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Elita Loresca Pics and Info

Published on January 16, 2006 in Florida Living, Humor, Random Web Things, Uncategorized and Web Tools. 39 Comments

Newsflash: The term driving the most traffic to my blog over the last few days is the term “Elita Loresca Pics.”

Yes, you read that right. The mere mention of Channel 7 weather babe hottie bunny person Elita Loresca (sorry for the objectification) has aparently brought an influx of traffic to Gnorb.NET the likes of which I’d never before seen. (Ok, that’s a bit of an exaggeration. A bit. It’s really not that far from the truth.) The weird part is that she’s never actually been the main feature of on a post.

Never, that is, until now.

(A quick search on the Gnorb.NET will display the total number of posts Loresca’s been mentioned in. Currently that’s 2, not counting this blatant attempt at boosting my rankings within the search engines.)

If you’re wondering how I found out where my traffic is coming from you need to check out MyBlogLog, a site which offers free a Web traffic analyzer (as well as one for $25/year, for all you lazy bloggers). After a quick look at where my traffic was coming from, it was painfully obvious that a good chunk of it — up to 25% of it — was coming from people looking for pictures of Elita Loresca. Most of these were from Yahoo Search. After a quick search on both Google and Yahoo, I found out that I’m ranked pretty highly for both that term and Funky truck 4wd. (Too bad I can’t have the Funky Truck 4WD game on my site; I’d rather not be sending all those visitors off.)

Now, I know The Wife’s going to kill me for doing this, but if pictures of Elita Loresca is what my audience wants, then it’s pictures of her they’ll get. I’ve posted here a number of pictures from around the Net of Mrs Loresca. If that’s what you’re looking for, then by golly here ya go. If you’re not looking for this, then you can safely ignore this post. Continue reading ‘Elita Loresca Pics and Info’

In This Corner, “The Iron Stomach!”

Published on August 10, 2005 in Uncategorized. 1 Comment

I normally don’t talk about work here, but I think this one’s worth mentioning. There’s a guy at my company who deserves the nickname “The Iron Stomach”, or at least “Goatboy”, since he can’t stand spicy food. Here’s what I mean:

Breakfast: Lime yogurt.
Snack: Big bowl of olives. (Half an hour later he finds that the olives didn’t work out too well, so he decides to cram down 3 or 4 chocolate candy bars to, you know, clean up his stomach a bit.)
Lunch: Pastrami Sandwich and Bowl of Ice Cream.

(I’ll not risk taking a peek at the dinner table.)

As you can see from the menu, he eats just about anything, in just about any combination. In fact, the menu I listed here is only today’s menu. As sick as this sounds, this is actually the norm.

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Good Old Fahioned Rant #1: Teaching, Office Politics, and Micro-Management

Published on August 6, 2005 in Life and Uncategorized. 0 Comments

It’s just after midnight on Friday/Saturday. The Wife’s on the livingroom floor, doing a bunch of cutouts for her first day of school, and here I am, sucking down on a two-liter of Publix Diet Lemon Lime, craving pizza yet denying myself out of concern for my health.

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LinkedIn

Published on August 4, 2005 in SEO, Technology and Uncategorized. 0 Comments

After about of month of neglecting it, I finally checked one of the numerous email accounts not housed on this server. I was pretty surprised to find that I didn’t have that much mail, though what was there was pretty interesting. (It’s amazing the kind of things you find in old, unkept email accounts.)

As I logged in, I was expecting to see a lot of spam. To my surprise, there really wasn’t much there. (Hurray spam filters!) What I found instead was a couple of messages from would-be writing contracts and — to my surprise — a LinkedIn invitation from an old acquaintance of mine, Wayne H. Wayne is the owner of Blog Business World, a SEO/SEM firm based out of Canada. Previously, he was also a writer for a SEO website, which is where we met. (I used to be that site’s Chief Editor.)

It was surprising to see his name on my list of un-read emails, especially since it was there three times. The emails were invitations to join the LinkedIn network. Apparently, LinkedIn doesn’t take its invitations lightly. (I’m now glad they don’t.) Since it was Wayne who sent them, I said “What the heck. I’ll bite,” then went ahead and signed up with the program.

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