Archive - 2006

Sporting Clays Takes Practice Apparently

July 22 Comments Off Category: Outdoor Life

So the wife has a damned cool boss.. He’s in town from Arizona and invited the folks to join him at Back Forty Sporting Clays for a morning of target shooting.. For those of you not familiar with target shooting sporting clays, skeet, trap, etc., you basically move through several, in this case 10, stations [...]

A Semantic Web

July 19 Comments Off Category: Hack The Planet, SEO

ZDNet has a short article about Tim Berners-Lee’s talk about a semantic web wiki.. As a proponent of collaboration and artificial intelligence Tim’s stance on the subject is obvious.. A semantic web would allow search engines ingeneral, and artificial intelligence greater ability to deliver relevant content to the user.. And in an ideal world, I [...]

Just because it’s still funny

July 19 Comments Off Category: Humor

Dark and lonely on a summer’s night. Kill my landlord. Kill my landlord. Watchdog barking. Do he bite? Kill my landlord. Kill my landlord. Slip in his window. Break his neck. Then his house I start to wreck. Got no reason. What the heck? Kill my landlord. Kill my landlord. C-I-L my land lord! -Tyrone [...]

Tying Knots in Fishing Line

June 26 Comments Off Category: Outdoor Life

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.. [...]

More Bad SEO

June 15 Comments Off Category: SEO

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 [...]

Smartbomb

June 04 Comments Off Category: Books, Gaming

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 [...]

Bad SEO: Scamming For SEO part 3

May 30 Comments Off Category: SEO

And the fun just keeps coming.. Take a look at this new thread over at webworkshop.. http://www.webworkshop.net/seoforum/viewtopic.php?t=11243.. But then when we go to his website that he wants help with we find this little bit of knowledge on this page.. http://www.worldcomexc.com/startupbusiness/web_optimization Why do these people keep doing this?? Do they think that if they pretend [...]

O’Reilly claims trademark on Web 2.0

May 25 Comments Off Category: Hack The Planet

The great guys at O’Reilly have applied for a trademark for the term Web 2.0.. And they’ve already started sending out cease and desist letters to people using the term.. Tim claims to have invented the term in an article with MediaLive International.. While this may be the case, I find it interesting on several [...]