Happy memorial day!
Recently we've been getting "referrals" from some pretty off-color sites. Referrals are SUPPOSED to be information of where people are seeing links to your site, and sites from where they're visiting you. But Karen and i are fairly certain that not many porn sites would see much value in linking to us. My theory was that these smut-peddlers are after Google Rank. The Google search engine ranks sites based on how many sites have links TO that site. So a site with TONS of links to it will get a better position in the rankings. It turns out that it works. Unless Google catches you, and then you disappear from the rankings.
Karen and i removed the "referrals" section of our front page (i'd done it a while ago since nasty sites got referrals to me pretty quickly) and blocked the IP's of the offenders. So we'll not be getting hits from them anymore. We're still getting "referrals" from more porn sites. Sigh.
I wonder if it works, so i just now bit the bullet and searched Google for two words that comprised the URL of one of the "referral" sites. The sites that came up were porn, (judging from the keywords - i didn't need to look at any of them) and the first five pages of results did not include that particular URL. So maybe Google is putting the smack down on them! I hope!!!
Yesterday, curious about how Google does its thing, i went to Google Watch. Interesting stuff! Google's whole business ideal is summed up thus: "Don't be evil." I guess Google Watch is dedicated to keeping them accountable to that.
And that led me here - "the best published synopsis of The Bell Curve". I remember hearing about the highly controversial book from my super-smart sociologist father, but couldn't bring myself to invest much brain time into it - i was busy making my car stereo louder or chasing girls. Rather unsuccessfully, if i recall. So if you don't want to read a whole book, at least read that synopsis.
I'd like to end this post by saying how I AM IN LOVE WITH OUR CHILDREN!!!!! Katrina and Houston are just the most precious little things I've ever seen! Houston was getting overwhelmed by the many people over at his grandma's house, and so i took him into the basement to watch a kid's movie. So he sat contentedly on my lap watching Toy Story 2, making comments. "Oh! Sad! Bicycle! He's happy! Oh chicken!" Then Katrina was brought down to me, and so then i had one kid on each thigh. Houston put his arm around Katrina and hugged her three times spontaneously, Katrina was happy to just sit, and i was in bliss. We're just so blessed by God! There is just no other way of looking at it! Praise Him!!!
I’d like to make my comment, mainly to say that you need to learn how to close your tags. And to say that I like kids. Yay!
-- richard (URL) - 01 June '04 - 20:53tag closed. I used a >/i> accidentally. That was the problem.
-- juanito (Email) (URL) - 01 June '04 - 21:32