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| 05-08-2008 - Randy Pausch last lecture The guy giving the lecture is dying from cancer and only has a couple more months left to live. Typically I thought this was going to be on death, but it ended up being a lecture on life. My wife sent it to me saying that it was blog worthy, and I agree with her. Go ahead and take the time to watch it. You won't regret it. (0) Comments 05-08-2008 - Injection Molding For months Brooks and I have been trying all sorts of ways to get some little plastic parts manufactured. I had no idea that it was going to be this impossible. The cost of an injection mold itself can run as much as $20,000+. We also looked at CNC routers, but the parts were too small for the machine. It seems that all the companies cater to large business, and that it's almost impossible to get your foot in the door without some type of serious financial backing. Anyhow, onto the great part. After looking and looking I came across this website with a hand operated injection molding machine. It's really primitive, but it'll definitely get us past our first run. The base price is around $1,500 which is about the cheapest price of a used/broken large scale machine on ebay. I called the phone number on their website and got a live person within just a couple rings. Dave was very helpful and knowledgeable. If you are struggling with getting a small plastic product out the door, then this is definitely the place to go. (0) Comments 05-07-2008 - Open Source Story Time I had heard this story years ago, but I couldn't find it anywhere... so I rewrote it as a fairytale for your viewing pleasure Once upon a time there was a programmer that was working on a LISP project. A medium side company saw what he was doing with it and asked if he would share his code with them. He said yes and politely shared it with them. A couple years passed and once again the medium sized company and the programmer came in contact. The programmer was thrilled to see all the improvments that were made in ref to the LISP project. The programmer asked the meduim sized company if they would share their code with him. They said "No". This angered the programmer. So he came up with a licensing agreement that basically states "I'll share my code with you, if you share your code with me". That children is why open source exists. (1) Comments 05-06-2008 - no-follow rule actually gives some credit? Maybe? After tons and tons of reading, I found a test on the nofollow rule someone did about the nofollow link rule. Basically, this guy, Alfred Fox posted comments on blogs for 20 minutes a day. Within 3 months he was ranking within a couple of the top spots on search engines. I had constantly heard that the nofollow link rule prevented you from actually getting an link juice from links like this. After reading about the test he did, there must still be some partial credit given. You might be thinking "Why are you writing about this? and aren't you worried about people figuring this out?". Actually, no I'm not worried. No one really reads my blog other then my wife and a couple friends. Lol. (1) Comments 05-01-2008 - Google Page Rank Wahoo! I've been running tests recently with trying to boost my pagerank on this website. After some postings to google groups and using the Webpage Validator I think I've found a puzzle piece. This webpage use to rank at 2, but the crawler came through today and my page rank boosted to 3. Even though they say not to worry too much about your pagerank, since you can have a lower pagerank list higher on google then a higher pagerank. I still think it makes a difference to their overall equation. Fixing all of the trivial webpage html errors definitely helped. Update - Over the weekend I had a conversation with by brother-in-law about website ranking and PR. His perception was that the PR is only related to actual incoming links to your website. The only conclusion I can draw is that there is conflicting information about SEO in the internet world. On a sidenote, about a week ago I had a friend mention that he paid $300/month for a specific term on adwords. He said he saw his actual ranking on the search engine move him to #1 over time. After he quit paying for adwords his site started to drop mysteriously lower and lower. I verified a similar experience with another person unrelated. This wight be one of those unwritten rules to the equation where you have to pay google through adwords to get your URL to get into the top listings. (0) Comments 05-01-2008 - Speech on Middle Class I found this speech on the middle class of america today. It's rather lengthy, so I had to leave it running in the background and listen to it while I worked. This was by far a very interesting speech. From what I could tell it was given at Berkley by a lady from Harvard Law. If you don't watcht the while thing, at least watch the part on where the money is being spent for families. (0) Comments 04-27-2008 - Belle Ame Jewelry For a while now I've been helping a friend of mine with a website that sells handmade jewelry. This isn't your run-of-the-mill online jewelry store. It's meant to appeal to the female audience... and the website only displays one piece of jewelry a day. I think part of this is to prevent people from getting overwhelmed with too much selection possibly. Plus it keeps people coming back everyday to see if there is a better deal the next day. Check it out. Even though I helped with it, I still think it's one of the more quality jewelry sites out there. Please tell your friends if you like it. (0) Comments 04-25-2008 - New Acquire Board Game? I just found out that there is a new Acquire Board Game foming out in June 2008. This really caught me off guard. I seriously thought it had been remade so many times it was going to end up being a dead title. I like the idea that monopoly isn't the only board game that has been remade over and over. (0) Comments 04-25-2008 - Searchme? I was checking my logs this morning and found the company Search Me. I had never heard of this search engine before. It's interesting cause they use adobe flash as their base. This reminded me of a conversation I had with a friend a while back. He was trying to come up with a reason to not use flash for more in depth web stuff. Javascript was laced with browser incompatability problems. Anyhow, onto searchme. It was an interesting concept to try to make searches more visual. It came across as more of a novelty, but still an interesting way to get attention. In the bio section Randy Adams and John Holland are the founders. Interesting enough Randy Adams was the Director of Engineering for Adobe. I didn't recognize the company that John came from, but he seems highly competent. If you are reading this, I'd recommend just checking their website out. It's interesting enough you might be a little bit entertained. (0) Comments 04-24-2008 - Roundup and Monsanto Over the past couple weeks I've seen articles popup about the company Monsanto and the dangerous genetic games they are playing. From now on I think I will personally be checking manufacturer labels before buying. On a side not it was Monsanto that was pushing the agenda of GBH in milk. Be affraid, be very affraid. (0) Comments
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