Elgin Computer Guy

Holy Cow!  How time flies.  I’ve been saying to myself lately that I need to get the blog rolling again

OK… New Years Resolution #1 - update this blog at least once a week in 2009

If I were homeless I hope I could have it this good.  Not that I’m saying he’s lucky or anything, but at least he has something to stimulate his mind:

Homeless guy with a Dell

A dog and a laptop and you can forget your plight for a little while. I suppose there are places where he can recharge his battery and I’ll bet he can find wireless access all over the place.

I’m not sure why, but when I Stumbled onto this picture, it moved me. The picture is a link to the original as I found it on the web - no credits, no clue as to who, what, where, or when.

If you really want to make a lot more money as a freelancer, you don
’t have to drive yourself crazy working an enormous number of extra hours.

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I switched to 1and1.com for web hosting a few years ago and have been nothing but happy with the service. My old hosting company kept ending up on blacklists and had a lot of down time. 1and1 has been very good to me - never a bounced email because my IP address is on a blacklist and I’m only aware of 1 outage ever since I started with them and that only lasted a few minutes.

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I’m old enough to join AARP. How sad. How amazing! A half century old. Holy Crap!

I’ve become a huge fan of Bloglines. I find that there are many blogs that I’m interested in, but don’t want to have to go check them out via bookmarks or some other silly stuff. I tried the RSS reader in Outlook, but wasn’t too happy with it. Bloglines makes it simple.

If I stumble upon (another “tool” that I love) a blog that catches my eye, all I have to do is click on the RSS icon in the address bar and it adds it to my feeds on bloglines. Check it out - even my site will let you subscribe.

When I click on the icon it takes me to the bloglines page to add feeds. I can put it at the top level or organize my feeds into folders. Super Easy! I can tell at a glance how many new posts are available for each category and each blog.

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