Button Maker

Need some buttons for your blog but you lack any artisitic ability or you're just plain lazy? Then try this easy to use button generator which produces a rather nice effect. I can see an explosion of button usage just around the corner...

Entry 358, Sunday, May 25th 2003, Filed In Stuff
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Snowcrash Cloud

A while back I saw the Snowcrash Netsurfer which I thought was pretty cool - but I think I like this even more. Cloud is a portable inflatable room for meetings, meditating, whatever you like. You could pop down the park for work meetings - awsome.

Entry 356, Friday, May 23rd 2003, Filed In Stuff
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Respect

It's taken 29 years but finally someone has shown me some respect :o) Thanks Barnski.

Entry 355, Friday, May 23rd 2003, Filed In Stuff
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Mini Bling

Tom seems to think my mini needs some mini bling. Tempting.

Entry 354, Thursday, May 22nd 2003, Filed In Stuff
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USB Pen Drive

128Mb of storage in a pen. Keyrings, watches & pens - where will this craze of fitting storage into stuff end? USB storage in a mobile phone might be good - most people carry them everywhere - but what I'm more interested in is the strange end of the market. USB storage pants? 256Mb in your hat? I guess for retro cool a USB floppy disk would be good (stores about 1.44Mb) [via gizmodo].

Entry 353, Thursday, May 22nd 2003, Filed In Stuff
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Pull-O-Meter

According to the very scientific analysis of the Pull-O-Meter at thesite I'm a "shy guy" with a 66% chance of pulling. My main failing is that I'm too sensible apparently. I'd winge and moan about the huge inaccuracies of this test if it wasn't for the fact that I thought it was about spot on. Surely tests like this are meant to be fun & meaningless and not reveal your inner feeelings to yourself? I feel slightly cheated [via funjunkie].

Entry 351, Wednesday, May 21st 2003, Filed In Stuff
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The Gaytrix Reloaded

There are lots of Matrix inspired items and parodies around already and it can't be long before we're swamped by them. That's no bad thing in my opinion though and The Gaytrix Reloaded by liquid generation did make me chuckle [found at zFilter].

Entry 350, Tuesday, May 20th 2003, Filed In Stuff
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Plain Vanilla

After my excitment sometime ago about the arrival in the UK of vanilla coke - which I still haven't found in a shop - I was very excited to see you can now buy vanilla absolut. The likelyhood of me and a bottle of that getting together in the near future is very strong and I'm sure the infamous Jules will get in on the act too. However I do draw the line with my vanilla fever at the news that vanilla monster munch is being realeased. Yuk!

Entry 349, Tuesday, May 20th 2003, Filed In Stuff
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If They Mated

Ever wonder what Apu and Marge's kids would look like? Millhouse and Lisa's? They're all here in If They Mated a wonderful section of the very lush Little Miss Springfield website.

Entry 348, Monday, May 19th 2003, Filed In Stuff
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Shii's Song

Bordering on irritating but actually insanely cute this little cat sings it's high pitched love song which then sticks in your head like glue. For more Japanese Flash check this Blogjam post where I found this or there's always Sazae - one of my favourites from a while back.

Entry 347, Sunday, May 18th 2003, Filed In Stuff
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Ad Watch

An advert related link especially for Mike at Song Of The Salesman. Cue irritating whiny voice - "these days adverts are the only thing worth watching on television". Now quite clearly anyone who says this hasn't caught the latest series of Will And Grace but there are some fine adverts out there and many of the current cool UK televsion adverts are stored at Ad Watch as well as an archive of the best from the last couple of years.

Entry 346, Sunday, May 18th 2003, Filed In Stuff
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Blog Clog

An interesting article from Wired about how blogs fair in search result rankings in comparison to "traditional" commercial web sites. When I started this site - and more so as time went on - I was surprised by the quantity of search engine sourced traffic that reached this site. We're not talking huge numbers but somedays my traffic is 99% El Goog originated.

This compares oddly with the commercial sites I've worked on in the past where the referal rate has been pitiful in comparrison and with much more effort on my part to do something about it. The question is could I go back to commercial webmaster work and generate large amounts of site traffic by using blog - or blog-like - content? It would be an interesting experiment - not least as I love web-mastery work. I guess the main sticking point would be generating enough relevent and interesting content. As I've mainly done work with insurance and financial related products and companies it might be a bit of a struggle.

Anyway reading around this subject I found this great article on why Google loves blogs which gives you pretty much the template format you'll need if you want to try out my commercial blog theory. Well I say my theory but I'm sure someone out there is already doing to this. It would be quite interesting to hear about their findings.

While I was at it I also read-up some more on Google bombing/washing which I've found fascinating for some time now although I haven't experimented or participated in any of the schemes I've heard about or seen around. I guess a Google bomb/wash is so effective as Google love blogs so much. I'm sure there's some irony in there somewhere.

Anyway that's enough staring at my own feet for now - I'm sure one of things Google doesn't like about blogs is them being self-referential all the time. Just one more thing to note though - the links marked "popular" in the right hand column of this site (-->) relate to the articles on this site that generate the most search engine traffic - my own examples of the blog clog phenomenon. Although I'm not sure how much commercial traffic I'm taking with search terms like matrix cow and graffiti creator.