UPDATE: It took a little longer than I thought to get this book on Promo, but it’s free for 3 days. If you download it and find it remotely helpful, please write a positive review on the Amazon site. Thank You. I wrote a book and decided to post it in the Amazon Kindle…
Month: May 2012
Book Announcement: Surviving and Making Money in a Down Economy: A Guide to Coping with Unemployment and Finding New Opportunities
I wrote a book and decided to post it in the Amazon Kindle Store. It’s called: It’s a guide for the Unemployed and Dealing in this economy. Hopefully, People will enjoy it. You can find it by clicking on this link here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0085QZIJE Hopefully it helps. Help me get the word out! The book will be…
Common Mistakes in Enterprise IT when it comes to CIO/CTO hiring.
After talking and meeting with more than several Fortune 100 CIOs and CTOs, I’ve really discovered a common paradigm. This of course is over many years of experience. It’s important to understand the role of CIO or a CTO, but it’s also important to understand when they clearly do not get it. I’m not trashing…
Increasing Mysql performance significantly
For those of you who run mysql, there’s an issue that you have to look at. Like file systems, database tables get fragmented over time. There’s a simple fix for it, but you will need to execute one command to do it. Of course, you will need to have root access to your Mysql server,…
How to Make Your WordPress Blog Available in 43 Languages [Solved]
Some of you may have noticed that recently, this blog has a translate option to other languages. It’s really quite simple. Here’s how to do it. Your WordPress Blog should have a text widget. Simply, insert the following code into it and put the widget in your sidebar. <div id=”google_translate_element”></div><script> function googleTranslateElementInit() { new…
This blog is now available in 43 Languages!
Thanks to Google’s wonderful translation Engine, you can read this blog in 43 Languages! Just choose your language of choice on the right under Translate!
Fixing Google’s messy index causing 404s due to a “?” in my urls.
As of late, I noticed a problem that just appeared and it wouldn’t go away. It just started showing up and causing tons of 404s on my site. Now that’s not good. The problem was simply the following: I would have a link on my site. Let’s say the real URL is: http://swimminginthought.com/estore For some…
Rewriting URLs using Apache and WordPress – Natural Partners
This post discusses how using .htaccess on Apache will actually help you avoid many 404s and also support multiple permalink structures in the process. .htaccess is very finicky and that in there lies the problem, but with this article, you should be able to solve a few problems (and even do some extreme customization). My…
Octane Booster Follow Up
Here’s a video to show my Octane Booster follow up. Hope you enjoy it. 17,596 miles running on this with no issues. For a non-AMG S550, I can take an AMG with no problems. (running at about 115 octane). As an FYI, you will actually notice a huge difference in fuel economy by doing this. …
Creating PDF Files without having to purchase anything.
We all have the need to create pdf files at one time or another. I used to use pdfcreator from sourceforge, but it seems as of the latest version, they’ve sold out. So this led me on a search for a new solution. The solution is from bullzip.com and works really quite well. I would…