Posted in Internet, blogging, finance, news & politics on Apr 28th, 2009 No Comments »
People needs to be very careful of what they twitter, especially corporate ‘tweets’. According to a Wall Street Journal article, Corporate Blogs and ‘Tweets’ Must Keep SEC in Mind, some regulations may need to be put in place.
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Posted in news & politics on Apr 28th, 2009 No Comments »
Is our government trying to gag our lobbyists from telling US citizens the details of the stimulus plan? Maybe there is something they want to hide in the most expensive spending plan in American history. Isn’t it our American taxpayers right to know what our children and grandchildren (if not great-grandchildren) would be [...]
Posted in finance, news & politics on Apr 24th, 2009 No Comments »
According to a New York Times article, the US Treasury pushed Bank of America into closing the merger deal with Merrill Lynch.
What is becoming of America? It seems that this new Presidency and his cabinet is muscling corporations like the mob muscled small businesses for security protection from the mob itself. I just [...]
Posted in news & politics on Apr 19th, 2009 No Comments »
I just was sent a link to this video (almost 2 hours long on YouTube). Interesting…
The Obama Deception HQ Full length version
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Posted in news & politics on Apr 19th, 2009 No Comments »
On Easter Sunday (April 12, 2009), just as my family and I were getting on a plane for a family trip, I received an alert from NotifyNYC about a brush fire on Staten Island.
Here is the story on SI Live (link).
A video provided by Fox 5 News.
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Posted in family stuff, finance, free stuff on Apr 11th, 2009 No Comments »
Suze Orman is giving away, for FREE, access to her Will & Trust kit (online edition).
According to her website (link):
PLEASE NOTE: This program is an Online Version. You will receive your activation information within your e-mail confirmation. You WILL NOT receive an item in the mail.
To get your own personalized activation code from Suze Orman
Goto:
https://www.suzeormanwillandtrust.com/giftcode/
use [...]
Posted in WordPress, blogging on Apr 10th, 2009 2 Comments »
While playing around to get Highlight your Sticky Posts, I realized that with WordPress 2.7, we can now modify our CSS stylesheet (styles.css) so that we can highlight a Post by simply adding a “tag” to that Post. What we need to do is add that appropriate entry int our styles.css file.
For example, this [...]
Posted in blogging, news & politics on Apr 10th, 2009 3 Comments »
I just came across a post by John C. Liu on facebook referring to his post on the John C. Liu for NYC Comptroller website titled Judge Us Not by Our Names, but by the Content of Our Character and Civic Participation.
I am outraged !!!at Texas House Representative Betty Brown
It is not only about Asian [...]
Posted in WordPress, blogging, tweaking / hacking / fixing on Apr 9th, 2009 No Comments »
To simply highlight something you can just modify your CSS stylesheet styles.css to include something like this:
.highlight { background-color: #FFFF00; }
With WordPress v2.7, you can now mark a post as “Sticky”, which puts it at the top of the page. If you are using a WordPress 2.7 compatible theme, then it [...]
Posted in Internet, computer stuff, finance on Apr 9th, 2009 No Comments »
Came across a PC Magazine article about Why Google Should Buy Twitter.
Just the thought of Google’s search technology and current relevant content (stuff people are Twitter’ng about) could mean a mega-advertising revenue stream for Google. I think if Google buys Twitter, we can possible see Google serving up ads in our Twitter feeds. [...]