Working Hard On The Internet
Ever wonder why so many folks are trying to make extra money on the Internet and who is succeeding? This isn’t the site to learn from.

Dell Vostro and the Corrupt Vista BCD
This post is mostly a note page for me on how I fixed my wife’s DELL Vostro  1400.
This morning I woke up and tried to boot my wife’s Vostro and got a “Screen of Death” of sorts.
File: \Boot\BCD
Status: 0xc0000034
Info: The Windows Boot Configuration Data file is missing required information
In [...]

Simply use a 301 redirect with some devilishly ingenious code from TechCounter:
301 Permanent Redirect from Blogger Beta to WordPress
11. May 2007, 10:51 By Ryan Ferone
Most Bloggers start out with free blog hosting with the most popular of the free services being Google’s blogger where you get a yoursite.blogspot.com address. Now you want to move from Blogger [...]

So after figuring it was long enough wait I have destroyed and recreated both original entries of my Blogs.
Originally this site was Not How To Do It on Blogspot and it held pretty much an exact duplicate of a lot of the entries in this site, however, I did the following steps:

Log onto the Blogspot web [...]

I took this book out of the Ottawa Public library just to see what interesting tid bits I might pick up, as I usually find all books by O’Reilly and Associates very informative.
The book itself is an excellent resource for beginner bloggers who want to start out and figure out how to set up their [...]

I have been trying to find a smart way to clean up my old blog on blog spot Canadian Financial Rants, but I finally bit the bullet and deleted it and then recreated it.  That purged all of the entries on the site, and now it has a single entry telling whoever trips over the [...]

Tried out a poll from the new Polldaddy plug in on my site on my post: Rates Are Down by 1/4% but haven’t had much interest in the poll.  Figured I would see if anyone is actually interested in that kind of interaction with the web site, it seems so far the answer is “No”, [...]

Added the Comment Relish plug in from Justin Shattuck to Canadian Personal Finance Opinions to see whether sending e-mail to first time commenters causes more traffic through the web site. Seems to work just fine, we shall see if this actually causes folks to wander through my site or not.
My Alexa inbound link number continues [...]

Seems like the RSS feeds on Canadian Personal Finance Opinions has gone a bit squirrely lately, if my Adsense counters are to be belived. The Feedburner counter on the site continues to show very low-ish numbers but I am seeing over 350 RSS feed page displays on my Adsense counters, so this is quite intriguing [...]

 
Joke of the Day
A while back I was reading a posting on line and it was from a gentleman who’s mother tongue was not english, and this post was about Chickmunks (should have been chipmunks, given the picture above) and how do you deal with them around  your house. The posting went on to talk [...]