Archive for October, 2008
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008As I sit here watching political speeches and ralliess on various cable channels, I am reminded again of the challenges of learning to speak, read, and write the English language effectively. (I also feel a great deal of thanksgiving that I learned it “naturally” as a native speaker — and that the U.S. elections are [...]
Interesting word history, usage — ‘hardcore’ meant bricks and stone
Monday, October 27th, 2008When you see or hear the word “hardcore,” do you think of bricks or p*rn?
This is one of those words which fascinate me, both in it’s origin and in it’s changes in meaning. If you “Google” the word or trace the word’s etymology in a dictionary, you may be surprised the origin goes back to [...]
Do any of you write Hub Pages? Have any tips to share?
Monday, October 27th, 2008If you do any Internet writing, I’m sure you’ve heard about Squidoo — which I mentioned in a post a few days ago and encouraged you to visit.
But perhaps a lesser known website which lets you write about your interests and put that writing on the Internet is Hub Pages at hubpages.com. Have you looked [...]
APICoders.com offers useful services to help you with your website
Saturday, October 25th, 2008Speaking of Internet writing and putting together websites — here’s a useful company with affordable, valuable services you may want to check into — APICoders.com.
Among other services, this company, headquartered in India, offers api widget and mashup programming for social networking sites. More simply put, APICoders.com helps websites take advantage of the “API” services freely [...]
Do you Squidoo? Go take a look at this fascinating community
Saturday, October 25th, 2008Do you Squidoo?
Has a funny sound to it, I know. But if you use or visit Squidoo, you’ll know how interesting the place can be. They have “experts” and would-be experts on just about anything you might want to know. And the beauty of Squidoo is that anyone can go there and create a really [...]