Day: 19 October 2004

There Goes My Google Rankings

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When I had my site hosted on my friends linux box I had some nice google rankings on some searches. I was surprised at how my site ranked sometimes. Well that is all gone now. When I changed my site address (used to start with blog. and now it is the normal www.) and I moved providers to Typepad several things happened that cost me the rankings. All of this doesn’t really matter. It is of passing interest to me. I still find it funny that anyone reads this. I am not sure what is weirder, people I know regularly reading it, or people I don’t know reading it?

Now with my new site URL and ip address I am hopeful the google searches will eventually come back.

Some People Need To Learn To Drive

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Getting ready to cross the street across from my building tonight I was standing 2 feet from the curb in the cross walk. I was minding my own business when some asshole backed his car into me. Thankfully (for him and me) the dumb-ass wasn’t going very fast. This &*%$^&* in his wanna be punked out ride didn’t even see me. He got out of his car when I kicked his bumper. He is luck I didn’t put a whole in his window. Granted I got lightly shoved, but this idiot could have been moving faster. You have to look.

This is the second time I have almost gotten run over on (or near) the curb in NYC. The last time was New Years back in 95, 96. I would recount that in more detail but I was very drunk and all I remember is the guy in the car was also. The difference was he was driving and I was walking.

That was my moron story for the day. I am taking the day off tomorrow. Hopefully I will get some extra sleep, a hair cut, some shopping and general laziness done. I may even study for my class. The day off won’t be complete since I will have class later at night. This is the first real skills session. Yes I had CPR but that is different. This is the first patient assessment skills. I haven’t taken an EMT class in years and I am amazed at how much some of it comes back to me right away, and how other things have changed…

Music On The Computer Like Device

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Been working on my music collection allot this week. Hey I am sick and have this is the most strenuous thing I can do. Howard gave me a gift certificate to the iTunes store so I bought R.E.M.’s latest CD. I also ripped a bunch of CD’s. I now have a massive 30 something gig’s of music. The question is do I get rid of the CD’s now that they are on the computer? Dan thinks so, but I will keep them in case of problems with the MP3 version of the music.

The good news about my ripping frenzy is that all the music is nicely organized. Some of the original CD’s I ripped years ago were not categorized or labeled correctly. I even went back and re-ripped some of those so I could correct some errors and encode them with the higher 160 bit encoding, instead of the 128 I did back when I started this odyssey in 1998ish. Man I haven’t used some CD’s since 99. I am getting old.