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New at GoingWare's Bag of Programming Tricks:

How to Promote Your Business on the Internet

Getting a Google search for software consultant to list my resume on its first page of search results didn't require me to pay a lot of money to a search engine placement service. I didn't have to do anything dishonest, like build a link farm. It didn't cost a cent. It did take time and a lot of hard work, but my method is so simple that anyone could do it - and if you did, the Web would be a better place.

Does Advogato save text that's being edited?

I had a crash in Mozilla while the above text was in a diary entry window. The crash was while emailing the above announcement to some friends. When I went to re-enter my diary entry, which I had previewed but hadn't posted, I found that my text was restored. Neat. Or is that a Mozilla feature?

A feature I have always wanted in a browser is a confirmation dialog: "Post form contents before closing window?"