Let’s just assume for a minute that events beyond your control may have come to pass and your site may have been used to transmit spam emails. In the aftermath, you’re curious and concerned that, as a result, you may be on one of the many email blacklists out there.  Wait, what’s a blacklist?

Wikipedia, “a list of IP addresses published through the ( Read more... )

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Ok, so maybe there were a few slow moments this weekend.


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Can’t take the credit for this idea, Lifehacker and many others got there long before me. I’m just chiming in to share my experience and endorse the process to others.


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What this really does is “vet” the quality of links for Google within your social circle. Although there will be privacy concerns, I’m generally for it, actually. It is 100% opt-in.

I’m far from alone in saying that tactics like this could go a long way to diluting the black hat SEO influences that have been steadily poisoning search results with ( Read more... )

So I walked over to the Apple Store to get a display adapter during lunch and found it particularly busy. Perhaps due to classes.  I caught the attention of the first employee walking by but I failed to notice he was wearing a black t-shirt… “Pardon me, but could you help me find a Mini Display Port to DVI adapter for the MacBook Pro?” His response ( Read more... )

The geek quotient of our building just rose.  Discovered that our downstairs (whose patio-rail mounted bike rack I have long admired) is also the author of the graphic novel, Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer. And yes, I read it BEFORE I knew this.

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Originally published at Cafe Arcane. Please leave any comments there.

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