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2月26日 We Are Having A BabyOriginal URL: http://creeva.com/2009/02/26/we-are-having-a-baby/
When I say we are having a baby - I don’t mean in the abstract sense that it’s happening soon. Literally we are having a baby right now. This post like most of them I am writing ahead of time, so there will be some details missing. The one most important is what day is this going to publish? I’m not sure - the baby is due any day now, I have to be ready to rush out the door. I am hoping to run by the blog for five seconds to get this alert published. By the time you are reading this (depending on how quick you do) we should be either on the way to or at the hospital. When we get home I’ll be putting up a new article with pictures and the whole nine yards. The signs have started that we are going to be having our child in our arms very soon. I don’t yet know the weight or length of him. I don’t know what the time or day of his birth. He is very close to appearing. Some part of this since I’m writing this ahead of time reminds me of Linus telling Charlie Brown about the Great Pumpkin, in theory the Great Pumpkin is going to show up, but yet there is no proof. We are hoping everything goes well, that there is no complications. Wish us well. I’ll be giving updates on my twitter feed, so watch that for the latest information. LeVar Burton, The Internet's Latest Superstar
Image from here Outside of Star Trek LeVar Burton has not done much acting in the last 10 years. One thing that he did keep going until the last couple years was Reading Rainbow, a show myself and my siblings all grew up with. I’m kind of disappointed hearing that it is gone, on the cusp of my child being born any day now, he won’t be able ot the experience I had growing up with the show. Between Star Trek: The Next Generation and reading rainbow is where I (like most geeks) have had my exposure to LeVar Burton. He is the guy you recognize and want to see things from, but has kind of disappeared from the spotlight. Well he is back, he has embraced the internet revolution (is it really a revolution still??) and in the last few months has shown up everywhere. Since I’m not sure where it started, I’ll give my details as I noticed his latest new fame. It all started when he popped up on an episode of Diggnation: When I saw this clip show up on Digg I just had to track it down later when I was at home and watch it. I would say it gave me chills, but that is the wrong word for it. It was exciting, refreshing and took me back to being an eight year old kid watching Reading Rainbow in the first few seasons. Then he popped up on Twitter and I immediately followed him. He is currently (among other things) covering his struggle to stay a non-smoker, something that I’m going to have to fight myself very soon when my child is born. Most recently as I was catching up on my back episodes of This Week in Tech, behold LeVar shows up there. Wil Wheaton has managed to talk his friends over ot the medium he has done so well at in the recent years. LeVar has shown that this level of internet stardom is not unique to a single Star Trek star. Here is wishing you luck LeVar and I’ll keep reading your blog. I’m hoping Brent Spiner manages to leverage this as well as you. 2月25日 Google Reader Team - Please Implement Authenticated RSS
More and more these days I attempt to configure some of my “private” feeds and I get prompted for a username and password. The reason behind this is that services want you to be authenticated to see this data. They are protecting privacy at the cost of functionality. I don’t disagree with this, and I think more services should honestly do this. The problem is when you add it to your RSS reader you can’t do anything with it. I’ll rephrase, if you put it into a RSS client, the client has to support authenticated RSS. Google Reader, which is my RSS reader of choice. Google Reader does not have a method for using authenticated RSS. Please Google Reader Team, can we get this functionality? One thing I would suggest though if you manage to fulfill this wish from me - disable sharing and emailing on these feeds. The feeds are authenticated for a reason, by making users take a bit more effort by using copy and paste - this would help alot to implement data leakage. Plus Google, think of all the information you could gather that you would normally be authenticated to get - it’s trade from me to you. 2月23日 The Authentication Hole in Autocheck.com
While shopping for cars this weekend, we decided to do a VIN history check against the cars we were looking out. While we didn’t find any that had been in a flood or a wreck (the things they scare you into doing these checks), we did find a few cars that had been used as rental cars. When you are doing these checks there are really only two major companies to do them with, you have a choice of CarFax or Autocheck. I’ve used CarFax in the past, so I decided to try out Autocheck. Both offer the same information, and if I had to tell you to use one or the other, I would tell you to choose whichever is cheapest for the day. So I signed up, handed over the credit card number, and suddenly I was logged in. I was iffy because they never prompted me for a password, yet there was a log out button at the top of the screen. This was supposed to allow for unlimited searches for 60 days, so how is my account secured? Not wanting to close the window I was actively working in (just in case) I opened another browser and attempted to login. It asked me for my email address and click next. I was then logged in - no password at all. Now it doesn’t seem that you can review your look up history, since all historical lookups are sent to you via email and they are not stored on the server. What it does allow is people to bypass account security since if you know an email address of someone with this service you can get your own searches for free. You would think this would be at least slightly more secure since it’s run by one of the largest credit agencies. Would More Transparency Help The Used Car Market?
