On ThemBid.com’s blog, Elmer Thomas reproduced a timeless success formula created by Benjamin Franklin and described by Napoleon Hill. This is a list of virtues reproduced below and a formula to enact them in your own life:

THE THIRTEEN VIRTUES
1. Temperance
Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
2. Silence
Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid [...]

Daniel Miessler posted an interesting article regarding the encryption of Gmail and other Google services communication. First the article shows using TCPdump capture why it is dangerous to not use encryption when connecting to Gmail. Then the well known workaround is described: use https instead of http when connecting to Gmail. But when using link [...]

The plain English campaign provides a writting guide called “How to write in plain English”. I found this guide useful as it helps to write better informative text. So this might be valuable for other bloggers to. The advices provided by the guide are:

Keep your sentences short: A clear sentence should have an average sentence [...]