Archives: February 2008

February 29, 2008

Optimizing Database – Avoid Exceeded CPU Quota

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This guide is short and sweet and to help people optimize and speed up their WordPress websites, or a Database driven website such as Joomla, Drupal, etc, and to avoid a possible Account has Exceeded it’s CPU Quota screen from their Webhost. These simple steps will keep your website running smooth, and make the website more responsive which results in a happier surfing experience for your visitors. If you run WordPress you should have no reason for not keeping your Database Optmized, seeing as there is a plugin that does it for you in a few seconds. The only technical aspect of using the plugin is to download it and activating it in your WordPress Back office.

Example Webhost Message:

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If you are currently experiencing this problem, just follow these steps and then wait for your website to be available again. This is result of your Database getting congested, to large in size, not optimized, or it has several errors not allowing the database to function properly all of which will take more CPU power from the computer that is hosting it. Most, if not all, shared webhosters will cut you off if you website is taking to much of the computers processing power. (more…)

February 29, 2008

Tidbits & Trivia Part 2

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The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.

The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:

Spades – King David

Hearts – Charlemagne

Clubs -Alexander, the Great

Diamonds – Julius Caesar

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and CharlesThomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn’t added until 5 years later.

Q. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what?

A. Their birthplace

Q. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name requested?

A. Obsession

 

February 28, 2008

Tidbits & Trivia Part 1

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Many years ago in Scotland, a new game was invented. It was ruled "Gentlemen Only..Ladies Forbidden"…and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.

In the 1400′s a law was set forth that a man was not allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb. Hence we have "the rule of thumb"

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.

Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.

Coca-Cola was originally green.

The State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska

The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% (now get this…)

The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%

The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400

February 28, 2008

Beginner’s Guide To SEO

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A free SEO guide from SEOmoz.com, that I read when I was first getting started in SEO and I highly recommend it. I recently found it on my harddrive when I was searching for another Document. I didn’t find the document I was looking for, but I found this guide that really gave me a boost in the right direction in SEO. I highly recommend reading it, if you are interested in Search Engine Optimization. There is nothing you need to buy, just select the way you want to read it and your good to go

Here is an exert from the 9 page beginner guide -

Speed Bumps & Walls

Certain types of navigation may hinder or entirely prevent search engines from reaching your website’s content. As search engine spiders crawl the web, they rely on the architecture of hyperlinks to find new documents and revisit those that may have changed. In the analogy of speed bumps and walls, complex links and deep site structures with little unique content may serve as "bumps." Data that cannot be accessed by spiderable links qualify as "walls."

Possible "Speed Bumps" for SE Spiders:

  • URLs with 2+ dynamic parameters; i.e. http://www.url.com/page.php?id=4&CK=34rr&User=%Tom% (spiders may be reluctant to crawl complex URLs like this because they often result in errors with non-human visitors)
  • Pages with more than 100 unique links to other pages on the site (spiders may not follow each one)
  • Pages buried more than 3 clicks/links from the home page of a website (unless there are many other external links pointing to the site, spiders will often ignore deep pages)
  • Pages requiring a "Session ID" or Cookie to enable navigation (spiders may not be able to retain these elements as a browser user can)
  • Pages that are split into "frames" can hinder crawling and cause confusion about which pages to rank in the results.

Possible "Walls" for SE Spiders:

  • Pages accessible only via a select form and submit button
  • Pages requiring a drop down menu (HTML attribute) to access them
  • Documents accessible only via a search box
  • Documents blocked purposefully (via a robots meta tag or robots.txt file)
  • Pages requiring a login
  • Pages that re-direct before showing content (search engines call this cloaking or bait-and-switch and may actually ban sites that use this tactic)

The key to ensuring that a site’s contents are fully crawlable is to provide direct, HTML links to each page you want the search engine spiders to index. Remember that if a page cannot be accessed from the home page (where most spiders are likely to start their crawl), it is likely that it will not be indexed by the search engines. A sitemap can be of tremendous help for this purpose.

Link to the Free Manual from Seomoz

February 28, 2008

Fix For Gmail Pop3 Setup

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I recently setup a Gmail account via pop3, and I had an issue with it not being able to download my messages on multiple computers. The reason I choose to use Pop3 and not Imap, was for one simple reason.,I own two laptops and several times I am working on my computer and I am unable to connect to the internet but I still want to go through my downloaded emails and replyto them, and when I get connected to internet, all my emails go out then.