Seeing we’ve recently been used car shopping, I’ve noticed some problems in an industry which is at least a secondary issue with the auto makers that exist currently. We can say auto makers are focused on new cars and could care less about the used car markets, but the dealerships that sell new cars also deal in used cars. A sale for these people is a sale all around. I understand that they use tricks to sell you what they want to sell instead of what you really want to buy, but buyers are getting more savvy and the old tricks do not work. No Prices? Now I know the gimmick is that if the price is not on the car it will force you to talk to a salesperson. I don’t like to talk to salespeople though, no matter what the purchase. If I’m browsing new cars I can see the sticker price, why is this not the norm for used cars? I would at least like a ballpark of what the car is going to be. You can jack up the price 20-30% and have wiggle room for me to talk you down and negotiate, but if I’m browsing and your closed - I’m not coming back if there is no prices. The only way this would be otherwise if the dealership had a car I just felt I had to own - which 99.999% of the time I look at cars, this is not the case. I can say quite a few dealerships lost my chance to come back and look at their cars and actually talked to a salesperson because I do most my browsing at night or on Sundays. I don’t feel the dealerships have to be open when I shop around and browse, but I want to be able to know what I’m looking at and what it will cost me. The irony is some of these sites have the prices online, so the Internet savvy are somewhat aware at these dealerships, but the guy off the street has no idea. No Prices = Bad Form Internet Databases Out Of Date We researched where we were going to go look at cars by searching online databases, we knew that there would be other dealerships around where another was, so we could hit many at once. Some of these dealerships were 40 minutes away. We would get to the dealership and the car they had online was nowhere on the lot at all. Now in some occasions you could say it was sold before we got there or it was out for a test drive. For the Sunday searching, the dealership was closed. There is no reason the online databases can not be in sync 100% with the current stock on hand. There should not be any cars on the lot that are not in the online database (quite a few). Cars that are sold should immediately propagate and removed from the available car database. We live in a world of just in time information, there is no reason that Wal-Mart can pinpoint every object in their store which encompasses millions of items and a car dealership can not do the same for there inventory of hundreds. Trying to Hide Problems I mentioned in my previous story that one dealership pointed out problems to the car before I took it for a test drive. Granted he did miss some problems (or didn’t alert the customer to them). This should be the norm. Almost every dealership has a mechanic go over the car before they buy it or sell it. This helps them pinpoint what they can get out of the car. There is no reason not to share this with the buyer. With Lemon Laws becoming the norm, sellers could cover themselves by showing a buyer this information and signing off on it beforehand. With information being more available via Carfax or AutoCheck major issues can’t be hidden away like they used to be. Online Buying There is a small market for buying cars online, and granted there is small room for buying a car without test driving it, it should still be available. I can go out during the day and look at and test drive a few dozen cars. When I get home at night I should be able to login to the site and make my purchase. I wouldn’t waste the salesperson time by trying to haggle, if I’m willing to pay the asking price without negotiation, I should have that option by purchasing online. I could arrange my own financing and not take up a salesperson time - freeing them to other more difficult customers that are trying to knock the price down and eat into profit. I really do not seeing any of the changes taking place any time soon, but if I was going to start a used dealership - these would be the first changes I would implement Car Shopping Over The Weekend
With the imminent (meaning any second now I may have to be speeding to the hospital) the baby, we needed to get a baby friendly car. I’m not getting rid of the Miata, and I don’t want any more car payments - so used it is. I would say online we’ve gone through a few hundred cars, we’ve gone out and looked at about 20 or so cars, and so far we’ve test driven 1. We did quite a bit of looking yesterday, and all the dealerships were closed, so no test drive.
