So you’ve come home from work, you’ve had a bad day, and the first thing you do is go to your computer to vent on Facebook by posting a ranting about your job in your status update. All your friends will understand and give you the sympathy you are looking for and you’ll feel better before you stuff your face with Haagen-Dazs. But what about your boss who’s also on your friends list. Ooops, forgot about that one. Read more »

Just watched this great clip from Stephen Colbert's show Colbert Nation on Comedy Central. Now of course Colbert is going to mock the whole situation in his usual way. But listen carefully to the breakdown of his explanation as to why they did this commercial the way they did. It's a great insight.

So I decided the best way to understand how to build better for search engines, was to build a search engine. Several weeks later, search engine built, and now the ideas springing forth have led to a Facebook App being developed too.

The possibilities with this one are endless. But for now, I’m keeping this in wraps. This project has some promise for sure. I would love to write more, but well, you’ll just have to stay tuned=)

So it what only a matter of time before my hard drive just gave out on me. Not that I can really blame it for crashing, after all I am on my computer a good MINIMUM of 8 hours a day. Needless to say, I don’t give my computer much of a break.

Luckily I had a backup of most of my files. Key word here being “most”. My last back up was like 3 weeks ago. So I’ve lost about 3 weeks of various files. Luckily nothing too serious though. The biggest headache I had was waiting for two days to get my computer up and running. I must say, Apple’s time machine backup is great. Read more »

A special thanks to Nick Claeboe for writing this...

Google. The first place most people turn for a web search. It's a very powerful web search tool but, if you haven't been keeping up with the Google revolution, you may have missed a few vital tools Google has developed.

First, let's touch on Google Analytics. Read more »

Coming from a generation that has watched the transition of computers becoming such a pillar in our life, it is easy to see how the rules of social interaction have changed. Before we had this ability of immediately posting digital photos from our last vacation on Facebook, we had to wait a week just to get the prints back to even see if the pictures came out good, let alone using the snail mail system to share with family. Read more »