Notes About ... Something or other

• About This Site
• Hidden but Important Places to Buy Stuff in San Diego
• Notes on Facebook Games Yes, I know... but I find it useful so maybe you folks will as well.

Geekery

• Notes on Mac OSX
• Basic PS3 Capability Chart
• Reviews of various Bluetooth headsets I own
• Phone tricks
• Linux Reference
• Perl Reference
• A quick guide to Wacom tablets, created so I can pick the right widget off Ebay.
• A quick guide to Sony Alpha / Minolta Maxxum lenses
• Video Reference (note that this will be unabashedly Linux slanted, no effort wasted on MS users - they have plenty of resources out there)

Snooping in San Diego

• Grantor/Grantee Index provides real estate records. Know a flipper? Check out their history.
• San Diego property tax - click 'pay on-line', enter a street address, find the owner's name (as of last property tax billing)

Web Related

• Digest of an mp3alumni mailing list thread on video hosting solutions
• Really useful favicon generator: http://favicon.cc/
• Website Popularity
  • Submit your site to Yahoo Directory and DMOZ.
  • Alexa toolbar user stats (for my site): http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/thegunwiki.com
    • TGW traffic rank: 4,516,563 @ 1/17/08 3mo
    • TGW traffic rank: 2,524,631 @ 2/06/08 3mo (651,673 1wk)
    • TGW traffic rank: 1,616,563 @ 3/07/08 3mo
    • TGW traffic rank: 1,571,654 @ 4/14/08 3mo
    • TGW traffic rank: 2,232,416 @ 7/6/08 3mo
  • Another useful pagerank-checker (which doesn't seem to use Google stats): http://www.smartpagerank.com/
  • Another fascinating site: http://www.quantcast.com/ - it gets really in depth.

Personal Finance

• Checking Building Permits in San Diego
• Job Research
• Californians only: Ordering free credit reports 1x/yr
• CPI info
• Movie ticket pricing comparison
• My favorite mortgage calculator site: http://www.decisionaide.com/MPCalculators/Menus/MP_Calculators.asp

Semi-Educational Brain Teasers

• Finding out if one directory is a subset of another, or not

Miscellaneous

• My research on air compressors
• Formatting your document to simulate published paperback pages