According to Radaronline.com, Wikipedia pronounced Rush Limbaugh dead shortly after the news of his hospitalization broke the wire. The updated Wikipedia article on Rush read, Rush Hudson Limbaugh III…died December 30, 2099…
The modified post was corrected 15 minutes later at which time Wikipedia raised him from the dead.
Nice of Wikipedia.
Tiger Woods was dropped by AT&T who drops virtually everyone at one time or another. AT&T made the announcement on Thursday according to Yahoo Finance, saying they did not approve of his recent messages and that he had strayed outside their well known “Blue Map.” coverage area without authorization. Woods, who has experienced recent issues with text messages, may be switching to a new carrier.
I have several blogger sites. One is as plain vanilla as it gets. Standard theme and short posts. I use it as a reference blog, I point it to other sites to “get Google’s attention” and get those sites crawled. Funny thing is, Google is waiting hours, days to index my WordPress blogs now. It’s waiting hours and days to index my blogger site to which I’ve assigned a domain purchased directly from Google. Yet, it picks up my little reference blog that I won’t even link to from here, and indexes everything I post there within minutes. Go figure!
I live in the Los Angeles timezone, PST. I set my blogs to PST in the WordPress control panel. Enter Google XML Sitemaps Generator plugin. The generator uses GMT to stamp the sitemap revision time. Not so on the generator at http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/index.php. That’s available as an option but the default is, “use server response.” I have now switched off the date stamp option in the plugin. This is the only option to keep it from stamping a date 8 or 9 hours in the future, depending on DST.
I posted about this issue on the WordPress forum and the plugin author responded that GMT is the “only time that Google accepts.”
Do you think that could be true?
The sitemap generator page leads me to believe otherwise. I’m posting this as a test to see what Google does now, with no timestamp.
It’s rather simple, the steps I took.
Did any of that make any difference at all in what Google did? I honestly do not know for an absolute surety.
I honestly think letting up on the links between my blogs (on the same host) broke a pattern that Google was watching and complaining about. Google seemed to be complaining that I was repeating myself too much, you know, saying the exact same thing in back-links’ anchor text, instead of mixing them up like Steve Wiideman advises in his Expert SEO tips.
Aww, C’mon Dave, what are those “back-up” blogs you mentioned?
I’ll never tell.
OK, yes I will, several blogs on Blogspot, Trulia (free blog on high PR site!) and ActiveRain (real estate related) There are others too, those are just my preferred ones.
iPhoto, by design captures everything into a big encapsulated holding tank of its own. You’re not supposed to go in there, but let iPhoto manage and update all the pictures on its own, while you politely stand on the outside, asking for your own pictures, only via the interface. This is great if you never expect to manage your own photos, archive them or move some of the folders to, say, an external drive. If you want to do any of those things, iPhoto starts getting really wierd. This is even after you’ve told it to import without actually capturing the files, but referencing the folders where they are. You’d better not move those folders, or iPhoto will have a fit when you want to access them again- it will also have a fit when you try to delete and re-import the folder from its new location. Of course, iPhoto has its own memory of the old location, even after you’ve trashed it. It will warn you with each of the 500 photos you’re importing that it can’t find the source. It matters not, whether you tell it where to find it repeatedly.
I like the ease of use of iPhoto, especially how it drags and drops into Blogo, my favorite blog editor and updater for the Mac, but file management is not great. Picasa would be my choice, but for the Mac, Picasa has no, I repeat, NO drag and drop capacity. I wonder, will Google ever take a serious approach to Picasa for Mac?
This could be one of my best recent pictures of the siblings together. Taken at the Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton CA 2009
Taken in June, 2009 from Bethany’s rehearsal photography. This was the wedding of the summer for our family, of course! Bethany was (and still is) beautiful and gracious throughout the wedding preparation and ever since too. How lucky we are to know her!
Not exactly water buffalo, but these cows grazing in a canal connecting a minor lake to Lake Kissimmee in Florida were a new sight for this photographer. I caught all the wildlife I could on a boat ride with my brother who lives on the lake.
The cows seem completely oblivious to all the boat traffic in the waterway. They also seemed oblivious to the alligators- we saw some four-foot ones. I guess the cows were just to large to be threatened by the gators.
Dave’s Family Photography site.
Real Estate Photography
Did I forget something? Did you? Have you ever felt like this song applies to you? C’mon, admit it!
