Xiola is my wife’s cat, she’s also my second favourite, after Macro. Problem is, after living with her for 7 years, she became a part of my life, and it has been frustrating for the last year as she’s been living elsewhere. I got to see her the other day, and she hasn’t changed a bit. Incidentally, Xiola made a cameo appearance in one of my videos in early 2005, hidden talents, part of Videoblogging week 2005.

For those following my exploits for quite a while, back in May I rode my motorcycle from Sydney to Melbourne for a videoblogger meet up. On 31st May, half way there, Singleton and I found a nail in the rear wheel. Well today, 7 months later, I finally had the nail removed. No idea why I’m mentioning it. Just to conclude the story I guess.

Nobody thinks that it will happen to them. That is, until it does. Break and Enter.

Note: This is a 39MB file, but I think well worth the wait. But then I’m a little biased, and don’t really care how much bandwidth you’re chewing up. Regardless, bring on the fat pipes.

This one’s for Josh Leo. Having videoed so many stray cats, this one’s mine, Macro. He stays on my folks’ property, and I only had a short amount of time with him (for various reasons), but here he is. He’s usually a psychopath, but it was a really hot day, so he was more into just relaxing.

One of the annoying things about changing URLs, is that my Google ranking effectively starts again from scratch. I had a LOT of incoming links on my old site, and while these are mostly redirected to the new site, Google doesn’t count the redirected links in ranking the new site. And considering I don’t actually write text blog posts that much any more, its mostly video, its not like I’m going to get a chance to get my old ranking back.

An example is a restaurant in Canberra called Milk and Honey. I was writing a critique of Telstra’s new shitty Sensis search engine, and a friend of mine tried looking for the restaurant and came up with nothing. Suddenly I was the number 1 hit in Google for Milk and Honey, I kept getting feedback asking for the address. So I added their address to the blog post, and got even more hits. I ended up being an advertisement for Milk and Honey, which is fine, considering its a great restaurant and people just weren’t able to find it.

But since changing domains, I no longer have the number 1 position, and I’m not even in the first 300 (I gave up paging through the results).

On a lot of posts I’m still getting the visitors, because sites are linked to the old site which redirects, but the visitors aren’t being converted to Google search result rankings. Bitch.

The only solution seems to be to write new text posts, and make them interesting enough for people to link to them. Basically, write off fours years of work, and start from scratch. Nice. I’m so looking forward to doing research for the sake of Google rankings. Maybe this is their master plan, to make us all slaves to rankings?

Maybe not the prodigal son, but he seems to be having more fun than I am. Yes, Singleton is back.

Quiet figures offset within fixed frames, the first in a series. And I can’t remember seeing a videoblog in the rain before. Thank you sir, I’ll take your bid yet again, going once to the man with the blue hair…

Yet another stray cat from our street.

I was out walking late the other night, about midnight, video camera in hand, and I stumbled across Fred. She was giving a monster a new home, making sure he wasn’t going to fall off. When she turned around, I scared her a bit, but we hit it off. When I got home, the visuals were too dark to see unfortunately, so I went back in the morning and reshot the monsters, and dubbed it with the original audio. Please enjoy Fred’s monster. There should be more people in this world as kind as Fred.

So this is our second reunion show, we loved the first one so much. It went to air on 1st October 2005. I haven’t put it in my feed as an enclosure, because its 30MB, and an acquired taste. If you heard the reunion show from a few weeks back, this one is much different and more like what the show used to be when it was regularly on air. Enjoy. Feedback most welcome. WBF_227.mp3