Smoothie King San Marcos, CA Offers Free Coffee Smoothie

For all you people living in my neck of the woods, Smoothie King located on Twin Oaks Valley Road is offering a Free Coffee Smoothie on Thur., September 18th, 2008.  So be sure to stop by Smoothie King and get your free 20 oz. coffee smoothie.  This offer is only valid from 7am - 10:30am.

The Best of Ari Gold

Ari Gold is by far my favorite charecter from the show Entourage so I decided to show some love and posted a video with some of his best moments.

A great website for web designer and developers.

If you are looking to brush up on your photoshop or developing skills check out Pixel2Life.  You can find tutorials in the areas of:

  • 3D Studio Max
  • Photoshop
  • HTML
  • PHP
  • Flash
  • Illustrator
  • Dreamweaver
  • Swish
  • Quark

Increasing your traffic with Text Link Ads

Its no secret that you need good inbound links with solid PageRanks to increase your PageRank. Text Link Ads offers a very simple and cost effective way of achiving this. They currently have a promotion going where when you sign up you recieve $100 in FREE Links. They must be doing something right because they have a PageRank of 7!

Increasing Your Traffic with Web Directories - DMOZ

One of the best known and biggest directories in existence is probably the Open Directory Project (ODP), sometimes (most times in fact) known as DMOZ. This directory has been around for years and now lists over four million organized and categorized web sites. DMOZ has also been around for a very long time (in web terms). This directory is maintained by a huge number of volunteer editors that add new URLs of submitted sites to the relevant categories.

Many other directories on the Internet take content from the ODP, including Google, so getting your site into it can reap huge benefits as your URL will be shared with many other directories, which means that your site will have many more inbound links and therefore greater link popularity. There have been concerns in the past about volunteer editors maliciously not adding your site to the directory if it is in direct competition with a site of their own, but this was some time ago now and generally, as long as you’re not a reseller, florist or have a site that is in some way illegal, you should now get into the directory once you’ve submitted your site.

There are other rules and guidelines of course, but the DMOZ site lists these in full, so familiarize yourself with the submission process prior to actual submission.  As the directory is maintained by humans (it is one of the biggest, most distributed human edited databases in existence), getting your site listed can take anything from a couple of weeks to several months, and filtering through to the hundreds of other sites will take even longer.  But don’t let that put you off.

Another way of ensuring that you get into the directory could be to become a volunteer editor yourself in order to add your own site. While this may initially seem like a desirable scheme, don’t forget that as a volunteer editor you will be required to spend time researching sites and adding them to the directory, so unless you’re serious about being part of the DMOZ project, don’t waste your SEO time doing something else.  Also, if you just add your own sites to the directory and nothing else, your activities may well become known and any listings you’ve added may be removed. Directories, just like search engines, don’t like being deceived! As with any form of SEO, honesty is always the best policy.

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Sick bed.

A young Dutch architect has created a floating bed which hovers above the ground through magnetic force and comes with a price tag of 1.2 million euros ($1.54 million). So sick though.

floating bed

Almost time for Belgrad, Serbia!

A pic from the 2004 Trip.

Adriatic Sea 2004.

This coming Thursday my brother and I leave for Serbia from LAX where we will be for about 2 weeks before my parents come out. Then it off to Adriatic Sea for 10 days for the real vacation to begin. The Adriatic Sea is simply amazing; the water is clear and salty which makes it easy to stay afloat. I’ll be posting pictures throught the trip so check em out.

The big move!

Today I am moving. I have mixed emotions about the whole thing but for the most part I am quite happy about it. I think the drive to work from San Marcos will be a bit longer then from Point Loma but im not exactly sure. My roommate said he was going to call the cable company last week to ensure we have internet ready to go upon our arrival but he didn’t get around to it. Lazy people bug me. I think I have a wireless card lying around somewhere and might just have to find it for the time being.

As this quarter of school is coming to an end I find myself in a very familiar place; I have taken on pretty challenging final projects and don’t really have much time to commit to them, but it will all get done as it always does. Life is kind of funny sometimes, as hard and out of reach as some things may seem when you get there you look back and say that was much easier then I thought.

Well its time for me to get moving. If you get bored check out the custom 404 page I added to Gnostic Designs. You’ll have to type something after the url in the window to get to it.

Work, Work, and more Work!

Do you ever just think you head is going to explode from all of the things that are on your mind?  I go into work to receive at least 30 emails which all seem to be urgent and need immediate attention.  If that’s not enough I still have homework and school to think about.  My roommate insists I will one day soon freak out and loose it; which I don’t even know what means.  I guess he’s saying he cares about my well being and things I should chill out.

I didn’t ever think that doing something I enjoy could actually drive me a little nuts.  It seems to have become a type of obsession, always on my mind, always haunting my thoughts with what ifs.  If im not at work im thinking of work related things, not necessarily work that needs to be done at work but work that I enjoy that is work related.  See just now, I read this last paragraph and I noticed the word “work” appeared a lot and I thought to myself if someone searched “work” in google if I would have a chance to come up on the results.  This is the exact thing im talking about.  Work, Work and more Work!

Europe.

This June im going to Belgrade, Yugoslavia with my parents and brother to visit all the rest of the family we have there.  I am quite excited about the trip as I have not been there in a few years and can really use a vacation.  Hopefully my work is cool with me taking the time off…  I believe we are leaving June 9th and coming back around July 7th.  We will also be visiting the Adriatic Sea for a week or so.  I will be sure to post pics.