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When I first ran into Digg and read about some of the traffic that got sent to people’s websites, I thought to myself, “Man! It must be great to be Dugg! All those new readers would be awesome!” While there are some really good things that come from being Dugg (e.g. some of my regular readers found me on Digg, you become “popular” for a short period of time, etc.), there were some aspects of a Digg that I really wasn’t prepared for (e.g. my site going down, etc.).

Since I have been on the receiving end of the Digg Effect a few times, I started to look a bit more at some of the long-term and unexpected outcomes of being Dugg. Some of my finding were quite surprising. Read the rest of the story…

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Photo Matt » Premium Gas:

I just wanted to let you know that this is a dangerous thing! The difference between regular, plus and premium gas is the octane rating… 87, 91, and 93 if I remember correctly. Every car has its own rating, and I am going to guess that your car is 87 or 91. A lot of people think that giving a car a higher grade of gas is a way to give it “extra treatment,” but this couldn’t be farther from the truth. The higher octane rating means that the gas *burns hotter*, and if you give an 87 octane car 93 octane gas, you are making the combustion process burn much hotter than what the engine is designed to handle, making the car wear out much faster! If you gave your car premium gas every day it would wear out sooner than expected, and giving it premium gas even one day (like a birthday) is not a present at all. If you want your car to last as long as possible, stick to the octane rating it calls for.

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VistaBootPRO - Go PRO with Windows Vista and VistaBootPRO:

VistaBootPRO was developed to make changes to the Windows Vista Boot Configuration Data (BCD) registry quickly and easily, doing the job in a fraction of the time it would take using the alternative.

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WinMerge:

WinMerge is an Open Source visual text file differencing and merging tool for Win32 platforms. It is highly useful for determing what has changed between project versions, and then merging changes between versions.

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