PayPals Weekly Money Market percentage at 2.30%

This weeks 7-day Yield as of 7-17-08 is a competitive return of 2.30% down 0.03% from las weeks 2.37%

For More information, check out PayPal's money market page http://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_upgrade-interest-marcom

PayPal's Weekly Money Market percentage at 2.33%

This weeks 7-day Yield as of 7-10-08 is a competitive return of 2.33% down 0.04% from last weeks 2.37%

For more information, check out PayPal's money market page
Http://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_upgrade-interest-marcom

Paypal's weekly Money Market percentage at 2.37%

There was a delay in the release of the 7-day Average Yield due to 4th of July. This weeks 7-day Average Yield as of 7-03-08 is a competitive return of 2.37% up .04% from last weeks 2.33%

Lets just hope this return keeps going up now and will stay strong.

For more information, check out Paypal's money market page.
https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_upgrade-interest-marcom

Rush Limbaugh signs till 2016

The Excellence in broadcasting also known as the Rush Limbaugh show will continue, Rush signed a new contract for 38 million a year. If you have never listened to his show, check out his site at www.rushlimbaugh.com

Rush vowed on his show "To continue his show until every American agrees with him".

Feed The Pig ( How to Save your money)

I Was Listening to Sean Hannity, one of my top talk radio shows and heard an advertisement for feedthepig.org and I went to the site and I must say it's a site we need to pass to all of our friends and even show our children. The site gives great tips on how to save & invest your money.

You can check out there podcast that talk about how to save and invest and read some articles that are posted on there site. Just head over to
http://www.feedthepig.org
http://feedthepig.podomatic.com/

Paypal's weekly Money Market percentage at 2.33%

This weeks 7-day Average Yield as of 6-26-08 is a competitive return of 2.33% down from last weeks 2.34%

For more information, check out paypal's money market page.
https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_upgrade-interest-marcom

Stocks up, lets see if it can hold till closing bell

Yes all three markets are up today and look like they will hold strong, lets just see if they can till closing bell. On top of that Oil is down 0.91 at 136.96 at the time of this writing. Lets also take a look at some stats at this time of this writing and compare them to todays closing.

Dow is up 3.40 at 11850.18
S&P is up 10.45 at 1324.75
NASDAQ is up 24.07 at 2392.35

Gold is down 7.80 at 883.80
Oil is down 0.91 at 136.09

Lets just see what it will look like at the end of the day.

Paypal's weekly Money Market percentage at 2.34%

I use paypal's Money Market and like to keep close tabs on the 7-Day Average Yield, but could not find a place that shows the yields based on past 7-day Yields. I like to see the changes in any of investments via it be paypal or my IRA or Bank Savings. So every 7-day's I'm going to post the Yield change for paypal since I could not find it any other place. If you like to watch the change like I do, feel free to stop by ever week!

This weeks 7-day Average Yield as of 6-19-08 is a competitive return of 2.34%

For more information, check out paypal's money market page.
https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_upgrade-interest-marcom&outside=1

Drill Here, Drill now, Pay less!!

Please visit this site, help out by signing the petition to drill in American for oil, we not only need to drill but also at the same time invest in other energy technologies. For short and long term effects we need to start drilling in America, NOW!!!

Please pass around this link to your friends, and co-workers.

I'll take McCain over Obama

I think I have decided even though I'm not fully in support for McCain I would take him any day over that useless Change of a person Obama who all he says is change for this and change for that but never offers how he is going to make the change. For that, I vote for McCain so I can vote against Obama

Unemployment extensions 39 weeks now, what a joke!!!!

What really gets me is Rep. Sander Levin (D - Michigan) and Rep. Peter Welch ( D- Vermont) and the rest of the Democrats in Congress who want to use our tax money and other savings, for the unemployed to stay unemployed. Just recently I was watching C-SPAN and listening to these baffling idiots say how extending the allowed time spans for an unemployed person to stay unemployed from 26 weeks (already past half a year) extend another 13 weeks equaling a grand total for someone to stay unemployed to 39 weeks. Yes 39 weeks almost 10 months. Now my question to you is how is giving money to someone going to help them get unemployed? How is this going to get us out of debit?

