This article on yahoo talks about how it's the coldest day recorded in Minneapolis -40ºF. Ouch.
That's a cold blow for "warming" theorists.
Tuesday 12 February 2008
Tuesday 5 February 2008
Gaming Google
Looks like googlebombing still works.
Perfect example below, pictures are worth 2000 words in this case.
Perfect example below, pictures are worth 2000 words in this case.
Friday 23 November 2007
DMOZ Reaction to my previous post.
DMOZ has made the correct changes to their directory and finally included my site.
I think it is of no coincidence that my blog post (thanks digg) complaining about what was happening has caught the attention of someone at DMOZ.
As of right now, we are listed and a whole bunch of useless sites have been removed. Also some sites that had duplicate DMOZ listings have had their listings corrected.
It would be unsafe to assume that it was coincidence that right after I posted changes happened to DMOZ. I have been waiting since early 2005 to get my site listed.
I would encourage anyone who is having trouble listing a good site to try to bring attention to the problem using internet media.
I guess DMOZ isn't so bad after all.
I think it is of no coincidence that my blog post (thanks digg) complaining about what was happening has caught the attention of someone at DMOZ.
As of right now, we are listed and a whole bunch of useless sites have been removed. Also some sites that had duplicate DMOZ listings have had their listings corrected.
It would be unsafe to assume that it was coincidence that right after I posted changes happened to DMOZ. I have been waiting since early 2005 to get my site listed.
I would encourage anyone who is having trouble listing a good site to try to bring attention to the problem using internet media.
I guess DMOZ isn't so bad after all.
Thursday 4 October 2007
More DMOZ/ODP Corruption Evidence
DMOZ editors are corrupt. Maybe not all but probably the majority. Here's my proof.
It's a popular belief by those who can't seem to get their websites on the Online Directory Project that their editors are usually employees of SEO companies that will basically only list their clients.
On May 12th 2005 I posted for help on the ODP forum when my website was denied listing yet again.
You can find my post here: http://www.resource-zone.com/forum/showthread.php?t=38736
The reason given was that we had duplicate corporate websites. At that time we had a rentals website that was separate to our main (sales) website yet our rentals website did have it's own identity. Also, no effort was made to list the rentals site on the ODP. It was perfectly clear to anyone with website knowledge which one our main corporate website was.
It should be noted that other sites that did list in our ODP category at the time also had duplicate corporate websites which were far more similar and had much higher level of duplication.
One of our direct competitors - Scandisol - lists in FOUR DMOZ categories their duplicate corporate pages each having one listing in DMOZ: scandisol-madrid.com, scandisol-costablanca.com, scandisol-costablanca.com and scandisol.com.
http://search.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/search?search=scandisol
And we were denied listing for having 2 websites with different content and requesting the admission of just our main site? Something funny is definitely going on.
Fast forward to 2007... still no listing! Yet a new website that was made mid last year with many duplicate sites is listed in our category!
The perfect example of duplicate content domains and subdomains.
The category is
http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Spain/Autonomous_Communities/Andalucia/Malaga/Estepona/Business_and_Economy/Real_Estate/
As you can see, Scandisol is listed which as mentioned before has 4 domains and is listed 4 times in DMOZ. Some people might argue that it is ok since technically they have 4 different offices. Clearly this is against the DMOZ guidelines as stipulated in http://www.dmoz.org/newsletter/2001Sep/spam.html.
There is a clause, however, that states "Note that there is nothing wrong adding two sites from the same company as long as they offer unique content (e.g. different services or products). ". In this case our two sites http://www.palmestates.net and http://www.rentalsestepona.com obviously offered DIFFERENT SERVICES and one or both should have been listed.
Disclaimer: I should take this moment to note that I have no problem with Scandisol being listed multiple times in their directory. In fact, I'm in favour of multiple valid listings. My problem is DMOZ's REFUSAL TO LIST MY SITE and their double standards.
