• Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
Moist, tender chicken breasts with a little bite to them. Unlike many of my dinner recipes this one uses only a little butter and cream (can’t go without) so it is reasonably healthy. One kid liked the chicken, but not the sauce. The other kid, well – we made sure to not get our hands near her plate…I’m pretty sure she liked it. Next time I may grill the chicken briefly first to give it some lines and crunch on the outside.
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• Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
Who wants to be a searchonaire?
You’ve no doubt seen the show “Who wants to be a millionaire.” Contestants answer questions hoping to become filthy rich. Along the way they have three life-lines to help them determine the correct answer. Sometimes the life-lines help, sometimes not. In the end though, the decision is left to one person – the contestant and they are either right or wrong.
We have life-lines to guide us along our tasks during the work day. We can check with Twitter for an “ask the audience”, perhaps a co-worker can help identify things that just won’t work for a “50-50.” If we are very lucky, we know an expert in the business and can “phone a friend.” Like on Millionaire though, in the end it’s up to us to decide what is best for us, our company or clients. But how do we know we chose wisely? It would be nice if sirens wailed and confetti fell each time (though house-keeping may not care for it), but how DO we know? What if there is more than one correct answer? How do you know if you picked the MOST correct answer? The answer is TESTING. more…
• Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
That is an excellent question. One which is asked (and debated) as often by experienced SEOs and Web designers as it is by people new to the industry.
The keywords meta-tag was created when the web was young to help site designers let engines know what a Web site was all about, and it worked well. Too well. Early SEOs started abusing the system by stuffing them with popular search terms that were not at all related to the current page to drive up rankings and page views. The search engineers figured this out pretty quickly and either decreased the importance of the tag, or ignored it completely. more…
