A new breed of American Calvinist worships at the altar of Economic democracy.

For anyone that ever found himself with too little time, money, energy or felt somehow overwhelmed, a note from my life that may fit your's: few things we do are necessary or productive. Sure, you feel like you must respond to that email or spend three hours on the phone today, but is it productive? Did you test it? Do you know?

su.pr is a URL shortener that posts directly to Facebook and Twitter (two of the biggest social linkers today)

SEO is largely believed to be snake oil by many in direct marketing. Largely, this is due to the fact that in many cases it is. There are exceptions. For example, the knowledge of how search engines engage the public, how the public behaves using search engines and what content does and does not end up on their radar is extremely valuable knowledge.

Statement: Christians should celebrate religious holidays that are customs established by tradition and the churches. What does the Scripture say about that specifically? It tells us that Christ died to cancel the effect of such bindings, to liberate us, and we are not to allow such bindings.

In a recent post on Daily SEO Blog, the "Top 25" to watch are listed and many of them provide [a few] very bad examples of social media savvy.

VMs (Virtual Machines) can be very helpful tools for redundancy, backup, testing, and running a very clean environment. The nice thing about a VM is that if one goes bad, or starts acting up, you just grab a recent snapshot and it's like the infection or breakage never happened. Actually, it's not like it never happened. For that clone, it didn't.

Windows 7 (RC) installs much faster than Vista, but I'm using the Release Candidate. Microsoft may decide to throw a ton of DRM (Digital Rights Management) in at the last minute or perhaps new "features" that cripple the OS. My installation process was fast, clean, and simple. There are already 8 "important" updates for Windows 7. However, I'm still relatively happy with its performance.

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Some people just don't want to be bothered with Active-X and have no need for the constant reminders that they have it disabled. For those of you tired of the constant interruption, you can simply disable the notification.

For Internet Explorer users, click on Tools, then Internet Options.