I have a tradition of entertaining crowds around Halloween. About 3 years ago I had an idea for 2 pieces of PVC pipe, a pair of shoes glued to a couple buckets, and a bolt of black broadcloth. I’ve moved up to using jointed PVC arms and drywall stilts but the concept remains the same. […]
Continue reading →If you migrated a WordPress blog from the old style URLs using the built-in permalink options, you may be surprised that all the old URLs are still accessible. This causes a problem with search engines which have already indexed those old URLs as they will look at the new URLs as duplicate content. `/blog/?p=123` The […]
Continue reading →I admit I’m a little too hopeful that people will do good things but it looks like Vanessa Fox and the rest of the Google Webmaster team actually are working hard to bring valuable tools to webmasters. The [latest offering](http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2006/10/learn-more-about-googlebots-crawl-of.html) is the ability to choose from three different crawl speeds. Unfortunately the whole “this change […]
Continue reading →An exciting [new search operator on MSN](http://blogs.msdn.com/livesearch/archive/2006/10/16/search-macros-linkfromdomain.aspx) went up today. (Thanks [Oilman](http://www.oilman.ca/msn/msn-live-search-adds-linkfromdomain-operator/) for the tip!) Unfortunately, when I went to try it out at MSN the request timed out. I imagine this is related to the spotty latency problems I’ve been experiencing all day and does not reflect on MSN. This tool will be quite […]
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