Lent begins - 40 days without beer!
Submitted by brendon on Wed, 02/25/2009 - 14:10.
Anyone who may read this already knows that I like my beer. I like beer after work, I like beer before work. I like beer at lunch, and I also like beer at brunch (gotta be noon somewhere, right?). I like beer after wine, I like beer as I dine, I like beer pretty much anywhere you can find. Beer may be nice, but beer is a vice, which is why I'm going to try to give it up.
Paid for checking your bags? Airlines are encouraging your rage.
Submitted by brendon on Wed, 12/17/2008 - 01:41.
From a corporate airline's front office come magnificent ideas to increase their companies net value. Making customers pay to check bags is a great idea for the corporation, and here's why.
Checking a bag used to be the way people would send home Christmas gifts. College students would check monstrous bags full of filthy laundry. Bands could travel. Everyone took advantage of this courtesy mostly because they got used to its luxury. This caused the airlines to employ more people at the gates to deplane the luggage, drive those golf cart baggage trucks, and operate the conveyor belts.
In a corporate office metropolis, an old timer named Fred thought of a great idea.
"I'll charge 'em for checkin' bags. Fifteen bucks a pop!"
Paid Links for SEO: Should you pay for links to get an SEO lift?
Submitted by brendon on Tue, 11/04/2008 - 17:22.
I have years of SEO experience, but I am not here to give you my resume. One thing that is very relevant though, is that I tend to approach SEO tactics and practices in a very conservative manner. I don't do things to help my SE ranking that are black hat, or even borderline black hat; Having a site de-listed is a giant headache, especially if the site is your main source of income. That being said, I think paying for high quality links would increase natural rankings on all the major search engines (not as much on Yahoo!). However, we would definitely take on risk by purchasing these links despite the fact that they are on content relevant sites.
Mairan and Me
Submitted by brendon on Sat, 11/01/2008 - 15:11.
She's looks great even after running all that way! I would have needed an IV
Mairan Destroying the Competition
Submitted by brendon on Sat, 11/01/2008 - 15:09.
Seriously, she was crushing the competition. I was lucky to get one shot of her before she flew by. Not only that, but check out those boats! She's so flippin fast she's got a freakin sneaker contract already... Way to go Mairan!
Mairan's Other Teammate
Submitted by brendon on Sat, 11/01/2008 - 15:08.
Mairan's Other Teammate
Submitted by brendon on Sat, 11/01/2008 - 15:07.
Mairan's Teammate
Submitted by brendon on Sat, 11/01/2008 - 15:06.
One of Mairan's teammates flying by...
Hidden Text and SEO
Submitted by brendon on Sun, 03/23/2008 - 13:13.
The idea of hiding text for accessibility, in particular for screen-readers, is not a new practice. Unfortunately, too many black-hat sites use the practice to spam search engines and stuff keywords onto their page. Despite my initial concern for positioning information off the page; (something like this)
{
background: url(widget-image.gif) no-repeat;
height: image height
text-indent: -2000px
}
Ridin the Train
Submitted by brendon on Sun, 03/23/2008 - 12:46.
We took the new light rail into town for the basketball game. It was so crowded with fans, that we didn't even bother getting tickets to ride. Worked out well, because we ended up getting completely ripped off for our game tickets.
