25 Years of Wedded Bliss
May 28th, 2008
Today marks my wife Bonnie and I’s 25th Wedding Anniversary!
We are at Walt Disney World EPCOT and right this second (as long as this scheduled wordpress posting thingy works) we are sitting down to eat in Mexico next to the river – romantic! :) (Read the rest of the article…)
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Panama City Beach
May 20th, 2008
A couple of days ago Bonnie and I started our 25th Wedding Anniversary vacation odyssey – Camping Florida. I am lucky in this respect, most wives I imagine wouldn’t want to spend their 25th Anniversary camping out – mine suggested it!
Our first stop was in sunny Panama City Beach! (During this stop camping wasn’t actually on the agenda) The water was very clear – weather was perfect. Slight breeze kept the heat from becoming overbearing. I will say this about Panama City Beach – it has grown! High rise condos now line the beach for almost as far as the eye can see. Sand is as fine, clean and white as I remember it. (Read the rest of the article…)
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One Year of AdSense Referrals
May 14th, 2008
Amazing how fast a year can fly by. Over the past year along with running the regular Google’s content ads via the AdSense program I have also been publishing referral ads. I am not talking about the Google referral ads for the AdWords and other products offered by Google. I will be discussing what I have learned about the referral ads certain AdWords Advertisers are able to present.
When I first started running the ads during the initial beta I found myself greedy – selecting individual ads that would return large amounts of cash on a single conversion. Needless to say that plan was ineffective and lead me to write back in December; (Read the rest of the article…)
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Politics are Amazing
April 29th, 2008
Governmental politics is something that will always amaze me. Watching past elections, and of course the current one, I have to ask myself why anyone would run – it’s kinda like deciding to go on the television show “Judge Judy,” you know that no matter what, you are going to get your ass handed to you.
After reading “The Commercial Appeal” here in Memphis today, I feel as I must make full disclosure before I continue – in a couple letters to the editor about this topic people felt compelled to tell the readers what race of human being they are…
So, not that it should matter, (Read the rest of the article…)
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My Morning Spam
April 23rd, 2008
Below is from a predatory email I received this morning – I actually get them often. Not sure what search engines the fellow is talking about – over the last 30 days the top three search engines has generated well over 100,000 page views of Navy CS.
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Please let me send you a proposal and show you how we can make your website profitable.
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Before you select a search engine optimization (SEO) company ensure (Read the rest of the article…)
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Time to Get Serious
April 18th, 2008
We have lived in our house for five years now! This may not seem like a long time to most people but for me it is an eternity. Lets see, since birth, I’ve lived in Rochester, NY – Azuza, CA – Tulsa, OK – Lincoln, NE – Lake Wales, FL – Crystal River, FL – Orlando, FL – Great Lakes, IL – Vallejo, CA – Mayport, FL – Philadelphia, PA – Camden, NJ – Oaklyn, NJ – Latina, Italy – Keflavik, Iceland – Panama City Beach, FL – Jackson, MS – Warner Robins, GA – Albuquerque, NM – Chandler, AZ – Stow, MA – Maynard, MA – Dublin, CA – Bartlett, TN. Twenty four locations and in some of the towns actually moved households – anyway, lived in a ton of places in my 45 years on the planet.
One thing I am experiencing now that I did not experience in ANY of those other locations was (Read the rest of the article…)
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Web Citizens
December 30th, 2007
What would you do?
You overhear a conversation between two individuals that made you think they were going to do harm to others.
Would you alert authorities? Would you ignore the conversation all together?
Blogs, including my own, may have a lot of posts that cover a wide variety topics. It is not uncommon for my blog to gain a new visitor because of a search result based on a search phrase that came from a combination of two or even three different posts in a single category. An example would be “united states navy myspace” or “counter strike wordpress theme”, both searches I received a visitor from today. You do not have to write specifically about a topic to actually receive visitors for a topic.
Getting back to my original question. (Read the rest of the article…)
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NFL Picks 12-23-2007
December 23rd, 2007
Haven’t written a post in a while. I am spending the holidays in Florida. I will be spending time fishing, golfing and visiting old friends.
Every week during the NFL season my wife and I do a “pick’em” to see who is the best football prognosticator in the family. She has won a few weeks and I must say those weeks she is hard to live with… This week I am a game up on her so far – she thought the Rams would beat the Steelers, we both had Dallas.
The rest of my picks for this week; (Read the rest of the article…)
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My Sons Original Music
December 10th, 2007
My oldest son Tommy just recently turned 26 years old. During his life we have moved to many places and he attended more schools than I think he can even remember.
He graduated with honors from Hamilton High School in Chandler, Arizona and departed for Navy boot-camp soon after with a goal to save money for college and someday be a lawyer. After completing his six year obligation as an Electronics Technician Nuclear Operator on board the USS Nimitz he entered the University of Memphis and will complete his undergraduate degree in Political Science next fall. After that, law school!
Anyway, the real point of this post :) (Read the rest of the article…)
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Stumble Make AdSense?
December 7th, 2007
I recently wrote a blog that turned out to be pretty popular with the social bookmarking crowd(SBC), visits totaled into the thousands. At the end of a few days of continuous traffic via sites like Stumbleupon, Reddit and others I got curious as to why the AdSense for content ad block I placed in the article wasn’t converting anything, nothing, notta, zip, zilch.
Balancing traffic recorded via Google Analytics and ad impressions recorded by the AdSense report for the ad channel didn’t add up. No big surprise, 90% of the web surfers who visited the page were using the FireFox browser and it appears half of those were using an ad filter plug-in. Mybloglog stats reported (Read the rest of the article…)
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