Archive for April, 2009
Attention Web Developers: Might want to get your sites ready for IE8
Microsoft is about to unveil the Internet Explorer 8 autmatic upgrades, meaning more and more of your users will be on the new browser version. I’ve been using IE8 for about a month now (I think) and I’ve noticed many websites that look a little awkward in this version, so it would be beneficial if [...]
Does renaming the Emergency Fund make you save more?
During my morning blog reading to get my brain ready for some projects, I headed over to one of my favorite blogs and stumbled across a post highlighting something called a Ways and Means Fund. After reading Lifehacker’s take on the this new wording, I headed over to the orignal blog post regarding this new [...]
Keep an eye out on your CC statements for TheLadders.com
While doing my monthly filing (yeah, I only do it once a month) I noticed a $180.00 charge from a company called TheLadders.com and it confused me. So I typed in the website and ended up at a career/job/resume/whatever website that promotes itself as having the most $100k jobs listed. I immediately called my credit card [...]
Got my Google Voice acceptance last night
I’ve been waiting by my inbox for weeks for my Google Voice acceptance email to arrive and finally, late yesterday it arrived! It reminded me of all the nerve wrecking days waiting for the mailman to arrive so I could see if I got accepted to any of the colleges I applied for. Argh! So [...]
So … what else can go wrong this week?
First … my annoying Brother MFC420CN printer decided it didn’t want to function since it was out of CYAN, even though all the other inks were supposedly full. Instead of arguing with my printer for hours on end, I gave in and decided to replace the CYAN. Popped out the old, put in the new, [...]
Inventor spends weekend and develops $5 eco-friendly cardboard oven
CNN has a profile of an entrepreneur based in Kenya who, over the course of a weekend, developed an eco-friendly oven out of two cardboard boxes.
What the box also does is eliminate the need in developing countries for rural residents to cut down trees for firewood. About 3 billion people around the world do so, [...]
Sorry for the lack of posts today, but my Internet got messed up
I know … I know … just last week I wrote this blog post about what do you if your Internet goes down and I really didn’t follow anything on it. Basically at around 11:30am this morning my USB wireless dongle decided it didn’t want to connect to my wireless network nor any other available [...]
Reminder: April 8th is the deadline to update privacy policy for Google AdSense
For those web developers / webmasters out there who run Google AdSense, make sure you’ve updated your Privacy Policy in regards to their new interest-based advertising. Even if you’ve opted out of the user interest categories for your website(s), according to Google you are still required to update your Privacy Policy.
Yes, you’ll still need to [...]
Excuses for being late to work … that you shouldn’t use!
CNN.com posted a very funny list of the “12 of the most outrageous excuses employees have heard for being late to work.”
1. My heat was shut off so I had to stay home to keep my snake warm.
2. My husband thinks it’s funny to hide my car keys before he goes to work.
3. I walked [...]
Did the Colbert-bump ignite the Twitter and Google talks?
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone appeared on the Colbert Report last night only leading to further speculation that … there actually in some truth to the whole Colbert-bump. Less than 12 hours later the rumor surfaced about the Google and Twitter talks.
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