http://forumsblogswikis.com/forum/ Forums, Blogs, Wikis: Forum: Off Topic - Recent Topics en Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:28:15 +0000 http://forumsblogswikis.com/forum/topic/22#post-40 Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:38:09 +0000 ryan 40@http://forumsblogswikis.com/forum/ <p>Just a little warning...</p> <p>A new wave of spamming has been coming through my inbox over the past couple of days, and probably through yours as well. They're disguised as alerts from CNN on various topics. Fortunately they were easy to spot since I received about 2 dozen at once and I don't subscribe to any website alerts other than through Google. </p> http://forumsblogswikis.com/forum/topic/16#post-32 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:34:46 +0000 ryan 32@http://forumsblogswikis.com/forum/ <p>You know, I really like the fact that people come and visit this little corner of the web because they found us on a search engine. But does Yahoo Slurp seem a little overzealous to you?</p> <p>Let's take this month for an example. Slurp has gone through 36megs of bandwidth and only sent me 12 visitors. Admittedly 36 megs isn't much, but Google has sent me over 600 visitors and only crawled through 13 megs with less than half the total hits. Heck, even Microsoft Live has sent almost 150 visitors. </p> <p>I guess the question is why does Slurp need so much more bandwidth and total connections than other search engines. </p> http://forumsblogswikis.com/forum/topic/18#post-34 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:36:32 +0000 ryan 34@http://forumsblogswikis.com/forum/ <p>Found a new warning on most of my XML sitemaps this morning when I logged in to Google Webmaster Tools. It's now telling me that all of the URIs in a sitemap are set to the same priority and Google can't tell which I consider more important. </p> <p>Not really a big deal since the sitemap is coming from a script, but if I was really worried about it it's good stuff to know. </p> http://forumsblogswikis.com/forum/topic/14#post-29 Tue, 13 May 2008 20:12:18 +0000 ryan 29@http://forumsblogswikis.com/forum/ <p>Any great tips out there for staying motivated? I've got about a dozen different projects; some web, some not; that are in varying states of completion. But I often find it difficult to get up enough motivation to work on them. Fortunately this site is one of those projects and I'm sitting here working on it while watching House on my DVR. But that doesn't work for everything. </p> <p>Two things I have found that work are music and keeping an organized area. Music seems to keep my mind from focusing too much on what I'm doing which helps keep out the boredom of looking at code. Keeping an organized work area is something that I wish I had learned a long time ago. My guess is that a clean desk and clean mind are somehow related and it's much easier for me to work with a clean desk. </p> http://forumsblogswikis.com/forum/topic/11#post-25 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:25:52 +0000 ryan 25@http://forumsblogswikis.com/forum/ <p>I've noticed a lot of emails coming my way telling me that my AdWords account needed to be verified. Problem is they aren't coming to the address that's associated with my AdWords account. </p> <p>So, here's a little warning for all of y'all out there. There's a scam going around using AdWords as the cover just like there are scams for PayPal, eBay, and all sorts of banks. </p>