Get A Reference

Most business opportunities come through word of mouth. Now word of mouth referrals are becoming automated!
Referral networking organizations such as www.linkedin.com and www.bni.com can help you get the connections to land your next opportunity.

Mac Hint: Using Multiple Home Folders on Different Disks

Everytime you log into your account while an external disk is attached, you can get all your preferences and documents from there. Logging into your account with no external disk present, you will work with your home folder on your internal disk.
The benefit? MacOSXHints says:
What’s the use? My PowerBook has to be repaired, […]

Recovering from a Failed Disk

Hopefully you’ve been good and have backups in place. But if that fails, here is a service that can help you out:
http://www.datarecovery.net

Tips On Note-Taking

I love Hyatt’s notes on Recovering the Lost Art of Note-Taking. I like the symbols he says to use:
Use symbols so you can quickly scan your notes later. I indent my notes from the left edge of the paper about half an inch. This allows me to put my symbols in the left margin. I […]

The Weekly Review

Michael Hyatt has a great post here on The Importance of the Weekly Review. If you want to stay organized, block out two hours once a week to clean up your master list of tasks. I like to do my weekly review first thing Monday morning.

Menus in WordPress

Some notes on how to do create menus using the WordPress CMS:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_Horizontal_Menus
http://codex.wordpress.org/Dynamic_Menu_Highlighting

CSS Lists

Some great bullet lists for menus, etc.
My favorites:
http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic2/vertical03.htm
http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic2/vertical05.htm
http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic2/vertical13.htm
And details on the lists browser support:
http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic2/browser-support.htm

List-O-Matic Tools

Some great web developer tools:
http://www.accessify.com/tools-and-wizards/default.asp
List-O-Matic - Generate navigation bars based on list items (<li>) that are styled with CSS. It’s as easy as falling off a chair, only less painful.

Accessible Form Builder - A new version of the form builder tool, this time with more advanced features, including the option of selecting what type […]

How to Get Into Blogs, 101

How to Get Into Blogs, 101 is a great starter article for those who are not familiar with blogs and blogging. If you’re not using Bloglines or another reader to read RSS blog feeds, you should read this very basic, step-by-step blog reading guide. Reading from a news aggregator is a *much* quicker way of […]

Is MySQL Gearing Up To Take On Oracle?

This article has some interesting perspectives:
With new features in the latest version of MySQL, like subqueries and a new binary format, the company has become a stronger competitor against much larger companies, and seems poised to bite into their revenues. Even more importantly, MySQL might actually spark some fundamental changes in the market.
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