Thursday, December 09, 2010

Friday, November 12, 2010

New SEO Article up on AboutUs.org

The "wrapper" article for my series on classic SEO mistakes is now up on AboutUs.org.

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

New article at AboutUs.org on SEO

My latest article in a series of classic SEO mistakes is now up on AboutUs.org, entitled Classic SEO Mistakes: Shared Page Titles.

Thursday, September 30, 2010

SEO Article on AboutUs.org

My article on classic SEO mistakes, the first in a series of 10, is now live on AboutUs.org. This first article is about problems with subdomains and SEO.

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Two new websites for New Zealand Hunting


I've just launched two new websites for my client, Sunspots Safaris. One is focused on hunting Himalayan tahr in New Zealand, and the other is for fallow deer hunting trips to New Zealand.

Thursday, July 01, 2010

Solo flight to Florence

Aviation Jokes

  • You know that your landing gear is up and locked when it takes full power to taxi to the terminal. Lead-in Fighter Training Manual

  • When one engine fails on a twin-engine airplane, you always have enough power left to get you to the scene of the crash. Multi-Engine Training Manual

  • It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed. US Air Force Manual

  • Never tell the Platoon Sergeant you have nothing to do. Unknown Marine Recruit

  • You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3. Paul F.. Crickmore (SR71 test pilot)

  • The only time you have too much fuel is when you are on fire. Unknown Author

  • If the wings are traveling faster than the fuselage it has to be a helicopter -- and therefore, unsafe. Fixed Wing Pilot

  • Without ammunition, the USAF is just an expensive flying club. Unknown Author

  • If you hear me yell; "Eject, Eject, Eject!", the last two will be echos.If you stop to ask "Why?", you'll be talking to yourself, because you're the pilot.' Pre-flight Briefing from a 104 Pilot

  • What is the similarity between air traffic controllers and pilots? If a pilot screws up, the pilot dies; but If ATC screws up, .... the pilot dies. Sign over Control Tower Door

  • Never trade luck for skill. Author Unknown

  • Mankind has a perfect record in aviation - we have never left one up there! Unknown Author

  • Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your plight to a person on the ground incapable of understanding or doing anything about it. Emergency Checklist

  • The Piper Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you. Attributed to Max Stanley (Northrop test pilot)

  • There is no reason to fly through a thunderstorm in peacetime. Sign over Squadron Ops Desk at Davis-Montham AFB, AZ

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

URL rewriting using 404 handlers

My latest blog post on SEOmoz: URL rewriting and 301 redirects using 404 handlers.

Serious SEO technie nerds only need apply.

Friday, June 11, 2010

Pubsubhub

No beer involved in this pubsubhub...

Tuesday, June 08, 2010

Blog post on SEOMoz on RewriteRule

Apache webservers have a really cool and useful little feature called RewriteRule. It's sometimes referred to as the Swiss Army Knife of URL manipulation, because it's got two very important, often-used abilities: URL rewriting, and 301 redirection.

Read the blog post on SEOMoz.

Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Portland, Estonia

Found an interesting quirk in Google local search today. I was looking for a particular company's placement (HTG) in Google local results. Google correctly spotted that I was in Portland, OR, and showed the following:





Clicking on "More results near Portland, OR" produced the following:





If you zoom out, you'll discover it's showing Estonia. Note that they get the sponsored results right, though...Portland.


Friday, April 23, 2010

Custom wheels

Funny aviation one-liners

'It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed.'
- US.Air Force Manual -

'Yea, Though I Fly Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, I Shall Fear No Evil. For I am at 50,000 Feet and Climbing.'
- Sign over SR71 Wing Ops-

'You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3.'
- Paul F. Crickmore (SR71 test pilot)-

'The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.'
-Unknown Author-

'If the wings are traveling faster than the fuselage it has to be a helicopter -- and therefore, unsafe.'
- Fixed Wing Pilot-

'When one engine fails on a twin-engine airplane, you always have enough power left to get you to the scene of the crash.'
-Multi-Engine Training Manual-

