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May 31, 2008 on 8:27 pm | In Uncategorized | Comments OffSo Yahoo pulled off getting Alta Vistas search scientist to lead their future search technology. At least that acquisition wasn’t as stick as Google taking that lead MSN scientist and sticking him as head of Google’s China search department when the guy signed a non-compete with MSN. Nothing like being worry-free about getting tangled up in a nightmarish lawsuit between two behemoths of the search industry. Okay, well, back to my project on 301.
I feel as high as kite with …
May 31, 2008 on 2:33 am | In Uncategorized | Comments OffHe got right back to me with suggestions and questions. We went back and forth for a while, and since he couldn’t figure out what was wrong, he put me in touch with his programmer directly. Now I ask you, has anyone ever done that for you with a piece of software you bought? The programmer got right back to me, and guess what, he is writing a program that will enable him to see just what is going on, and why it won’t work for me. Then he’ll tweak the script so that it will work for me, if at all possible. An the guy even apologetically said that it may take a couple of days! Folks, I have to tell you, that kind of thing is just about unheard of. And you know what? These guys will have a customer for life.
301 Moved Permanently
May 29, 2008 on 6:21 am | In Uncategorized | Comments OffWorks great but every once in awhile security is breached and renegade ducks go rampant inside, inhaling all the food in seconds. Lots of fun going round and round the tree to get the mallards out. They kept flying into the chicken wire in their panic. I took off the wire top, and had my old mutt go one way, while I went the other way to steer the ducks to the open end. Almost made me want to have duck soup, but finally each one figured it out. I have now earned my sit-down time in front of my computer searching for 301 and I don’t care how obscure that topic is. Anything now beats the hell out of going round and round a tree after cornered panicking mallards.