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Well here it is the end of August already. The kids will be heading back to school soon. Just seeing the back to school sales on TV makes me cringe. This summer sure did go by quick. I am not exactly ready for winter yet. I know there will still be some nice weather yet before it's over, but I can't help thinking about it.

It sure would be nice to live somewhere that has nice warm weather all year, but usually those types of places get too darn hot in summer time. I don't know if there is a perfect year around place in terms of weather. If I could find one, would there actually be jobs there? Or even something to do for that matter?

Wishful thinking and dreaming I guess. No harm in dreaming!

I am a huge fan of Firefox web browser. I think it is much faster than Internet Explorer. The free add-ons available for Firefox cannot even closely be matched by any other. No matter what you might be looking for there is probably an add-on for it.

Firefox 3.5 recently went stable so being a huge fan I decided to upgrade and check it out. There are some plenty of new features as expected. Firefox claims a huge increase in speed and performance, enhanced security, and a number of others.

After using Firefox 3.5 for more than a month now I do like it. However, there are some glitches or annoyances that irritate me quite a bit.

1. Speed and performance is great at first, but over time as the database increases in size the speed and performance slows...a lot actually.

2. When I have several tabs open at the same time and I click a link on a site, sometimes it closes the tab and opens the link / site in a totally new window. This is really annoying, and happens several times per week.

3. Oftentimes I choose open a new tab and go to punch in a site and the first few letters of the site I type get cut off. I end up re-typing the web address. It appears that the new tab is hanging and doesn't really kick in until I have typed a few letters, hence cutting off a few.

4. Sometimes I open a new tab and type in the address bar and nothing I typed appears. I have to click in the address bar and re-type the web address again. This happens often.

5. It consumes a lot of ram, and it continues to rise until I totally close all tabs and windows.

These are the top 5 complaints I have. I didn't have these issues in the previous version of Firefox. Only since upgrading.

Also when I upgraded Firefox wiped all of my bookmarks. It didn't suggest or tell me to back them up first. It was almost like it was a fresh install. Kind of like it removed the previous version and install the new.

I do keep fairly up-to-date backups, but I'm sure many don't and would end up losing all of their bookmarks.

All my custom bookmarks on the tool bar also disappeared when upgrading to Firefox 3.5 which was a little bit disappointing too.

At any rate Firefox is still my number 1 choice web browser.

Hopefully...maybe...fingers crossed...some of these issues will be addressed as new updates come out.

I keep hearing all this positive energy about the economy recovering. Unless it's happening everywhere except where I live or something I haven't noticed any improvement.

Maybe it is so slight that it is almost transparent. Or maybe it's the big boys in Washington trying to sweet talk us. Who knows. I think it will be quite a while yet, and don't expect any major changes for the good any time soon yet.

It sure would be nice if someone came up with a faster paced plan to get us out of this mess soon. Things just seem to be going so slow, it's discouraging to a lot of people including myself.

Ok enough rambling on about the economy for one night!

You got me. For some reason blog scripts and sites such as this google blogspot believe that comments should be nofollow. Basically when leaving a comment on a site that allows you to put in your website if it is dofollow google will count it as a backlink and pass on some of the pagerank. If it is nofollow, then no pagerank link juice is passed or counted. People try to get backlinks by posting comments on blog sites for the purpose of getting backlinks. What many don't realize is most of them are nofollow, so much of your hard work commenting does you little. You will still get anchor text and sort of keywords for it so there is a slight plus. Yahoo does seem to count them regardless if they are dofollow or nofollow, but most people are after the google rank so dofollow is something to be on the look out for.

As I mentioned it seems to be associated with blog sites more than anything. Forum sites, and other sites where commenting is involved still for the most part seem to be dofollow. So I don't quite get why blog sites seem to impose this nofollow rule in the comments. I think google has a little influence on wordpress and other blog scripts. So whatever google thinks is best the blog scripts tend to agree.

So for all of you trying to build backlinks, you really need to identify dofollow blogs. Even if the page header says index, follow it does not mean that the comments are dofollow. Incidentally most blogs are nofollow in the comments. If you have firefox there is a nice free addon that will help you identify which blogs are dofollow and which are nofollow. It's called NoDoFollow and can be found here:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5687

So what is all this Twitter stuff about? How did it get so big? I honestly don't know but there isn't a single day that goes by that I don't here the word Twitter, Tweet, and follow me on Twitter.

I haven't been on Twitter until recently. I guess I was Twittered out maybe. So I decided to log back in tonight and play around with it. The more I mess with it the more I actually like it. It's a fairly simple site that I think just about anyone could navigate and find their way around unlike most others where you have to spend hours just trying to figure out how to update something.

Twitter can be a powerful traffic tool if used properly. I was doing some promoting with it a while back and I did get an unexpected flow of traffic. However, it didn't last for an extended amount of time. Like anything though, I would assume regular posting and updating would help.

So if you have never been to Twitter, you might check it out in your spare time. You would be surprised who is on there. You might just find someone you have been trying to find on Twitter too.

And Twitter is one of the few sites that the not so technical or Internet savvy folks can actually figure out.

They apparently even have their own little lingo and terms they use, twits, tweets, you name it. Go figure who would have thought something so simple would be so big?