At times, I meet this scenario. I go to a client of mine, and I tell him that he/she does something wrong. He looks, surprised, back at me, and he/she tells me that within the company Google’s rules are strictly followed, and this is common practice – there’s nothing wrong with this practice. I go on to explain that Google changes, it’s not the same, as time passes. Unfortunately, if you go to Google.com to search for things, you get various articles, with various dates. And what was valid in 2008 is not valid in 2014. And what was valid in 2012 in Romania is not valid in 2014 in Romania. Even some of my own articles are so out-dated that, even though they have a warning right at the top, they might still lead people into potentially dangerous measures. “You are doing something which is wrong!” “No, it isn’t, I abide by Google’s best practices!” “Which version of Google are you referring to?” I have seen other examples, in which people have tried doing “SEO” based on old practices. Yes, at various times it was OK to do keyword stuffing, have a network of other sites linking to you, get links from web directories, and so on. But these things don’t apply to today’s Google.
It appears to be futile – writing a long post on a subject. After all, most blog posts, even those with a clear demonstration behind them, can be turned into something smaller. Well, it helps. It helps you become better in the process of writing. Going through the path of writing a message makes you a better person. You work for it. Some of my blog posts tend to look rather stupid. Simple ideas, repeated, at times, obsessively. Well, I like them, nevertheless, and I learn from writing them, despite of this. Case study – sometimes, when I go to an event, I photograph weird things – the entrance, some objects in the room, a logo. Most people would focus a lot on the speaker, less on the organizers, and very few times on the participants. My focus tends to differ. I don’t go around in the room photographing objects. But I do photograph lots of things, and this helps me make a photo story which tends to be not necessarily easier to follow, but easier to remember. The photo at the entrance helps you connect with the room. The various photos in the room help you connect with the audience. And so on. Another case study – yesterday I resized a partition. I thought the process would last for a few seconds, but it lasted for about 15 hours. I couldn’t cancel the operation, once started, so I had to wait to finish. The whole day I checked on the status, to see how much it would last. …
Being mindful about the nature of aggressive, intimidating, and controlling people can help us de-personalize the situation, and turn from being reactive to proactive. One effective way to de-personalize is to put yourself in the other person’s shoes, even for just a moment. For example, consider the offender you’re dealing with, and complete the sentence: “It must not be easy…” “My friend is so aggressive. It must not be easy to come from an environment where everyone was forced to compete…” “My manager is really overbearing. It must not be easy to have such high expectations placed on her performance by senior executives…” “My partner is so controlling. It must not be easy to have grown up in a family where he was told how to think and act in every way…” (How to Successfully Handle Aggressive and Controlling People | Psychology Today)
Install Titanium Backup, get a backup of the Memo program, extract the files (Memo.db is the one you want) and use something like SQLite Database Browser to view/export your data. Source » (Note: you need root access)
In the current blog post, I’ll review Rank Tracker software from SEO PowerSuite, a company which provides all-in-one SEO software & SEO tools. I will also look at the other 3 components of SEO Power Suite.
SEO PowerSuite covers every aspect of an SEO campaign. It has software from rankings to on-page to backlinks.
Let’s say you download a movie from the Internet, and in that folder, you have two files: filename.avi and filename.srt. Let’s say for download you’ve used a program which doesn’t allow you to rename files. If you download another subtitle from the Internet, whenever you play the movie, the filename.srt has priority. How to automatically open the subtitle, without deleting the original subtitle, and without copying the movie in a new location? Simple – rename you new .srt file into filename.sub. BSPlayer will give that new subtitle a higher priority, even if the format of the file is .srt.
When I was in the UK, I thought about a long-read thought of someone else on a Yahoo! Group: Romanians are more cynical than Westerners, in general. Is this good? It depends. If you take a cynical person and put it in an environment where everybody else is positive and warm, from that person’s perspective, things are fine. But for the society? Might be, might be not. What if all society is made from cynical persons? I think things are not, in this case, good for anybody. How about a situation in which all persons are positive? I think it will do good. It’s a prisoner’s dilemma at its best. PS: Adrian Stanciu once said that in Sweden the half-socialist State and its measures work because in there everybody works for the good of the society, as a whole. No cynism, instead goodwill and trust in all.
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Consume less. Despite the fact that there are solutions for consuming less », the best solution is not consuming in the first place. If you go to Rome, it’s best to be as Eco / Nature-Friendly as you can, by choosing the best travel option for the environment, and so on. But had you skipped the trip altogether, you probably would have been more Eco-friendly.
