Entries Tagged as 'Web'

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Please Update Your Links to MAS

I’d like to thank all of you that have linked to CriticalMAS or INeedCoffee over the years. Now that I’ve moved some pages around, can I request that you update your links?
CriticalMAS - Any blog post with “/mas/” in the URL has been moved. The Blogger days are over. The home page [...]

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Summer of INeedCoffee

Yesterday was the 2-year anniversary of my Summer of George. I’ve been asked a few times recently if I will be starting a sequel to Summer of George. Not at this time. When I quit my job back in May 2006, I was burned out. I needed a break. I [...]

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

May 2008 INeedCoffee

** Chinese Coffee
by Chris Arnold
http://ineedcoffee.com/08/chinese-coffee/
While everyone has heard of Chinese tea, Chinese Coffee somehow just sounds wrong; unless it is an Al Pacino movie. And while China is famous for tea, they are becoming known in the coffee world too, both in the retail coffee shop world, and the wholesale green coffee arena.
** Coffee Roundtable [...]

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Top 10 CriticalMAS Search Terms

I was digging around the Google Webmaster Tools and I located the top 10 phrases entered into Google last week that pointed back to this site.

critical mas
mas o menos
presidential motorcade
criticalmas
salto uruguay
the castle ybor
chinese zodiac compatibility
most dangerous places in the world
felirat
grecian ideal

Number 9 was a misspelling on a page that no longer exists.  Got to love [...]

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Quick Note About CriticalMAS

The CriticalMAS is site about Michael Allen Smith (aka MAS). It is written by and for MAS. Over time my interests will change and as a result so will the content of this blog. Those topics may or may not be of interest to you. I don’t care. At this [...]

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Web Goals and Predictions

While moving my blog posts over from Blogger to WordPress, I came face to face with a few old posts where I declared grand plans for my web sites. What became immediately obvious was how far off my predictions were. Everything was off. Although I exceeded my goals with DeepFitness, I [...]

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Saying Goodbye to 11% of My PageViews

Way back in 2003 I went to a Chinese restaurant which used paper place mats. On my place mat was the Chinese Zodiac Compatibility chart. It showed all the animals and what years represented which animals. And it also showed which animals were compatible and which were not compatible. Before spilling [...]

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

April 2008 INeedCoffee

INeedCoffee starts its 9th year this month.  Here are the newest articles.
** Cafes and Roasters Weather Seasonal Extremes
by Alex Scofield
http://ineedcoffee.com/08/season-extremes/
>From Coastal Maine to Cape Cod to the Jersey Shore to North Carolina’s Outer Banks, hundreds of cafes and roasters in popular summer destinations choose persevere through the slow off-season.
** Top 10 Ways You Know You [...]

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Tampa Bay Satire 1997-1998

Before CriticalMAS existed I had a personal web site hosted with a local ISP in the Tampa Bay area. The site had a very popular local radio guide called What’s the Frequency Tampa?. It listed radio programming schedules much like television schedules are displayed. I built it by writing a program with [...]

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

I Hate BlogSpot Too

It amazes me why a talented blogger would use the BlogSpot service provided by Google’s Blogger. A blog is the intellectual property of the writer and yet brilliant writers and photographers will use their time and effort to direct traffic to the Blogspot server instead of getting their own domain and building their own [...]