Personal Posts
Personal gripes and personal issues which aren't necessarily related to search engine optimization or marketing.
Posted Thursday, June 19th, 2008.
This message is a warning originally sent from the FBI:
For those of you who like to grill it up during the summer, here’s a safety announcement you should be aware of. Please put this information out to ALL personnel. For those of you who exchange your propane tanks, this is something you definitely need to [...]
Posted Sunday, September 30th, 2007.
If you’re going to try to promote a search conference, the worst possible way to promote it is to comment spam a blogger in the SEM community. Since I have math comment protection they had to have at least made some effort to fill out the form manually (unless there’s a workaround I didn’t know [...]
Posted Saturday, July 14th, 2007.
I’m excited to announce that I’ve accepted a position at ECNext. I will be responsible for the SEO of some very large websites including Manta, AccessMyLibrary, Goliath and approx 40 other sites. Each contain many millions of pages so optimizing them is going to be fun and very rewarding. These sites have huge growth potential [...]
Posted Wednesday, July 4th, 2007.
I’m not as brave as Robert Scoble to post my cell on this blog, but Grandcentral provides users (and myself) with a nice alternative. I decided to participate in the beta for Grandcentral and signed up just prior to the Google acquisition. It has a range of really neat features such as:
Choose a unique Grandcentral [...]
Posted Friday, June 22nd, 2007.
Last night I was driving back home from the office and witnessed a car accident. A lady in a cavalier two cars ahead of me wanted to turn left and didn’t yield to the oncoming traffic. She ploughed into an old camaro and although everyone walked away, both cars could be totaled by the insurance [...]
Posted Friday, May 25th, 2007.
Overall, you scored as follows:
12% scored higher (more nerdy),
1% scored the same, and
87% scored lower (less nerdy).
What does this mean? Your nerdiness is:
High-Level Nerd. You are definitely MIT material, apply now!!!.
Damn it Michael - I’m not supposed to be nerdier than you, lol.
Next five nerds:
Randall
Skitzzo
Jrothra
tresmom
kichus
Posted Monday, April 9th, 2007.
The lovely DazzlinDonna tagged me for another one of these meme things. Since I’m on lunch right now I guess I’ll throw out 5 reasons quickly.
Personal Brand Building - Like many other professional search marketers, I had been lurking in the wings and posting in a rather anonymous fashion. But after attending pubcon in November [...]
Posted Saturday, December 30th, 2006.
According to the superhero quiz, I have personality traits like the hulk. Which superhero are you most like?
You are Hulk
Hulk
85%
Iron Man
65%
Superman
65%
The Flash
65%
Green Lantern
60%
Catwoman
55%
Supergirl
55%
Robin
42%
Wonder Woman
40%
Spider-Man
35%
Batman
35%
You are a wanderer with
amazing strength.
Click here to take the Superhero Personality Test
Posted Thursday, December 21st, 2006.
My wife has spent many hours gathering and updating the content on her website. Using copyscape, we found quite a few people blatantly stealing it, instead of linking to it. We do post a polite message at the top of the page asking people to provide comments, feedback, additions, and to link to it if [...]
Posted Saturday, December 16th, 2006.
DazzlinDonna tagged me.
1. When I was 5, my family and grandparents from Switzerland went on vacation to Fintry in Scotland. We rented some cabins on the grounds in a small clearing in the forest. They were private grounds so you could do all the hunting and fishing you wanted. My father brought his new shotgun [...]