Women never make mistakes

I’m not kidding! That’s the actual motto of the Longshuihu village, a “women’s town” in China. Actually, the motto goes beyond that. Women never make mistakes, and men can never refuse women’s requests. Planning on touring this town as a couple? The woman gets to choose what to buy while shopping and what hotel to stay in. The disobedient man would be punished by... read more

Linux in da house

Well, not yet, but almost. It’s time for this little household to try Linux on one of our desktop machines. I’ve been wanting to play with a nice desktop flavor of Linux for a while, but we finally have a spare machine to use. I want it to be as user-friendly as possible, so I’m going with Freespire. Rather than downloading the 680MB ISO install file (which is free), I decided... read more

John who?

I’ve been hearing the name, John Chow, for a few weeks now and have been wondering who the heck this guy was. I eventually gathered that he’s a blogger that tells people how to make money online. Now, being an SEO by trade, and always being interested in link bait, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to review John’s blog as he requested in his latest link bait experiment, which... read more

Want to be a popular blogger?

Since this blog is fairly new and has an extremely small audience so far, you’d think maybe I need to really study up on blog tips. However, I also have another blog that is somewhat popular, so I’m not a complete noob at this whole blog business. Nevertheless, I’m no A-lister, so I’m always interested in blogging advice. A nice article called 27 +1 Tips for Building and... read more

Use throwaway email addresses to avoid spam

My main email address received hundreds of spam emails per day. I hate it, but I’m never going to get rid of that address, so that’s just something I have to live with. However, I can start avoiding new spam by using throwaway email addresses and you can too. I tried a few throwaway email services recently, and decided that Tempinbox.com was my favorite. Here’s why. I don’t... read more