Tuesday, July 05, 2011

What's Tashmarine?


From Xinjiang province in China comes the gem tashmarine. The deposit is at at an 8,000-foot elevation and can only be mined a few months of the year due to the cold. Photo courtesy TriGem Designs (a client of mine).

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Wednesday, May 04, 2011

Classic Car Guide video

Classic Car Guide for Android

Classic Car Guide for Android
Now available on the Android Market--and it's free :-)

The only comprehensive source of actual sale prices of collector cars, with thousands of new sales recorded each month. Plus, Keith Martin's price estimates, model reviews, articles from 20+ years of Sports Car Market magazine, and listings of cars currently for sale near you. Whether you're looking at an ultra-rare Ferrari, or a classic muscle car, the Classic Car Guide gives you all the information you need to know exactly what that car is worth.


Get your Classic Car Guide.

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Classic Car Guide iPad App Launched


The collector car pricing app for iPad and iPhone launched this week at the Amelia Island Concours D'Elegance and collector car auctions. It's available for free download from the iTunes App Store now--look for Classic Car Guide. Chubb Collector Car Insurance, Keith Martin, and Sports Car Market Magazine are the creators of this app (I project-managed the development, and did a little work on the server-side software and database bits).

Amelia Island 2011

Click the photo, then click Slideshow

Saturday, February 19, 2011

1988 Lotus Esprit Turbo For Sale


It's official...my Lotus Esprit is for sale now on eBay. Could be yours! :-)

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

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.