Archive - 2006

Bad SEO – RedZee / Web Wise Media Scam

September 21 3 Comments Category: SEO

Seems that the nice folks at web wise media (www.webwisemedia.com) are still up to their strange way of making your site popular.. Here is the process in a nutshell.. You pay them gobs of money.. They promise that anyone using their software will see your site rank higher in the search results for your keywords.. [...]

Jewelry Scam – Diamond Nexus Labs

September 01 14 Comments Category: Jewelry

A new website went up recently labled as a Consumer Guide to Synthetic Diamonds at http://www.consumerguidesweb.com. The site purports to provide a consumer’s guide to the best quality and service from companies providing man-made diamonds.. Great idea, it’s alwasy a great thing to have more information out there to help people decide.. Unfortunatly they seem [...]

Defining Spam

August 30 3 Comments Category: Hack The Planet

or – Where is the line between the letter and the intent of the law? PhilC over at SEO Forum threw a mini tantrum over at Web Pro World about getting so many “spam” emails from them and iEntry (WPW’s parent).. The thread, as many things over there do, got heated, closed, and then moved [...]

Gentle Architecture

August 10 Comments Off Category: Architecture, Books

Malcolm Wells was an early supporter of taking architecture into a more green way of thinking.. Starting back in the 60′s he experimented with various ways of building without harming the surrounding world.. From energy conservation to soil preservation to water conservation.. His book, Gentle Architecture (1984) Powell’s Books, was something that I picked up [...]

Foreign Nations owning US infrastructure

August 07 Comments Off Category: Politics

Breaking news tells that London based British Petroleum is closing down the Alaskan Pipeline and the Prudhoe Bay Oil fields to repair a leak in the pipeline.. Leaks happen, I understand that, and in the grand scheme of things the Alaskan oil fields only produce about 8% of the US domestic oil so it ‘shouldn’t’ [...]

Norad Closing : The end of an era

August 02 Comments Off Category: UFOs and Crop Circles

The end of the cold war may finally be here as the hot wars are getting hotter.. It has been announced that the cost overruns and the lack of performance of updated early warning systems and various communications devices have finally forced the Air Force to relocate to an above ground facility at Peterson AFB.. [...]

Salmon Fishing Lake Michigan

July 30 1 Comment Category: Outdoor Life

Took a bunch of great guys up to Lake Michigan (St. Joseph. Mi) for a day on the lake fishing for salmon.. The day was great.. The water was reasonable with about 5 to 6 foot rollers coming through.. We didn’t get the big haul I was hoping for, but we did boat our share [...]

More Bad SEO companies

July 26 5 Comments Category: SEO

Seems I’ve been slipping a little lately in keeping up with these morons that claim to be SEOs yet don’t even have the most basic of clues about the industries and techniques, or even tools needed, to provide a useful service to their clients.. Take this (http://www.searchune.com/) idiot for one.. Over at SEO Forum we [...]