The one car we did test was a 2000 Buick Lesabre (or is that LeSabre or Le Sabre?) (similar to the picture above) anyways the ride was great in it. To give you a brief background, we did background research on things that can go wrong with the car and what to look for. One of the major problems with the 2000-2005 Lesabre’s seems to be window regulator motors. Many people online have complained that these fail quite often and some people have had to replace all of them multiple times. This was one of the things I knew I had to check out for. The dealership we test drove from has a mechanic’s inspection of all cars (since they are trade-in’s at their main new car lot). The salesperson set us down and discussed the issues they had found with the car before we took it for a spin. The only thing somewhat major that he mentioned (and stuck with me) was that the rotors would need to be replaced soon. He scanned my driver’s license, made sure the car started and handed it off to me. It ran strong with 109k miles on it, then the problems started creeping in. Problem number one when entering the car, the driver’s side seatbelt wouldn’t latch. It seems it got stuck in the locked position and wouldn’t relatch or open at all. I even got out of the car trying to jury rig this to work. Nothing, no way - so I got to break the law by driving without a seatbelt (ok I’m not the biggest wearer of seatbelt’s - but I expect them to work when I do). Getting down the road, the pick up was good and the ride comfort was great. We parked at a local mall so I could find a dry area where I could look to see how much rust was underneath the car (got to love Ohio). We popped the trunk open and it seems that the one of the motor mounts was probably going to go within a year or so since there was unnecessary movement in the engine when the car was sitting still and idling. The next thing I checked was the rear windows - they didn’t budge. This didn’t bother me too much, since they were stuck in the up position I could replace the motors at 49.95 a pop (aftermarket) in the spring. I could also get them done at the dealership for 500-600 (not something I would like t0 do). The driver’s window worked perfectly fine. We then tried the front passenger’s window. It went down, but never came back up. So at this point, that was all she wrote for this car. We drove back a couple miles in the middle of an Ohio winter with the passenger side window down (at least the heating in the car was good). I told the salesman about the windows and he acted like he didn’t believe me. He attempted to lower the rear windows and blamed the switch on the driver’s side door (it wasn’t the switch). He managed to lower the rear driver’s side window about an inch and then it gave up. He didn’t manage to get the passenger side window up at all. He then went on about the great ride a buick has, and I agreed as we shuffled away.
