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August 31, 2003
Some Fish!
Went fishing for the first time ever North of the Golden Gate Bridge a couple miles off shore from Pt. Reyes and Bolinas. Was quite seasick most of the trip, which lasted from 6 am until 3:30 pm, but still managed to catch 5 fish, including a huge lingcod. Not the one pictured, that was Loren's and the biggest fish caught that day. Many thanks to the crew of the Butchie B. and to Jim Honniball (pictured) for organizing the trip and for cleaning and filleting the fish (a stinky, thankless job). The hardest part - realizing that all of that dramamine wasn't working. Next time its Bonine or Marezene. Supposedly the trick is to take one at bedtime, the night before going out, and another first thing in the morning.
See Jim's tips on how to fillet a fish.
Posted by elise at 10:18 PM
August 29, 2003
Big Mac with free Wi-Fi
Wayport has just rolled out a test of providing 802.11 WiFi wireless access to 75 Bay Area McDonalds. You can try it out for 2 hours of free access just by emailing Wayport. I found this on a wireless industry newsletter...
Wayport, leading provider of Wi-Fi and wired high-speed Internet access in hotels and airports, invites you to try our recently launched Wi-Fi service at 75 McDonaldís restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area. If you need a convenient place to connect in the Bay Area, email marketing@wayport.net to get your free two-hour connection today!
Sent in my email, and voila! they sent me a passcode. Now to go try it out...
Posted by elise at 4:44 PM
August 20, 2003
Google Adsense, Ad"sensation" that is
Google continues to turn the search engine world upside down. For years, advertisers have been paying for high placement in search results for keyword searches on Yahoo, Alta Visa, and Google. Overture, recently bought by Yahoo, built its business by brokering such placements around different high profile sites. Google recently released a program called Adsense that extends the placement of keyword sponsored ads beyond high profile sites to almost any site. Adsense allows any website, large or small, to place Google keyword sponsor ads directly on their web pages. By placing a few lines of special Google javascript on your page, you can automatically serve up simple, unobtrusive, text-based ads that are contextually appropriate to your page. The more targeted, content-rich your page, the more targeted and appropriate the Google ads will be.
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Posted by elise at 9:40 PM
August 10, 2003
Search Engine Optimization
Google has quickly risen to claim the number one way in which we find things on the web. How your website gets listed on Google can make or break your business. Here are Eric Wolfram's thoughts on Google Optimizing.
Posted by elise at 11:25 PM
August 8, 2003
Meetup.com
Meetup.com takes eVite to a whole new level and solves the problem of anyone who's wanted to meet fellow chihuahua lovers but didn't know where to look.
Posted by elise at 11:41 PM