Posted by rebecca
Stories, news, and other notable items from the past week:
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Sarah found this post that gives an extremely 101 take on blogging and found it to be exceptionally amusing, though I’ll note that not everyone out there knows as much as us genius web marketers. I’m sure that people like my mom, […]
Posted by randfish
We’re just not getting any visitors from the search engines…
I probably hear that line 30X or more each week - over email, in phone calls, in conversation, on forums, etc. and to tell the truth, it would be really handy to have a resource I could point folks for some self-diagnosis. If only there […]
Posted by Fluxx
Starting last night into this morning, we’ve been getting reports of people who have recently updated their version of Firefox to the new 2.0.0.13 release and now get a blank screen when they come to SEOmoz. We’re still working on what the exact issue is with our site and why upgrading Firefox breaks […]
Posted by Jane Copland
I don’t watch much television. It’s silly really. I bought a big flat screen HDTV DVR OMG WTF television before I could really afford such things and I only regularly watch two shows. Tonight, one of my two shows will go off air for the last time, leaving me with only American […]
It looks like Verisign is increasing fees to $6.86 for a .com domain and $4.23 for a .net domain. Around this time last year the fee went from $6.00 to $6.42 for a .com domain and from $3.50 to $3.85 for a .net domain. The new fees become effective October 1st.
Last night I drove into San Francisco for a meeting of the BALUG (Bay Area Linux Users Group). I’d never been to a BALUG meeting before, but Mark Shuttleworth (the founder of the Ubuntu distribution of Linux) was speaking and I wanted to size up Mark in person. He acquitted himself well. He spoke about […]
This weekend my wife and I drove up to Daffodil Hill in Eastern California. Daffodil Hill is six acres of daffodils (my favorite flower) and it’s only open for a few weeks in the springtime. It’s free — just drive right up, park, and walk around. It looks like this:
And if you get really close […]
I’m trying to replace my Windows applications with Linux applications. On Windows, I use I use Juice to download podcasts as MP3s. Recently I decided to switch over to Linux for receiving podcasts. After looking around at various podcast catchers (especially ones that ran on the command-line, so that I could automate them with a […]
Okay, this is my favorite business card of all time:
In case you can’t read the image, it says:
USED CARS — LAND — WHISKEY — MANURE — NAILS
FLY SWATTERS — RACING FORMS — BONGOS
ENTERPRISES, Un-Ltd.
W. W. GREEN, President
Wars Fought
Stud Service
Revolutions Started
Tigers Tamed
Assassinations Plotted
Bars Emptied
Governments Run
Computers Verified
Uprisings Quelled
Orgies Organized
I found this business card in an old book […]
March Madness is here again, baby! The brackets have been released, and the University of North Carolina is a #1 seed. The wonderful thing about attending the University of Kentucky for undergrad and then UNC in grad school is that I’ve always got great teams to root for in March.
If you’re a fan, […]