We can't sit and give people who don't work money and expect to make money and get out of debit, to get out of debit you have to sell products and export products while lowering our total imported products. One example of our debit going up is due to the amount of oil we import. Because of the price of oil we have to pay more and we spend more on the imported oil raising our debit. Now lets think about this.... If we can reduce our cost of oil and gasoline we can reduce the amount of money we spend, in return reducing the debit, and allowing companies and people to have more money to spend, allowing more people to get jobs, hence allowing our economy to flourish and grow.


Or we can listen to the democrat like Michigan Rep. Sander Levin who said how dare we even think about bringing oil into this debate about unemployment. What I ask Rep. Sander Levin is what he thinks the cause of this high unemployment rate is from? People..... everything we do this world revolves around energy, what we need to do is build more nuclear power plants, invest in researching new energy....... and here is an idea find new oil spots to drill at within our own country , allowing us to not depend on these middle eastern countries that make us pay $4 + on a gallon of gas. If we keep going the rate we are going we will be seeing $200 a barrel for crude oil, causing more people to not find new jobs because they can't afford the gas to go to job interviews or to even go back and forth to work.

What I'm trying to say is we can't just give money to people who our unemployed, it's not going to help people get a job by just giving them free money. This money should be put towards investing in new energy technology while also allowing us to drill within out own country for oil, The gas price is set based on the future if you did not know that, well you do now. If we say we are going to start drilling in America again for more oil, and allow new nuclear plants to be built in America we will then allow the price of oil and gasoline to drop to an affordable price. Drop our dependence on these middle easter countries and allow us to pull out of the wars going on there, not have our economy affected if someone dictator leader said he is going to blow up some other country. We will be Dependant on all this and again allow our debit amount to lower.Another idea we could sell oil to other countries again and oh my make a profit and allow new jobs to be created in America again!!

How Dare I say it, something to think about!!!!

- James L.

I approve this message lol!!

Linux/ Computer Tip of the Day 4-26-08

This is a new feature of the blog I'm going to start. Every day a computer related tip will be posted giving tips, commands and much more, all helping you master your technical skills.

If you use Linux and like to have a clean system, you're going to love this tip. Lets start by cleaning out your temporary directory, the folder with all the junk from viewing pdf's & Images, etc. On some systems the directory is cleared when you restart the computer, or the programs clean up after themselves, in my case they don't. Hence every month I have to manually clean out the directory. If you want to do the same go into the /tmp file as root (so you have the privileges) then delete what's needed such as files in /tmp/kde-username (username as in your accounts name).

Coutdown to openSUSE 11.0

It's been a while since I lasted posted a blog. It's my senior year of school, and I recently decided to join the Golf team at Delmar High and have done ok so far, still have a lot to improve on. Since the lack of time to update regularly I feel I should leave you with a nice little counter that counts down to the release date of openSUSE 11.0

Make Sunbird shine with extensions

Sunbird, Mozilla's calendar application, supports extensions just as Firefox and Thunderbird do. What kind of extensions work with a calendar? How about being able to get a weather forecast when you're setting up a golf date, or exporting your desktop calendar to a Web service?

To read the rest of my article on Sunbird extensions visit http://www.linux.com/feature/128479

Business communications Tech style

With new technology you notice everything changes; from the way we dress, go to work, and how we pass our free time, all the way down to getting a job and communicate with friends, family and relatives. Thanks to technology we evolve and make our life easier, benefiting us within our careers. It allows us to get our names, and info such as resumes and cover letters to a greater amount of employers than before.

Sites such as Monsterjobs.com , Craigslist.com , careerbuilder.com allow us to reach out to those potential employers at a cheaper and much faster speed. It all helps you reach your career faster and find that great job you have been looking for. Just remember it's all about the communication skills you hold and how you decide to use them. These sites work greatly as long as you fill out the correct info and post it out for others to see. For example with Craigslist I posted my resume online for view and no latter then two days I got over ten E-mails offering positions at local jobs in my related field of web design.