Later today Xie is supposed to be test driving a Cadillac similar ot the picture above. We’ll see how that works out. 2月20日 It Seems My Diapers Didn't Smell Too Good
Two nights ago one of my aunts added me as a friend on Facebook, I was actually the second family member on her list. We were making some jokes back and forth about her not understanding the site completely, then she sent me a message that included this:
So hopefully my child won’t inherit the same smell factor. On the other side, imagine what my child gets to look forward to changing when I’m old, senile, and wearing Depends. 2月19日 Wordpress Post By E-Mail Sucks
One thing that has always annoyed me about Wordpress is it’s “I don’t think about security for features” attitude. Over time they have locked down the APIs a bit more. They are now disabled by default. Default passwords are complex when using a suggested one in the current version. So what is my complaint? Posting by e-mail is the easy way to take over your blog, at least in the content side of things. For someone that crossposts, this could be a doubly evil attack. This is why I have no good method for posting by e-mail on Wordpress. Essentially it is either on or it’s off. Currently I have mine turned off, even those this could be a real boon to me when I am mobile. There is one simple method they could do to adjust this and make it usable without worrying about someone finding out your “secret” e-mail posting address and posting things on the front page of your blog; give you an option to allow the posts to show up as drafts (since I would also like to do some final formatting before publishing an article anyways). There was a plugin called Postie which I used for my life archiving project, but I could never get to run automatically - so I gave up on that solution. It is still a function that I desperately want. I received advice once that if you posted to your blog via e-mail from an unknown e-mail address that it would post it as a draft post (i.e. not showing on your front page). I did some testing on this, it’s a false rumor. It so gave me hope. So which version of Wordpress is going to plug this whole and just give you the option to set e-mailed in articles as drafts? A New Blog - Maybe?Original URL: http://creeva.com/2009/02/19/a-new-blog-maybe/
Don’t be fooled by the title - Creeva.com is going nowhere, nowhere now, nowhere tomorrow. Maybe in 2070 however, things will be re-evaluated and it will no longer exist. I just sent out an idea about a new blog (the only hint I can give you is think disco, but without the suck) to two people I’ve wanted to collaborate with. Along with this blog comes a podcast. Since this would be easier for me to do with the participants, this may open up to do a second podcast with someone I used to work with. Logistical issues takes me to do this project first (though I really want to do the other podcast). I’m not sure I even have a podcast voice - so it all may just fall flat on its face right there. We’ll see the feedback I get from the two I’ve e-mailed and go from there- I’m so bad at reporting. I haven’t given you a single who, only a vague what, and there is no where. I’ll keep everyone updated though with less vagueness (maybe) as we go forward. Mourning The Death of Palm OS
I wrote yesterday about trying to find a solution to turn my Palm TX into a bluetooth file server. So far no answers, but I wanted to record my history with Palm OS. Palm software has been part of my life for over nine years now, through a total of 3 different devices I have had a long history of trying to make it work and do what I wanted it to do. I didn’t eventually reach Palm nirvana until the TX, but I made due in one way or the other.
My first Palm based device was the Handspring Visor Deluxe, which I got at Best Buy in 2000. While Handspring wasn’t owned by Palm at this time, it was the superior device. It had a licensed Palm OS and it was expandable. It had more memory and features, that was the selling point for me. I never actually bought any of the modules (I wanted the Ethernet jack one), but when I purchased it I thought i would. It was great for my train commute at the time and I finished quite a few e-books by using this device. I synced my outlook, and wrote e-mails offline and synced them when I got to the office. It used triple A batteries and would last a week or two before they needed charged (mind you I used this thing all the time.
My second palm was from the Zire line, I think it was the Zire 31, but I’m not going to go hunting through boxes to find out for sure. The expandability of an SD card slot was great for me, I used to watch movies on this and once again synced my contacts and e-mail for offline work. This was my substitute for an Ipod, so it was my all around media player and business like gaming machine when I was consulting.
The Palm TX was my final Palm device. The main selling points for me were wifi and bluetooth access. I used this a bit during my final ruin in consulting. I used this and the Zire as universal remotes, but other then an e-mail machine it wasn’t much use. The technology wasn’t keeping up with my activities. It was a great machine and will always have a place in my heart, but I replaced it with my N810 and I’m not looking back. Over the years I’ve played with literally thousands of palm titles, some great, some not so great. It was always an interesting experience for me. While the Palm Pre has piqued my interest, I’m not sure I’ll go with it. I still like my phone to be a good phone and would rather have a secondary device for everything else. I also know I’m in the minority for this. Palm OS - RIP - you were a great friend, and a great experience. You will be missed.
2月18日 What's For Lunch Today?Original URL: http://creeva.com/2009/02/18/whats-for-lunch-today/
Of course while I chew I have nothing better to do then upload pictures of what I am eating (actually I’m running reports in the background). So here is what I am having for lunch today.
