Monthly Archives: March 2006

Addicted to MySpace? Help is only a click away…

Do you find yourself checking MySpace several hundred times a day? Do you neglect the other important things in life? How many bulletins did you post in the last hour? Is MySpace open in another window right now? If so, then you may have a problem. Here’s how to wean yourself off of MySpace so that you can resume living offline… Continue reading

Posted in Hints, Tips and Tricks, Internet / Web | Leave a comment

Gay conversion specialists get their C&D put where they'd consider inappropriate

Exodus International is a group who puts up billboards and utilizes other marketing attempts to provide individuals with the strength, support and guidance to turn a gay straight. Okay, like a dog can become a cat. In the age old debate of whether or not it’s a choice, decision or something that is genetically programmed within us – our orientation that is. Well, I think that a company who’s life’s crusade is to straighten out the fabulous and grand is just retarded. How about supporting people – as a whole, no matter their life orientation. Continue reading

Posted in Privacy / Freedom, Trademark Issues | Leave a comment

Region Codes – Another way to be stopped from watching import DVDs

Regional DVDs aren’t much of an issue for a majority of Americans who never really travel, buy international films from around the globe, or speak Spanish. Sad thing is, for those who are impacted, it’s kinda crazy. US DVDs, pretty much by default, have English and French. No Spanish. Continue reading

Posted in Hints, Tips and Tricks, Technology News | Leave a comment

How to Pick a Good Domain Name

Using keywords in your domain name is a great first step when it comes to search engine optimization in general. For example, say you run an ecommerce web site that sells used books about web design. When people use a search engine to find your web site, they will be using keywords such as “used books” and “web design”. These are the keywords you want in your domain name. Continue reading

Posted in Domain Names, Hints, Tips and Tricks, Internet / Web | Leave a comment

International Space Station welcomes the First Brazilian

Lt Col Marcos Pontes has become the first Brazilian to go into space after a successful launch aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket from Baykonur. He will spend nine days on the International Space Station while a Russian and a US … Continue reading

Posted in Space/Astrology, World | Leave a comment

confluence \KON-floo-uhn(t)s\ [Word of the Day]

It’s the combination of these various factors, then — their historical confluence, if you will — that must be held responsible for the rapid erosion of the church’s authority over sexual matters since the Second Vatican Council. Continue reading

Posted in Hints, Tips and Tricks | Leave a comment

Forms and Publications

Posted in Business, Free Software | Leave a comment

'UFO' mystery still haunts some in Washtenaw County Michigan

UFOs have become commonplace. Perhaps that is part of the reason for SciFi, to ‘warm us’ to the whole aliens amongst us concept. I don’t think it will be too bad. I mean, have you been to Grand Central Station? Well, in 1966, forty years ago, for a brief but interesting time, Washtenaw County became the flying saucer capital of the Midwest. Continue reading

Posted in Science and Health, Weird News | Leave a comment