Past 24 Hours of ActivityBaby seals are the cutest things ever.
But their cute little heads are bashed in, and they're beaten to death. Their fluffy little newborn bodies are ripped apart. Their undeveloped skulls are sliced open with a metal hackapick and dragged back to the ship, or skinned and their carcases are left to rot. Each spring, about 300,000 baby seals, between 2 and 12 weeks old, are clubbed or shot to death.
Check out this video:
It's such a sad thing that people can actually do something to a creature like this.
Check out Humane Society's Seal Protecting Site and seal hunting on Wikipedia.
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1 CommentOn May 3rd, 2008, RIT is hosting an festival called Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival. They plan to attract 30,000 people.
The festival will be a showcase over 150 different exhibits of student and faculty work and innovations at RIT. From space exploration to eye tracking devices to innovative websites. See the full list of exhibit titles.
An exhibit for my website, BookMaid.com has been approved so I will be at the event.
I went on a domain shopping spree today, bringing my total domain count to 15.
The domains I currently own are:
Under only very rare circumstances should the web be self referencing.
Self Referencing Links
For example, here are some bad examples:
- Click here to see my website.
- visit this link to go to my website.
- visit dan's portfolio website here: http://www.dan-lev.com.
- Dan Leveille's Photography and Design Portfolio.
- visit Dan Leveille's Photography and Design Portfolio.
- visit Dan's Portfolio.
Why? If someone has gotten to your website, they obviously know how to use links. You don't need to tell them that it's a link or that you need to click it.
Links should never need to specified that they're clickable. Use standardized styles - different colored or underlined words/phrases are links.
Who cares? Google does, for one. Google reads what the links say, and then classifies those terms with your link. For example, "Please visit Dan Leveille's Photography and Design Portfolio." When Google sees that link, it remember the terms "Dan, Leveille, Photography, Design, Portfolio" that are in reference to www.dan-lev.com. Now when someone searches "Photography potfolio," Google will display www.dan-lev.com a tiny bit higher in the search results. A few links will obviously not make a difference, but keep doing it and you'll see a difference.
This is why searching "failure" on google used to return the White House's biography of George W. Bush as the first result. It's called a Google bomb, because so many people linked the site using the verbiage "failure."
Self Referencing Pages
- Welcome to my website!
- This page outlines the uses of this product.
- Below is a list of links to other blog websites:
- Dan Leveille's Photography and Design Portfolio
- Product uses:
- Other blogs:
People know they're on a website, or on the "product uses" page.
Never use "Welcome to". People don't need a welcome. Who cares? Google does. The terms in headings are very important in search engine optimization. No one needs a welcoming. What if they go from the contact page to the home page, they get welcomed again. That's uneeded.
That's it. I'm sick of Windows Vista. I've decided that I'm going to upgrade to Windows XP.
The warnings "WARNING: Are you sure you want to change your resolution?" were annoying at first, but now I don't get them anymore. Vista was fine. It looked better than XP, had a nice search, and felt nicer, until I ran into some problems:
- My microphone doesn't work
- Applications constantly stop responding. After waiting a minute or two, they become responsive. SOMETIMES. Other times, they'll crash. It's great when you're typing a long message and haven't saved/sent it.
- Videos don't work - I've had to download so many different codecs and stuff, and some still don't work. Some don't have audio.
- Control Panel dialog boxes sometimes take minutes to response. If I open "Connect to a Network Connection" or other dialog boxes, It will show a blank screen. 3 minutes later, it appears.
- Sometimes the task bar doesn't work and when I click on an item, it doesn't maximize or minimize.
- It won't let me install Adobe Camera RAW
Conclusion: Vista sucks.
UPDATE: After posting this blog entry, only seconds before I was about to close Firefox for the last time on vista, I got a "Firefox is not responding" error and it crashed Firefox. Yeah, it's time.
In other news, Verizon decided that I didn't need cell phone service. So I do not have cell phone service in my home town (or neighboring towns.)
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