Odd Jobs for Carl

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Search Engine Optimization – My Take

There is a whole industry related to search engine optimization and whether you're a web developer, web designer, or just a blogger, search engine optimization is something you and/or your clients will have at least some interest in, and spend some time on. Search engine optimization is all about making your web sites show up close to the top of the lists for relevant keywords to your site.

Many companies out there charge big bucks for the basics and common sense I'm spelling out in this article. Despite how their marketing and sales pitch may argue otherwise, there is no quick fix, nor a magic bullet to make your web site appear at the top of Google's list (or any search engine for that matter. The article below I've composed based on my own personal experiences building web sites over the years both personally and professionally.

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Hellaious Week Near Its End

So it's been a full week's stress and headaches rolled into only three days. Luckily, it's worked out where my friends, Bret and Tina are getting married Saturday. I had the forethought to take Friday off for the rehearsal, pick up my tux, etc. and am really thanking my lucky stars. Amanda's been slow at work [...]

New Hardware at Work

Apple Mac ProSo we all finally got a much-needed hardware upgrade at work. I went from a PowerMac G5 single 1.8 Ghz (read: the original G5 machine) to a souped up, dual quad-core (8 freaking processors) 3.0 Ghz Mac Pro with 8GB of RAM. It was absolutely phenomenal how much faster it was! We're talking night and day. A Photoshop document that before took me 10 minutes to open (literally – I'd go to the bathroom, get a drink, come back and it still would have a progress bar up), now opens without a hiccup or progress bar at all!

I had a hell of a time slowing this machine down. The only thing that seemed to tax it was Parallels. I didn't play around with that much at all.

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Up Late Working

Damn! I was real close to missing my post for the day. It's like 3 minutes before midnight!

Anyway, work's been crazy busy. I've got more web sites to build than there are hours in the day. On one hand, it's great – job security galore. On the other hand, it's been stressful and I can't keep [...]

Work's in High Gear, But So Are My Goals Outside of Work

So work has shifted into high gear – with three sites needing to be built this week. For those who don't know, I'm a pseudo-web developer, specializing in front end web technologies and the like – acronyms like HTML, CSS, SEO and PHP. Anyway, my work comes in waves and I've got a tsunami right now. [...]

I'm Tired

I woke up this morning with ten hours of sleep behind me, fully rested. But I'm tired.

I'm tired of people being difficult and mean to each other. I'm tired of seeing good people being treated poorly. I'm tired of disorganization and having to do things multiple times because of the disorganization and the lack of the [...]

Do You Have Job Burnout

I think Amanda and I are both experiencing this, along with most of my office.

Do You Have [...]

100 Best Companies to Work For 2007

Man, with everything Google does for their employees, it's no wonder they're number one:

100 Best Companies to Work [...]

50+ Ways A Manager Can Get Employees To Quit

Here's a wonderful and accurate lists of the crap managers and bosses pull that piss off, and eventually make employees disgruntled, start updating resumes and move on:

50+ Ways A Manager Can Get Employees [...]