Back in the day, when I didn’t have a job, I had to cut corners when purchasing computer equipment. You wouldn’t believe the number of eBay auctions in which I participated just to get a single stick of 128 MB SD RAM! But, there was one thing that I desperately wanted more than anything – portable storage.
No, I’m not talking about those puny, error-prone, and data-sparse floppy disks. I’m also not referring to CD Burners either. Those take too much time to write one file! I’m talking about flash drives and external hard disk drives! But alas, thumb drives were not even invented yet and an external hard drive would cost twice as much as its equivalent internal counterpart! I barely had enough money for the internal drive itself! What is a cash-striped, jobless, high school student supposed to do? Buy an expensive hard drive enclosure? When I got older and acquired more money, I found the perfect answer, EIDE disk drive adapters.
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I was so excited when Google Analytics was released to the public. At that time, I was a regular reader of ProBlogger.net – helping bloggers earn money. Darren Rowse broke the news to the blogging community that Google Analytics was offering free accounts on a first-come-first served basis. When I finally received my invitation from Google, I immediately added all of my websites to be tracked and painstakingly followed each and every instruction -that is, every instruction except for this one:
“It [the source code] should be immediately before the [ending] body tag of your page, and should look exactly as it was provided to you.”
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My college Calculus I class is a killer! I mean, it is tearing me apart, eating me alive! We were taking our midterm exam last week and it was really difficult. After I was finished with my test and left the classroom, I checked the messages on my cell phone. As I pressed “TALK,” I thought, “Crap! I left my ringer on again!” Imagine what would have happened if somebody called me in the middle of my test. My professor is known for dismissing students with an audible cell phone during a test and giving them an “egg shaped grade.” He even warned us that on our first day! I can not afford a bad grade on my transcript!
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