,000!

January 17th, 2008

I’m not sure how old this is; but I found this ad for a disk drive from System Industries, only 80GB for $12,000.

I bought myself an 80GB external hard drive a couple months ago for only $50.

One place where inflation seems to work in reverse is computer capacity vs. their cost. I am not complaining at all.

Take a look at this image:
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Misc

Am I a Nerd?

January 7th, 2008

Find out if you’re a nerd now using this nerd test website.

Well, I scored a 77, that’s mid nerd. Hmmm I’m a little disappointed.

How will you score in the nerd test?
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Misc

The Number One on Google!

January 6th, 2008

Useful Talk is the first search result on google when searching for the keywords: useful talk. It ranks first out of 7,600,000 results!

Screen shot (Jan 06, 2008)

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Comparing Drupal vs. Joomla vs. Typo3 and Others

January 6th, 2008

As stated in a previous post, selecting the right CMS for you isn’t easy given all the choices out there. Since my last CMS post, I’ve spent countless hours researching and narrowing down the CMS options. I now have narrowed my choices down to Four CMS engines.

It’s time to start installing an testing each of these. I have already installed and tested phpNuke and dotNetNuke; to tell you the truth, I was not impressed. I attempted to install TYPO3 but it was a pain and after a couple hours I quit; but I’ll give it another shot this week. SilverStripe is off the list now since it’s not a 100% free of charge. I also found a CMS called BitWeaver that impressed me so I added it to my finalists list.

Before delving into these, it’s worth reading comparisons and opinions that others have written to compare these Four CMS options. The following is a list of comparisons between Drupal, Joomla, SilverStripe and Typo3 that other’s have wrote:

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Comparisons Between Joomla, Drupal, LifeRay, SilverStripe, TYPO3, XOOPS and more

January 6th, 2008

Below you will see a comprehensive comparison between bitWeaver, Drupal, Joomla, Liferay, Midgard, TYPO3, WebGUI, Xaraya, and XOOPS:

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What is MFA?

January 6th, 2008

MFA stands for Made For Adsense. MFAs are websites that lack in content and are put out there specifically to hold Google ads. These sites may be optimized by their owners to attract high paying Google ads. MFAs typically carry low Cost Per Click (CPC).
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Adsense & Adwords

What is Adsense Payment Per Click?

January 5th, 2008

Let’s talk about the Adsense Payment Per Click. This is different than Cost Per Click or Adsense Click Through Rate (what your cost is for each click) and Pay Per Click (what you actually pay per click). Payment Per Click is how much each click pays you, the publisher. .
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Adsense & Adwords

Adsense Definitions: What do CTR, CPA, CPC and CPM stand for?

January 5th, 2008

Delving into the world of Google Adsense requires a lot of reading and self-initiated education. I remember how all the abbreviations used to confuse me. Below I compiled the most confusing abbreviations from the Google’s Adsense support website. I shouldn’t take credit for this, I’m merely pasting the definitions I picked here for easy access.

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