Rearranging the Furniture
Dec 22nd
We’re in the process of upgrading our site, so please bear with us while we renovate. Happy Holidays to All!
The Best Stock Advice I Ever Heard
Dec 22nd
Don’t gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don’t go up, don’t buy it.
—Will Rogers
Backup Your WordPress Blog!
Dec 15th
Web site backups may be boring, but they’re essential to good web hygiene. Here’s the official WordPress guide to backing up your blog (and yes, you MUST back up both the site and its associated database).
How to Find Incoming Links to Your Site
Dec 15th
Another great service from Google: here are a couple of methods for finding incoming links to your site.
Google’s Webmaster Central Blog
Dec 15th
Here’s an indispensable link for bloggers: Google’s Webmaster Central Blog.
This handy tool will keep you in the loop regarding Google’s spiders and their policies about site indexing for Google searches.
Help make the internet a better place by cleaning out any comment spam or other nuisances that might be costing your blog precious site ranking. Remember, “you can’t do what you don’t know”–educate yourself!
Celebrity Defined
Dec 14th
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.
–H.L. Mencken
Find the Latest Google Updates
Dec 12th
Here’s a link to Google’s Official Blog; keep yourself up to date on Google’s latest innovations: Google’s Official Blog.
Disagreeable Democrats
Dec 12th
Democrats never agree on anything, that’s why they’re Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.
—Will Rogers
Quickly Condense Web Pages for Easy Reading
Dec 11th
Here’s an indispensable tool for prolific readers of web content: Readability.
Just download this handy app, easily add it to your browser’s toolbar, & with a single mouseclick you can escape all the web page clutter (ads, images, photos, rotating banners, Bing nag screens, etc.) and get to the heart of the web page: the article you’re trying to read.
I’ve found it indispensable for web research; I can quickly scan an article and move on to the next search result without enduring all the visual distractions inherent in the modern web.
See what you think; download this great experiment here.
Disorganized Democrats
Dec 11th
I don’t belong to any organized political party. I’m a Democrat.
—Will Rogers