300 Words About 44 Women

Yeah. I don’t actually have a way to do that headline. I was thinking that I need to fire up an update here on Best Hubris after finally finishing what was supposed to be a 300 or 500 word quickie about my thoughts on buying some puts on Vail stock based on what is going … Read more

Investing Advice Click Bait

investing advice article

What I’m really supposed to be working on is a series of articles on dividend stocks since dividend stocks power the core of my non-retirement portfolio investing. But, I have three monitors and I need something to be on all of them in order for my brain to be satisfied, and one of them has … Read more

What If…

What if I forgot all about this blog for too long? What if I wanted to bring it back? I’ll need some content… I’ll need some online marketing… I should document it as a case study…   Coming soon.  

Block Flash Ads on AdSense Option

While perusing the greatly improved performance reports for AdSense ads displayed on my websites I began to wonder whether a new option for AdSense would be valuable. I use AdSense to help me make money writing online with some of the various websites I publish. I don’t make millions but I do well enough to … Read more

Newsweek Drinks the Kool-Aid

Technology bloggers and their tech media compatriots are infamous for  proclaiming things revolutionary at seemingly random intervals. It seems that every new product or startup company signals the end of computing or networking or technology as we know it. These proclamations are based on nothing more than hype or taking one possible outcome way out … Read more

Yahoo Mail Gets Better But Good Enough?

Yahoo Mail is touting its improvements on its What’s New page in front of user’s email accounts. Is what’s new really better? Is it enough to make Yahoo Mail good enough?

All in One SEO Pack Upgrades Disable WordPress Plug-in Every Time

The WordPress All in One SEO Pack is starting to rub me the wrong way. I’m sure that being a WordPress plug-in developer is thankless work. One of the things that makes WordPress so powerful and loved by the web development and blogging community is that it is easily extensible (much like Firefox) via add-ons … Read more

Cannot Delete Admin Account in WordPress

To secure your WordPress blog, many experts will recommend that you create a new WordPress administrator account and delete the default WordPress admin account.  The idea is that since every WordPress installation comes with an admin user, you’ve given away half of the battle for security.  Automated hacker bots can come at your WordPress blog … Read more

Windows Live Writer Crashes Fix Solution

Yea!  I have my Windows Live Writer back!  I downloaded BlogDesk but haven’t really messed around with it yet.  The truth is that I can’t spend too much time on my own blogs and get all of my writing work done at the same time, so learning a new blogging program wasn’t top on my … Read more

The Shortest Distance Between Any Two Points Is

A straight line. I was perusing my web logs and noticed that no fewer than 6 people ended up here recently while looking for the answer to that question.  I’m not sure how they get here, surely there are better search results.  But, nonetheless, I aim to please. The shortest distance between any two points … Read more

Pings WordPress and Feedburner

For many years now, I have just followed the conventional wisdom when it comes to maximizing things like pings, trackbacks, feeds and WordPress.  But, lately, I’ve been looking into it a little bit more, and I have come to find out, that 99% of what is out there isn’t conventional wisdom, its slightly re-written copies … Read more