Back to the new site which shows even more duplicate content: The Football Village. I must state that we collaborate closely with The Football Village and I regard their development very highly. I would recommend them as an investment to any one of my clients. For the purposes of this article I am purely naming their websites to make my point - DMOZ editors are biased and don't hold to their own self proclaimed "high standards".
So The Football Village has http://www.thevillageestepona.com which is listed in the above mentioned category as well as 3 other very similar domains, one of which has at least 6 similar subdomains.
The domains are:
www.footballvillages.com/
www.footballvillagespain.co.uk/
www.thevillagespain.com
Subdomains(that I've counted):
whufc.thevillagespain.com
nufc.thevillagespain.com
avfc.thevillagespain.com
safc.thevillagespain.com
lmc.thevillagespain.com
bwfc.thevillagespain.com
celtic.thevillagespain.com
So they get included right away in the directory (Their site was created mid-late 2006 and is already in DMOZ, very quick by DMOZ standards...), while my site which is perfectly valid doesn't get listed for having a "duplicate" site which is actually a completely different site and offers different services... www.palmestates.net and www.rentalsestepona.com
It's a popular belief by those who can't seem to get their websites on the Online Directory Project that their editors are usually employees of SEO companies that will basically only list their clients.
On May 12th 2005 I posted for help on the ODP forum when my website was denied listing yet again.
You can find my post here: http://www.resource-zone.com/forum/showthread.php?t=38736
The reason given was that we had duplicate corporate websites. At that time we had a rentals website that was separate to our main (sales) website yet our rentals website did have it's own identity. Also, no effort was made to list the rentals site on the ODP. It was perfectly clear to anyone with website knowledge which one our main corporate website was.
It should be noted that other sites that did list in our ODP category at the time also had duplicate corporate websites which were far more similar and had much higher level of duplication.
One of our direct competitors - Scandisol - lists in FOUR DMOZ categories their duplicate corporate pages each having one listing in DMOZ: scandisol-madrid.com, scandisol-costablanca.com, scandisol-costablanca.com and scandisol.com.
http://search.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/search?search=scandisol
And we were denied listing for having 2 websites with different content and requesting the admission of just our main site? Something funny is definitely going on.
Fast forward to 2007... still no listing! Yet a new website that was made mid last year with many duplicate sites is listed in our category!
The perfect example of duplicate content domains and subdomains.
The category is
http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Spain/Autonomous_Communities/Andalucia/Malaga/Estepona/Business_and_Economy/Real_Estate/
As you can see, Scandisol is listed which as mentioned before has 4 domains and is listed 4 times in DMOZ. Some people might argue that it is ok since technically they have 4 different offices. Clearly this is against the DMOZ guidelines as stipulated in http://www.dmoz.org/newsletter/2001Sep/spam.html.
There is a clause, however, that states "Note that there is nothing wrong adding two sites from the same company as long as they offer unique content (e.g. different services or products). ". In this case our two sites http://www.palmestates.net and http://www.rentalsestepona.com obviously offered DIFFERENT SERVICES and one or both should have been listed.
Disclaimer: I should take this moment to note that I have no problem with Scandisol being listed multiple times in their directory. In fact, I'm in favour of multiple valid listings. My problem is DMOZ's REFUSAL TO LIST MY SITE and their double standards.
Back to the new site which shows even more duplicate content: The Football Village. I must state that we collaborate closely with The Football Village and I regard their development very highly. I would recommend them as an investment to any one of my clients. For the purposes of this article I am purely naming their websites to make my point - DMOZ editors are biased and don't hold to their own self proclaimed "high standards".
So The Football Village has http://www.thevillageestepona.com which is listed in the above mentioned category as well as 3 other very similar domains, one of which has at least 6 similar subdomains.
