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Computers
Track Pad on PowerBook G4 Annoying Sometimes
Sometimes, when the track pad is moist from the moisture in the air, the moisture on my fingers or just some heat, the mouse control is unbearable. Just before writing the entry before this one, the whole entry was deleted because of a track pad issue, accidently hitting the refresh button at the top of
Shopping
More Digging & Returning Registry Gifts
Yea, I thought we were almost done but then we came back to my in-laws this week, unplanned, and found more items that need to be brought back to New York or returned. So that means we need to dig out some more sometime over the next week or so. I am just not sure
Daily Search Coverage
Google Filters, Approved Settlement, Speed Up AdSense, Yahoo! Map Tool & New Slurp Crawler
Slow day for me in terms of writing about search topics. I did post about five items and here they are. I discussed Yahoo’s link map tool, a new Google filter being talked about, and Google’s approved 90 million dollar approved settlement. We also covered that Yahoo launched a new web crawler that is more
Web Development
Lead PHP Developer Quits: Reason, Seems Like Politics
Via /. it appears that “Jani Taskinen, one of the lead developers of the Zend Engine (the engine that powers PHP)” has left due to some political reasons in the community. Check out this message: Thank you all for the last 6 years or so. It has been fun (sometimes) and many times not so
Just FunnyMotor Vehicle
The Largest Amoco Sign I Have Ever Seen!
So as you know, I am in St. Louis this week. We drove by this Amoco station, which is now a BP station and I was amazed by the size of this sign. I had to come back to the camera, so I did. Look at how big this sign is. It must be some
Daily Search Coverage
Smore AdWords Tidbits, Google Down & Rankings Up?, Yahoo Tool, M$ Hires 10K, Baidu ♥ HP & Google Musicals
Today in search, I personally covered topics on Google AdWord geo specific ads, Google AdWords quality score ideas, Google search rankings update and if Google was down or not. In addition we discussed more annoyances with Yahoo Search Marketing, them partnering with British Telcom and a very cool new Yahoo link analysis tool. Microsoft hired
Daily Grind
MarketSmart Interactive Email Spam
I often get emails from spammers (marketers) saying that they can rank my site in the top results (like I want that). I delete them or they get caught by my spam filters. But this is the first email, I remember, getting from MarketSmart Interactive, you know, aka Keywords Ranking, aka WebSourced. Here it is
Daily Search Coverage
Google Reports Invalid Clicks, Shawn Might Against MPAA, 9% of Ad Spend Towards Online Ads, Fake Google Toolbars
Today we covered that Google is not displaying “invalid clicks” on your AdWords reports. Shawn goes against the Motion Picture Association of America and more. We document the Yahoo “Save To My Web” button on Yahoo! Directory pages. Microsoft conducts focus groups while Google plays on their Google Jet with fake Google Toolbars wandering around
Rambling
Replying Vs. Reply All: The Dos & Don’ts
Email is extremely powerful, it is the most used product in the online world, but many people simply don’t know how to use it. This post will be my rant on how people don’t properly use the reply versus the reply all button. When to Use the Reply All: When you get an email that
Family
Personal Status Update
My wife and I made it to St. Louis. We have a funeral to attend tomorrow afternoon. It is a sad day but thank god all immediate family members are doing well. We appreciate all the emails and such left for us. We are really OK and thanks again for the support. We don’t get