That wandering “Four Things” meme that’s been making its way around has landed in my lap via Pete. So, without further ado: Four Things by me.
Four jobs I’ve had in my life
- Copy center attendant
- 3rd shift convenince store clerk
- Snack bar employee
- “Senior” Web Designer™
Four movies I can watch over and over
Four TV shows I love to watch
Four places I’ve been on vacation
Four of my favorite dishes
- Chicken Tikka Masala
- General Tso’s Chicken
- Falafel
- __this space reserved for whatever I’m craving that day__
Four websites I visit daily
Four places I would rather be right now
- Home
- At home in bed
- Asleep
- Sipping fruity drinks seasoned with the blood of my enemies on the patio of the castle built for me by my worshippers in honor of achieving total world domination with Andrea by my side.
Four bloggers I am tagging
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This morning between dropping Bailey off at the Vet’s to have surgery for her entropion and my own doctor’s appointment, I stopped by Borders and picked up a copy of The Art of Project Management. I’m still getting started with it but this little bit struck me and I wanted to toss it out there while I was still thinking about it.
New projects are created with the intent to change the state of the world by modifying, building, or destroying something. Maintaining the status quo—unless that’s the explicit goal, for some strange reason—is not a successful outcome. The world is changing all the time and if a web site or other project is not as good today as it was last year, it generally means that it’s fallen behind because the goals were misguided or the execution of the project failed in some way.
But gee, Mike, what else is on your reading list lately?
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…or at least doesn’t seem to like things here.
It seems no combination of pings via ping-o-matic or directly to Technorati (or even manually submitting updates from on Technorati’s site) seems to convince them that yes, I do post things on here. No matter what I seem to do they seem content to claim that it’s been almost 2 months since the last time I posted anything at all.
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So, I turned off the Del.icio.us auto-posting of all my bookmarks on here because things were starting to just get overwhelmed with them. It was starting to turn into “Oh, if I just bookmark it here then it’ll end up in my blog anyway,” and that was getting cheesy.
Anyway, I wanted to make sure to touch on this because I have an ex-co-worker who totally fits this bill.
Ethical Search Engine Optimization
Search Engine Exaggeration
This is where things start to get a bit shady. Once you realize how search engines work, there’s a great temptation to give them what they want by pumping up the keywords in your text, adding hidden keywords on your pages, etc.
The problem with this approach is that search engines know people do this, and they’re continually working on ways to identify and eliminate it. Remember “meta tags”? Site owners used to pump these full of keywords in order to get more search traffic, until the search engines caught on and dramatically reduced their importance in the ranking process.
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Whoever is running your offsite “Verified by Visa” password protection scheme is costing you purchases from Firefox users. How you may ask? well their HTML code is so wrong that it’s impossible for Firefox users to recover their password if they can’t guess it in the first 3 tries.
For example this:
<tr height='10'><td align='left' valign='top' width='100%'>
<span class='mbody'>If you have forgotten your password, you will need to create a new one.</string>
<string name=”s_text_2″><