It's also great to have connections with locals and people around the world, build up your contact list by posting on blogs and within forums related to you career area. The more people you come in contact and E-mail, the better off you are at finding a great job/ career. All these sites and applications that allow you to build up your contact list are great. Even if you have all these contacts keep in touch with them, see what's new and find if they know of any job opening's, or see if they are headed over your way sometime so maybe you could talk and hang out, possibly go for a round of golf.

Another great way to reach out to more people is get affiliated with a local political campaign and presidential campaign in you area. One example for me is working on the Mitt Romney campaign for 2008, it built up my contacts list greatly and got involved with local people who can open many doors when needed.

Don't forget it's not just about the websites and building the contacts that help, you need to be able to build up courage and contact these people, keep an up to date friendship with these contacts and also be able to communicate and talk clearly with them and use correct hand motion and dialog, dress correctly and show that you have self-confidence and can help show your views on a particular job..

You should use these techniques at all times even when your not looking for a job, you don't know what the will happen in the future, leading you into needing a job or who knows what may come from these friendships and contacts you make along your lifetime.

Mitt Romney True Republican Candidate supports Open Source

Mitt Romney/ ODF, OLPC, LinSpire's CEO, Fair Use Policy
On February 6th, 2008 Jamie Lees

After doing some research I found that Mitt Romney supported the One-Hundred dollar laptop project in September 2005, after filing education reform Legislation.

Picture of him with the Laptop
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:OLPC-Negroponte_with_Senator_Romney.jpg

He also has Linspire's CEO Kevin Carmony helping on his Campaign. It also seems Romney knows a little bit about the Fair use Policy after Fox started telling candidates they could not use footage of theirs for the campaign videos,Romney said under the Fair Use of there site that his Campaign can use the videos of himself for his Advertisements.

Source to the Info on Romney vs Fox.
http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2007/11/mitt_romney_tests_foxs_fair_us.php

Also Governor Romney in Massachusetts appointed Louis Gutierrez for implementing the ODF policy.
http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/31/0349223

Plus his views on the Economy and how business can grow in America and lowering taxes on business, and helping the economy get started again could help the growth of small Linux companies and business who support and rely on Linux.

Just a little research I pulled up that I hope would help some undecided voters that have not voted yet.

Great Firefox Ad

I know this was published in August of 2006 but it's still great even if some of you may have seen it. Would not hurt to pass it around to friends to spread Firefox.

Suse 11.0 Alpha 1

With another new version comes another new alpha release and a great new look, that is for the install so far. The OpenSUSE development team released on the 18th of this month (January) the alpha version one of the new and awaited for SUSE distro.

The new version has plenty of bugs fixed, and well many bugs to be fixed. If your willing to test the alpha version you can do so by downloading, testing and reporting bugs.

What's been updated
- KDE 4.0.0
- perl 5.10
- glibc 2.7
- NetworkManager 0.7
- CUPS 1.3.5
- Much, Much more!

From looking at it so far and seeing all that has been done and what's to come I must say the install screens look great compared to the old look.



For more information on this great distro and the upcoming releases of it tune into
http://en.opensuse.org/Development_Version

How to set up Apache virtual hosting

Managing one site on a Web server can be tough enough, and the job is even harder if you have to host multiple client sites on a badly configured setup. If you're running Apache, you can make things easier by setting up virtual hosts, which let you control multiple domains on one IP address, allowing you to specify URLs like http://clientsdomain.com/file_name.html instead of http://yoursite.com/hosted/clients_directory/file_name.html, and letting you forgo setting up domain forwarding with a /srv/www/htdocs/hosted/clients_directory file.

To read the rest of my article on Setting up Virtual hosting on Apache2 visit
http://www.linux.com/feature/118471

Set up wireless broadband access with YaST

Thanks to Linux kernel updates and newly added drivers, wireless broadband access is now easy to set up on laptops. However, some vendors, such as Verizon, don't support broadband PCMCIA adapters. A script can help, but trying to edit a script can be difficult for entry-level users, and Internet service providers (ISP) often provide little information that can help. Enter openSUSE's YaST, a graphical program that can help users configure their laptops to use wireless broadband PC Cards and other types of modems to connect to a network.

