Back in the day, I had a webcam and used it often. I had it linked on my blog so that the whole internet was invited to my virtual peep show…so to speak. Mostly, I used it to goof off with online friends. Person.com is trying to bring back the webcam and make it hot again by putting together hundreds of webcam users together in one place. (Hmm…sounds like a recipe for some naughtiness!) You can check it out at Person.com – webcams, chat, personals. (They snagged a helluva a domain name, didn’t they?) Personally, this kind of...

To those of you who are of the…younger generation…you probably don’t remember a time in your lives without a computer, and possibly, you can’t remember a time without internet access. (The day your DSL went out for 12 hours doesn’t count.) As for me, I remember taking an elective computer course in the 8th grade, where we learned how to do the most basic programming, line by line. I didn’t get online til 1997 when I was a stay at home mom awaiting the birth of my 2nd child. Our first computer was a hand me down from...

When I ran my own website, we incorporated and had an accountant do our taxes every year. It was then that I discovered not all accountants are created equal. We found ours through the lawyer who incorporated our business, and he was good, but definitely a high priced kind of guy. I didn’t know any better at the time, but I could have had someone do the same work, for less money. Live and learn, right? Most accountants probably get the majority of their business from word of mouth, but a new website in the UK is hoping to change that. You can...

I was a little distracted by the PR update starting yesterday, so I neglected to take care of Supahstar Saturday! This week’s featured blogger is Doris, who blogs at Life..Passion..Travel & More… Doris is a self confessed travel freak as well as a stay at home / work at home mom (or “mum”, depending on who you ask) living in Singapore. (I’m extremely jealous because one of her most recent blog entries mentions shopping at Ikea. How come Ikea can build in Singapore, but there’s not one by me yet? I wanna shop at...

You heard it here first. Fifty-seventh. Google’s pagerank update is happening today – yay! So far, I’m only seeing fluctuations for one of my sites. Don’t rejoice or get upset yet – while the datacenters are pulling different info, anything could happen. Wait til the dust has settled before you do anything.

I love Wikipedia. I’m a naturally curious type (some would say nosy, I say curious) and if I don’t know enough about something, I like to find out more. Today it was Stephen Hawking. I read this post on Pesky Apostrophe about flight on zero gravity jet and wanted to know more. I know OF Stephen Hawking, but I don’t know much about him. So, I turned to Wikipedia and there it was – a complete bio about Stephen Hawking with photos, links, and important dates in his life. What geek wouldn’t love this online encyclopedia? You...

At my last company, we got raises and reviews at the same time every year. It was nice knowing you could count on that – but at the same time, unless you got a sudden promotion, you knew you weren’t getting a raise until that time next year. (Lucky me – I did get a promotion, and a few months later when my manager left, petitioned to our operations manager for more and got it again!) In my new job, they used to be a bit lax about reviews…but not raises. I’ve got a raise once or twice a year, ever year, but this year was the...

I got Grand Theft Auto (the trilogy) for Christmas, and I love the game. Right after the holidays, we had visiting friends who had a 15 year old, and I let him place the game to show me some tips and tricks and cheats. But alas, he had to return home, and I’m stuck. I’m at the point in the game where you ride through alleys chasing the guy on the motorcycle, shooting at home. I’ve tried it 100 different times, and I can’t keep up with him. It’s so flippin’ frustrating! I need to find a teenager around here to help...

Back in the day, when I was a wee 21 year old, I worked for a small local builder. My big job there was using Act (does anyone even use that anymore?) to track all of the people who came by to look at homes, to send out mailers to those people, and to gauge their interest in the software. It’s called tracking leads – and customer relationship management software has changed a lot in the past 10 years. The clunky system I used has been replaced, and one of the crm software programs being used today is AimPromote. With features like visitor...

I can laugh at this, because I’m not using Vista. However, my mother is, and this guy is right. Nothing is compatible with Vista! It looks great on her PC, I love the new desktop features, but she can’t install anything that she was using previously. More hassle than it’s worth! Watch how this guy loads Vista onto his “machine”. Via: Video Blog