Ask And Get Help For Five Bucks – Experiment

I’d like to try an experiment. I’d like to offer my services, in the form of Q&A, for five bucks. Here’s the way I envision it working. You ask me a question (privately). If I can answer it, you send $5 to my PayPal account. If I can’t, you owe me nothing. What Kinds Of Questions Can You Ask? You can ask all sorts of questions, though I’d imagine “how-to”... read more

Freelancers Union

I’d like to quickly point out a site I’ve only recently become aware of (where have I been, right?). It’s called the Freelancer’s Union and can be found at http://www.freelancersunion.org. It’s headed by Sara Horowitz and you can see a short Youtube video introduction of it on CNN Money here. Basically, Freelancer’s Union is a site geared towards giving some breaks to... read more

Green Web Hosting – ThinkHost Is No Longer My Choice

UPDATE: Due to so many complaints, I’m no longer recommending ThinkHost. However, lucky for us all, my past and still present favorite hosting company, HostGator, has gone green, so I can continue recommending it while knowing there’s an extra goodness in its greeness! So, ignore the rest of this and just know that I love HostGator. * A few days ago, a friend of mine had web hosting issues... read more

Revolution Money Is Possible PayPal Replacement That Has Real Merit

UPDATE: Forget what I said below. Later, much later, it’s obvious that this never took off, and in fact it’s being sold to American Express. It won’t exist in this form at all soon. So…never mind. A new payment network, called Revolution Money, is poised to take PayPal’s place. I personally have never had a problem with PayPal but because they are not a bank, and can’t... read more

Black Friday Fun and Deals, Deals, Deals

It’s Black Friday, folks, but instead of fighting the crowds at the malls, you can find all the on-sale stuff online too. What a fun, fun, fun, fun day to be able to shop and get bargains, bargains, bargains! I’m going to be doing a lot of shopping at Amazon’s Black Friday Sales Event. Amazon will be offering hourly deals from 6am to 6pm PST along with thousands of products on sale for... read more

Want Your Own Yahoo! Mash Space?

Yahoo! just unveiled Mash, its newest social networking space. Of course, you have to be invited to participate at the moment, as is the norm with these Web 2.0 beta things. Once you have a Mash profile, it appears that you then can invite unlimited amounts of people. I might be wrong on that, but I don’t see any limits, anyway. So, I’ll be happy to give invites to anyone and everyone who... read more

How I Plan To Survive My Next Computer Crash

My entire weekend was ruined when my computer died early Saturday morning. I wasn’t entirely surprised. My computers tend to give up the ghost every 2-3 years, and the latest had lasted nearly 4 years. I wasn’t too worried. I have backups, right? Well, yes, sort of. For some reason, my backups stopped happening 4 months ago. I don’t know why. So my latest backup is really old. ... read more

I am giving away 5 free GrandCentral invitations

UPDATE: NO MORE GRANDCENTRAL INVITATIONS ARE AVAILABLE. I’M ALL OUT, SORRY. Have you heard about GrandCentral yet? Google just acquired the company, and for now at least, it is free. I have to say that this is the coolest use of technology I’ve seen in a long, long time. Maybe because I’ve moved a lot in my life, but dealing with phone number changes is a real drag for me. ... read more

A daily surprise

Have you ever been to Woot.com? I just discovered it a few days ago, and I just love it. Woot is an online store that only sells one item each day, and that item is usually DEEPLY discounted. A new item is shown every day at midnight (CST) and is there until sold out, or until midnight comes along again. If it sells out, it is not replaced with a new item until midnight. So it really is just one item... read more