To read the rest of my article on YaST and setting up Broadband Internet visit
http://www.linux.com/feature/123767

Tech Boom and the Space Race, What's to come?

Looking back to those books written by Joles Verne and all the predictions of what the future will hold. And then my grandfather telling stories of things he waited for, such as Phones that have video broadcast of the person your talking to. It all makes you think of what the future will hold in the next ten or so years.

To take a look at what's to come you need to take a look at what we have now and what we can improve to better our lives. So what is it we want in the future, and then take a look at what's in development now, it's all going to change again come another ten years. As someone who loves to see the advancement of technology and predict what will become of the future, I'll list some of the devices I think will be out by 2010-2020 being produced for the general public.

Thanks to faster connection speeds for data transfer your going to start seeing TV's in many house holds become the main computer with Cable stations fading out or transferring everything online as the TVs start to have Fiber optic cable connections built in allowing the user to surf the net and watch shows. Now I know your saying you can do that now with TV cards in computers, what I'm talking about is all in the living room with the big 60" T.V. Your also going to see a lot being connected to the T.V. such as Cell phones that you can sync via wireless with your TV allowing you to see your cell phone or other media devices on your big screen, can you say texting in an all new way! Or how about wireless gaming systems that don't require any wires to connect. How about gaming system that you can get your game on in 3-D. Another possibility as we move to nano technology would be thiner and lighter TV's that are also computers and communication devices all while staying flat screened.

Your also going to see a lot of new devices start coming out from NASA and other private space agency's just like we saw the microwave and cellphones from NASA during the race to the moon. This time we have the race back to the moon and mars granting us many new technologies. A few being created now include new fabrics, Protection suits, satilite technologies, Space crafts, Robots, Tools, and much more. I'm also going to say that Robots are going to be another big thing as they already have been for many years, but I think you will start to see new advancements in the intelligence of these robots and the capabilities of movement that these rovers can do. Schools will be included in the early years to help get more involved in developing and teaching kids about robots and what can be done with them, The only way to help push for a development of these new technologies is with the generations that have grown and learned to use these devices.

As China and other developing Countries start to develop more we are going to need other sources of energy that is non-reliant on coal and oil, such energy as solar and hydrogen. Cars will start to be able to use them more and more and get more miles per gallon. Something else that would be very helpful while driving would be cars networked to the road by chips put into the dividing lines, giving travel info and road conditions based on a pre set destination on the GPS system, cell phone providers will be included in the GPS devices offering TV shows and movies and possibly video games along with Internet and more in home comforts from your car. Houses will start to use solar panels more as companies in Europe and the USA develop lighter and less bulky devices to harvest the energy from the sun, so start looking for nano technology that harvest the light. Start looking for them to be sold in many nations within three-five years at an affordable price. One source of energy that we could only wish could be harvested would be the force of Gravity on the earth.

Medical fields are another big changing thing that relies on technology, so how about the cure of cancer or aids, two of the most leading diseases in the world. Another thing in the Medical field that kinda goes back to one of the predictions listed earlier is robots, we have them now being able to operate on open heart surgeries so let's see if we can have them do more on surgeries, but better and safer. Allowing us to save more lives and money as operations can be done faster, getting more people in and out.

Near the end of the time table I think it's safe to say you will start to hear about devices that can use brainwaves in simulators such as video games and other devices such as computers , T.V's, Cell phones, and much more. It's a matter of time before we start to figure out more on how the brain works and I think that time is soon.

This will all start with a new Tech boom allowing many new devices to come out, as long as we can come up with more engineers and keep the interest of technology and science going we will have a lot to look forward to in the years to come. Lets hope the race for newer and better technology keeps going and hope the race to space is safe. Remember Technology can be fun and also make many lives easier and safer and that's what we all need to look at.