Misc
How To Get Indexed in 3 Hours
IÂ grin whenever I see SEO offers at Digital Point that go:
“3001 Blogposts for $40″
“891 Backlinks on our 791 blog network - $99″
You can get 9999 backlinks from these blogs which are mostly PR0, filled with machine generated pulp and you still won’t get indexed in the nearby future. You see, Google looks at the quality [...]
Feedback: Workplace Discipline
Some of you will be fortunate enough to never have to worry about the scrutiny of your work by another party or parties, great hulking internet mogols that you are. The rest of us work in environments where there is either some form of regimented or loose set of disciplinary protocol that governs aspects of [...]
24Jul2008 | Michael Lankton | 2 comments | Continued
Fear And Platitudes
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
-Marcus Aurelius
Turn XP into a Blazing Speed Demon
I used to rely on Norton’s Speed Disk, then, eventually Perfect Disc and Diskeeper to optimize my HDD. Defragmenting is the idea- an antiquated process of reorganizing bytes on spinning platter so that each file is grouped into contiguous locations on the disk. Many still believe that defragmenting hard disk drives on a regular basis [...]
3Jul2008 | Joseph Plazo | 19 comments | Continued
Flashback: Internet Relay Chat
Usenet is dead. It withered in the face of competition from web forums, mailing lists and blog comments, and to an extent, BitTorrent. It didn’t help that by the end most of usenet had degenerated into a useless free-for-all where socially inept malcontents trolled and flamed, with little else going on by the end. With [...]
24Jun2008 | Michael Lankton | 4 comments | Continued
Feedback: How Are You Coping With High Petroleum Prices?
We’re in the middle of an oil crisis that is terribly similar to the one our parents enjoyed in the early 70’s. The oil companies have almost doubled the per gallon price of gasoline, at least in the states, and inflation across the board has followed as consumer prices in nearly every sector have risen. [...]
18Jun2008 | Michael Lankton | 15 comments | ContinuedHoly Gadget Batman Apple Releases *Insert Name Here*
Warning:*This post may contain spoilers!*
As the picture shows Apple has done it again. They’ve just announced it at the WWDC08 in San Francisco. I know that because I’m liveblogging from the PWAAWWDC08 (People Who Aren’t Attending WWDC08 aka. my living room).
They’ve taken *insert common gadget name here* reinvented and redesigned it. All I can say [...]
13 Signs You May Be A Digg Power User
I know this image is a few months old, but I’m assuming that not all readers have seen it. The image was created by Gawker Media conceptual artist Richard Blakeley to explain why the type of users Digg attracts, might not make it a very attractive purchase to blue chip companies like Yahoo, Microsoft [...]
23May2008 | Everton | 5 comments | ContinuedConnected Internet Forum Working Again - Please Register!!
I’ve finally got the Connected Internet Forum working again. I feel a bit ashamed as it’s taken me a long time to do this, despite people complaining about it not working properly…
Anyway, it’s working again so if you haven’t used it yet then please register. The forum is there for all readers to [...]
Food, Travel And The Blogosphere
The world is a big place. The more you see of it the more you realize how little of it you truly know. In such a vast sea of humanity, will we ever be able to get past all of our cultural and religious baggage to really understand each other?
5May2008 | Michael Lankton | 1 comment | Continued



