Entries Tagged as 'Web'

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 [...]

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

The Comments Have Spoken

On the post The End of CriticalMAS, I asked for feedback on my idea that I should rename my domain. It wasn’t well received, so CriticalMAS will stay CriticalMAS.
The downside is this site will be a mess for the next 60 days. For the next two months, be sure to wear a pixel hard hat [...]

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

March 2008 INeedCoffee

This month’s INeedCoffee was one my favorite editions. Alex’s story on hotel coffee makers being used for making crystal meth was outstanding. And the photos in snake article were amazing.
** Human Snake Conflict Inside Coffee Forests
by Dr. Anand Titus and Geeta N. Pereira
ineedcoffee.com/08/snake-conflict/
Lurking in the forest one can find a bizarre collection of snakes. The [...]

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

The End of CriticalMAS?

Decision time. This is the month that I begin the move off Blogger and over to WordPress. This means eight years of links and images will need to corrected or redirected. This is no minor project.
Why go through the hassle? Two reasons.
Reason one is I’m researching the possibility of transitioning INeedCoffee to an open [...]