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You've found the blog of Jere Matlock, a web designer and writer. This journal is mostly about writing, web design and getting sites to the top of the search engines (SEO is my business). It is also full of opinions and observations about pretty much everything. If these things are not of interest to you, feel free to go now. Go on, shoo!

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By the way, if you feel like taking offense at something posted on this site, go right ahead, it won't bother me a bit. Kingsley Amis has a nice quote about that, in which I take solace and some pride when the flames arrive:

"If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing."

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JMBlog Archive for June, 2005

War of the Worlds

Wednesday, June 29th, 2005

Just back from seeing War of the Worlds starring Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning (and others). WOW! Great cinematography, as one would expect from Spielberg. Absolutely top notch. Go see this film! Be warned that the climax is kind of lame (as it was in the original H.G. Wells book). The sequence with the ferry boat is, all by itself, worth the price of admission. And the real story is, of course, the change in the three main characters as the movie progresses.

Click fraud

Wednesday, June 1st, 2005

Click fraud – it’s a nasty business because it is so underhanded and there’s little you can do about it except withdraw from the whole pay-per-click system. Since that system does occasionally produce results, people are stuck with it, even though they know that they may be being ripped off for a large percentage of their clicks. It’s in some ways similar to paying a bribe to the mafia for a protection racket, just to be allowed to stay in business.

Because I have a page up on my other website, about one of my customers’ experiences with

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