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I am that guy people run to when the internet is not working, or they cant find a network printer because a graphical environment operating system is too complicated. The guy you want to have around when your porn habit has caught up to you and your computer is no longer responding. I am exactly that over caffeinated, fast talking, wont listen to you talk cause I know what your going to say before you finish speaking guy, that you go home and tell you're unsatisfied wife about. I am hated because I don't have the time or the attention span to discuss the undemanding details of your life with. I am loved because I retain no fear in the arena of technology. I seek and solve problems at an alarming rate. Bottom line, I make my company dead hard cash and a lot of it, so I must be tolerated.
I do have a challenge at my job because computer repairs and networking issues are boring to me. I design PCB's (printed circuit boards), write programs, and engineer electronics circuits all while trying to keep my ego from getting out of line. Some things I have deigned are being used by many prominent places. NASA has one of my instruments, as well as MIT and other institutions that have an audience of exceptionally smart people. This makes my already inflated ego especially exaggerated for some reason. I reflect now and again and find that my job is parallel to the super bowl. I am in the technology super bowl and I am leading by a large margin. Problem is - they are all German soccer fans (inside joke for the staff here at suck-o). I love my work but I cant tell anyone about it. Its not that its top-secret stuff, its the undemanding actuality that no one I know has a clue of what I am talking about. When I say "hey I used a cunningly simple concept today. I employed a rectifier IC as a EMF suppressor saving the design cost of $1.50 per board." People just shake there heads and walk by. Its depressing for me, the over caffeinated, egotistical, bi-polar, that I cant find someone to correlate these clever solutions with. At the same time its exhilarating because I am winning the super bowl.
Earlier I just came back from biking and wanted to check my emails, for the suck-o.com account I got a nice "connection failed" message...wtf?
Ok, there was a pretty extensive OS update a few hours before, so I restarted the mail server to see if maybe something kinda stuck during the update procedure....but nope, still the same. So I used telnet to connect to the mail server to check for the general functionality, and it worked....but wait...why to hell do I get the greeting message of the old vserver (where suck-o v1 was on) instead of the new dedicated...and again: WTF?!
next: ping suck-o.com...also returned the old IP! the fun part: ping www.suck-o.com returned the proper one...XD
I suspected the domain service to have problems, so I prepared everything to move the domain to my own registrar service, but first I wanted to make sure not to cause a downtime of 1-2 hours because of a problem on my side....so I pinged suck-o.com from one of my other servers, and it worked fine! so I suspected my ISP and called a buddy to ask him to check for his ping replies (he uses another ISP), and there we go: it worked properly for him.
as last test I decided to boot into Win7 (did 2 XP reboots and 2 ipfconfig /flushdns already without any effect), and on Win7 all was fine...XD
so I booted back into XP and already thought about where to look for the problem, because I knew it must be on XP.....but now: all fine again!
the best part I don't understand at all is: where to hell XP got the old suck-o IP from? it's not possible that it was cached somewhere because I did a full new XP setup a week ago, and there isn't even a website on the old server anymore that I could have visited in the meantime.....maybe my computer was kidnapped by aliens last night, who knows...
So about 2 days ago I received the wheels that I ordered. I knew they were going to be small but man they just wont fit this frame that I had made. This is always my problem, being married my wife wont allow me to spend a lot of cash on "toys" as she calls it. Thus said, I have to find parts from old or broke systems and often that make its difficult for me to get projects going. This specific project will have to wait for wheels. Next time I see a kid in my neighborhood playing with an RC toy - if its got good wheels on it, I am going to run up and take it from them.
Nevertheless I have a new and better idea. I am still going to make a robot just in a smaller frame and using a smaller battery. Stay tuned...
Why do we need SEO
While we can see the code behind the server or the back end of a website. does it actually work as you want it. What is the point of having a website and you cant be found. There maybe 467.000 pages for what you are searching for. How are you going to be found if you are the last website on the net. How many pages do you scroll through before giving up your search or changing the the way you ask for the information.
When you build a website whether it is a blog,for a small business, for a corporate company, if you want to succeed, then you need to get yourself out there for the world to see. You may think that building a website for this fantastic product that you have found, will be coded and ready with a few weeks and you can sit back and watch the pennies roll in. This is where a lot of online businesses fail and the ones that are not online or don't have any real SEO fail to maximise their own potential customer base or targets.
Google, MSN, Yahoo and other search engines dont just decide that you get that listing, the more traffic you can generate the higher you go to the top, there are also a lot of other factors involved. Relativity, Domain name, the server it is hosted on, footer links, there is a lot more than just a few meta titles and meta descriptions needed to help you get where you need to be, at the top and in with a chance.
SEO is another way of saying Internet Marketing. Market your product properly and it could be the difference between growing or becoming another website lost in out web space. Over the next few months i will be explaining the do's and don'ts and the steps needed in getting your website noticed. Everything i will show you is free and we will aim at everything organically, no paying for adwords and sponsored listings. I will also be explaining analytics and other tools so that you can track your website and find the pages that need to be improved. SEO is a long term process, the more work you do the more chance you have of surviving in the dog eat dog world of being top dog!
Chassis –
Today I started to build the chassis of the robot. One small hurdle that could not be avoided was the size of aluminum sheets that I could use / obtain. The 12” by 12” sheets of metal heavily influenced the overall size and look of the bot.
I cut the side pieces out using a band saw and filed down the edges. Finishing up the clean look was done with a countersink tool. This way the screws will set flush on the exterior. For the battery pan I measured 12” x 7&7/8”. This allowed for a 1/16 inch bend allowance on each side. The bends were wrapped up using a finger break. The total demissions for the battery pan are 12” long by 6” wide. I am installing the mini siren and you can see in the pictures that there is plenty of room for other goodies.
This week the wheels should arrive and I will be able to make the hubs on the mill. I am already thinking of colors and programming ideas…
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