Category: Advice

Recently release government data shows that more people filed claims for unemployment benefits than anytime in the last 16 years.‚  Once again, I strongly recommend that anyone who reads my blog gets LEAN.‚  How can you get lean?‚  Cut all frivolous expenses out of your life and start saving.‚  Washington state has not yet been hit by the bad economic waves hitting the rest of the country, but I promise you it will get much worse in our region.‚ … read more “More Jobless Claims Than Anytime Since 1992”

Yes, it’s true.‚  America has elected it’s first black President of the United States of America in Barack Obama.‚  Congratulations to Barack Obama on his win and I recommend that he follows some of the amazing advice to be found on this blog.

I think Barack Obama is the better man for the job of President of the United States, but unfortunately/fortunately (depending on your view) he won’t have much say in how our country is actually run.‚ … read more “President of the United States of America Barack Hussein Obama”

Or you will learn your lesson the hard way, like the guy below:

A prestigious law professor makes a great argument for why you should NEVER, under ANY circumstances, speak to the police about ANYTHING! He discusses the fact that there are over 10,000 different laws, many of which no one has any ideas that they are actually illegal and by talking to the police you can eventually have some of your statements come back and bite you hard.… read more “Great Video: NEVER TALK TO THE POLICE!!!”

Who was the crazy person who stuck around to take this photo?!?!? Geez.

If I saw a giant tornado like this coming at me, I would run!

Lately, I started asking myself, what is the formula for the way I choose keywords to optimize for on an existing page? To help people understand this concept better, I have written out an example. The actual equations are bolded, but this analysis should be read normally or you will miss important pieces of information.

I retrieve all of the search engine keyword ranking data, for example I rank in the 7th position for keyword Bake and in the 3rd position for keyword Able.… read more “How To Determine Which Keywords To Optimize on Existing Page”

I bet the guy in this picture regrets double parking his car. Read the note left on his car after he was spotted double parking.

A significant issue has arisen with Flashplayer (video player for Youtube.com, Funnyordie.com and many others) in Firefox… many videos that I have tried playing at home and at work recently have not worked. The whole video loads and I can move the cursor to any point in the video, but the video has no sound and quits playing after only a few seconds.… read more “Firefox: No Sound in Videos, Videos Stop Playing After A Few Seconds”

You think that rebate check is free money, right? Wrong.

The government takes money from the public with one hand (the IRS) and gives it back with the other (Congress)… unfortunately it also takes a healthy cut of that money in the process.
Don’t spend all your own money in one place.

I am not a fan at all of MSN.com publications. MSN.com is the default page for Internet Explorer to go to and also is one of the gateways to using Microsoft’s Live search engine. The problem is that most of the article’s seem to be targeted at the lowest common denominator of people and are not thoroughly researched and thought out.… read more “MSN.com Garbage Tabloid Publication”