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I’m doing a lot of work with Windows Media Player playlists at the moment.
You gotta love home movies. Guess where I’ve been and you haven’t, now watch the long and boring video of it, now say how lucky I am for being there, now go home.
I have a cat named Macro, but he doesn’t live with me any more, he lives with my folks in what is becoming less and less of bushland. The cat in this video looks exactly like him. Yep, another Newtown stray, or as Jane put’s it, Meowtown. I call this one Marco.
Remember that my videos are all at 480×360, so if you’re using Ant, pop it open in another window to see the full detail of the kitty’s face.
And yes Josh, I will be sending you a list of cat videos for your cat vlog. (I wish I could remember the URL)
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?
Singleton is the biggest threat to the music industry.
I just realised that this shows what happens to white pillows in my house. I don’t always sleep with white pillows, but this is what happens when I do. Although if I hadn’t just mentioned it, maybe you wouldn’t have noticed. Oh well, too late now.
I’ve had some comments from people who haven’t seen my earlier videoblogs, about the history of Singleton. If you want to see what else he’s gotten up to, then my site actually has a Singleton archive (and a video archive if you’d like all my videos). But don’t show him too much attention, he’ll get a bigger head than he already has. HEY I SAW THAT YA BASTARD PEOPLE LIKE ME SO GET OVER IT! JUST CAUSE YA GOT YOUR OWN VLOG YA THINK YOU CAN SAY ANYTHING. STUFF YOU RICHARD, JUST STUF YOU.
So finally Apple brings the iTunes Store to Australia. To quote the Sydney Morning Herald:
[..] Sony BMG – has withheld its music catalogue from the Apple store. That means [..] Pete Murray, Alex Lloyd, Franz Ferdinand, Rogue Traders and Australian Idol artists Anthony Callea and Shannon Noll will not be available.
Well thank fuck for that.