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Howard Hillman is a well-known travel writer. He has a web site called Hillman Wonders of the World where many of the “wonders” of the world are ranked. As I was browsing the site, I came across a section called “Top 10 travel photo mistakes and camera tips for avoiding them“: I wrote my 23-page …
One of the most popular posts on my site is the What’s the name of that song? post from over 2 years ago! So far it has over 120 comments. Recently, someone left a comment about a helpful site called WatZatSong.com: What’s that song? Do you have a song stuck in your head but wonder …
From SiliconValley.com: About nine months ago, Steven Boal, founder of Coupons Inc., began to see the fabled hockey-stick-like growth that has made fortunes for so many Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. That’s when he knew a recession was coming. The last time Boal saw this kind of growth was in 2001, after the dot-com collapse. Back then, …
A couple of weeks ago I shared a link to the Microsoft Password Checker. Well, a couple of days ago Download Squad mentioned another, better site, Password Meter: This application is designed to assess the strength of password strings. The instantaneous visual feedback provides the user a means to improve the strength of their passwords, …
From the New York Times: After reading about how Internet companies like Google, Microsoft and Yahoo collect information about people online and use it for targeted advertising, one New York assemblyman said there ought to be a law. So he drafted a bill, now gathering support in Albany, that would make it a crime — …
From Time magazine: You might call it an avocational hazard. A recent ITN News video in the U.K. shows that some London pedestrians have become so preoccupied with e-mailing and text messaging on their BlackBerrys and cell phones that they can’t make it down a city block without crashing into lampposts or trash bins. One …
From the Globe and Mail: It’s one of the fastest-growing, most lucrative departments at CBS Corp. right now. But the company’s president, Les Moonves, has a far more blunt way to describe how the network has turned March Madness basketball into an Internet gold mine. “People sit at their computers and waste away their afternoons …
From InformationWeek: Federal investigators executed a search warrant at Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)’s Mountain View, Calif., offices earlier this month as part of an investigation into a high-priced call girl ring similar to the one used by former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer. Court records show that that an Internal Revenue Service agent carried out the …
Dietitians of Canada is what you would expect it to be, the professional association for Dietitians in Canada. They call themselves “the most trusted source of information on food and nutrition for Canadians.” Their web site has a neat Recipe Analyzer tool: Use this tool to find out the nutrients in your favourite recipes, and …
From MSNBC: A painful breakup with his wife has prompted a man to put his entire life — his house, his car, his job, even his friends — up for sale online in an effort to start over. Ian Usher, a British immigrant to Australia, said Tuesday he would auction everything he owns and more …