Having fun with Gianluca's blog post

It blows me away that Gianluca's wrap-up of Google changes this year and predictions for next year doesn't yet rank #1 for the phrase epochal infrastructural change. :-D

Canadian heli-hockey

This...well....just watch the damn video!

Spinner dolphins in Kauai

Fall colors

On the Visual Itineraries Blog: social media explained

I wrote this piece today for the blog...I think it actually does a decent job of explaining the search marketing benefits of each of these major social media channels.

Shark Lagoon Cam!

Live streaming video by Ustream From the Aquarium of the Pacific, Long Beach, California.

ACA Website Performance

From the team at Portent Interactive comes this illuminating look at the rather appalling bad performance of the websites the states built for ACA (aka Obamacare). The full article is here.

How fast is ObamaCare? - An infographic by the team at Portent. Click for full size image.

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Portland Society Page coverage of SEMpdx Benefit Event

Nice coverage of the October 2013 SEMpdx event, benefiting the Myrtle Point Library Foundation in my parents' honor, on the Portland Society Page.

Article on identifying the cause of a traffic drop

This just went up today at the Act-on Marketing blog...a post about Google's Angry Birds (Penguin vs. Hummingbird), and how to know whether it's an algorithm change in general (like Hummingbird), or a penalty (like Penguin) that caused a big traffic drop for your website.

2010 MV Agusta F4 1000R

Just picked up this really sweet bike today:

New Pinterest boards

I've created 2 new Pinterest boards, one for African safari lodges, and one for the best pools in the world. They are both "works in progress", but I've found some amazing pics from resorts in Tanzania, Botswana, Kenya, Tahiti, Seychelles, Maldives, and more. A couple of examples:

The Romantic Seychelles

In conjunction with Teresa Sullivan of Mango African Safaris, we've put together a collection of our favorite Seychelles honeymoon resorts in a Visual Itinerary.

The royal couple Kate and William chose the Seychelles for their honeymoon (as did I, back in 2005), and a look at the photos will show you why.

Pictured: the infinity pool of the Banyan Tree resort, on the main island of Mahé.

Coverage of the SEMpdx Rooftop Party

They even managed to sneak a photo of me into the article :-) Here it is.

I'm selling my old truck

A sweet old 1970 Chevrolet 3/4 ton. I've had it painted, spray-on bedliner, did tires, complete brakes, etc. More details here.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies

My client Pauline Rhoads runs the cooking blog The Better Crumb. She's got a pastry and baking arts degree from Institute of Culinary Education in New York City, and spent a few years as a food writer and Assistant Editor at Greenwich Magazine in Connecticut. I'm thinking my son Benjamin needs to learn to make these cookies. The full recipe is here.

SEMpdx Rooftop Party coverage on KGW TV

EFR 2013

Two bikes, made by different companies, in different countries, BOTH had the kickstand switch fail, disabling the bike and ending the ride for them (Aaron on an Aprilia RSV 1000 and Phil on a KTM). Phil made it to Paul's party, then went home in the truck the next day. Aaron limped in nearly as far as Spokane, at which point my AAA paid for his tow to the dealer there. Had a great dinner and evening in Spokane with Aaron and Leanne, then headed back up to their place in Castlegar. Not the EFR trip I'd planned, but plenty of good times with great people.

Celebration of Life Service for my parents

Click the photo to see the slideshow from their service on Sunday, July 28, 2013:

Rotary Testimonial

A short video interview with me on what it's like to be a Rotarian: