I try to read articles written by historian Victor Davis Hanson, as they show up in my feeds. He seems to hit the nail on the head quite a bit more than other columnists I have followed. (While I admire Charles Krautheimer, he often seems cranky.) Now I’m in the middle of Hanson’s book Carnage […]
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Tigerlily
The tigerlilies have been in bloom here for the last week or so. (more…)
New Magazine – The Hard Truth
A man I’ve known and respected for a very long time, Bruce Wiseman, has launched a new online magazine, called The Hard Truth. (more…)
Google hasn’t killed off SEO
Google hasn’t killed SEO dead – but they have killed off some of its illegitimate children…..
Changing Education
This very well illustrated video of a talk from Sir Ken Robinson about the need to change education is worth watching. In about the middle he talks about the epidemic of ADHD and how wrong-headed it is to be drugging children when we should be making them MORE alive, not less alive. (more…)
How to Count Backlinks
For the past couple of years I’ve been farming out link-building work for my clients, to several companies that have specialized in article marketing. Is Article Marketing for Link-Building Dead? However, the recent Panda updates seem to have resulted in the de-indexing of the majority of all the article marketing links, as far as Google […]
On Maybe Losing our Broadbent Post Office
The US Post Office in Broadbent, Oregon, where we get our mail here on the ranch, is on a short list of 46 post offices that are likely to be closed in Oregon within the next few months. Apparently there are 3200 post offices locations that are being considered for closure nationwide; only 46 are […]
Old Friends, Not Being on Facebook, and the History of the Telephone
Over the last few days I connected with an old friend on Facebook; a woman I hadn’t heard from in 35 years. I knew her when she was a vibrant young woman. She was married during the 70’s to a very nice guy who helped me out of a jam once upon a time. She […]
Solar Power Plus Radio Equals Rural Internet Connection
Our Solar-Powered Radio Internet Connection On June 28, 2011, my internet service provider (ISP) went out of business. One minute I was surfing the web at about 1.5 Mbps (megabits per second – a fairly fast internet speed — at least it was fast enough to get work done online) and the next minute they […]
Good Link Building Tips
Good search engine rankings (especially at Google) depend mainly on two things: Having plenty of good text content that Google can index. Google doesn’t really index pictures well, or flash, or javascript, or videos. Google can’t pick the text out of an image or a Flash presentation or a video. They do a great job […]