Whatever's tugging at my brain handles
Aug 25th, 2008 by Greg Bulmash
The following job scam e-mail from MIO Group found its way through my spam filters. I'll post the e-mail and then discuss the ways you can tell it's a scam:
From: a-hayashi@acerosbergara.comHello,
We, MIO Group Inc, have considered your resume and we think that you can become a valuable worker in our company. Please, take a look at our vacancy list: Continue Reading »
Aug 24th, 2008 by Greg Bulmash
So, it's Sunday evening, around 7:15, my family and I have just finished Sunday dinner, and the phone rings. It's a guy from "NRU Enterprises" who says he got my contact information off of CareerBuilder. I'm immediately suspicious. I ask why he's calling me on a Sunday evening and he says it's because it's the best time to catch people at home. This isn't sounding good. Continue Reading »
Aug 18th, 2008 by Greg Bulmash
If you're studying up on SEO, you'll find that one of the primary recommendations is to validate your HTML, and this is so Google can understand it. This is all well and good when it comes to your HTML tags, but what about HTML entities?
HTML entities are special codes for special characters like the copyright symbol (©) and unlike tags, they're not bracketed. If you want to insert a copyright symbol, you use © in your body text. On the other hand, if you wanted to make it bold, you'd have to put bracketed tags around it like so: <b>©</b> (©). Continue Reading »
Aug 18th, 2008 by Greg Bulmash
It was very hot in Western Washington this past weekend. Well, it got up to about 89 degrees on Saturday, which is hot by our standards, especially when you consider that central air conditioning is a rarity around here. They have it at the mall, some stores and restaurants, but not in most homes.
We got a portable air conditioner a while back, and when it gets this hot, we trundle it out to cool down our bedroom. Because my wife wasn't feeling well, I experimented with putting it up on a table and blowing it out over the bed, so she could lay down and cool off. We have a fairly tall bed (top of the mattress is at the bottom of my ribcage and I'm 6' tall), so when it was on top of the table, the cold air vent was just a little higher than the top of the mattress. Continue Reading »