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From the better late than never category, I thought I would mention that today is the deadline to enter the contest to win a 24″ widescreen LCD monitor courtesy of BlueFur.com and John Chow.
Last week I received a new 24″ widescreen LCD monitor at work and I have to say that it is absolutely amazing. [...]

It’s time for another round of Speedlinking and I’ve got a handful of quality posts for you this week.
For those not familiar with my Speedlinking posts, I like to share a little bit of link love each week with people that are a part of my community or otherwise produce quality content that I like [...]

NOTE :: It looks like I have resolved the IE6 issues on the site. There were two issues with the CSS alignment pushing the sidebar down below the main div tag. One instance was with Brian’s Threaded Comments and the other was when I had an image that spanned the entire content area. [...]

Who doesn’t like getting free stuff?
Based on my experience at various conferences I think I can safely answer that everybody enjoys getting free stuff. From what I have seen, it really doesn’t even matter what the *stuff* is as long as it is free.
If you want to grab something free, you’ll want to head [...]

Unless you are reading this via your RSS reader, you will have noticed that I have changed the theme of the site to something a little different.
In addition to the theme change, I finally took the plunge to upgrade my WordPress version to the latest version.
If you see anything screwy taking place, please leave a [...]