The AP is running an article about the bill signed into law today by President Bush to help provide mortgage relief. I’ve been following this bill after my mom brought it to my attention with the claim that it will provide a $7,500 tax credit to home buyers if they purchased their home between April [...]
Posted on July 30th, 2008 by Matthew
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I wrote sometime ago about the visual design of a website, particularly a WordPress blog, and lamented the long sidebar that plagues so many sites. Like anyone else, I want to show everything I have to offer to my readers, but I know that my readers don’t necessarily want the same. End-users want the information [...]
Posted on July 29th, 2008 by Matthew
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A conference I’m speaking at in October has, as part of their Web 2.0 theme, decided to start a blog. After submitting my first entry last Friday, I emailed the coordinator and asked her what their licensing was on the content. If they are retaining full copyright on all materials, then I can’t post the [...]
Posted on July 28th, 2008 by Matthew
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Liz Strauss at Successful Blog is hosting a Blog Show on her site today. SilverPen Publishing will be one of the many blogs shown there, so if you have come to my site via that show, thanks and welcome! If you’re a regular reader, you should head over to the Blog-to Show on Liz’s blog [...]
Posted on July 26th, 2008 by Matthew
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Why can’t anything ever work as advertised?
So, I’ve written a couple of tech articles for the next couple of weeks (scheduled to publish on the next two Tuesdays) and they had a few code snippets in them. Therefore, I thought I’d find a nice way to display that code, maybe put it in a box [...]
Posted on July 24th, 2008 by Matthew
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