18 February 2008

Your blog's 'about' page might get you a job at Google

Or maybe just an email from a Google recruiter that doesn't ultimately lead anywhere, but is still kind of fun to get.
What about you?
Do you have an "about" page for your blog or web site? I hope so, because if I happen across your site, I'd like to learn something about you. Find [...]

9 October 2007

Hodgepodge of Miscellany, part 2 of 2: Google Code, Subversion, Meld

(Continued from part one.)
Google Code Project Hosting
I mentioned this in my YARQ post and have since explored it further (although not much further). It's a pretty cool free (as in beer) service. I like that they offer a Subversion (SVN) respository and it is easy to start up new projects. I had [...]

24 June 2007

A Library is a Vault for Locking Up Books

Apparently.

U'S DEAL WITH GOOGLE
Disrespect for property
If I were to walk into a photocopy shop and ask for a duplicate of a copyright-protected book, the shop workers would show me the door. It does not matter whether I intended to distribute snippets of the text around the world or do anything else with the copy -- [...]

19 January 2007

Caught in Google's Web?

I've been reading Robert Cringely's PBS.org column for many years now. I like the way he writes about technology, although many of his articles are more esoteric than I care to get in to (or am able to understand). I really enjoyed today's piece on Google: "When Being a Verb is Not Enough: [...]

5 December 2006

SEO Song: 'Google Loves Me'

Google loves me, yes I know,
for the search results tell me so.
Little sites to them belong,
we are weak and they are strong.
Yes, Google loves me,
yes, Google loves me,
yes, Google loves me,
the search results tell me so.

There is nothing new under the sun. I thought of that little ditty and was pleased with my cleverness, [...]

26 August 2006

Google Analytics Reports

You're in for an exciting treat: Results from Google Analytics! Wow! These are results for visits from August 5 (when I first started using GA) to August 24 (when I meant to post this).
(*See note about Google Analytics and privacy.)
Visitors From Around The World
These first three maps show where everyone is coming from. [...]