A salami sandwich on some sort of healthy bread from Trader Joe’s (I didn’t pick the bread I prefer white bread)
Here I have some Dill Mustard from Grandpa’s Cheese Barn
Dill mustard, please meet mister sandwich - of course the contrast in this image makes the mustard look really nasty (it isn’t).
Add in some Low-Fat Cheezits
For desert a Little Debbie Nutty Buddy.
I have this if I need a snack later…
And to wash it all down with. More Baby Prep Work Completed
So the last couple weeks I’ve been setting up e-mail addresses and twitter accounts for our unborn child, that’s just the cusp of the cusp of the events going on. Buying and setting up all the baby supplies and furniture, general work around the house to get done before the baby arrives - and juggling this with down time - has been an extra full time job. I believe I have a complete communication network setup, so everyone on all the social networks will be alerted when the baby arrives - it is teaching me a bit about mass communication. This is the word we live in, the better you can push out and alert people when something happens, the more people trust you can do it. Almost every day I’m getting questions about the state of the baby, if it’s here yet, is it healthy? I field these question as they come in, since it only takes me a second. You can rest assured that no matter where you follow me on, the announcement will (should) be available. We’ll find out how good of an architect I really am when it’s done. P.S - that’s me in the picture Palm TX Bluetooth File Server Software Wanted
So this week I charged up my old Palm TX, I’ve been mourning over the death of Palm OS. I enjoyed Palm OS, but even I’ve moved on. I have to write my history with Palm hardware article soon. I paired the TX with my N810, after verifying I could still get online with it through my phone. The TX’’s web browser is weak compared to the N810’s and other then a syncing contact manager (something the N810 is lacking at) I have no real use for the TX anymore. I was thinking what I can do with it. I may have sold my wife’s but I’m not sure I want to give mine up yet - so functional decisions. I can make it a high end universal remote - maybe a TV-be-gone device. What I decided I it turns out I can’t do - make it a bluetooth file server. Here is what I figured, my N810 only has a MicroSD card slot, so it can’t read normal SD cards - if I needed the extra space I could pop an SD card into the TX, power it on and access it via bluetooth on the N810. Unfortunately (like always) the manufacturer cheaped out on the specs. There doesn’t seem to eb anyway to share files over bluetooth on the TX. I can access files on my phone from N810, but nothing on the TX. So I’m throwing this out there to the world at large, does anyone know of a way to put a bluetooth file server (for free preferably) on a Palm TX (or Treo, or Lifedrive, or any bluetooth enabled Palm)? If so please leave a comment and a link. You can also leave a comment if you think I’m insane also. 2月14日 Happy Valentines and Happy Birthday Dad
The picture is going with “love is with your family” motif. That’s my father with my brother and myself (I don’t think he is really asleep). Happy birthday dad. Happy Valentine’s day to everyone else. 2月13日 My Family Is Too Bashful To Leave Comments
So out of all my writing that I know my family reads, they are reluctant to comment (granted my mother has good reason since I would turn it around). they don’t want to go on record, they want to keep harmony better then I do, or they don’t really like me. Whatever the reason I know I have a few siblings and a couple parents (since I assume my mother does check in occasionally and curses me under her breath) that read my site. Yet the comments are few and far between if at all. I do hear after something has been published for awhile, what facts or figures I managed to get wrong (mostly it’s details that don’t matter). My father is good at this, and normally I don’t call him out (Hi Dad!). I may have changed his mind a bit though, last time we talked I mentioned to in some ways this will be the only recorded history going forward. That he needs to tell things in his point of view or they will be lost. That if I’m wrong already one generation after him, what are his great-great grandkids going be? They won’t have a magical insight that I was wrong, they will take it at face value. So while my family are alive it is their responsibility to set things right, otherwise my word is truth. I’m happy to be called out. I’m happy to be told my facts are not quite right. I would love to prove something isn’t my imagination (which sometimes I think they believe I make this stuff up). I do hope that even though they don’t comment, they gain a memory back. I amuse them. I give them a smile for their day. I’m also sure I give them a few curse words that cross their lips. Yes