AdWords is an incredibly powerful and easy tool that enables advertisers to feature their website to people that are searching for, or reading about, relevant information. In fact, that's how Google funds Gmail, it places these relevant ads within your Gmail window, next to any email you are reading, contextual to the emails' contents.

Usually these ads are pretty bang on, and usually I just ignore them. But I have to admit that my eyes were drawn to this particular ad today: (more…)

I recently sold my laptop on Craigslist (I just upgraded to the new unibody MacBook Pro). I got a flurry of emails, two of which I immediately recognized as scams. The one I tried to engage in a 'transaction', but went nowhere. The other one I was able to string along for 3 days, 39 emails and a Skype chat! I will post this purely for educational purpose, so you don't get scammed. Here's how it went down:
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5 years ago I wrote this article on how to sort a multidimensional array with ASP. This morning I was contacted by James Philips of  Djanogly City Academy Nottingham, who told me that he found my article, and has adapted the function for VB.NET compilation. Additionally, he has modified it to allow sorting on numeric criteria so that numbers aren’t sorted as strings.

With his permission I'm publishing the function. Enjoy!
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Well, I never went to school in the 70's, or even existed for that matter. But if I had have, this is what my school photo would have looked like:

This was created by one of the coolest iPhone apps available, Old Booth.

By the way, I realize that I haven't been blogging enough lately. I'll get on it!

I just wanted to make a brief post about the ranking software I've been using very happily now for over a year, it's simply called Rank Tracker. I highly recommend it to anyone who either runs an SEO business/agency, or even just has one website but is serious about organic search ranking. (more…)