Tips and Techniques

A catchall term for a 16th century Japanese discipline that combines the notions of wabi (things that are simple or humble) and sabi (things that gain beauty from age).Wabi-sabi in the home, according to Lawrence […]

Windows Explorer has a nasty habit of opening where Bill Gates says to open it, usually some lame place like "My Documents."  To fix this behavior change or create a shortcut to run the following:%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe […]

I know that this is a little thing, but while looking at another blog eat the pudding, I noticed that the background image was static and the div’s were floating over the background.  So I […]

We’ve all heard horror stories about fraud that’s committed us in your name, address, SS#, credit, etc. Unfortunately I, the author of this piece who happens to be an attorney, have firsthand knowledge because my […]

How does Google rank pages?  It turns out that it uses a technology called Pigeon Rank to actually do the work.

Google has added a new prefix to the search that allows you to search for the definition of a term.  This is useful when you are looking for this sort of result and don’t want […]

Use the command netstat -en to show ports. Look for those that are listening. Make sure your firewall is blocking those ports for which you know no service should be answering. The IANA Assigned Port […]