'Without ammunition, the Air Force is just an expensive flying club.'
-Unknown Author-

'If you hear me yell;"Eject, Eject, Eject!", the last two will be echos.'
If you stop to ask "Why?", you'll be talking to yourself, because by then you'll be the pilot.'
-Pre-flight Briefing from a Canadian F104 Pilot-

The three most common expressions (or famous last words) in military aviationare:'Did you feel that?' 'What's that noise?' and'Oh S...!'
-Authors Unknown-

'Airspeed, altitude and brains. Two are always needed to successfully complete the flight.'
-Basic Flight Training Manual-

'Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your plight to a person on the ground incapable of understanding or doing anything about it.'
- Emergency Checklist-

'The Piper Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you.'
- Attributed to Max Stanley ( Northrop test pilot) -

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Monday, April 19, 2010

Sunspots Safaris in Google LBC

Now, even Google Local Business Center knows about Sunspots Safaris :-)

New Sunspots Safaris page on AboutUs.org

Just finished putting up a page for Sunspots Safaris on AboutUs.org (another Portland-based internet company, in fact):

www.aboutus.org/BigGameHuntingNewZealand.com

Kimihia Hunting Safaris photos

Just added a Flickr album for Kimihia hunting packages in New Zealand.

Webshots

Added an album of New Zealand hunting photos at Webshots.

Monday, April 05, 2010

Loving my new plane cover!


Just got my new airplane cover from www.planecover.com, and I'm REALLY impressed with the fit, the materials, fasteners, etc. It's really first-rate, fit perfectly, good quality heavy-duty zippers and snaps, and looks great. Easy to put on too. Nice embroidery of my plane's tail number on the cover and the cowl plugs. And Jim, the owner of the company, definitely has a sense of humor as you can see if you read a bit of his site.

New Zealand hunting website


Just finished launching a new website for my buddy Rodney at Sunspots International...it's for New Zealand hunting packages. He's got all sorts of cool packages put together for hunting red stag, chamois, himalayan bull tahr, etc....all those animals that the thoughtful European settlers brought with them before they realized that New Zealand doesn't have any predators big enough to control those populations :-) So hunting has become very popular, not only because there's a plethora of game available, but it's also some pretty spectacular countryside...check out some of the photo galleries from inside the packages on the site.

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Barnstormers newsletter


Got my pic of Alphonse Island, Seychelles in the Barnstormers newsletter.

Monday, February 15, 2010

It’s time to upgrade from the Windows 7 Release Candidate

I got this from Microsoft today (I'd installed the Windows 7 release candidate last summer):


"While most people who tested Windows 7 have now moved to the final version, some are still running the Release Candidate. If you haven’t moved yet, it’s time to replace the RC.

Starting on March 1, 2010 your PC will begin shutting down every two hours. Your work will not be saved during the shutdown.

The Windows 7 RC will fully expire on June 1, 2010. Your PC running the Windows 7 RC will continue shutting down every two hours and your files won’t be saved during shutdown. In addition, your wallpaper will change to a solid black background with a persistent message on your desktop. You’ll also get periodic notifications that Windows isn’t genuine. That means your PC may no longer be able to obtain optional updates or downloads requiring genuine Windows validation."



What's funny about this is that as far as I can see, continuing to run the release candidate after March 1 is different from using the final version (which I've been running for a few months now) in just 2 ways:

#1 the live version shuts down about every 8 hours, instead of 2 hours

#2 it shuts down with a blue screen rather than a black one.

:-p

Valentines Day 2010

Click the photo, then click Slideshow

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Tuesday, January 05, 2010

Google Local reviews - first try at professional reviewers has bugs

Google appears to be taking a first step at incorporating professional bloggers/reviewers in their list of reviews for a given business. Unfortunately it's got a pretty big bug, it seems. They're showing the home page of a local newspaper editor's (Matt Davis) blog 9 times as "reviews" for my client, V Shape Fitness (a personal trainer here in Portland). Matt is a client, and did write about him, but...

Full details in my post on the latest bug in Google Local Search.