Thursday, December 09, 2010

Fight Hunger in Sierra Leone

Help end Hunger in Sierra Leone and meet the life you change.

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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.
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Monday, October 25, 2010

Visit to the McKenzie's in Castlegar

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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.
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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.
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Saturday, September 25, 2010

Mount St. Helens flight with Mike Dooley

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Thursday, September 23, 2010

New profiles on AboutUs.org

Added profiles at AboutUs.org for: Michael Cottam, Carsten Plumbing, and Sunspots' Big Game Hunting New Zealand.
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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.
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Thursday, August 12, 2010

New seats and carpet for the plane

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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Sturgeon fishing with Rodney and Greg

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Tuesday, August 03, 2010

EFR 2010

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Sunday, July 25, 2010

Moto GP Race Day

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Friday, July 23, 2010

Slip and slide videos

From Slip and slide movies


From Slip and slide movies
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On the way to MotoGP 2010

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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Rotary Club Road Rally & Forest Grove Concours D'Elegance

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Thursday, July 01, 2010

Solo flight to Florence

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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

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Tuesday, June 29, 2010

BP spills coffee

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Thursday, June 24, 2010

Cross country flight to Salem

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Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Flight patterns imported from my GPS into Google Earth

Click each image to see the full-scale version, with notes etc.


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Father's Day Dinner

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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.
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Friday, June 11, 2010

Pubsubhub

No beer involved in this pubsubhub...
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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.
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Monday, June 07, 2010

Astoria and back before lunch

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Oceanside 2010

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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.


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Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Press Release for new Austin Property Management Website

Just distributed this press release for my client, Prime Properties of Austin, which was picked up by the following sites:

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Monday, May 24, 2010

More Press for Sunspots Safaris

The press release we just sent out announcing the new Trophy Red Stag New Zealand Hunting website was picked up by a lot of sites:


Thanks, 24-7 Press Release! :-)



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Friday, May 14, 2010

Hub Pages

Added a Hub Page for red stag hunting in New Zealand.
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About Us pages for Sunspots Safaris

Added two AboutUs pages for Sunspots:




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Thursday, May 13, 2010

Just launched Red Stag Hunting New Zealand site

Just completed and launched the first of our game-specific micro-sites for Sunspots Safaris: www.redstaghuntingnewzealand.com.



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My first cross-country flight: Troutdale - Redmond and back

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Friday, April 23, 2010

Custom wheels

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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) -
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Flickr profile update

Managed to update Sunspots Safari's profile on Flickr to include a backlink :-)
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Monday, April 19, 2010

Sunspots Safaris in Google LBC

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

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

Added an album of New Zealand hunting photos at Webshots.
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Friday, April 16, 2010

Sunspots Safaris press release

Sent out a press release about the new big game hunting site I built for Sunspots this morning, and it's been picked up a lot of places already:

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Thursday, April 15, 2010

New Zealand Hunting albums on Flickr

Just added these photo albums for Rodney's new hunting site:
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Tablecloth trick - BMW 1000 RR

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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.
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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.
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Barnstormers newsletter


Got my pic of Alphonse Island, Seychelles in the Barnstormers newsletter.
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Monday, March 08, 2010

My new toy

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Bringing the plane home from Auburn, WA

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Thursday, February 18, 2010

A beautiful day for flying

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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
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Valentines Day 2010

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Sunday, January 24, 2010

Barrett-Jackson 2010

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Thursday, January 14, 2010

My first flying lesson!

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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.
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