February 28, 2007 – 9:19 am
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The law does not choose. Kurt Treptow, an American historian, imprisoned in 2002 in Romania for children molesting, and sentenced to seven years of jail, was released yesterday. The Court ruling is final and irrevocable.
He succeeded to get out earlier, because, during his detention he wrote a scientific paper. This 450 pages [...]
February 28, 2007 – 6:05 am
For people who don’t know how to make a website, there is an alternative which can help them see their dream come true, without having to know programming, without spending lots of money on $97 or $47, or $27 ebooks, which end up in a big hole in their pockets with barely any results.
This service [...]
February 27, 2007 – 5:58 pm
Studies revealed that dinosaurs were killed by an asteroid hitting Earth 65 million years ago. This is how scientists suppose it happened:
“The kinetic energy of the ejected matter would have dissipated as heat in the upper atmosphere during re-entry, enough heat to make the normally blue sky turn red-hot for hours,” said Robertson. Scientists have [...]
February 26, 2007 – 3:39 pm
Usually, experts in blogging, or in communication in general, advise us to write for the readers, or not to use so much the particle “I”, or to use bulleted lists and short paragraphs.
Jessica Duquette, the voice of Career Mom Radio, contradicts all these experts (at least at the first glance), by letting us know from [...]
February 24, 2007 – 4:39 pm
Did you know that all links in blog comments have by default the nofollow attribute? This means that if you leave a comment on a blog and put your link in the signature, that link does not count for search engines ratings. It was set like this to prevent comment spam on blogs. But now, [...]
February 23, 2007 – 3:14 pm
When it comes about music, we tend to prefer more and more the mp3 format. The main reason is convenience: mp3 files are detected as data files, thus allowing us to exploit at maximum the capacity of CDs. One CD can store up to 80 minutes of music, if written as such. This leaves more [...]
February 22, 2007 – 5:42 pm
When was the last time you participated in a group project? Problogger’s last writing group project, maybe? Or maybe the Daily Blog Tips project on traffic generation.
What do you think all these projects had in common? They all required you to use a computer (and more or less your brain, but we shall stick with [...]
February 22, 2007 – 5:16 am
What is inspiration? It could be that volatile feeling that puts sparks of joy and creativity in our eyes. It could be that state of mind which makes us getting things started (as opposed to “focus”, which makes us getting things done). It could be children’s play, creating wonders out of a bunch of cubes. [...]
February 21, 2007 – 6:36 pm
Yahoo! Desktop Products just announced on their blog the release of the Yahoo! Search widget for Windows Vista.
The Windows Vista Sidebar is a new feature in Vista that, similar to our own Yahoo! Widgets or Apple’s Dashboard, allows you to run mini applications (called gadgets) on your desktop that are connected to the Internet without [...]
February 20, 2007 – 5:21 pm
Do you remember from your childhood the nice, shiny marbles of all colors? They were so beautiful, and their glass full of wonderful sparkles turned them into real treasures. Did you ever lose one marble? Can you recall that sadness, that anxiety, that feeling chasing you around, that maybe one day you’ll find your precious [...]