Category: Tips and Techniques

A catchall term for a 16th century Japanese discipline that combines the notions of wabi (things that are simple or humble) and sabi (things that gain beauty from age).Wabi-sabi in the home, according to Lawrence [The Japanese Art of Imperfect Beauty, by Robyn Griggs Lawrence], is “flea markets, not warehouse stores; aged wood, not Pergo;…

Windows Explorer has a nasty habit of opening where Bill Gates says to open it, usually some lame place like "My Documents."  To fix this behavior change or create a shortcut to run the following:%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /e,/select, c:

I know that this is a little thing, but while looking at another blog eat the pudding, I noticed that the background image was static and the div’s were floating over the background.  So I wondered, how did she do that?And the answer is: ‘background-attachment: fixed;’ in the place where the background image is defined…

We’ve all heard horror stories about fraud that’s committed us in your name, address, SS#, credit, etc. Unfortunately I, the author of this piece who happens to be an attorney, have firsthand knowledge because my wallet was stolen last month and within a week the thieve(s) ordered an expensive monthly cell phone package, applied for…

How does Google rank pages?  It turns out that it uses a technology called Pigeon Rank to actually do the work.

Google has added a new prefix to the search that allows you to search for the definition of a term.  This is useful when you are looking for this sort of result and don’t want all the pages that contain the term.  Check this out, Google for define:rigor or try Dictionary.com for the same search.

Use the command netstat -en to show ports. Look for those that are listening. Make sure your firewall is blocking those ports for which you know no service should be answering. The IANA Assigned Port numbers tell which ports are assigned globally.