tony spencer

John Scott has announced the keywords for the much argued about SEO contest. What the heck is a V7ndotcom Elursrebmem? Boring. Anyhow the race is on and I have to say that Mike had a great idea in grabbing the first wikipedia entry for V7ndotcom Elursrebmem. I’m afraid hes going to have a hell of a time beating off the spam on that page.

I’m glad this thing is finally on and we don’t have to put up with anymore rambling, whining from John’s good friends.

Here is another reason why I am beginning to loathe Movable Type. It generates static content rather than utilizing mod_rewrite. Unfortunately its also very messy with its static html generation never cleans up after itself.

Case in point:
I recently moved my ‘Black Hat’ category to the top level of categories. It used to be a subcategory of ‘Search Engine Optimization’. Rebuilt the site and checked all the referencing pages and everything looked cool. Nope. It left behind the old directory: /search_engine_optimization/black_hat/ which means that had I not manually deleted it I would end up with two identical pages spiderable by the search engines.

Damn I wish I could find time to migrate to WordPress.

I get a lot of comment spam in this blog on a daily basis but its nearly always for adsense scraper sites, porn, pills, or poker. Well the link spam world is finally welcoming religious fanatics. I logged in to find 10 comment spam from this idiot:

New to the game he didn’t post his spam through a proxy. Heh.

The speculation that Google had visited the Raleigh/Triangle area in a possible move to open a location in the area was recently followed up by Andy discovering that Google had held a recruiting session with computer science students at NCSU.

An inquiry over at The Wolf Web suggests that Google was only here to recruit new grads for existing locations outside of NC.

I was a Sam’s Club member for several years. I always felt like I was getting a deal but there are always the naysayers that claim that the deals are sporadic and you often get screwed. Today I joined CostCo not because I think its better than Sams. Actually they feel identical to me except for the fact that the CostCo checkout line seemed to move faster. I joined CostCo because my wife and I recently moved to Chapel Hill and CostCo was much closer. I spent a total of $606.48 today not including my CostCo membership of which I paid $45. $310.29 of my purchase was business (a fireproof safe for my office).

I decided to figure out how much money I saved by shopping at the wholesale club. I accomplished this by comparing prices with those listed online for my local Harris Teeter that I regularly shop at.

The bottom line was far better than I ever imagined. The only item that wasn’t a bargain was the laundry detergent.

Total savings: $292.21

Gain Detergent
0.094 per load
0.117 per load
-$2.40 savings

Pepsi
0.42 per 12 oz. can
0.24 per 12 oz. can
$6.48 savings

Post Raisin Bran
0.15 per ounce
0.07 per ounce
$6.48 savings

Beano
0.17 per tablet
0.09 per tablet
$9.60 savings

Nature Valley Crunchy Granola Bars
0.34 per oz
0.14 per oz
$14.22 savings

Red Bell Peppers
2.99 each
1.00 each
$11.94 savings

Thomas’ English Muffins – Original
0.25 per oz
0.14 per oz
$3.39 savings

Boca Meatless Burgers – Original Vegan
0.36 per oz.
0.16 per oz.
$11.20 savings

Boneless Whole Pork Tenderloin
6.99 per lb.
2.99 per lb.
$16.80 savings

New York Strip Steak
9.99 per lb.
6.89 per lb.
$8.65 savings

Cascade Automatic Dishwasher Detergent
0.07 per oz.
0.055 per oz.
$6.87 savings

Generic Pepto Bismol
0.32 per oz.
0.12 per oz.
$3.79 savings

Viactiv Multi-Vitamin Soft Chews- Chocolate Supreme
0.13 each
0.09 each
$4.80 savings

Philips Longer Life Bulb
0.62 each
0.28 each
$5.44 savings

Boneless Pork Loin Chops
4.99 per lb.
2.29 per lb.
$16.20 savings

Ocean Spray Cranberry Blend Juice
0.06 per oz.
0.03 per oz.
$6.39 savings

3.0 cubic foot Fire Safe rated at 1 hour at 1700 degrees F (http://www.safe-mart.com/fify30cuftsa1.html)
449.95
289.99
$159.96 savings

Total savings: $292.21

I did not include all items I purchased only b/c I couldn’t find them on the Harris Teeter site.