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I was surfing a site tonight and saw this ad displayed:

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so of COURSE the inner geek in me told me to click this ad, and guess where it took me…….to a University of Phoenix form allowing me to sign up for information on College classes!

Whoever came up with that idea deserves a FAT raise! Score one for University of Phoenix!

RSS feeds are a necessity


Why don’t more sites offer RSS feeds? I’m completely amazed by the number of sites lacking an RSS feed. Do you not want your content to get out there? Do you not want more traffic to your site? Why would you not syndicate your articles?

I know the most common excuse to this question:

“We don’t want our articles stolen”

LEAN FORWARD AND CHOKE YOURSELF!!! How is syndicating your articles allowing someone to steal them? YOU have the power to decide what is syndicated and what isn’t. YOU have the power to limit the amount of the article that is syndicated. RSS feeds can only help your site grow.

By offering your readers easier methods to read your articles you are enticing them to visit your site more often.

If your unfamiliar with RSS and how it works you can read about it here.

Good and Bad Computer Karma


I’ve always felt there is computer karma. Some people are born with good computer karma and some with bad computer karma. There are certain people who are the black sheeps in the computer world. No matter what they do they just have bad luck with computers. These are the users who manage to get errors that you have never seen before. These are the users that no matter how hard they try they just can’t get anything to work on their computer.

Then there are the people with good computer karma. That’s me! I know that I have good computer karma. However, in the past fews months my karma is like a rollercoaster. There are really high peaks and really low valleys. Take last week for example. I’m at my first day of SES 2006 and right after my first class I get a phone call. “The warehouse server won’t boot up and it says No hard drives found.” UGH! I spent the next 3 days helping coordinate the rebuilding of our warehouse server over the phone while still trying to focus on the classes I was attending.

I come back Thursday and get the warehouse back online only to hit another roadblock. The IT guy I had rebuild the server didn’t install antivirus software and I forgot to remind him to. So of course there was an infected computer on our network that instantly infected my freshly rebuilt warehouse server. Double UGH!

So that was my fun week. Do you believe in karma? I know I do!