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Jazz up your tweets & Facebook posts with icons

April 8th, 2010 | Author: Alicia Moore, VA

Have you ever looked at a symbol like this in an email or post and wondered what it meant? Or wished you could add an emoticon to your Facebook post or Twitter tweet but didn’t know how to do it? If you’re on a PC, this site has a handy chart showing the key combinations to use.

Want to add a heart ♥? Hold the Alt key while pressing the 3 key. Musical note? That’s Alt and 13 for a ♪, Alt 14 for ♫. There are ways to quickly insert the copyright or trademark symbols, special letters from other languages and currency symbols. There are even combos that will enable you to lay out a road map section by section!

So go ahead, jazz it up and tell me how you really feel!

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Binary Day

December 31st, 2009 | Author: Alicia Moore, VA

The following is an excerpt from an ezine by internet marketing expert Bob Jenkins (a/k/a Bob The Teacher), which I share with you just for the geeky fun of it!

You may have already figured out that I am a nerd,

and I never hide that.

So it’s with great pleasure that I bring you some geeked

up information for you today.

First and least importantly, I may be the only one who is

going to tell you this next piece of information…

I’ve decided to call tomorrow Binary Day. And actually,

it’s the first of several binary days in 2010.

What’s a Binary Day?

It’s when the date on the calendar reads like a binary number.

And it’s very rare!

Tomorrow (Jan. 1, 2010) will be 010110 – which translates

to the number 22.

Then later in the month, it will be January 10 – 011010 (26)

and then January 11 – 011110 (30).

We’ll have 6 more in October and November, another

round of 9 in 2011, but not another one again for 100 years!

What does this have to do with business? Absolutely

nothing.

Although if I thought about it harder, I could remind you that

binary is what computer code is based on; or that binary is a

representation of whether things are simply ON or OFF.

And you need to make sure you’re ON track.

But that would be lame, so I won’t do that.

So just chalk Binary Day up to a bit of trivia to brighten

your day.

If you’d like to read more of his informative and entertaining blog, which I highly recommend, you can do so here. I’ll leave you today with this old but still amusing joke:

“There are 10 types of people in this world – those that

understand binary, and those that don’t.”

Posted in Techno/Geek | Tags: Binary, Bob the Teacher, geek | 3 Comments »