Archive for December, 2009

To click or Not to click?

Still just muddling along but in my research so far I must admit that I am getting a almost paranoid feeing about opt in boxes and all those other little forms/landing pages. I have always watched software and their insidious little checked boxes to add me to their mailing list for new product offers but am now seeing how many places out there that have the little sign up boxes Continue reading

Linux – Get IT!

If you can read and aren’t too afraid of losing your windows setup to some OS from an evil empire then I would strongly suggest that everybody at least try some distro of Linux. Personally I think that Debian is a good applicant! In my opinion it is extremely stable. Provided that is the what you are looking for. They have three different branches or releases that you can install Continue reading

Money & Blogging

It’s out there! We’ve all seen it and from what I can tell there are a lot of people making money off of their blogs. At least I would assume so otherwise why all the little funny {and somewhat annoying} highlighted word and adds.  I have up until now imaged that If I wanted to make money with this blog that I needed some kind of product or service that Continue reading

First Impressions of Blogging

Hummm! As I walk around in the world of blogging I see a bunch of stuff about making money with a blog. OK! Making money is always a good idea but for me, with this blog? I’d have to say that the jury is still out on that! I see a bunch of stuff about Squeeze Pages and how to pick a niche for the product or service that I Continue reading

A newbie in Linux land

Several years ago I decided to investigate Linux. I down loaded about 90% of the major varieties and loaded them. A lot of them wouldn’t even load on my machines! As most of my computer work is now business oriented I was looking for a stable and ultra secure OS. I haven’t had a systems crash or lost data since migrating to Linux. I know. You’re saying but Debian Stable Continue reading

Discoveries in a Binary World

First in line came the PC! I stumbled onto an old 8088 IBM machine that was setting on a back desk in a construction office. Grabbed me a book from the library and learned how to run DOS on the dusty old beige box that nobody else knew what to do with! Now for something that is in fact a glorified adding machine that just blew me away. I spent Continue reading

Ricky – 101

[caption id="attachment_4" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Uncle Ricky"]Uncle Ricky[/caption]

If you aren’t already freaked by the initial photo then you might be interested in this stupid Blog {?}. { I do apologize! I was in motel lighting under the influence of narcotics that the good Doctor had given me.} I will label this blog as “Adult” only because Continue reading