Maybe I Should Move to Calgary
Published March 28th, 2012 | 
Watching the news coverage of the Supreme Court hearing over Obamacare, I couldn’t help thinking that conservatives are doing everything in their power to ruin this country. Makes me think I out to get a passport, hop on a bus and move to Calgary. The Repugnicans are ruining everything. As far as they’re concerned, America is only for certain Americans, and the rest of us can go screw ourselves. So, I say … maybe they can have it, and the rest of us can move to Canada, where the people are friendly and you have universal healthcare.
Seriously, at the rate we’re going, the United States of America will consist of a few thousand rich people, homeschooling their kids behind the walls of a gated community country club and the rest of us will be out on the street. So, Calgary, it is! Why not? It’s a nice, clean city. Plenty of fresh, green air. I’m told they have a great zoo. I’m also told there are jobs there. The Repugs are always telling the 99-percent to get out if we don’t like getting screwed over time an again. So let’s all move to Canada.
Financial Content Providers
Published March 17th, 2012 | When I first got online nearly fifteen years ago, their was a saying that “content is king." The conventional wisdom was that good websites were driven by good content. Then, after the tech bubble burst, it became all about web design. People argued usability v. graphic design standards and so forth. Then, lo and behold, Google comes out with adwords and adsense. Almost overnight, neither content nor design became as important as SEO. Content farms popped up as if web developers had discovered the holy grail. They’d finally figured out how to generated income from online content. Problem was, quality suffered. Every non-writer was a writer, repurposing crap around valuable keywords. Google, having made billions from this practice started to realize that their brand was suffering and other search engines like Bing were nipping at their heels. So they came out with the new Panda algorithm. A change was on the horizon. Now, more changes as ranked will be weighted in favor of content and against SEO.
What that means if you freelance writing online content is there is little room for non-writing generalists anymore. They want experienced journalists who specialize. So if they are hiring financial content providers, they not only want an experiencing writer, they want an experienced writer with a solid background in financial reporting. In order to write stock market tips you will actually have to understand what stocks to buy today.
So content is king once again. That might prove to be a good thing as it will lead to better web sites. But it will also be harder for many would-be writers to compete.
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Leave a commentPublished March 5th, 2012 | A ph meter is an electronic instrument used for measuring the pH (acidity or alkalinity) of a liquid (though special probes are sometimes used to measure the pH of semi-solid substances). A typical pH meter consists of a special measuring probe (a glass electrode) connected to an electronic meter that measures and displays the pH reading. The first commercial pH meters were built around 1936 by Radiometer in Denmark and by Arnold Orville Beckman in the United States. While Beckman was an assistant professor of chemistry at the California Institute of Technology, he was asked to devise a quick and accurate method for measuring the acidity of lemon juice for the California Fruit Growers Exchange (Sunkist). Beckman’s invention helped him to launch the Beckman Instruments company (now Beckman Coulter). In 2004 the Beckman pH meter was designated an ACS National Historic Chemical Landmark in recognition of its significance as the first commercially successful electronic pH meter.In the 1970s Jenco Electronics of Taiwan designed and manufactured the first portable digital pH meter. This meter was sold under Cole-Parmer’s label.pH meters range from simple and inexpensive pen-like devices to complex and expensive laboratory instruments with computer interfaces and several inputs for indicator and temperature measurements to be entered to adjust for the slight variation in pH caused by temperature.
