Five Ways To Know if Your Idea is a Turkey

So you want to start a web business, huh? As those of us here in the US ponder our holiday of Thanksgiving-with its traditional turkey meal-I thought I would share 5 ways to know if the idea you have will actually make you money if it is just a turkey.

Tough Times & Getting Tougher?

I live in Eugene Oregon. We have the highest unemployment rate in the nation. It's also the highest unemployment rate in Oregon's history, varying from 8% to over 15%.

Making Money with Affiliate Programs – Part II

In this holiday season online shopping is hotter than ever! According to US Commerce Department online sales continue to grow with a robust 25-27 percent this year over 1992. Online holiday shopping at a rate of 10 percent is also considerably outpacing the 5.7 percent growth of overall retail sales. Goldman Sachs predicts 23 percent of all gift-buying this holiday season will take place online!

Fork and Exec with Perl

Recently I had a project that required a number of different programs that will mostly run all the time, but need to be restarted now and then with different parameters. Normally, the first thing I think of for a program that runs constantly is inittab or svc (daemontools). The svc facility is the more flexible of the two, and will be what I'll use in…

Start & Surf Exchanges Overview

Start page and surf exchanges have been around for a little while but seem to be gaining increased popularity lately. I've been playing around with them recently to see if there is any reason for this popularity and to find out if they provide you with any real benefits.