The domains are:
www.footballvillages.com/
www.footballvillagespain.co.uk/
www.thevillagespain.com
Subdomains(that I've counted):
whufc.thevillagespain.com
nufc.thevillagespain.com
avfc.thevillagespain.com
safc.thevillagespain.com
lmc.thevillagespain.com
bwfc.thevillagespain.com
celtic.thevillagespain.com
So they get included right away in the directory (Their site was created mid-late 2006 and is already in DMOZ, very quick by DMOZ standards...), while my site which is perfectly valid doesn't get listed for having a "duplicate" site which is actually a completely different site and offers different services... www.palmestates.net and www.rentalsestepona.com
Wednesday 22 August 2007
Global Warming
I've always been sceptical about the whole global warming theory. Here on the Costa del Sol it's extremely rare to have rain and cool temperatures in August. In fact the average number of rainy days in August here is 0. This summer, however, we have had a little rain and cooler temperatures.
Might not sound very strange but this is a region that "they" the scientists have said will suffer from severe drought and high temperatures due to global warming.
I'll quickly outline why I don't think global warming (if it is real) is caused by human activities.
Firstly and foremost approximately 3/4 of the earth's surface is water. If you try to imagine what this means in terms of volume, the amount of volume taken up by humans is insignificant compared to the volume of water on the planet.
Another important thing to consider, if something causes the planet to heat up, be it humans or the sun or whatever, the amount of water vapour will increase (the water must go somewhere it doesn't just dissappear). With more water in the atmosphere this means more clouds and with more clouds more sunlight will be reflected away from the planet thus causing a cooling effect. I believe the earth has a very powerful regulating mechanism because of the amount of water in our atmosphere and on the planet.
In my opinion, the biggest ecological problem is deforestation. Changing the earth's surface will affect our living conditions. CO2 emissions are insignificant if we have enough vegetation to take care of that. More should be done to stop deforestation and modernised countries need to repopulate the earth by making trees part of our living areas. Parks isn't enough.
Another key misconception I wish to address in this post is life and heat. You will hear some "experts" say how high temperatures will diminish life on the planet. However, the opposite is true. Life thrives in higher temperatures. Warmer climate will mean more plants,longer living reptiles and more life in general.
Might not sound very strange but this is a region that "they" the scientists have said will suffer from severe drought and high temperatures due to global warming.
I'll quickly outline why I don't think global warming (if it is real) is caused by human activities.
Firstly and foremost approximately 3/4 of the earth's surface is water. If you try to imagine what this means in terms of volume, the amount of volume taken up by humans is insignificant compared to the volume of water on the planet.
Another important thing to consider, if something causes the planet to heat up, be it humans or the sun or whatever, the amount of water vapour will increase (the water must go somewhere it doesn't just dissappear). With more water in the atmosphere this means more clouds and with more clouds more sunlight will be reflected away from the planet thus causing a cooling effect. I believe the earth has a very powerful regulating mechanism because of the amount of water in our atmosphere and on the planet.
In my opinion, the biggest ecological problem is deforestation. Changing the earth's surface will affect our living conditions. CO2 emissions are insignificant if we have enough vegetation to take care of that. More should be done to stop deforestation and modernised countries need to repopulate the earth by making trees part of our living areas. Parks isn't enough.
Another key misconception I wish to address in this post is life and heat. You will hear some "experts" say how high temperatures will diminish life on the planet. However, the opposite is true. Life thrives in higher temperatures. Warmer climate will mean more plants,longer living reptiles and more life in general.
Friday 10 August 2007
Thursday 2 August 2007
Unrelated - Second Life Bans Online Gambling
I was just reading about how online gambling has been banned in the virtual reality world of Second Life. Since SL is based in the US they are trying to comply with the law outlawing online gambling.
Apartently some "residents" in SL had made online casinos within the virtual reality world.
You can find more about this at my Poker Site Review page.
Apartently some "residents" in SL had made online casinos within the virtual reality world.
You can find more about this at my Poker Site Review page.
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