Not sure how many people have heard about Scott’s Law, but it is now effective in Colorado, California, Illinois, and is being actively pursued to be a law in several other states. Scott’s Law, also referred to as the "Move Over Law", has high violation fines and possible 1 month or more driver license suspension. Motorist who do not know about this law, who are pulled over and plead ignorance of this law are still given a ticket and a fine.

In my opinion, the concept of this law is great, because I think people should move over for emergency vehicles that have their lights on, or if people are walking around on the side of the road such as cops, firefighters, rescue workers, etc. Several times I have seen people gawking at accidents and unconsciously start to steer their cars towards the direction they are looking at, which can result in serious accidents. I can say, without a doubt, that several emergency workers have been injured or killed by motorist who did move over for emergency vehicles. Read more

A few days ago I was planning on going through some of my old office files and deleting out any files that were out dated, or I did not need anymore. But every time I tried to open a file I received this nice error from Office 2003 & 2007 saying

You are attempting to open a file type that is blocked by your registry policy setting.

And

You are attempting to open a file that was created in an earlier version of Microsoft Office. This file type is blocked from opening in this version by your registry policy setting.

So after trying to open up two files and receiving this error, I head over to Google to do some research, and see what is causing this error. After a little while of looking around, I find a Microsoft page explaining how to fix it. The fix involves several registry changes to stop Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint from producing this error.

Well to make life easier for the next person that has this error message, and to avoid having to play around in the registry, which can cause some serious problems, I decided to make a registry patch that you just open up, and it will automatically add all the necessary registry entries in a few seconds for you.
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On August 19th 2007, an oil tanker off the coast of  Australia split in two, dumping 20,000 tons of crude oil. This is a very funny video skit with Senator Collins, a member of the Australian Parliament. Enjoy the video.

While looking around at the latest plugins that are available for WordPress, I noticed on wordpress org, that the second most popular plugin is WP-DB-Backup. As I continue browsing through the most popular list of plugins, I find several other plugins that optimize the WordPress database, and plugin that will help you restore your database if it’s corrupted, then a few other plugins to help you back up your database much like DB-Backup.

After a while of looking through this list of popular plugins I start thinking to myself, "Why don’t more people know about the all in one database plugin that does everything you could possibly want with a Database without the need of installing multiple plugins to do the job."

So in attempt to save my visitors time and hassle, I would like to recommend WP-DBManger plugin.

WP-DBManager is a wordpress plugin I have been using for Read more

If you are new to blog-O-sphere, or a season veteran, chances are you have most likely seen the Blog Ad stripe at the top of a WordPress website. The most popular Ad Stripe plugin I have seen was created by MaxBlogPress, which is the one John Chow uses on his blog. (in case you haven’t seen an ad stripe, just look at the top of my webpage and you will see it with a link to Howbits Forum).

Note: This Ad Stripe code works on other types of websites, even forums, not just WordPress.

I recently decided to try out maxblog ad stripe plugin on my website, but I noticed some annoyances right from the beginning that would not make my visitors very happy. Some visitors, I hope, would not mind the ad stripe at the top, but others would be really annoyed if they closed it, and then every time they clicked on a new article or refreshed the page, the ad stripe would appear again, in a relentless cycle.

In my opinion, this would not do because an annoyed visitor will not return, so I wanted to give my visitors the ability to keep the ad stripe up if they wanted, but if they closed the Ad Stripe, it would be gone and not bother them anymore. So with a little tinkering, and a lot of reading, I created a hybrid ad stripe that stays closed permentely and works with Wp-supercache. I would like to make this into a plugin, but I do not know at this time, so if someone wants to make a plugin for this code, please go right ahead.

Note: This Ad Stripe will not work with visitors that have cookies acceptance turned off, or if javascript is not allowed to run. The Ad Stripe ad will continue to appear on the website after they close it.

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This video was emailed to me today, and I have never seen this before, but that’s not to say it’s a new video, from what I have noticed it’s about two years old, but it is still amazing to watch.

Kim Komando’s Quote – "This fountain can actually make pictures and words with falling water. It’s been described as working like an inkjet printer. Hundreds of nozzles create precise streams of water. Timed just right, images are created."

Whenever I take over a website to help with improving the organic rankings, I always take a look at what Google has indexed and is currently displaying in search results for the website. In almost all case, if it’s a WordPress site, the search will show the theme folder has been indexed along with all the files in wp-content, wp-admin, and cgi-bin folder. Needless to say, Google, MSN, Yahoo, etc. has now indexed redundant files that have nothing to do with your website and in most cases this opens up possible security issues and can cause a hit to your organic search results by indexing these files.

The sad part is that all this can be prevented by the use of a good Robots.txt file that you can upload right to the root directory of your website. Takes a few minutes to do, and then you have to wait for the search engines to update your website indexing.

How to make a Great Robots.txt File.

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WP Security Scan – This handy plugin will scan your wordpress installation to look for any possible security / vulnerability holes in WordPress. Most of the security items that it finds, it can fix automatically by itself, with no work on the users part. The only things that need to be performed by the user is to change the chmod permissions of files indicated as security risk. Easy to install, just extract to your plugin directory and activate the plugin.

Nofollow Reciprocity – Essentially what this plugin does, is look through a list of websites that use nofollow rules for links on their website. It then checks your blog for links going to these website, and adds nofollow to these links so you do not bleed off your pagerank which can cause a loss of serp because of non-recriporcal links. The plugin website goes into indepth detail of why you need to run this plugin and how it will help you with Organic Search Ranking. Easy install, just activate the plugin and it does the rest for you.

Note: My only complaint with Nofollow was the link it puts in the footer that says

This blog contributes to the web with Nofollow Reciprocity.

So I decided to remove it because it was messing up my theme, and looks bad to have a link hanging at the bottom of my website outside of my wp theme.

Here are instructions to remove it, if you wish to do so. Read more

This article is intended to help people get immediate traffic to their website(s) from search engines.

It’s a common dream among website owners to be number one in organic search ranking for certain keywords, but the mistake that they make, is not realizing that this is only a dream. They believe they can have amazing keyword ranking right from the start with common keywords, not even realizing that this type of ranking feat can take several hundred hours of time, energy, work, and dedication. In the end, the website owner gets burned out, loses a lot valuable time and over looks very simple ways to get traffic and customers.

Instead it would have been wiser to start off with geographically localized keywords. As a result they would be trying to get ranking results over a handful of websites instead of competing against hundreds, possibly thousands of websites for a common keyword. Read more

I have been using StumbleUpon since the very beginning of this website, which is a little over a month ago, and I have had good success with it, considering I had no friends on the service to vote I Like It. StumbleUpon brings over 100 visitors, and growing each day. I have noticed that unlike Digg, Stumble has a delay time before you start getting traffic, usually around 2 to 4 days, but unlike Digg traffic, Stumble traffic is stable and visitors continue to come day after day, long after the article / website was posted.

The process of submitting a website to StumbleUpon is an easy uncomplicated process and takes all of a minute to do. Then in an ideal world, people will come to your website or blog entry and click I like it on the stumble bar and this votes up your website, which results in more traffic.

I do not see a need to write a full article about this service, because so many people have written amazing articles on StumbleUpon and the several ways to use it effectively. I have read everyone of these pages and recommend them to anyone who is actively trying to get traffic or least quality backlinks to their websites. I have listed 3 links to websites explaining everything and anything someone would want to know about the service, and how you should build your StumbleUpon profile so that you can get people Stumbling your page or pages.
 

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