I'm currently transitioning from living off savings and unemployment to living off Social Security. My SS deposits should be starting soon, but until then my bank has run dry. So I will be leaving WA for a little while, but after I get my budgets worked out I plan to return in a month or so.I'll still be active in the blogosphere, though, visiting many of your sites and leaving comments. Here is my current list of the blog sites that I visit on a regular basis. Your blog is probably on it alrea

I guess I can blame it on Isaac Asimov. I Robot, a collection of short stories was published as a book in 1950. I read it about 15 years later when in high school, and I think something about all those robots programmed by brain and I've had robots in my head ever since.Over the past few months I've read numerous articles about robots, not the least of which are those robots that perform as search engines. There are also countless articles littering the Internet about SEO and the changes SEO ha

Early this morning I was contemplating monetization, a subject that we discuss here a lot.Specifically I was thinking about how emotional, hot button, and even third-rail subjects are monetized, and I came to a realization.We all know that sex sells. Humans have used sex to buy and sell since forever. Recently though, I've noticed how much Fear is used in the same manner, and it isn't discussed so much as other forms of monetization techniques. The more I thought about it the more I realized th

I've tried to follow as many WA peeps on twitter as I can but some of you have a problem.Have you ever heard a songbird tweeting outside your window. It's pretty, for a little while. But after a few hours of that same stupid bird chirping on and on and on it can get irritating, so much so that you have to go close the window.I don't know if its a problem with a WP plugin, or if you're just being dumb, but some of the people I've followed on twitter are re-posting the same tweets, dozens of them

Firefox (Mozilla) keeps a secret and supposedly secure list of potential vulnerabilities to their Firefox product so that they can work on getting them fixed. Mozilla has released information regarding a privileged users bugzilla password which was compromised and used by an attacker to gain access to the secret database.The attacker has created at least one exploit using the stolen data, which has been patched. No one is sure if there are more, or if there will be more.Caution is advised if yo