While the digital realm can be quite intoxicating it’s important to occassional take stock of mundane corporeal matters.
Check out this article from mercola.com (the most visited health site on the net) about carpal tunnel syndrome and how Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) has shown to be effective in addressing this nasty problem.
To all of you rational, empiric-centric cynics out there […]

For Christmas this year I got my first-ever hard disk crash … this after 25 years of working pretty much full time with computers (I guess it was my turn).
It was more of fender bender than a full-blown wreck but it still had the effect of requiring that I restore my computer using my distributed backup system […]

I’m perusing an article at nytimes.com and see a note at the bottom of the article that says “To find reference information about the words used in this article, hold down the ALT key and click on any word, phrase or name.”  I do so … and voila, it works! The how to of it?  It’s powered […]

Online Shopping surges 25%
(International Business Times) - Holiday shoppers are buying more gifts over the internet this year. A new study estimates that online retail spending shot up 25 percent. 
YouTube Video on 2006 holiday season

Top 10 Wordpress Plugins:
First post of what is intended to develop into be a definitive list of Wordpress plugins. It would be nice if user rankings/feedback were incorporated into Wordpress codex. This list goes back to March 06 so is already a bit dated.
The Top Ten WordPress Plugins.

Where to start when selecting a CMS? 

For hands-on demos for a multitude of Open Source CMS: check out opensourcecms.com
For side-by-side comparison of CMS, check out: smatrix.org

Joomla! (yes, the emphatic ! is part of the name) is a vibrant, full-featured, Open Source Content Management System (CMS) and a very energetic development community. Lots of great extensions, most of them free, some for purchase but tend to be low-cost. See Joomla! (new window)

New extension just out of the gate that archives previous versions of content. Help prevent those “ooops” moments when editing copy. See Versioning (new window)

Excellent video from sagerock.com about what to expect from your SEO efforts.

Looking for online video? If you have an extra 27 hours, you can start with these
- Google Video International ( http://video.google.com )
- Google Video Australia ( http://video.google.com.au )
- Google Video Deutchland (Germany) ( http://video.google.de )
- Google Video Espana (Spain) ( http://video.google.es )
- Google Video France ( http://video.google.fr )
- Google Video Italia (Italy) ( http://video.google.it )
- Google […]