My arm hurts from patting myself on the back. Today I noticed that my Google PageRank has moved from 0 to 1.
And, while playing around the Technorati site, I noticed this interesting page: How Much Is Your Blog Worth? Well, as it turns out, my blog is worth a bit over $550. I guess that can only go up, seeing as Google itself finds me 10 times more important now than just a few hours ago.
Welp, ING Direct changed its referral program, and it now requires an opening deposit of $250 to qualify for the $25 bonus. You can still open an account for $0.01, but it just isn’t the same without that $25 kicker. The news does make the VirtualBank referral program look even better, though. VirtualBank still offers [...]
I’m playing around with some SEO stuff, focusing on my page about the Virtual Bank Referral Program. So far, not so good. The damn thing won’t get indexed by Google. I dunno what’s up with that. The funny thing is, most of the sites concerning Virtual Bank are horribly written, from an SEO point of [...]
Modestly appointed, but the price is right Google has released a beta version of Google Talk, a text and voice instant messenger application. Still in its infancy, the program is very light on features, offering text and voice messaging and little else. Frankly, I hope it remains this way, rather than adding dozens of non-messaging [...]
4.35% APY with no minimum balance More free money. Following up on my post about the excellent VirtualBank eMoney Market account, ING Direct is offering an APY of 4.35% (effective 7/31/06) on its Orange Savings account. This account offers a $25 bonus for opening a new account through a referral. Send an email to vbreferral@gmail.com [...]
Updated for XAMPP version 1.6.5 Some time ago, I decided to start phasing out static xhtml in favor of pages using PHP includes. To test these new pages, I used apachefriends.org’s wonderful XAMPP (which I really can’t recommend highly enough) to install Apache, MySQL, and PHP (among other things). Once I had my local server [...]
APY of 4.60% and a $20 referral bonus Woot, free money. I just opened a savings account at VirtualBank, a division of Lydian Private Bank (member FDIC). The current yield on their eMoney Market account is an impressive 4.60%. BankOne’s Money Market account, for comparison’s sake, has a yield of 0.90%, and that’s with a [...]
The future is disturbingly convenient I’ve been using Google Maps for some time now, as a replacement to Yahoo! Maps and the godforsaken MapQuest for plotting out jaunts around Chicago. Completely functional, though still in beta, it’s just about the coolest cartography thing on the web, challenged only by this map of Switzerland. I’m watching [...]
All roads lead to Microsoft Microsoft Update is, more or less, Windows Update + Office Update. Microsoft Update replaces Windows Update and updates Windows XP, Windows 2000 SP3, Windows Server 2003, Office XP, Office 2003, SQL Server 2000 SP4 and Exchange 2000. See for yourself at http://update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate/v6/default.aspx.
Microsoft’s Anti-Virus/Anti-Spyware Service Microsoft is developing a comprehensive anti-virus, anti-spyware, and disk maintenance product called Windows OneCare. Currently, plans are to make this a subscription service, but Microsoft had initially intended to charge for Windows AntiSpyware, later deciding to make that a free product. There is no firm date as to when OneCare will be [...]