Many web designers and developers use the "View Source" feature of browsers to check the HTML data behind a Web page. It's perhaps one of most basic debugging tools that has been a part of every browser since the beginning. The Chrome browser by Google is no exception and it also has the "View Source" — Continue reading »
Stock Market – Back to Greed?
📆 August 10, 2009
For those of us who held on to our 401(k) investments and stuck to our contributions even as the market was plummeting, the rewards are nearly at hand. Looking at my 401(k) balance I was pleased to see a bit of life back in it. The stock market is still off its highs (for NASDAQ — Continue reading »
Credit Card Foreign Transaction Fees
📆 July 21, 2009
This is probably old news to some but it came as a surprise to me. As I have done so for many years, I booked a flight online with a foreign carrier with offices in the US and made a credit card payment in US Dollars. About a month later I got slapped with an — Continue reading »
Pandora Starts Charging
📆 July 7, 2009
In case you don't know who or what Pandora is, it's a music Web site that learns about your taste as you tag or rate the songs it plays, so after a while it ends up playing mostly what you like. Pandora's algorithm is decent but far from perfect and sometimes it tries to please — Continue reading »
Google Translate, Persian
📆 July 3, 2009
Google Translate has been around for some time. you paste in a block of text or a URL, set the source and target languages and off it goes, translating. Aside from the omnipresent Spanish, German, and French translations, Google had been steadily adding other languages to its list, save one, Persian (known as Farsi in — Continue reading »
Amazon Vs. Internet Sales Tax
📆 June 30, 2009
As an Amazon Associate (you can see the banners even on this page), I have been following the spat between Amazon and the cash-strapped states that are legislating Internet sales taxes. The states argue that Amazon Associates in their jurisdictions are tantamount to company branches constituting presence and therefore any sales made to their residents — Continue reading »
Cell Phone Tax
📆 June 15, 2009
Saw this article the other day that makes one wonder how desperate the government must be. Seems like if you have a company-issued cell phone and you use it for anything personal, the value of that use should be reported as income to be taxed. So guess if I'm in the office and scribble a — Continue reading »
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