It’s been a while guys. I’m sorry for that. Things have been relatively “busy” lately. That’s kind of a lie, I’ve just been at work, practicing for the season coming up and day to day crap.
I have gotten new internet installed up in my loft. Being hard-wired is pretty sweet, the speed is much faster and my entire network is sharing files much more efficiently. Having my network being all in-house instead of run wirelessly is a lot more stable and fast.
MouseSpaz is in a slump. Something that time and persistence can overcome, still hard to put 4 other guys on your back and keep a positive outlook. I’m trying though.
Haven’t skateboarded in a while, I think after work today I’m gonna go out and bust my ass a few times.
My Macbook’s battery is kaput so I think I’m gonna have to drop the cash to get a new one if I ever want to use it without being plugged into an outlet.
Arbalet Dallas (I just realized I hadn’t posted since I’ve been there?!) was pretty sweet. Andrew, Angel and I had a pretty good time, met a lot of new guys and saw some really good matches. I think by the end of the weekend all three of us were just ready to get home and relax.
I will be attending next year if they have it again, and I’d like to get down there for the ESEA BYOC for season 7. Maybe I can convince my team and someone special to come with me. Maybe.
Also just ordered a 24″ LCD for web development. Sweet.
I had the honor of virtually meeting this guy via e-mail and correspondence on Forrst. Does creative work, and is incredibly cool about it.
He sent me a vinyl sticker for my Macbook FO’ FREE!
He’s got a whole bunch of different stickers on his website (I’ll link it below, RELAX) for you to check out. Buy stuff from him, it will please me.
Forrst: http://forrst.com/people/BearKid
Website: http://bearkid.com/store/vinyl/
Colt (my co-worker) pestered the owner of Forrst.com (Kyle) to speedup our acceptance a little bit, and somehow it worked…? I dunno how guys, Colt is a master manipulator…
Anyways, I’ve spent a little bit of time looking through it and posting comments / questions and I have to say that I’m thoroughly impressed with the community. The craftsmanship with which the site was made is phenomenal as well.
I’ve extended offers to a friend of mine to join the community (Cody). I’m hoping that Kyle extends him the same graciousness that he offered us Lifeboat crew members.
I’ll leave you guys with a couple screenshots, unfortunately they seem to lack the “WOW” that I feel for the site. It’s the community of this website that draws the “ooohs and ahhs”, not any function or design element. Although all of the design and development is very eloquent and well thought out.
Well, at this point small improvement is cause for celebration! Moving up the first page of google results has proven difficult, but I feel that with the last few tricks I have up my sleeves; metadata for every post, improved homepage metadata, and TIME, I think we can make this happen.
I’d like to thank and encourage everyone for using a Google search to direct yourself to my blog. I’ve got a feeling that when you click on my website while doing a search it is a boost to my rating. I’m not completely sure, but it can’t hurt anything. Plus now you get to scope out how we’re doing in the results with me!
PS – Still waiting on my forrst acceptance email. It must have gotten lost in transit.
I sent in an application for Forrst and you should too! That is assuming you’re a web design or development fanatic. I first saw this on Gary V’s shirt (in this video, remember newbs?).
Cody brought it up again today so I decided I might as well put in an application.
I’ve been doing a little bit of reading about it and I’m hoping I get accepted. It seems like the environment it harbors could be really beneficial for any web artisan.
Attn: Forrst acceptance squad:
- I use (mt) to host this very blog!
- I’m a young and enthusiastic web programmer.
- I respect and follow web standards!
- I release my scripts for everyone to use (why they would want to, I don’t know).
- I’ve got a lot to learn, and I think you can help.
- Oh and I really, really want to join… That’s a reason, right?
Thanks for taking the time guys. Hope I get an email soon!
We did it everyone! We broke onto page 1 (granted, the very bottom) of the search for “Chris Keefer”! Congratulations!
We got a new toy at work today! I got to register an account with CampaignMonitor. After playing around with it a little bit I have to say I am thoroughly impressed. It’s analytical software is absolutely amazing, it’s easy to use, and yeah.. I love it.
I’ve been playing with SEO for this blog (as you may suspect from my last post). It’s going pretty well, I made it my mission to be in the first page for the search “Chris Keefer”, and after four days of SEO practice we’re already at the number two spot for the second page. We’re getting there!
I got the time off today for the Arbalet Cup trip, really excited about that. Get out of town for a weekend and nerd it up with Angel and Andrew. Should be a good time.
Still waiting on that skateboard, stupid 6-8 day shipping crap.
We’re on page two of the google search for Chris Keefer! Owning imposters one day at a time.
Next stop, the top (of page two)!
EDIT: WHAT THE FUUUUUU!!!! SCREW YOU GOOGLE! PAGE FOUR NOW? REALLY? Whatever. “I’m done witchu.”
EDIT OF EDIT: Google, I knew you’d come back.. You always do.. (back to page two)
Get it? *ahem*
Anyways, I’m going through all of my old stuff and looking for anything that may be of use to people.. You know what they say, “Being of service is an integral part of the journey toward finding fulfillment.” That holds especially true for PHP scripts.
I know there’s SOMETHING around here that is useful.. Maybe.
I’ll keep you guys posted on what I find, there will be a download link to my codeigniter powered user control panel system soon.
Hope someone benefits from these, I doubt it though.
