Monday, October 1st, 2007

INeedCoffee Do Overs

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 [...]

Friday, July 6th, 2007

Google Giveth, Google Taketh Away

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 [...]

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

The God Shot

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 [...]

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

Starting Another Blog?

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. [...]

Saturday, June 9th, 2007

INeedCoffee Riding High Again

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, [...]

Friday, June 1st, 2007

June 2007 INeedCoffee

INeedCoffee had 10 contributions this month, so the move to go commercial and do revenue sharing with the writers is already working.
Farm Chores - Things to do on a Kona Farm by Gary Strawn
Caffeine Sensitivity in Coffee by Len Brault
Coffee - A Day in the Life by Tom Coffee
Alternate Uses for Your Keurig Coffee [...]

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

INeedCoffee Goes Commercial

Today I released advertising on INeedCoffee. Why did I wait 8 years to do this? I figured out a way to pay the writers. In March, I met up with Joe Crawford, who told me about a WordPress plugin that randomized the AdSenseID for each post. Using this idea I was able to modify [...]

Thursday, May 10th, 2007

Coffee Hero Logo

I’ve started my next major web project: Coffee Hero. It will be the sequel to INeedCoffee. Below is a sneak preview of the Coffee Hero logo.

Legacy Comments
Shawn
 Really like the Coffee Hero logo. Kind of reminds me of the “Buddy Christ” logo from Dogma.
MAS
When I first saw it I thought of the Raisin Bran [...]

Wednesday, April 4th, 2007

INeedCoffee Turns 8 Years Old

Today is the 8th anniversary of my coffee site INeedCoffee. I have big plans in store for this site in 2007.

Sunday, February 18th, 2007

Coffee and Dieting Reprint

Last year coffee giant Gloria Jeans asked me if they could reprint my Coffee and Dieting article in their customer newsletter. Forgetting the awful coffee I bought from them in my Florida days (1994-1998), I said yes on the condition that they mail me a copy of the newsletter when it was published.
Did they honor [...]