Did you ever experience the frustration of visiting a foreign country and not understanding the language at all? Luckily, English is pretty much international these days. However, when I visited China I had the surprise that many people did not speak anything but Chinese, so my knowledge of three languages was rather useless, as long [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2007
What Kind of a Lifestyle Designer Are You?
June 27, 2007 – 8:47 am
When I got my first job, after graduation, I was so time-obsessed that I used to count all the minutes I managed to skip work. Then I re-calculated my hourly salary in real work hours: month after month, new victories, less hours worked effectively, more money earned per hour, more victories. Were they? That was [...]
1001 Cats: Fluffy or Not, All These Cats Are Hot
June 26, 2007 – 4:26 am
The 1001 Cats Carnival was a little bit late this edition. Did you think it got pregnant? Well, maybe it did: the Cats Tips & Tricks blog is going to be born very soon, so stay tuned. All I can tell you for now is that air-conditioned is a cat’s best friend. At least mine [...]
Spotplex Launches Content Aggregation Site
June 25, 2007 – 12:51 pm
PC World announced today the launch of a Digg competitor. The new site, Spotplex.com, looks very much like a Digg clone, but unlike Digg, stories are not rated by users, but ranked according to the number of people who read them. The number of “votes” represents in fact the number of readers that story had [...]
Blog Deep Linking Made Easy: aLinks Wordpress Plugin
June 21, 2007 – 8:48 am
You probably had heard a lot about the importance of deep linking inside a blog. Be it for SEO reasons, or from the desire to increase the number of pages per visit, it is good to link to your old posts. We all know how much time we spend on deep linking: search for the [...]
How to Customize Your Pictures Folders in Windows
June 17, 2007 – 8:23 am
Since digital cameras became so affordable, almost everybody has a lot of digital memories to archive. If you are a Windows user, and you set your Windows Explorer view to Thumbnails, then you are familiar with photo folders displaying 4 pictures from inside, like in the following picture (I enlarged my thumbnails, and this is [...]
Sims 2 Pets Cheats Sheet
June 13, 2007 – 7:52 am
How many of us, at some stage in life, did not play computer games and even got addicted to some? I surely had my years of glory, chasing enemies in Quake III or in Duke Nukem, trying hard to discover The Secret of Monkey Island, walking in the footsteps of Indiana Jones, playing God with [...]
How Long Is It Too Long?
June 9, 2007 – 7:00 am
Personal MBA published some time ago an interview with Seth Godin, about his new book, The Dip. The book tackles the art of strategic quitting, a topic which made me think a lot since many years ago: “when should I quit?”
Even today, I don’t have the answer. I have quit a lot in my [...]
News From AdSense: Up to Three Link Units Allowed per Page
June 6, 2007 – 3:43 pm
The AdSense publisher support announced in the Inside AdSense Google group a noteworthy update: now you can place up to three AdSense link units on a page. Until now, this number was limited to one.
I didn’t use link units on this blog until now, but I think to give it a try, to see how [...]
AGLOCO Starts Releasing the Viewbar to Members
June 4, 2007 – 12:41 pm
In December 2006, the AGLOCO officials announced that the Viewbar is going to be launched in about 2-3 months. Lots of rumours were spread meanwhile, especially when people saw past March, April, May… I even forgot about it at all.
Today I got an e-mail from AGLOCO, announcing that my Viewbar is available for download. I [...]
