Here’s what I wanted it to do:

But what it did was put add this text to the beginning of my meta description tag!

I tried several other combinations, no luck. so I contacted the plugin developer and said:

Referring to this thread:
I have a client using this plugin, the free version, and I cannot get the meta description in posts to display the %post_title%. I was wondering if this bug was fixed in the pro version.

In their second response I gleened the following solution! Put this as your description:

And Viola! My post title, pulled in using the variable “%wp_title%” is included in my meta description. Thanks Semper Fi Web Design, great plugin and valueble support responses!

Expected response code 200, got 400 We’re sorry, a server error occurred. Please wait a bit and try again.

The Fix: Your column header values must be lower case, they can’t be Capitalized!

so this: array("Name"=>"YOURNAME", "Email"=>"youremail@fakeemail.com");

Must be converted to resemble:

array("name"=>"YOURNAME", "email"=>"youremail@fakeemail.com");

I hope this helps. Took me a day of researching to find this fix.

h/t: http://www.ayasoftware.com/content/magento-how-work-google-spreadsheets

If you are running Excel 2003 on Win XP/7 and attempt to open workbooks across a network, you may be experiencing a pretty dramatic lag in file openning.

If so, the bug is outlined on the Microsoft website here: See: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2570623

Fixes can be found here (h/t to steveit.ca for finding these)

http://steveit.ca/2011/07/14/excel-2003-files-slow-to-open-after-windows-update/

http://pariswells.com/blog/tag/windows-xp-excel-2003-slow-opening

http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/146154-ms-excel-hanging-when-opening-a-file-after-recent-ms-security-updates (discussion thread)

This just saved me about an hour, and an aggravating hour at that!

Big shout out to T800 Productions, thanks for the app!

Windows Firewall on LAN Connections

Taking one last look, Cornel Boudria, co-owner of 3PRIME, went into the windows firewall settings, under the advanced tab and unchecked the box that enables the firewall for the LAN connections.

Even though we had already disabled the windows firewall, it was still disabling the ability for the workstation to move files out. We couldn’t upload and we couldn’t write files bigger than 2mb to the network.

Once that box was unchecked, we were able to upload normally as well as write files to the network.

So, if you cannot upload, and you are getting “file path to deep” errors trying to write out to the network, take a look at the windows firewall and make sure that it is not “protecting” you from getting anything done!

To access these settings, I got to the control panel > Windows Firewall Advanced Tab and Uncheck the box next to the active LAN connection.

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Here’s what I wrote back:

A bot is like a search engine spider, it is software that visits web pages for various purposes. With search engines, they view pages, download their content and index them to become available in search engines.

In this case, form bots fill in info to see what happens. For example, some forms send the visitor an auto-reply telling them their request was received. If forms do that, then a bot, or robot, can use them to send spam to people using your website. Your form doesn’t do this for precisely that reason.

I believe I am spending about $2 per click with Google but some of the site is a little confusing and it seems that I might be wasting my money … Is there a good source of information to help learn setting up adwords that you would suggest?

Here’s a couple of sets of results:

adwords+setup+guide+”best+practices”

adwords+setup+guide+”quality+score”

Pay the most attention to google forums and webpages for learning how to navigate the platform.

When we first started growing our employee base, we leased a desktop from Dell to try out the experience. We ended up spending about $750 on a desktop that we could have gotten for about $375, but we paid it monthly (~$40) so it wasn’t a big deal. We had decided that we would be returning it rather than buying it, as they want another $300 for the now quite outdated equipment. We actually got a great deal on 2 Dell desktops, Vostros, and been quite happy with them.

Dell End of Lease
We got our instructions, followed them to the letter, repacking and mailing the 2 boxes (CPU and Monitor) back via USPS. I happily paid about $60 for the shipping, delivery confirmation and insurance. Especially the Delivery Confirmation!

About one month later we got a call from Dell Financial stating we were overdue on our monthly payment. We gave them our RMA number and delivery confirmation info and they said they’d check into it. We assumed after some clerical error, the matter was closed.

Then, today we get a call that we were to be referred to collections over $80 that they considered past due. So here I am stating blatantly and publicly that my company, and anyone who cares to listen, will not be doing business with Dell Financial, EVER AGAIN!.

Why we recommend not to do business with Dell Financial:

• Over pay for the product
• Their end of lease system is clearly flawed
• Their customer service reps can’t solve a problem
• Their customer care can offer no solutions, and are sans care

I will be back here if I get another call. Clearly we owe them nothing since their equipment was returned. Now it’s treading in the waters of wasting my f@cking time, may the next outsourced person who calls me about this matter be bearing a stout heart because I am going to ruin their day if they do.

Recently upgrading our RAM, I found that the CPU fan was loose and sure enough, 2 weeks later, booting up I receive a CPU fan failure warning on boot. Because I only needed to knock out a couple of tasks, it was a Saturday, I decided to try and work with out the fan. This worked for about 8 minutes before the computer gracelessly powered down.

Now, we have other workstations, and some would say I’d be smart to take opportunity to upgrade, but with my time and ability to manage multiple tasks taxed to the limit, I prefer to go with the least business-hour downtime and I opted to try and buy my replacement part locally.

The only repair shop that carries CPU fan assemblies in the area, that I found on google, was PCW and they did indeed have the AM2 socket heatsink and fan combo I needed! I got in this morning, grudgingly unplugged everything, and set to what was really a straightforward task.

This style of cooling fan assembly has a “tightener” to lock the heatsink and fan down on the processor. I loosened the old assembly, already sans-fan, and cleaned out the dust built up around it’s local crevices.

My new part, the Thermaltake (p/n: CL-P0503) for AMD Athlon 64 series (socket AM2), comes with glue pre-applied. I centered the heatsink over the cpu and lowered it over the processor. After that, I positioned the clamp that attached to either side and tightened the assembly down and locked it into place.

Rebooting the machine and saying a prayer, I watched my workstation roar back to life. And with only $17 and mild irritation, I am back to work. Praise the Lord!