Jerry Leventer

I was watching Andy Jenkin’s StomperNet video about how to avoid having your pages filtered for duplicate content. One of the warnings is not to have stop words as the only difference between titles on two pages.

In order to know what those stop words are, I have listed them here.

You can see the StomperNet post here:
http://www.StomperNetBlog.com/

This Day In History:

1912: British explorer Robert Falcon Scott arrived at the South Pole only to find that Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen had been there a month earlier.

1896: The X-ray machine was first exhibited.

1778: James Cook became the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he named the “Sandwich Islands.”

Happy Birthday:

Actor/Director Kevin Costner (1955)
Inventor Ray Dolby (noise reduction) (1933)
Actor Cary Grant (1904-1986)
Comic Actor Oliver Hardy (of Laurel & Hardy) (1892-1957)
Author A. A. Milne (Winnie The Poo) (1882-1956)
Alexander Graham Bell’s Partner, Thomas Watson (1854-1934)
American Statesman Daniel Webster (1782-1852)

[tags]History, Birthdays, Famous People[/tags]

2007: Comet McNaught made perigee after coming close to the sun

2005: ESA’s SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovered elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron and other surface elements on the moon

2001: Wikipedia went online

1986: HBO and Cinemax paid cable television services initiated scrambling their national satellite feeds

1943: The world’s largest office building, The Pentagon, was dedicated in Arlington, Virginia

1936: The first building to be completely covered in glass was completed in Toledo, Ohio

1885: Wilson Bentley took the first photograph of a snowflake

Happy Birthday:
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
Lloyd Bridges (Sea Hunt, 70’s TV show) (1913-1998)

Source: IDG Connect

[tags]This Day In History, Wikipedia, Martin Luther King Jr, Lloyd Bridges, Sea Hunt TV Show, Lunar Orbiter[/tags]

See my notes for this video in the comments to this post.

Here’s the email I received from Brad Fallon of StomperNet -

Brad Fallon Says:

Did you know that MySpace now gets more page views than Google?

It really makes you think, doesn’t it?

(Suggestion: Read this whole email, but If you want to save time and just
watch this incredible video about how you can (FINALLY) use these
“social media” sites for BUSINESS, you can watch the fr*ee video here:

http://www.bradfallon.com/strategy

Warning: Be sure to get something to take notes with — you’ll learn some
very specific things you can start doing right away to get higher search
engine rankings and a lot more traffic very quickly.

- - And it’s not just the video . . . after you click this link, while the video is
loading (it’s LONG and filled with pure valuable content) download the
complete written report on the right hand side of the page — it’s about 40
pages, packed with the very latest strategies to dominate the social
marketing game.

Here’s the link to the video AND 40-page Social Marketing Strategy
Guide:

http://www.bradfallon.com/strategy

In fact, this may be one of the more important things you read all year, if
you have one or more web sites and want more traffic and higher search
engine rankings.

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This Day In History: January 11, 2008

2001: The Federal Trade Commission approved the merger of AOL and Time Warner to form AOL Time Warner.

1935: Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo from Hawaii to California.

1922: Insulin was first used in a human patient to treat diabetes.

1902: Popular Mechanics magazine was first published.

1787: William Herschel discovered Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.

Source: IDG Connect

[tags]History, Amelia Earhart, William Herschel, Popular Mechanics, Insulin[/tags]

Here is the email I sent to Skype technical support.

Hello,

My networking community (about 250 - 500 people) and I have some questions and suggestions. I’m using Window XP, so I don’t know if these apply to all operating systems or not.

My associates and I have spent many hours collecting, developing, and documenting these ideas. I would appreciate if your team would consider these of primary importance. I believe I speak for many people who simply do not have the time nor are they willing to exert the effort to do this themselves.

In case you are interested, my credentials are: I have been a software support, build, and test development engineering consultant for various companies in Silicon Valley since 1987.

== Questions ==

1) Public Chat Settings: Blue Box

When you create a new Public or Private Skype room, or when someone first joins the chat, there is a blue information box (called Options -> Public Chat Settings) at the top of the chat window in which you can put information such as guidelines, or a link. We would like to know how to restore that box after you have closed it.

2) Yellow Box

There is also a Yellow box for promoting and adding contacts. After it is closed, is there a way to re-open it as well?

( Please mark the suggestions below for software development updates, or forward to the appropriate department. )

== Priority: URGENT ==

1) Do Not Disturb

When I have my Skype Status set to “Do Not Disturb”, you do not allow new posts to pop up above the system tray (to the right of the Windows task bar). Please also do not allow taskbar tabs to change color that are already open. The reason is that I use the “Auto Hide” setting of the taskbar, and I have three rows enabled. So, when the Skype room taskbar tab changes color to indicate a new post has arrived, the entire taskbar pops up and covers that portion of my screen until I click on that tab, which then allows the taskbar to be hidden again. This is very disruptive. [Read more →]

Are you one of those people who still uses an Analog TV Set? Or, maybe you know someone who still has one. Starting February 18, 2009, anyone who does not own a digital TV, or who does not have a digital tuner for their analog TV set and who does not receive their programming through satelite, internet, or cable, will not be able to receive the broadcast signal.

Well, here’s some good news. If you are only using a basic TV antenna on the roof, this applies to YOU! As of January 1, 2008, you can apply for U.S. government issued $40 discount coupons in order to purchase the appropriate digital converter boxes.

Here is the CNN news article about switching to digital TV and how to apply for your coupons:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/01/01/digital.tv.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

Here is the U.S. Government page with a link to the on-line application form:
https://www.DTV2009.gov/

[tags]High Definition TV, Digital TV, Analog Television, Discount Coupons[/tags]

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I found this on another blog and thought I’d share it with you…

Our deepest fear is NOT that
we are inadequate,
our deepest fear is
that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light not our darkness
that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be
brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?

Actually. who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn’t serve the World.
There is nothing enlightened about
shrinking so that other people
won’t feel insecure around you.

We were born to make manifest
the glory of God that is within us.
Its not just in some of us, it’s in everyone;
and as we let our light shine,
we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.

Nelson Mandela
Inaugural Speech, 1994

Marianne Williamson
Return To Love, 1992

Quoted from William Skinner’s Blog

[tags]Famous Quotes, Business Success, Nelson Mandela, Fear of Success, Marianne Williamson[/tags]

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 desktop. You can enlarge the Taskbar by “grabbing” the top border with your mouse cursor (it will change to an up/down arrow) and dragging it up or down. You can enable the auto-hide feature, lock the Taskbar, and group active icons by right-clicking an empty area of the Taskbar and selecting the appropriate option.

Quick Launch Toolbar
The Quick Launch toolbar is the area on the Taskbar immediately to the right of the Start button. The Quick Launch toolbar can be enabled or disabled by right clicking an empty area on the Taskbar and selecting “Toolbars -> Quick Launch.”

System Tray
The Windows XP System Tray is the area on the Taskbar to the far right. This is where certain applications will keep an icon even if it isn’t currently running on the desktop. The system clock is also located here, if enabled. You cannot disable the System Tray.

[tags]Windows XP Terminology, Technical Tips, System Tray, Quick Launch Toolbar, Taskbar[/tags]