Jerry Leventer

Have you ever wondered where Windows XP keeps all the Quick Launch Shortcuts?
Well, here it is:
Quick Launch Shortcuts
C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch
And here’s a handy list of definitions of Windows XP terminology:
Taskbar
The Windows XP Taskbar is the entire area that contains the Start button and the icons of all applications currently running on your [...]

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My .htaccess file contains code at the top for my wordpress permalinks, so I add the redirects below that.Here’s the Wordpress code along with canonicalization.

# .htaccess
#
# ————————————————————————————
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
# - BEGIN - CANONICALIZATION
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]
# - END -
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
# [...]

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I’m writing this post in response to a couple people telling me my holiday reading list looked interesting. They are in Teli Adlam’s new marketing forum that you can join by buying her new book and video tutorials, WP Affiliate Guide.

I started reading Wikinomics, by Don Tapscott, on the airplane on my way to [...]

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Are you an Excel user? Have you ever wondered how to convert an entire column of plain text links into hyperlinks without having to double click each one individually?
Don’t look in the Excel Help files for this one, it’s not even mentioned there. The following code is exactly what you need.
Convert Selected Plain [...]

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This Day In History:
2004: NASA Mars Rover (”Spirit”) successfully landed on Mars.
1962: New York City introduces a train that operates without a crew on-board.
1959: Luna 1 became the first spacecraft to approach the Moon.
1958: Russian space craft Sputnik 1 fell to Earth from its degraded orbit.
1493: Christopher Columbus left the [...]

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Yep. It looks like I’ve already signed up twice because I have two accounts for Simpleology. But I never completed the basics. Never even got past the first day. Talk about lack of focus.
Well, today I was supposed to be reviewing the blogging course I just signed up for but there [...]

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I decided to give PopFile by SourceForge a try after seeing that About.com gives it a top rating. http://email.about.com/od/windowsspamfightingtools/tp/anti-spam.htm
I decided not to continue using it, however, since it wants to reconfigure all my account settings.
Also, it uses Outlook filtering to place the mail into folders. So you have to tell PopFile to mark each [...]

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Perhaps you’ve heard of Mark Joyner. Some refer to him as the Godfather of internet marketing because he’s been around since the beginning. He is the owner of Simpleology and he wrote The Irresistible Offer
and The Great Formula: for Creating Maximum Profit with Minimal Effort.
Mark claims that it took him six [...]

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I’ve been looking for good a good Sticky Note application for a while now. I’ve looked at several such as MyStickies, but had not quite found one that provides all the features I need.
Today I may have found a winner!
Here’s the post I read in Google Answers:
I’m searching for a “post-it” software that allows to [...]

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This Day In History: 1/1/2008
2000: the dreaded Y2K computer ‘millennium bug’ failed to appear as predicted.
1985: the first British mobile phone call was made by Ernie Wise to Vodafone; and the Internet’s Domain Name System was created.
1983: the ARPANET officially changed to using the Internet Protocol, creating the Internet.
1939: William (Bill) Hewlett [...]

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