Graphene is a material made from graphite. It’s thin (1 atom thick) and strong. With a honeycomb lattice, it’s stronger than steel. A CNN article I found quite interesting, “Graphene: the nano-sized material with a massive future“, can provide you with the details. Read more »
Beef: It’s What’s for Dinner
While the slogan, “Beef: It’s What’s for Dinner”, was invented and used in US public awareness campaigns by the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, it’s a slogan I remember each time I’m thinking about what I’m going to eat for dinner. In the last few years, I’ve learned that there’s more than one animal associated with the word “beef”. I’ve also learned about the different cuts of beef and what they’re called. When it comes to beef, however, I’m an eater and not a butcher, so I could be wrong about a few things. Read more »
Is it Time to Dismantle the IRS?
My non-American readers can feel free to move on because this is an entirely America-centric topic. The recent scandal involving the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) is only what we’ve been allowed to find out about the organization and I’m sure if we dig deeper, we’ll find a lot more wrong than right about it. Read more »
Brooms used in the Philippines
A lot of people take things for granted, especially Americans like me, and the kinds of brooms we tend to use is just one example. Not surprisingly, the average broom used by Filipinos (even Filipino-Americans in the US) is completely different from what I grew up with. While there are variants of brooms and the names of brooms, there are two distinct brooms used more than anything else in the Philippines. Read more »
Artificial vs. Organic Link Building
When someone tells me they no longer (or never did) build artificial links, I have to think about it for a minute. What’s the difference between artificial and organic link building? I’ve concluded that pure organic link building doesn’t exist, at least not the way people tend to think of it as being “natural”. Read more »
Laptops, Tablets, Smartphones and Hybrids – How do you Choose what to Buy?
In an ever-changing technological world, we have a lot of computing choices. What we choose to buy is no longer constrained by the lack of choices we once faced. We are no longer stuck in an “either/or” situation like we were just a few years ago. We can now buy variations of laptops, variations of tablets and even variations of smartphones. Not to be left out, we even have new variations to the traditional desktop computers. Read more »
Why I’m not a Professional Author
Sure, I’m an author and sure, I’m a writer, but it’s neither my profession nor one of my professions. Anyone who writes is a writer and anyone who writes anything besides gibberish can be considered an author, but professional authors get paid to write for someone besides themselves. The reason I’m not a professional author is because I can’t and I won’t invest the time required to wear the title. Read more »
Ghost: Competition for the Top Dog of Blogging, WordPress
According to an article at Royal Pingdom, WordPress is dominant in 2013, as far as blogging platforms are concerned. If you consider that WordPress is more than just a blogging platform these days, and the fact that only the top 100 blogs on Technorati were examined, you can take their report with a grain of salt. The future of blogging and who the top dog may turn out to be next year may be completely different (regardless of what data is sampled) if you pay attention to a Kickstarter project in the works: Ghost Read more »
Nofollow SEO
“Nofollow SEO” is a bit of a misnomer that I’ve heard more than few times. SEO (search engine optimization) is not supposed to be affected by “nofollow” links. As intended, nofollow links do not directly affect search engine results. Indirectly, however, is a completely different story and this is why we still have link spammers attacking comment forms that only produce nofollow links. In my opinion, the people behind the link spamming activities don’t understand the value of nofollow links when used in the right way instead of their wrong way. Read more »
A Craving for Fruit Juices of all Kinds
Over the past month or so, I’ve been getting cravings for various fruit juices. Even more recently, I’ve had cravings for various fruits, fruits I spurned in the past. If you didn’t know I was a man, you’d swear I was pregnant. There are reasons for this happening and most of it is due to the low amount of carbohydrates I’m taking in on a daily basis. Read more »