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Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:41:11 -0800

Here are some rules of life:-

Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it!

Rule 2 : The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3 : You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4 : If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5 : Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.

Rule 6: If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, ‘learn from them’..

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.

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Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:37:22 -0800

A Little Inspiration

People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.�
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, It is between you and God;
It never was between you and them anyway.

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Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:24:31 -0800

5 Advantages of CSS Web Site Design

When you create a website for your business, time and money are likely to be major concerns. Luckily, there is a website design method that can help you save time and money while also improving your visitor's experience. Cascading Style Sheets, more commonly known as CSS, has fast become the preferred web design method for the benefits it offers web designers and website visitors alike.
CSS is a language used to detail the presentation of a web page's markup language (most commonly HTML or XHTML) – such as colors, fonts, and layout. One of its key benefits is the way it allows the separation of document content (written in HTML or a similar markup language) from document presentation (written in CSS).
If you already have a website that was designed using tables, you may be reluctant to make the switch to CSS, which will require some time and effort. However, the benefits of CSS are the same for new and old websites alike — so why wait? Here are 5 great reasons to ditch those pesky tables and turn your website into a CSS success story.
Consistency
By making one change to your website's CSS style sheet, you can automatically make it to every page of your website. The bigger your website, the more time CSS saves you. And not only does CSS save time, it also ensures that your web pages have consistent styling throughout your site.
Bandwidth Reduction
When CSS separates your website's content from its design language, you dramatically reduce your file transfer size. Your CSS document will be stored externally, and will be accessed only once when a visitor requests your website. In contrast, when you create a website using tables, every page of your website will be accessed with each visit. Your reduced bandwidth needs will result in a faster load time and could cut your web hosting costs.
Search Engines
CSS is considered a clean coding technique, which means search engines won't have to struggle to "read" its content. Also, using CSS will leave your website with more content than code – and content is critical to your search engine success.
Browser Compatibility
The recent arrival of Google� Chrome is further evidence that today's Internet users have more browser options than ever before, which makes browser compatibility a major issue for your website. CSS stylesheets increase your website's adaptability and ensure that more visitors will be able to view your website in the way you intended.
Viewing Options
Another common web design concern is the increasing need to make websites available for different media. CSS can help you tackle this challenge by allowing the same markup page to be presented in different viewing styles —— for example, you may create a separate stylesheet for print or for a mobile device.
With so many advantages to offer, CSS is a wise choice for web design. If you're interested in making your website load faster, look better and rank higher, consider using CSS to create a new website or improve an existing website.

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Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:44:40 -0800

To all my dear friends...

happy new year:))

PHONE RINGS

"Hello?"

"Hi honey. This is Daddy. Is Mommy near the phone?"

"No Daddy.

She's upstairs in the bedroom with Uncle Paul."

After a brief pause,

Daddy says, "But honey, you haven't got an Uncle Paul."

"Oh yes I do, and he's upstairs in the room with Mommy, right now."

Brief Pause.

"Uh, okay then, this is what I want you to do.
Put the phone down on the table,
run upstairs and knock on the bedroom door
and shout to Mommy that Daddy's car just pulled into the driveway."

"Okay Daddy,
just a minute."

A few minutes later
the little girl comes back to the phone.

"I did it Daddy."

"And what happened honey?" he asked.

"Well, Mommy got all scared,
jumped out of bed with no clothes on
and ran around screaming.

Then she tripped over the rug,
hit her head on the dresser
and now she isn't moving at all!"

"Oh my G-d!!!
What about your Uncle Paul?"

"He jumped out of the bed
with no clothes on, too.

He was all scared
and he jumped out of the back window
and into the swimming pool.
But I guess he didn't know
that you took out the water
last week to clean it.

He hit the bottom of the pool
and I think he's dead."

***Long Pause***

***Longer Pause***

***Even Longer Pause***

Then Daddy says,

"Swimming pool? ......

Is this
486-5731?"

"no"

hahahahaha

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Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:54:27 -0800

After awhile you learn the subtle difference
between holding a hand and chaining a soul
and you learn that love doesn't mean possession
and company doesn't mean security.

And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts
and presents aren't promises
and you begin to accept your defeats with your head up
and your eyes ahead
with the grace of an adult not the grief of a child.

And you learn to build your roads today
because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for plans
and futures have ways of falling down in mid-flight.

After awhile you learn that even sunshine burns if you get too much
so you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul
instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

And you learn that you really can endure
that you really are strong
and you really do have worth
and you learn and you learn...with every goodbye you learn.

