2007-09-01 
 

ch-ch-ch-changes

So, with my last day at work just a month away I feel more comfortable breaking the cone of silence.

Yes, I'm planning on October 1st as my last day...and it'll be a vacation day to boot! I had originally thought of giving the 28th of September as a last day, but October 1st will extend my health insurance for the full month. Of course, other things could happen in between, but we can't talk about that yet.

Regular visitors will also notice that I'm allowing Google Ads up above. Honestly, I love the PBS nature of an ad free site, but they seem unobtrusive and it's a bit of an experiment. I'd like to see if it "helps" the site climb up higher on random search results.

I'm also curious what ort of ads it'll generate. The most popular search words that lead to this site are:

MARGOT TENENBAUM
PRIDE FLAGS
LOVE
PEACE
DRUGS
and, oddly enough, INLAND

Well, I guess Margot Tenenbaum's an odd term to lead folks here as well since I've only mentioned her in one entry ages ago, but I can't imagine many sites that mention her, so I guess it makes sense that mine pops up pretty often in search results....

I stand corrected. I just googled "Margot Tenenbaum" and people are WAY obsessed with that movie. This site isn't even in the top ten pages of search results. Folks must be really into her if they're digging down past ten pages and still clicking through to see what's at the other end!

But I digress, the point is that I'll find it interesting to see what sort of companies those various popular search terms will hook up to. (and I can't pretend that I'm unaware of the fact that this entry itself should bump me up the Margot Tenenbaum ladder)

Oh, I also decided to install the blogger bar up at the top of the page. More because of the search function than anything else. I never got around to tagging the first 300 entries so it'll be helpful when I want to surf the archives.

Lastly, a special note to DUDE. As I powered through my stats pages looking for popular search terms, I noticed that this postcard page averages about 15-20 hits a month. Given that it's buried pretty deep, that's impressive. Also, markart does about the same. You should send me more jpgs and I'll post 'em.

Labels: blogging, dose of mikey, looking eastward, sharketing

* posted by me at 5:44 PM

Comments:

You really do need to pass along details on this whole move thing!
I can't wait to hear your plan.

# posted by James A. Nadeau : 10:18 AM, September 03, 2007

 

Right now we're targetting the moving truck to pick up our stuff in SF on October 11th. We'll then take off in the car for Weymouth with stops in Idaho, Montana, South Dakota and Wisconsin. We may even take a little detour through Iowa given the recent news. (Not that we'll be applying for a license. We can wait for MA for that.)

As to what we'll do after we hit MA? That's really dependent on what crazy company decides to hire me.

# posted by Mike : 3:45 AM, September 04, 2007

 

yey for MA! you do realize that you're trading the warm CA sun for north east weather?

# posted by rich : 11:20 PM, September 04, 2007

 

Seriously. have you thought this through?
It is really cold here.

# posted by James A. Nadeau : 3:56 PM, September 07, 2007

 

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