Let me start by saying, me leaving the iPhone in a Taxi is clearly my own doing. I'm posting this just to point out the ignorance and disrespect for people's property that some people have. I'm hoping that by posting this the person who decided to be an asshole gets some karma sent back his way. My long term hope is that the phone winds up back in my possession. There are pictures of my son, friends, and family that I'd really appreciate having back.

On May 1st I took a taxi about 5 miles from 44th St and 9th ave in NYC to Jersey City, NJ. Soon after I realized I left my phone in the taxi and contacted 311 and All Taxi Management in NYC. Because I took the taxi from NY to NJ they claim it's out of their district to help me out.

http://www.nyc.gov/portal/site/threeoneone

As stated in a couple articles back, I recently made the move to Ubuntu 7.10 Gusty Gibbon. There were a few hurdles I had to get over along the way and I wanted to share with you the solutions that worked for me.

The title of this post states that I'm using an Acer Aspire 5100 and that I was having difficulties setting up the internal AR5006EG wireless controller. Luckily, Google is a great resource and by mixing a few suggestions together I was able to get online. I have not tested it out but I believe that the following steps would work on any system that is built on the Debian Platform or use ndiswrapper.

Free at last, Free at last!

So two days ago I decide that I could live life without a Microsoft Operating System. I have tried many times in the past to make the move to Linux. At first I did the original Linux live CD, Knoppix and then some other random live CD's that followed suit. Keep in mind that this was well over 4 or 5 years ago, maybe more. About 2 years ago I started hearing about Ubuntu. I once again picked up the live cd and was quite please with being able to get familiar with linux in a somewhat simple and user friendly environment. There was good hardware support and an attractive user interface.

Over the past couple of months my personal life and Drupal have progressed at such a rate that even I am having a hard time keeping up with it all. For those of you that do not know, I recently changed jobs to become a Drupal developer at Sony BMG.

So I've been doing SEO/SEM for a little while now and I've come to appreciate the ROI that is involved. As most of you that read this may realize, you can generate a great deal of traffic by using PPC (pay per click) without breaking the bank.

Pay Per Click mainly benefits the advertising party. As opposed to CPM ( cost per thousand impressions ) which I have found does not work well when you are dealing with sites that have less than 2% CTR ( click through rate ), sometimes even less than .5% CTR.

Not all of my comments in this article still stand. I realized this after becoming more involved with the Drupal community.

If you ask anyone that knows me well about how I feel about Drupal then they will tell you that I'm obsessed with it. My fervor to Drupal is the equivalent to outwardly passionate Christians to the Bible. I find very little negative to say about it and I take the time to point out the faults in other Content Management Systems. Now I will admit that Drupal is not for the faint of heart. If you are only looking to write a blog then go get WordPress.

Usually I welcome anyone that would want to hire me to work on the side doing Search Engine Optimization (SEO) or Search Engine Marketing (SEM). Both of these deal heavily in keyword research, return on investment (ROI), pay per click (PPC), pay per action (PPA), and a few other acronyms that are the buzz in this industry.
Being that I'm so busy these days with my real job or doing all these side projects I'd like to take a moment and inform you about a company that exist because of the things I have previously mentioned.

A lot has been going on so I haven't given blog entries the attention they need. BUT tonight something happened that is so pertinent that it can't pass without being mentioned. I believe I have become a victim of identity theft.

Around 10:45 this evening I receive what looks like a legit email from the wonderful online auction site ebaY informing me that I won a lot of 5 G3 Mac computers. You can check the auction out for yourself by clicking this link >> Lot of 5 G3 Computers. Don't get me wrong. I have purchased plenty items in the past from eBay, but lately all my purchases have been coming from reputable sites like eCost and NewEgg. I've been scammed too many times in the past.

Today was another one of those days where there just wasn't enough hours in the day. The webcast for PowerTogether was put on hold till tomorrow. But, not all was lost. In fact, just the opposite has become in the absense of my review on Microsoft's webcast discussed earlier ( Free Windows Vista and Free Microsoft Office 2007 ).

There was a site which exsisted for a short period of time in the past that I contributed to. The site is now going in a different direction with different content but, I was fortunate enough to be great friends with the webmaster who was nice enough to passed his content and my own over to me.

So most of this evening was spent taking a raw database dump and picking out the articles I wanted for this site. Then I had to clean all the database escape characters out and reformat the page so it's easier to read. You can thank me for all my hard work by clicking some ads anywhere on this page.

Microsoft is well known for it's brilliant ( Windows 95 - start it up ) and not so brilliant ( Zune - random pink zune ) marketing strategies. But, I have to give them a thumbs up on this one, PowerTogether. A thumbs up only because I got myself a free copy of Vista Business and Office 2007, other than that it was really stupid, a waste of my time and a waste of thier money ( a retail value of $898 ).

PowerTogether is Microsoft's way of marketing which shows how thier new operating system, Microsoft Vista will work with Microsoft Office 2007. I'm sure there was additional marketing strategy to show off their Office Live Meeting software, because you were required to download the plug in for media play just to view the web cast.