This is a guest post by Jackie Jackson. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here. Around six months ago, Daniel touched upon ratio analysis for bloggers. Basically, he came up with two very interesting formulae for analyzing the capabilities of a blog. The first one was ...

Program: Photoshop 7.0 Difficulty: Moderate (requires a basic knowledge of PS and blending. Might be a tad difficult for beginners) Translatable: Should be, for most version of PS PSD: No (Since I didn't save a .psd I will be attempting to recreate the above icon using the same techniques used in th...

Overview In this blog post, we’ll cover the basics of the Distributed File System (DFS) in Windows Server 2008, which offers users simplified access to a set of file shares and helps administrators easily maintain the file server infrastructure behind those file shares, including options for load ...

1Co 9:19 For though I was free from all men, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more. 1Co 9:20 And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to them that are......

Jeff Jarvis recently wrote an interesting article "The Great Restructuring" in which he said, " Large-scale retail will shrink and consolidate and then be transformed by a search-and-buy economy." I think he may be on to something. It certainly applies to our family. It takes too...

  These scenes for your frantic Friday are not of the S&M or Basic Instinct or even Secretary variety (that's a whole 'nother list.) Sometimes, you've had a really epic and soul-crushing workweek and you don't have time to warm up.  As those recent and soon-to-be-dispro...

Many people assume that morality — our sense of what is “right” and just in this world versus what is wrong — is something we formulate through a process of time, experience and thinking. We equate morality with higher reasoning and not a base instinct like hunger or the need...

Google's nerd-heaven Mountain View, Calif., campus is losing two more of its free-for-employees cafés this Friday when Jean-Claude Balek's Basic Deli, well-reviewed for its house-made charcuterie, and 5ive shut their doors. "That's business," said Balek when Valleywag reached him by phone. The reas...

Many people think that a movie needs to avoid an R-rating in order to become a blockbuster. Most recent top earners have followed that dictum, with only four R-rated movies among last year's top 25 at the box office. Zack Snyder's 300 was a defiant exception in 2007, earning more than $456 million w...

“Chuck vs. the Beefcake” March 2nd, 2009 Two weeks ago, I spent a great deal of my review discussing what I feel is Chuck’s achilles heel, the relationship between Chuck and Sarah. I want to clarify that I am not against their pairing: Levy and Strahovski have great chemistry, both...