I'm not telling you to avoid Christmas giveaways. I'm not telling you that Christmas giveaways are bad things at all. Before you participate in any contest or purchase anything as part of a Christmas giveaway, there are a few minor things I'd like to point out so you can actually enjoy what you receive.

A couple of days ago, amidst all of my other backend programming work, I provided a little assistance at TextAdMarket when things didn't work quite right. I did my initial review on May 31st ("TextAdMarket: A New Non-Contextual Advertising Service") and I've had plenty of time to evaluate the changes that have been put [...]

I'm sorry I had to use that word, but it's the truth. I'm working on a niche blog that I simply have to get up and running because of the time factor. The keywords get searched enough and there aren't even a half a million pages competing. There's absolutely NO advertiser competition for the first [...]

Video gamers or just plain "gamers", as they like to be called, are extremely gullible. I'm not just talking shiitake either.

I was asked to beta test a new advertising service called TextAdMarket. This advertising service is very, very new. As with any new service in the beta-testing stage, this one isn't without its share of problems. There are very few members using it right now and fewer is better until the bugs are eliminated [...]

I read an interesting article at the Los Angeles Times online, "Arizona slams door on illegal immigrants", and quickly realized the problem won't go away until Mexico's economy is better than that of the United States. Here's what a few other bloggers have written about the immigration problem. After the list, I'll offer [...]

I don't consider myself an evangelist for sponsored posts (paid reviews, etc.). I will, however, defend anyone's desire to write them. It doesn't matter whether they write them to make ends meet or they write them for mad money.
There are some bloggers out there with a holier-than-thou attitude attacking bloggers who write sponsored posts, accusing [...]

Tax returns are something that practically all Americans hate, myself included. It doesn't matter if we actually get a refund or not. Unless you're single with one source of income, most tax returns are far from simple. Complicated would be a huge understatement, even with the assistance of software packages designed specifically to make it [...]