The problem that I had was, my emails were not downloading. Once my email program checked Gmail for the latest emails, no other computers were able to retrieve the email. I found a fix for this while surfing around the internet, so I decided to post the fix here for anyone else that might have the problem.

To fix it, all you need to do is add recent: in front of your username. Make sure to put the colon at the end of recent.

Example – recent:email@gmail.com

It tells Gmail to resend your latest email to you. One downside of using this, is that when you send a message you will get a duplicate sent emails. So if this really bothers you, you can just make a email rule and have it delete any of these duplicate sent messages.

Hope this helps some people out.

February 28, 2008

Tidbits You Should Know Part 3

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  1. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!
  2. A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
  3. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was a Captain Kirk’s mask painted white.
  4. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19 You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar (good to know.)
  5. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can’t sink in quicksand (and you thought this list was completely useless.)
  6. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
  7. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
  8. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. It’s the same with apples!
  9. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
  10. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
  11. Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
  12. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages it.

February 28, 2008

Easy Ways To Improve Your Vision

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Eye iris Easy Ways To Improve Your Vision

I found this article while surfing around, I recommend reading it if you care about your eye sight! There is 24 tips in the article from Reader’s Digest

1. Mix a cup of blueberries with a cup of yogurt for breakfast this morning. Blueberries are one of the richest fruit forms of antioxidants, and a study published in The Archives of Ophthalmology found that women and men who ate the greatest amount of fruit were the least likely to develop age-related macular degeneration (ARMD), the leading cause of blindness in older people.

2. Spread bilberry jam on your morning toast. Or take a bilberry supplement every morning. The berries contain compounds called anthocyanosides, which may protect the retina against macular degeneration.

3. Have spinach twice a week. Could be a spinach quiche, steamed spinach, or maybe Tuscan spinach — sautéed in some olive oil with garlic and raisins. Regardless, be sure to get your spinach. Studies find that lutein, a nutrient that is particularly abundant in spinach, may prevent age-related macular degeneration and cataracts. Ideally, get your lutein in combination with some form of fat (olive oil works great) for the best absorption.

 

Read the Article From Reader’s Digest

February 27, 2008

Jeff Foxsworthy On Colorado

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I am going to be posting. You are a Coloradoan If, from Jeff Foxsworth, just because I am from Colorado.  Enjoy.teeth smile Jeff Foxsworthy On Colorado

 

You are a Coloradoan if …………

  1. You switch from "Heat" to "A/C" in one day.
  2. You know what the "Peoples Republic of Boulder" means.
  3. Your sense of direction is: towards the mountains and away from the mountains.
  4. You’re a meat-eating vegetarian.
  5. The bike on your car is worth more than your car and you have your own special bike lane.
  6. You’re able to drive 65 miles per hour through 13 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without even flinching.
  7. You take your out-of-town guests to Casa Bonita even though you would never go there otherwise.
  8. You think your major food groups are granola bars, tofu and Fat Tire Beer.
  9. You design your kid’s Halloween costumes to fit over a snowsuit.
  10. You think that sexy lingerie is wool socks and flannel PJs.
  11. You know all 4 seasons "almost winter, winter, still winter and spring blizzards 
  12. You’ve been tear gassed in a riot to celebrate a CU/CSU victory.
  13.  You can never figure out why your out-of-town guests faint from altitude sickness on a picnic to the mountains.
  14. You can drive over a 12,000-foot pass in 4 feet of snow, but can’t get to work if there are 4 inches of snow.
  15. You know the ‘correct’ pronunciation of Buena Vista.
  16. When you visit friends at sea level, you can drink a case of beer and not get a buzz. (more…)

February 27, 2008

Tidbits You Should Know Part 2

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1. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.

2 Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark’s stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

3. Most lipstick contains fish scales (eeww).

4. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.

5. Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa’s lips.

6. Upper and lower case letters are named ‘upper’ and ‘lower’ because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the upper case’ letters ere stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, ‘lower case’ letters.

7. Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time . hence, multi-tasking was invented.

8. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

9. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

10. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan; there was never a recorded Wendy before!

February 27, 2008

Tidbits You Should Know

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1 . Money isn’t made out of paper, it’s made out of cotton..

2. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.

3. The dot over the letter i is called a "tittle".

4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

5. 40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

6. 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

7. The ‘spot’ on 7UP comes from its inventor, who had red eyes. He was albino.

8. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents, daily.

9. Chocolate affects a dog’s heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small sized dog.

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