writing about my family is cathartic to me, and I go to it when I crutch. I don’t write exclusively about my family, since I write about whatever is happening in the moment in my head. So I don’t expect them to comment everything I write - if my youngest sister started commenting on my article of things you should have ready before talking to a consultant I would wonder why? I don’t need pity comments. I’m also going to encourage them for keeping the family history going forward by emailing my upcoming child. What do they want to tell him? What if they get hit by a bus tomorrow? The best time to get this stuff down is today. If my mother wants to email my son (which she’ll have to get the address from my sister), she is welcome to - I have no reason to censor it even if she would bad mouth me at all. That’s for him, not for me. When he is old enough and can read, he will have the keys to the email kingdom and can decide what he wants to do from there. Will he cherish and protect the memories or will he delete them, putting all of our thoughts into digital oblivion? I can only do the best to save his family’s history from my point of view, and I’m sure I still won’t be able to give him all the answers he or his descendants may have. When he is born he will have 3 cousins, 5 uncles, 4 aunts, 6 grandparents, and 4 great grandparents still living. To put that in perspective when I was born I had 0 cousins, 4 uncles, 4 grandparents, and 4 (maybe 3?) great grandparents living. This gives him the benefit of more information input, plus with the advent of digital technology and archiving - in theory the e-mail archives should be more resilient then paper letters I would have lost over the years. I started off this post one side and ended up another, but now I bring it all back. It’s all about stories, history, and getting things right - even though view points will color the history. I don’t want to be the only one with viewpoints on this blog, whether your friends, family, or a random stranger I’m happy to get and respond to comments. I’ll leave you with that. P.S. Yes that is me in the picture with the mullet - want to start something over it? P.P.S. My family and friends also ask me when I’m going to write this story or that one. It’s all in good time. I’m hoping to collect as many moments as possible. Not Even Born Yet And My Kid Has An E-Mail Address And TwitterOriginal URL: http://creeva.com/2009/02/13/not-even-born-yet-and-my-kid-has-an-e-mail-address-and-twitter/
In anticipation of the birth that should be happening within the next week or so. I’ve signed my child up with his first Gmail account and his first Twitter account. Now I can harass him like I do his mother about all the interesting stories I find online, I wonder how much e-mail he’ll have to catch up with by the time he can read? He already has his own domain name, which will launch a blog shortly after he is born. We bought that domain shortly after we found out Xie was pregnant. Before you think about asking though, no you can’t follow him one twitter. Let me expound upon that, until it’s decided otherwise only people that Xie and I know in real life, close friends of the family, or family itself will be able to follow him. His e-mail will be monitored until he proves himself trustworthy to self monitor. I would have set him up with a Facebook account, but since their terms of use state you have to be thirteen, I don’t feel like already making him a rule breaker. The birth will not be streamed live, but I will work to get video and pictures of him after he is born up as soon as possible. Finally, No - I’m not setting him up with a Myspace account - and he has to prove he’ll use it before he get’s his own Flickr Pro account. Watch my twitter feed for the latest breaking news when he is born - since it will be there first. Search Giants Are Going To Make It Easier On CrosspostersOriginal URL: http://creeva.com/2009/02/13/search-giants-are-going-to-make-it-easier-on-crossposters/
Image from here This story hopped across my feed reader today, it peeked my interest since before I expanded it I only had the title, “Search giants join to tidy up Web addresses“. I wasn’t sure from the title if they were looking at trying to apply pressure before any new TLD’s were going to be added, if they were looking at the URL shortening issue that seems to be proliferating across the net, or whatever else they were trying to do. So much can be derived from that simple sentence that I felt I just had to read that article. It seems Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo all decided to have a sit down yesterday. From the article the following was discussed:
