Happy Birthday To Me

Well, happy effing birthday to me. Instead of the traditional birthday ditty, let's all gather around our 'puters and sing this little number. All together now...

Battle Hymn of the Baby Boomers (holy crap I'm getting older).

SM's Best of 2009

I was reading Smashing Magazine this morning and I decided to check out their "About" page where I found this...

Our Most Popular Stories Of 2009 So Far:
Web Design Trends For 2009
Best Adobe Photoshop Tutorials
40 Excellent Free Fonts For Professional Design

And this...

Our Greatest Story Ever:
53 CSS Techniques You Can’t Live Without

I've got to get me one of those "About" pages, someday.

Page Rank Sculpting

Matt Cutts, the head of Google's Webspam team, cat lover (Hi Ozzie!), and all 'round good guy, has written a helpful post explaining page rank flow, the "nofollow" attribute, and when you should use it (hint: not so much). Page rank can be a complicated subject because Google is quite secretive about the algorithm. It's nice to get a little information straight from a Google employee.

It's a concise and easy to read post (with pictures!). I suggest you give it a look.

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Tweak Guides Updated

Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound) has updated his excellent guides to installing, tweaking and optimzing Windows XP and Windows Vista in preparation for his Windows 7 guides. I used his guides to set up Vista on my laptop and I've been very happy with the results.

TweakHound's Blog is also one of my favorite RSS feed subscriptions - highly recommended.

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Blogging Mistakes

Problogger.net has an excellent article, "Do You Recognize These 21 Blogging Mistakes?"

My answer - you bet. Of the 21 mistakes here's mine...

3. Echoing everyone else - This post is a good example.
5. Irregular Posting - This blog is, once again, a good example.
17. Becoming a Stats-a-holic - I really can't help myself.
20. Not Selling Yourself - I'm just shy that way.
21. Thinking You Have to Know it All - See above.

5 mistakes out of a possible 21 isn't too bad. with a little rounding that's about a 75; I pass. I feel pretty good about that.

You'll have to visit Problogger.net to see the complete list.

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Bing Goes Live

Microsoft's Bing goes live today. Check it out - Bing.com.