These days, when you sign up for Internet service from any Internet Service Provider (ISP), you always get at least one e-mail account. Some providers will give you ten or more accounts with your service. In my opinion, they could give you eleventy billion accounts and you shouldn’t use any of them as your primary address.
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While putting this site together, I ran into an issue where some of the Google Adsense ad units were not displaying. They were all using the same code, so as such I was baffled. What I observed was that all ads would display on the individual post pages (single.php), but some were missing on the main page (index.php).

I found my answer and figured I’d post it here in case anyone else runs into the same issue. Read more…

While normally I find the Huffington Post to be Grade A Bull Plop, I’m a big fan of their Fundrace map. Very interesting.

http://fundrace.huffingtonpost.com/ (via Lifehacker)

If you use an RSS Reader (I’ll address RSS Feeds in a future post) to subscribe to this site, please note that there is a new feed address.

http://feedproxy.google.com/Marktastic

I recently made the plunge into the new world of Office 2007. The core functionality of Office remains the same. I can create documents and spreadsheets like before, but the interface is MUCH different. Office is now all about the ribbon.

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Like the Show Desktop button, I’m also a huge fan of the Address Bar toolbar in Windows XP. Or at least I was until Service Pack 3.

The Address Toolbar (RIP)

Recently, Microsoft under the guise of a Service Pack removed functionality. I believe the explanation they used was something like, “Due to regulatory requests . . .” and that this stems from the removal of Internet Explorer from the OS itself. I, personally, this is one of the dumbest things ever, but that’s me.

This toolbar was hugely helpful to launch websites, open files and do a variety of other tasks. My search soon began for a freeware replacement.
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I’m a big fan of Frank O. Pinion, currently on KTRS 550 AM in St. Louis. He’s a radio genius. One of the players, Karen Vail was let go last week. Frank offers his explanation in an audio file (see below).

I commend him for many reasons. Right now, I commend him most for the fact that he acknowledges when an on-air personality leaves/is fired/quits/etc. Usually, silence is the only thing that follows such an event.

Hear Frank’s explanation here
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Back in the late 90’s, Microsoft rolled out a feature as a part of Windows 98 that I have come to love far and away above all others. It was a simple feature that 85% or more of folks don’t even know exists. If they have seen it, chances are they’ve never used it and don’t know what it does.

I am speaking of the “Show Desktop” button.

What does this button look like?

Below are the icons for the Show Desktop button for Windows XP and Windows Vista, respectively.

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This is the innaugural post of Marktastic. A site that will hopefully help you get more from your computer.

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