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Cats and Engineers

June 5th, 2008 · No Comments

I always knew there was a link between them, but nobody would listen. If you like engineers and cats, this is a definite “must watch”.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHXBL6bzAR4[/youtube]

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Test drive with StumbleUpon Exchange

May 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment

A friend recently pointed out an interesting site, StumbleUpon Exchange, for the sake of being short we’ll say “SUex”. Thanks Jake. I added two of my sites, aguywalkedintoabar.com and barmano.com to test it out with. My objective is long term, to build awareness/brand recognition for my sites. So after about 12 sites…

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Increasing your adsense relevancy, and CTR

January 31st, 2008 · No Comments

A quick post on improving your Adsense relevancy, and thus CTR, via improved meta description. Which adds to my belief that SEO should focus on good content as the ultimate-suprimo-uber-priority.

So a little background:
I have several websites (private lessons, home repair, cocktails and bar guide, etc.), and a never-ending to-do…

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Tricks for stain removal, cleaning and fixing around the house

January 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment

OK, how many of these do you know about? I’m posting this for myself, as much as others. I’ve heard of several of these helpful tips, but I never seem to remember them when the situation arises. Most I’ve probably heard from my mom or grandma at some point, if…

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New project, FindMrFixit off the ground and running

January 20th, 2008 · No Comments

Another one of my old ideas, has finally started to materialize. As of January, findmrfixit.com has officially launched. The idea to having a site has been quick, just a couple months of market research and development. So I expect the learning curve to be quite steep. The site’s objective is helping…

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Europcar, Thanks for the Ruined Weekend

December 20th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Filing this under rants on poor customer service.

Exec Summary: Europcar lost our reservation, we couldn’t continue with the rest of our weekend trip, and had buy an extra train ticket to return home, thus ruining our weekend. (la lettre a la DG d’Europcar en francais ci-dessous)

We had made a…

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Another Internet Bubble?

December 7th, 2007 · No Comments

Do I really need to ask? I don’t think the housing market as a monopoly on bubbles at the moment. I hope you all aren’t mortgaged out, and have some cash reserves. Next couple years look to be rough.

Patricia sent me this video. I love it.

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=fi4fzvQ6I-o[/youtube]

“blue shirts…

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Cubical freak-out

October 19th, 2007 · No Comments

Someone sent this to me, cubical freak out. Entertaining, and reminds me how happy I am to not be working in in a cubical. I shouldn’t say that too loudly.

http://www.eyegas.com/cubiclefreakout/

I’m rated as a “nutter” and should take the rest of the day off because the internet told me so.…

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what is web 2.0? - old ponderings

October 19th, 2007 · No Comments

Going through my old post drafts, “cleaning my blog house”, and found this post draft from last year (or maybe the year before). Seems semi-relevant, so what the heck, going ahead and publishing it. Even if some of my points then, seem wrong today. :) enjoy, critique, flame, etc as…

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photo album is fixed again!

October 18th, 2007 · No Comments

After a long hiatus, it’s back.

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No way!!!!

After constant nagging requests from relatives back in the US i caved in, and just fixed it. I was stubbornly waiting for a fix to the pluggin code that never came.And a load of new photos are live on flickr again. Still about…

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