Here is a popular email forward going around.  Who knows the legitimacy of it.  So since I get this kind of thing in my inbox, you now have to read it on the web.  Karma!

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Everybody should be asking “Why is the American Auto Industry Failing?”.  It’s quite simply in the numbers.
# of Employees: 239,000# of Retirees Being Paid Pensions: 775,000# of People get Heathcare: 2,000,000+
This is a very touchy subject for America.  It’s because retirement promises were made that can’t be kept.  So should the government tax the rich [...]

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What is everbody’s one major issue with the iPhone?  I mean other than having to use iTunes.  I hate iTunes guts.
The problem is the lack of a tactile screen.  Well, if you want something portable and not clunky, you don’t get a tactile screen right?  Well some people, smarter than us came up with a [...]

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Everybody knows that the higher up in search engine rankings you are, the more clicks you get.  How much though?
Let’s assume there are 10 results per page and 1,000,000 search per month.

Percentage of Clicks per Position

Position
Percent Clicks
Number of Clicks 1,000,000
If you Go up 1
If You Go Down 1

1
42.30%
423,000
 
28.18%

2
11.92%
119,200
355%
70.81%

3
8.44%
84,400
141%
71.45%

4
6.03%
60,300
140%
80.60%

5
4.86%
48,600
124%
82.10%

6
3.99%
39,900
122%
84.46%

7
3.37%
33,700
118%
88.43%

8
2.98%
29,800
113%
94.97%

9
2.83%
28,300
105%
104.95%

10
2.97%
29,700
95%
22.22%

11
0.66%
6,600
450%
84.85%

12
0.56%
5,600
118%
92.86%

13
0.52%
5,200
108%
92.31%

14
0.48%
4,800
108%
97.92%

15
0.47%
4,700
102%
82.98%

16
0.39%
3,900
121%
92.31%

17
0.36%
3,600
108%
94.44%

18
0.34%
3,400
106%
94.12%

19
0.32%
3,200
106%
96.88%

20
0.31%
3,100
103%
93.55%

21
0.29%
2,900
107%
41.38%

31
0.12%
1,200
242%
58.33%

41
0.07%
700
171%
 

This will tell you roughly what you can [...]

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From time to time I post fixes that I have found that aren’t on the net.  It’s so others don’t have to go through the same aggravation as myself.  This one relates to SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS).  More precisely we have an ASP.Net application written in C# that uses the report viewer control to [...]

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