A Big Sky Catering
I want to see if I can create a backlink to A Big Sky Catering in Boise. It’s my brother-in-law’s catering and food service business. It ranks second in the Google search for “boise catering” and “catering boise”. According to SEO Quake/SEM Rush, the #1 result has 7 links to the domain and Big Sky has 4.
I want to see if I can push it up to #1 using links. Perhaps 8 links will do it. But, with Penguin and Panda on my heels, I really have to be careful.
Zemanta Browser Widget vs. Zemanta Plugin
Zemanta Firefox plugin (Photo credit: Tom Raftery)
I like Zemanta. It is a “curation” tool that helps you create “nice” posts. It goes along with the whole idea of magazine-style blogs that have lots of content that interests people. I have tried a couple other curation tools, but Zemanta is the easiest and most available of the current products.
When I first downloaded the browser widget, I was not too impressed. But, they have since improved things so much that I have to admit a true fondness for Zemanta. In fact, I like the online version so much I decided to give the actual plugin a try, just to see if it had any additional features.
How to Read the News
Loved this article. It is from PubMed. It was written about health news, but can be applied to any news story. Link
By Dr Alicia White
From “Behind the Headlines”, provided by NHS Choices (from England’s National Health Service).
If you’ve just read a health-related headline that has caused you to spit out your morning coffee (“Coffee causes cancer” usually does the trick), it’s always best to follow the Blitz slogan: “Keep Calm and Carry On”. On reading further, you’ll often find the headline has left out something important, such as, “Injecting five rats with really highly concentrated coffee solution caused some changes in cells that might lead to tumours eventually. (Study funded by The Association of Tea Marketing)”.
Good Programmer, Bad Programmer
“My mind is clearer now. At last, all too well. I can see where we all soon will be”. – Judas in “Heaven on Their Minds” at the beginning of the rock opera “Jesus Christ Superstar”.
“My mind is in darkness now…” – Judas toward the end of the musical, after the betrayal for the 30 pieces of silver, and just before his suicide.
I’ve been working on a programming project – one I really should have done by now – and I’ve been feeling both of those emotions quite a bit lately. The project, for an unmentioned client, has been a mish-mash of decent to excellent programming styles, mixed with some of the worst I’ve seen for quite sometime.
Drowning in a Sea of Technology
Creeping Technology?
It amazes me sometimes how dependent we have become on technology.
Today I was at a client site, and their network guy was on the phone with Barracuda debugging some issues with their firewall/web filter. I overheard most of the conversation. Barracuda would have him adjust something, and he would respond with whatever result came up. At one point I heard him say, “Well, looks like I lost internet completely. The backup server should have kicked in but it didn’t”, or words to that effect.
Website Development
website (Photo credit: tourist_on_earth)
Well, I’ve decided to take the next step and hang my hat on the website development “tree”. This is a big step, but it should not be taken lightly. I plan to make this explode!
The market will be local establishments and businesses. I know for a fact I can do more for them than anyone can, mainly because I don’t just think outside the box, I live outside the box.
Draft Day Been Good for Boise State
So to wrap NFL draft day up for Boise State – two first rounders, then four more draftees taken in rounds 3-7, then five more signed before the end of the day as free agents. Beats anything we’ve done in the past.
Round 1, #19. Shea McClellin went to “Da Bears”. As a Packer fan this stings a little bit because I know Green Bay was eyeing him. So, did the Bears do it on purpose – get a great pass rusher to pressure Rodgers, and then rub a little salt in the wound? Prolly.
Brand Thyself
For once in my life, I am going to try to do things “the way they are supposed to be done” (or, at least according to what “the experts” say). And, that is going to include branding myself. It’s really what Google wants (see Huff Post, Mashable, PerezHilton, ProBlogger, CopyBlogger, and our fvorites like Facebook, Twitter, etc. etc.).
It’s no longer about the product, it’s about the brand.
I got this thought from this post by Jon Leger. In it he says
Brown (UPS) 1, Fedex 0 (or… Fedex Major FAIL)
FedEx delivery truck on Jackson st, Chicago, IL (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I was sitting here at home working, and I spied a Fedex truck stopping in the street in front of our house. At first I thought he was just going to put something in our mailbox (is that “legal”?), but apparently he determined the package was too big to fit inside. I saw the driver get out of his truck and start to walk up our driveway – that is, until he saw Nikki, our super-friendly 2-year old border collie running toward him. Nikki veered off at the last second, and continued running away from him (that’s pretty much all she does is run) – BUT, the dude freaked out anyway, dropped the package, and high-tailed it back to his truck!
Hello world!
I’ve often argued with myself about (re)starting this blog – thinking there was never a really good place to “begin”. Kinda like starting a novel, I guess. An odd case of writer’s block.
So, I’ll just start out with today’s most notable event – the NFL draft. I am happy to report that for the first time ever (well, in 16 years anyway), two Broncos – Shea McClellin and Doug Martin were drafted in the first round. Wahoo. Our boys hit the big time. Shea went at #19 to “Da Bears”, and Doug gets to irritate and hopefully replace LaGarret Blount in Tampa Bay (rumor has it LB punched the TV at some point tonight – ha!).
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