Time you learned how to defend yourself, isn’t it? The only catch this time around is you must have a walking stick with you at all times. Ok, so maybe we don’t all do that anymore but after reading this article on the issue I am looking at the idea of bringing it back into style! Here is some more on the topic:
It will be seen that the figure on the right is exposing his body in order to insure his adversary attacking him there, and to be prepared with an immediate defence.
Directly the man with the alpenstock attempts to bayonette him, he diverts the blow by turning sideways, and making a circular downward cut, which hits the alpenstock and causes it to glide slightly upwards and sideways — a guard known in sword play as "Septime envelopé." The moment the blow has been diverted, the man with the stick must seize the alpenstock with his left hand, and, stepping in, strike his assailant a blow across the face.
At least you can say you had an entertaining start to your week now.
Looks like my post-Firefox 3 bump in stats is starting to come to an end for Firefox Facts. While the madness was going on (one post got up to 80+ comments!) I came up with a few tactics to try to milk the proverbial press cow as long as I could.
Watch where people are coming in. Via Google Analytics I was able to check out in nearly real time where people were coming in via search, blogs and other places and edit my content to meet the needs of the people.
Keep an eye on search phrases and the results they get. For example, if a lot of people were coming in for the phrase “firefox 3 themes” and the story they were getting was about the themes but didn’t give them much selection, I made sure I added a link to a post like this one that gave some new Firefox 3 ready themes for them to try.
Just some handy advice you might keep in mind for yourself next time you see your own web site going through a popularity surge.
I always like to check out the new services out there and one of the new ones to catch my socializing eye is Second Brain. It is another place that promises to be a “catch all” for all of your social content on the Web. Supporting everything from Flickr to Twitter you can import all your various profiles all in one place.
Once setup, here is what it looks like:
So far everything is fast, and looks like there is a lot of things to explore. If you’ve signed up feel free to check me out too: http://mitch.secondbrain.com/
Back a few weeks I decided I’d upgrade to DirecTV’s HD lineup. This of course meant I would have to get two new boxes for my house (one regular DirecTV DVR and one HD DVR) and a new dish. Ever since then I have almost been kicking myself because DirecTV’s customer service has… well, totally sucked.
Back on June 4th I setup the order and they said they would be here to set it up on the 13th. Oh goodie I said, can’t wait to get it up and running. Well, about 9:00 AM on the 13th they said they wouldn’t be here cause they didn’t have enough techs working. Fair enough, it was Friday the 13th afterall.
Next they were suppose to show up Monday, the 16th. I got excited again because I thought I’d get to watch WWE RAW on my new TV in high definition. Oh goodie I thought again. Well, Monday about 1:00pm (an hour after their deadline for being here) I contact DirecTV to see where they were at. The first person I talk to doesn’t have a clue but she gives me a local number. Call the local number and I’m told they still don’t have enough techs to work in the area, and they move my install date again… to today.
So here we are. Will they show up? Will I have to call them to see why they haven’t shown up? Should know sometime this afternoon. Overall though, I have to say I am pretty disapointed with DirecTV’s customer service in a whole. What if I was a new customer? Heck - Dish Network is looking kind of nice by now. Wonder how good their tech support is?
Update: Still nobody, and they got 20 minutes left to get here to meet their “promise” of behing here from 8AM - Noon. Posted about it on their user forums too.
Looks like DirecTV deleted my thread without reason? Wasn’t anything bad there - just going over what had happened thus far. Once again, DirecTV ends up with two thumbs down as far as customer service goes.
While you are waiting till 10:00 AM California time, why not browse through some of the Firefox 3 archives of stories, posts and links on Firefox Facts? Here are a few of my favorites from the past few months…
Well, I had a melted power supply, a wisdom tooth pulled and a weekend filled with no power in the past two weeks but I am happy to say all that is behind me now and the Web Hosting Show podcast is back in production and episode 154 is ready for download.
Here are just a few topics from this week’s episode of the Web Hosting Show.
What is Your IP and Why Do You Need It?
Don’t Backup My Documents on Your Hosting Account!
Checking Web Popularity with URLmetrix?
Gawkwire, a new Internet and Hosting News Site Launches!
Podcast Exclusive - Part 2 of Our “How to Purchase a Web Hosting Business” Series with Web Strategist Errett Cord.Download the podcast to check it out!
Time you learned how to defend yourself, isn’t it? The only catch this time around is you must have a walking stick with you at all times. Ok, so maybe we don’t all do that anymore but after reading this article on the issue I am looking at the idea of bringing it back into style! Here is some more on the topic:
I always like to check out the new services out there and one of the new ones to catch my socializing eye is 
Back a few weeks I decided I’d upgrade to DirecTV’s HD lineup. This of course meant I would have to get two new boxes for my house (one regular DirecTV DVR and one HD DVR) and a new dish. Ever since then I have almost been kicking myself because DirecTV’s customer service has… well, totally sucked.