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Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:43:14 -0800

Here are 6 common website mistakes that could be costing you money:
1. JavaScript or other crawler-unfriendly navigation that may impede indexing. Most newer sites don’t have this problem, but there’s almost always at least 1 site we review in every class that has its main navigation pretty much invisible to the search engines. If your navigation basically doesn’t exist as far as Google is concerned, then it’s very difficult to get all of the pages of your website indexed.
2. Navigation that buries important pages within the site architecture. The deeper that pages are buried within the website, the less importance they are given. For SEO, as well as usability purposes, it’s often helpful to showcase important sections of the website up an additional level in the site’s hierarchy. This can usually be achieved via a search-friendly CSS mouse-over menu.
3. Duplicate “pages” getting indexed under multiple URLs. While Google has, for the most part, worked out many of their canonical issues of the past and now generally realize that http://www.example.com/index.php is the same as http://www.example.com, many content management systems (CMS) take things a step further and provide a whole array of URLs for any one particular page of content. Sometimes this is done purposely for tracking reasons, as with session ids or tracking links appended to the end of URLs; but other times, it’s simply done because the CMS was never designed with search engines in mind. This is not a good thing, as it can cause the spiders to be so busy indexing the same content that they miss the more important stuff.
4. No keyword phrase focus in the content or conversely, keyword phrase stuffing. It never ceases to amaze me when people claim to have optimized a page, but there are no keyword phrases anywhere to be seen within the content. I suppose this might happen because they’ve put them in the keyword meta tag and assume they’ve optimized. (It’s a good thing they’ve come to our class when this is the case!) On the other side of the coin, there are those who seem to think that 4 instances of a keyword phrase in one sentence must certainly be better than just one! The fix, of course, is to provide a balanced focus on the optimized keyword phrases so that a trained SEO would know what the page is optimized for, but the average reader wouldn’t find the copy repetitive.
5. An optimized home page, but that’s it. While optimizing just the home page is better than not optimizing anything, it’s not going to increase the website’s search engine traffic by that much. Without fixing all the issues on inner pages and optimizing a number of them for their own set of keyword phrases, the site will basically be leaving money on the table.
6. Additional domains owned by the company are not properly redirected. In the old days, it was fine to park any additional domains that the company owned as an alias of the main website; however, today it’s much better practice to 301-redirect all additional domains to the main website. This enables the company to control which domain is the one that the search engines index, and avoids any splitting of link popularity between the different domains.

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Sun, 23 Nov 2008 09:30:31 -0800

this one will for sure make you smile:-

A young man went to his father one day to tell him that he wanted to get married.
His father was happy for him. He asked his son who the girl was,
and he told him that it was Samantha a girl from the neighborhood.

With a sad face the old man said to his son, ''I'm sorry to say this son but I have to. The girl you want to marry is your sister, but please don't tell your mother.''

The young man again brought 3 more names to his father but ended up frustrated cause the response was still the same.

So he decides to go to his mother. ''Mom I want to get married but all
the girls that I love,dad said they are my sisters and I mustn't tell you.''

His mother smiling said to him,

''Don't worry my son,
you can marry any of those girls. You're not his son...

lol :))

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Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:23:27 -0700

The Dow's biggest losses

Date
Dow close
Chg.
% chg.

September 29, 2008
10,365.45
-777.68
-6.98

September 17, 2001
8,920.70
-684.81
-7.13

April 14, 2000
10,305.77
-617.78
-5.66

October 27, 1997
7,161.15
-554.26
-7.18

August 31, 1998
7,539.07
-512.61
-6.37

October 19, 1987
1,738.74
-508.00
-22.61

September 15, 2008
10,917.51
-504.48
-4.42

September 17, 2008
10,609.66
-449.36
-4.06

March 12, 2001
10,208.25
-436.37
-4.10

February 27, 2007
12,216.24
-416.02
-3.29

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Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:54:12 -0700

Some tips on robots.txt:-

To exclude all robots from the server:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
To exclude all robots from parts of a server:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /images-saved/
Disallow: /images-working/
To exclude a single robot from the server:
User-agent: Named Bot
Disallow: /
To exclude a single robot from parts of a server:
User-agent: Named Bot
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /images-saved/
Disallow: /images-working/
Note: The asterisk (*) or wildcard in the User-agent field is a special value meaning "any Robot" and therefore is the only one needed until you fully understand how to set up different User-agents.
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Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:14:44 -0700

Below is a list of our top ten Google tricks many users don't know about.

Definitions - Pull up the definition of the word by typing define followed by the word you want the definition for. For example, typing: define bravura would display the definition of that word.

Local search - Visit Google Local enter the area you want to search and the keyword of the place you want to find. For example, typing: restaurant at the above link would display local restaurants.

Phone number lookup - Enter a full phone number with area code to display the name and address associated with that phone number.

Find weather - Type weather followed by a zip code or city and state to display current weather conditions and forecasts for upcoming days.

Track airline flight - Enter the airline and flight number to display the status of an airline flight and it's arrival time. For example, type: delta 123 to display this flight information if available.

Track packages - Enter a UPS, FedEx or USPS tracking number to get a direct link to track your packages.

Pages linked to you - See what other web pages are linking to your website or blog by typing link: followed by your URL. For example, typing link:http://online-ethics.stumbleupon.com/ displays all pages linking to Online Ethics.

Find PDF results only - Add filetype: to your search to display results that only match a certain file type. For example, if you wanted to display PDF results only type: "dell xps" filetype:pdf -- this is a great way to find online manuals.

Calculator - Use the Google Search engine as a calculator by typing a math problem in the search. For example, typing: 100 + 200 would display results as 300.

Stocks - Quickly get to a stock quote price, chart, and related links by typing the stock symbol in Google. For example, typing: msft will display the stock information for Microsoft.
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