What does this mean to a crossposter? Well simply that you are less likely to be tagged as spam. When this search engines optimize and find duplicate content on multiple sites they assume most of that data is unoriginal and there should only be only true source and owner of that data. The problem grows since it is no longer spammers doing this. Many bloggers are now sharing the same story from their primary blog on other services and other social circles. When Google sees my same content on Creeva.com, then Myspace, then Livejournal, then Vox - it doesn’t know who runs the source material. This in turn can get all the sites to be modded down in the search engine database since they don’t know which is the true original site. Another undesirable side of this can also emerge. Suppose you work really hard on your blog design and presentation, but also crosspost (I consider myself half assing blog design by the way). You have this beautiful presentation method, and your Livejournal site is the first returned result in the search engine for a particular story. You are now driving traffic to a site that you put up for the community, but haven’t monetized at all and is not the aesthetic appeal of your main blog. This will not help you keep readers and grow your sites regular viewership. What this method they are trying ot come up with will do is put a bit of microcode in the post that allows the data to say it came from your main site. The crossposted links may drop off search, but really that’s fine if your doing it to share data in communities and not attempting to game the system. Your blog will rise to the top of search results instead of your crossposting destinations. This will help you control where your readers land. This is really a boon to everyone in the system especially crossposters Once this system is actually ratified and implemented by the search engines, the people that implement it will have more control over their comment and spammers will die off. To be more exact let’s look at the crossposting scenario. We’ll assume that spam blog operators are going to be watching this closely and will attempt to change/modify the microcode and say their site is the authoritative one of the original data and not your actual blog. Well the crossposters will have one, two, a dozen sites that point back to their own original blog, giving it more weight and authority in the search engine results. Essentially the crossposters who manage and put effort into this can out assert the spam sites on who the data source really is. My Fear The one thing that worries me with the assertion of who was the originator of the data is the spammers though. With enough proliferation the spammers could say they are the originator of the content. No matter how good you are in the Internet societythe spammers could just set up 2000 spam blogs copying your content and gaining the assertiveness that they are the original site. This is where we have to trust current search engine technology that can detect spam blogs and hope they are not overwritten by trust in this new system. It will always be a war in many ways, but hopefully this is all a step in the corerct direction of making search engines faster and more accurate, while not penalizing those that follow by the rules, but distribute their content to many of their own networks. 2月12日 Getting Added to Google's Lexicon as a Valid Word
What a long strange trip it’s been. Back before I started a blog, I was just a person on the swg forum with the name Creeva in his signature. I did a random Google search and I had less then 100 entries, about 3 years ago I was still stuck at 419 entries. These days my number fluctuates for 20k-60K entries in Google depending on the day. I’m still proud of having the number one entry in Google for “the greatest accomplishment of mankind” and not so happy about being number one for “afk entertainer” (UPDATE ON THE SECOND ONE - I’ve been bumped to number 2 - yay me). One thing always bothered me when I started this trip of seeding Google, the fact that originally when I searched for “Creeva” that Google sent me back the suggestion “Did you mean Creeval?” - this continued on when I had more hits for Creeva in the database then existed for Creeval. Every few months I did a variation search on Creeva and normally I would either get no suggestion for some spellings, or I would get something spelled different. Today however when I did a search for “Creeeva” it came back with the suggestion “did you mean Creeva?”. Finally I’ve broken through the glass ceiling of valid search terms and “Creeva” will start being a valid suggestion. I really don’t care if this changes tomorrow and it goes back to some other suggestion, today I have my moment in the sun. Granted as a side note, my real name has only 4900 hits for it, and when I search on it, it suggest a different spelling of the last name (different person). The suggestion also has 1500 less hits for his name then I have for mine, but that’s a battle for another day. |
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