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Obama's Green Deal

Dec 10, 2008 by Paul White

Barack ObamaSimilar to back in the 1930s when we had the new deal to help create jobs, and get the country out of the great depression.  Obama has a similar plan, but his plan involves green technologies.  The plan is really simple.  By upgrading government buildings ( military, schools, administrative ) with more energy efficent technologies ( lighting, heating, cooling ) we can decrease the long term opporating costs of the government, and at the same time we are creating demand for these new technologies which should increase the number of green jobs.  Your former GM assembly worker might now find themselves working in a factory making solar panels.  Read more for details
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SAS drives on ASUS P6T RAID 0 Benchmark

Dec 7, 2008 by Paul White

SAS 15K drives mounted in full towerI finally got my new workstation up and running. I will post some photos of the actual unit soon.  But for now I wanted to share these bench marks with everyone.  No need to get a dedicated RAID card, the build in SAS RAID support from the ASUS P6T x58 motherboard gets the job done just fine.
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New Blog Design under way

Dec 7, 2008 by Paul White

Its been a while and I have learned some new stuff.  I am currently redesigning this blog with features that will help increase SEO, and improve the user layout.  Learn more about exactly what I am doing different.

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Marketing to High Income Customers

Nov 25, 2008 by Paul White

Something I have noticed in recent years is advertisers are getting more keen to marketing to those with the High Income mindset. Read more about my thoughts on this and a few rules for how to reach out to these consumers.

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New Core I7 workstation ordered

Nov 25, 2008 by Paul White

I finally picked out what components I wanted in my new workstation.  Read more to see the complete list of components.  Should get here by Dec 1st if not earlier.  Once its here I will do a few bench marks, and report my findings.

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Time to build a new workstation using intel's new I7

Nov 12, 2008 by Paul White

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Finally the time has come.  My workstation has served me well for the past 5 years, but with the increasing workload I put it through its time to upgrade.  Learn the full details of I feel now is great time to make the move to the intel i7.

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2008 Election in Review

Nov 7, 2008 by Paul White

I am a bit of a political junky.  Its not so much what the politicians do ( as they all often do nothing ) but the phycology of what people think they will do and how it influences people's opinions.  Here are some of my own opinions of the 2008 Election, and how things could have been very different.

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Taking NightClub photos with a Sony a100 DSLR

Nov 3, 2008 by Paul White

Before any of you get too excited, I don't have any photos posted yet.  Tonight I got thinking about how unhappy I have been with the photos taken recently at a few nightclubs in Houston.  All I am going to say is its all in the Flash ( SONY HVL-F56AM ) and how you don't use it.  Read more for details

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New Website coming soon

Nov 3, 2008 by Paul White

Tonight I started work on a much needed face lift for whitesites.com. 

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Simple ways to grow your website's traffic

Oct 22, 2008 by Paul White

If there is one common trend with new websites is they all want to hit critical mass tomorrow.  They seem to think that they can buy traffic, or use Link Farms to go from rags to richs.  Allow me to defunk these myths, and show you the right way its done.

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