I love to fish.. Never get to fish enough.. Well, hardly at all this year..

The problem is that I pretty much suck at it.. I’m fabulous at sitting in the boat, driving the boat (or is it piloting?), even parking at the pier next to the tavern with a 26′ pontoon in a current.. But actually catching fish?? Not so good..

Anyway, I was out looking for things to make fishing a little more fun when it comes to actually putting fish in the boat.. I found this great site with animated knot tying videos.. The videso are a series of images, not really video, but you can step through them one frame at a time and each frame has a description of what is going on.. Excellent help for people that tie 6 or 7 square knots in a row to tie a lure..

People like me –

Fey~

It never ends, and I’m sure that I am simply tilting at windmills in a manner that would make Don Quixote proud, but I simply can’t sit by and watch these people steal money from unsuspecting clients..

Over at WPW there is a new poster asking about datacenters.. http://www.webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=64527 The question itself is a simple one.. There are at least 64 datacenters and any one of them may be called upon to provide results to search queries at any time.. What makes this interesting is that the datacenters are not entirely synchronized since many of them run slightly varied results algos for testing reasons for Google.. A simple thing that any one who has even a surface understanding of professional SEO will understand.. Hell, even Bob at Images Jewelers gets it and he’s a late 50s something jeweler that still types in all caps because it looks cool to him..

But this guy is a “professional SEO” with a “prefessional SEO” website over here at http://www.seo-professional.co.uk/.. Charging good people real money for something he doesn’t even have a basic understanding of..

Fey~

Heather Chaplin and Aaron Ruby have put together a great book about the culture of gaming and game developers.. The book follows several of the game world’s masters such as CliffyB (Unreal) and Shigeru Miyamoto (Nitendo) and their rise to the top of the gaming world.. Weaving game developer events with the history of gaming we get an inside look at the in crowd, the rock stars of gaming..

While there isn’t a lot of earth shattering information, the book provides a unique insight to the developers lives and how they pushed the envelope of gaming to the levels of today..

The book also delves into the early days of professional game playing.. We get a look at some of the early competitions in Dallas and the people that play..

Overall this is a good book for some light reading.. For those of us old enough to remember the early days when 2D side scrollers were the latest thing it has moments of nostalgia.. Plus it’s always good to remind some of the kids that there was gaming before they were born..

Fey~