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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
** No Coffee or Tea For At Least 2 Weeks
by Michael Allen Smith
ineedcoffee.com/08/zoom/
I messed up. I messed up bad. A few weeks ago I got a direct mail advertisement for a dentist offering new patients a free Zoom teeth whitening with the purchase of a cleaning and X-rays.
** Creating the 2008 Sketchtoon Coffee Calendar
by Michael [...]
The December INeedCoffee features a new article by me called Troubleshooting French Press Coffee. It is the sequel to my 2002 article Press Pot Tutorial.
The full INeedCoffee December 2007 newsletter follows.
** Vacuum Pot Brewing
by Ryan Jacobs
http://ineedcoffee.com/07/vacuum-pot-brewing/
Vacuum brewers come in many shapes and sizes, yet they are more alike than they are different. They have [...]
ArtLung posted code he wrote back in 2002 that he would never write today. The great thing about the web is it is a living document. Change the pixels and the old problem goes away. Mess up a haircut and it may take weeks (or months) to recover. Mess up a bridge and you’ll be [...]
Just a few days ago I was doing cartwheels over how much traffic had increased to my web sites as a result of adding sitemaps.
From The Importance of Search Engine Sitemaps:
Google referrals - DeepFitness
6/14/07: 71
6/21/07: 152
6/28/07: 755
Google referrals - INeedCoffee
6/14/07: 1,658
6/21/07: 1,509
6/28/07: 3,056
Google referrals - Digital Colony
6/14/07: 172
6/21/07: 168
6/28/07: 296
Looks like the page referrals were [...]
This month INeedCoffee received a cool article from a new contributor about the bottomless portafilter (aka Naked Portafilter) used in making espresso. The photo below, which is title God Shot, shows you what it looks like.
The simple definition of God Shot is a perfect espresso. If you require a more lengthy definition read Defining [...]
I can’t believe I’m actually considering starting a third blog. I’ve already got this blog here on CriticalMAS and my technical blog over on Digital Colony. Not to mention the monthly e-zine INeedCoffee. Did I forget DeepFitness?
I’ve decided to put RanchoSanPasqual.org up for sale. That site helped me sell my house. [...]
My coffee site INeedCoffee was started in April 1999. For the first few years it was a fun hobby. Then it gradually became more and more of a chore. I was burnt out. Every month I was sick and tired of putting out a new issue. As hard as starting a web site may seem, [...]
