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Kingdom of Heaven (IMDB review) is a recently released movie romanticizing the old Crusades of the middle ages. I highly doubt this movie will be a hit with the Islamic population in the United States, since the Crusades really left a scar in not only Islamic culture, but also Jewish, and Orthodox Christian culture. Anyway, I think that before going to see such a movie, we should learn more about the realities of the Crusades and not what the movies want to portray. Interestingly enough, some historians are even saying that Bush’s War on Terrorism is really the Tenth Crusade in our world history. I realize that whenever religion and politics mix, it can be a recipe for disaster. The Crusades proved that.

Imagine there’s no countries, It isn’t hard to do,
Nothing to kill or die for, No religion too,
Imagine all the people, living life in peace…

Now I understand what the lyrics from John Lennon’s Imagine are talking about.

Wow! Can you believe this story? The folks at NASA have built something called “The Highway in the Sky.” It’s a computer system designed to let millions of people fly whenever they please, and take off and land from wherever they please, in their very own vehicles.

And here’s the good news — a lot of people are building machines you’ll be able to buy. The article is located at CBS’ 60 Minutes website entitled “Flying Cars Ready To Take Off“.

Here are a few well known and some not so known pointers in getting better search engine rankings for your web site.
1.        The keywords meta tag is extremely important.
2.        Use plural keywords i.e. blogs instead of blog
3.        Secondly, the description meta tag is also important.
4.        Make sure the title tage is descriptive. Keywords in your title is very important with Yahoo! Search.
5.        Use your keywords in the HTML Heading tags.  
6.        Leave keywords in comment tags.
7.        Tell the search engine spider when to come back using the revisit-after meta tag.
8.        Tell the search engine spider to also index all pages linked on your page using the name=”robots” content=”index, follow” meta tag.
9.        To subtly boost the number of keywords on a page, set the text color to one similar to your background. Insert a sentence, containing your top 6 keywords, at the bottom of your main page.
10.        Know your audience.
11.        Get recommendations.
12.        Use promotions and cross-promotions to attract visitors.
13.        Easy submission to all major search engines using AddMe.com or DMOZ.org
14.        Use Google Adwords
15.        Use Google to find out how many websites are linking to yours. i.e. link:yoursite.com
16.        Finally check out the Search Engine Marketing Kit.

Here’s a very big annoyance that I have stumbled across whenever I mount a removeable drive into my Mac and then later mount that same removeable drive into my PC running Windows. Mac OS X’s Finder application always adds the .DS_Store and .Trashes hidden files/folders into each folder I happen to browse through. In UNIX and Mac OS X, it always treats files or folders prefixed with a dot as hidden. Windows has no such notion of treating dot files/folders as hidden. Therefore, the files stay unhidden when browsed by a Windows PC. I did some research on this subject and there doesn’t appear to be any solutions that exist that automatically take care of this. The best solution is for Mac OS X to add the hidden attribute on any dot files/folders created, but somehow this solution has eluded the developers of Mac OS X. To solve this issue, I’ve created a DOS batch script that you can run in Windows whenever you mount your removeable drive. Simply, create a file called cleanosx.bat and type in the following.

@echo off echo Removing all Mac OS X hidden file stubs matching ._ ... del /S ._* echo Hide all remaining Mac OS X hidden files/folders for Windows... attrib +h .* /S /D echo Done. pause 

Run this script at the root level of your removeable drive and it should take care of removing junk files left over from browsing while in Mac OS X as well as setting the hide attribute on all the dot files/folders. If you don’t want to see the hidden files/folders in Windows Explorer, just make sure the Show hidden files and folders is NOT checked in the Tools > Folder Options > View > Advanced settings dialog window

If some of you are about to go through this part of your job hunting phase, these are some of the toughest questions that you’ll need to answer.  

1. Tell me about yourself.
2. What makes you unique?  
3. What interests you the most about this position? What interests you the least?  
4. What did you like most about your last job? What did you like least?  
5. Why did you leave (or are you leaving) your last job?  
6. Why do you want this job? or Why do you want to work for us?  
7. What would you do if your boss asked you to do something you felt was unethical?  
8. What are your salary expectations?

Read more about the 8 toughest interview questions.