Archive for December, 2006

Disturbed – Land of Confusion

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

I first heard Disturbed’s Land of Confusion this morning and I was completely blown away. I’ve always liked Down with the Sickness and a few of their other hits. Still, I never realized they had such a strong political voice. Heck, the original song by Genesis pales in comparison. Yes, I realize they have the [...]

Chewbacca Blog

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

I just discovered the Chewbacca blog yesterday and man was I impressed. Who would have ever thought that a wookiee could be so eloquent? I guess they must have a good educational system on Endor, because Chewbacca definitely comes off as much more well-spoken than most Kashyyyk-born wookiees. Seriously, the ewok who taught him to [...]

Won’t the Real Stephen Please Stand Up

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

Over the past two weeks, several webmasters have contacted me regarding comments I made on their blogs and/or emails I sent them. Normally, I wouldn’t have a problem with this. After all, I leave lots of comments on other blogs and I enjoy reciprocated communication. The problem, however, is that I didn’t actually make any [...]

Search Engine Lowdown Post #6

Monday, December 18th, 2006

Well, my weekly posting on Search Engine Lowdown continues this week with some observations on Dmoz’s ongoing outage. Okay, so my posting hasn’t exactly been “weekly,” but at least I’m still contributing. Most of the people on the project who promised to do so haven’t even done a single post, a fact which Jeremy has [...]

Car Parking Game

Saturday, December 16th, 2006

Sure, it sounds like a pretty dull concept. Here’s a car game where you don’t race, don’t do drive-bys or getaways, and don’t even have a very cool-looking car. Instead, you get to park. That’s pretty much it. Four levels of excitement and adventure as you… attempt to neatly park your car without hitting any [...]

Magic Gopher Number Game

Friday, December 15th, 2006

When I first say this magic gopher number game, I was perplexed. No matter how randomly I chose my number, the gopher always seemed to guess correctly. After trying it a few times, it became apparent to me that there was a trick. As it turns out, you don’t have to be a math whiz [...]

Link Recovery

Thursday, December 14th, 2006

Changing domain names isn’t just a matter of getting people to type in a new URL for your website. The second the switch takes place, all of the links that used to lead to your website are lost. And while putting a 301 redirect in place can make the change transparent to most users, it’s [...]

SEO Workshop Contest Submission

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

This may come as a shock to some, but I’ve never had any kind of formal SEO training. Don’t get me wrong; I certainly know my fair share about the practice (I am a professional in the industry, after all), but it’s all stuff I’ve learned haphazardly along the way. Because of this, the contest [...]

Ballad of the Noob

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

XFire rocks. There just isn’t any other way to put it. When it comes to World of Warcraft machinima, XFire rules all. Their latest installment, Ballad of the Noob, is just one more in a long line of hilarious, well-written, expertly choreographed WoW clips. It tells the Devil-Went-Down-to-Georgia-style story of a Warcraft noob who takes [...]

The Felguard Build

Thursday, December 7th, 2006

The crown jewel of the revamped Demonology tree, and quite likely the one new ability that most warlock players are excited about, gives you the ability to summon a felguard. If you’ve never seen one, a felguard is a hulking demon wielding a wicked axe, by far one of the coolest-looking summons available. Getting it, [...]