Thotz from Dr Mike

Random Thoughts from the Desk of Mike

Category: Computing
Posted by: mike40033
This post is more for my own benefit than anyone else's - since this information always seems difficult to find. However, if you are looking for a reliable way to burn a DVD .iso file under Linux, read on.

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Category: Computing
Posted by: mike40033
I'm reading the famout book The World Is Flat, by Thomas Friedman. He talks about the great "flatteners" that have changed the world over the past two decades.

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Category: Computing
Posted by: mike40033
I'm having my website Math Games for Kids website Translated into Spanish by a kind soul named Elizabeth Chavez.

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Category: Computing
Posted by: mike40033
A lot of the "scam" ads out there promising fantastic adsense riches for very little work have photos or screenshots to show that the systems "really work". There are photos of cheques for large amounts, sports cars, screenshots of affiliate earnings, and so on.

It's sad that people are taken in by these, since these pictures (and testimonials) are all so easily faked.

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Category: Computing
Posted by: mike40033
I saw listed on eBay, a website for sale.

The title read, in big bold letters, "Established Google AdSense Site Earn Money Daily.. EASY". The subtitle, "Earn 500-800$ per month using google adsense NO RESERV [sic]".

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06/03: Online Coffee

Category: Computing
Posted by: mike40033
My head span for a minute, when I heard that you can now order Starbucks Coffee from Amazon.com. After all, Amazon is the quintessential example of a shop with no building, no place, no physical environment. And Starbucks is the quintessential example of a shop where the building - the place - the ambience is everything.

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Category: Computing
Posted by: mike40033
Ok, maybe I was silly to do this, but.... Naah...

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Category: Computing
Posted by: mike40033
Adding a discussion forum to a website has been promoted as a great way enhance it. The traffic to the website can feed the forum, and vice-versa. What's more, the posts people make to the forum become content that googlebot will crawl, and show in search results, increasing your site's traffic still further.

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Category: Computing
Posted by: mike40033
Let me relate an incident that happened this week. It will tell you something about the kind of world we live in today. I don't think the event could have happened quite like this either 10 years ago, or 10 years from now. Certainly not the former.

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Category: Computing
Posted by: mike40033
One of the features google claims for their new browser is "faster javascript processing"

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