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Comment on Conservative vs. Liberal by David C.

David C. — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:22:33 +0000

Google “World’s Smallest Political Quiz” and see if you’re really a “conservative” or a “liberal.” Many people discover they are libertarians.

Comment on Dilbert: The CEO and the Senator by David C.

David C. — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:12:57 +0000

Three of the firms with the highest reported donations to political campaigns: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and AIG. They called it “Access,” too. The rest of us call it the greatest daylight train robbery in recorded history.

Comment on My Gift to My Wife for Mother’s Day by Chris Dimmick

Chris Dimmick — Mon, 11 May 2009 22:41:01 +0000

That is one awesome looking garden too. You guys did an amazing job!

Comment on Zoho, Famundo, Flock and Weaning Off of Google by johnvk

johnvk — Sun, 10 May 2009 17:10:29 +0000

nice to meet a fellow conscientious google objector. i choose zoho for the same reason.

Comment on 10 Steps To Making Your Wordpress Blog Search Engine Optimized by Scott

Scott — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:58:15 +0000

Thanks, Dani, for your input. I still believe it is important to use title tags for all links, if possible. Yes, the anchor text should be descriptive enough, but many times, that isn’t the case.

You’re correct about “decorative” images not needing the alt attribute. But I believe images that could show up in an image search should use them.

Comment on 10 Steps To Making Your Wordpress Blog Search Engine Optimized by dani

dani — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:24:52 +0000

Hi Scott,

All links on all pages should use title="..." attributes in the anchors for accessibility and search engine purposes...

I don't think so, Scott. If we have clear statement--descriptive anchor text, we don't need to put too much accessibility on title tags. And Internet search engines don't read title description in the links. Try to search word jump ("jump" is one of your link's title): jump site:scottdimmick dot com/2009/01/08/10-steps-to-making-your-wordpress-blog-search-engine-optimized/

Make sure all image tags use appropriate alternate text and title attributes. This also is for accessibility and search engine ...

Again, AFAIK, not for all image tags. Decorative images don't need alt attributes.

Comment on Cybersecurity Act of 2009 by suzanne

suzanne — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:18:25 +0000

Scott just a note from Sue to say that I personally enjoy reading all you post and seeing that Chris is getting to know you all! It’s great to see how well you are doing, all of you!

Comment on Cybersecurity Act of 2009 by Scott

Scott — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:06:22 +0000

I certainly hope it does not get passed as it currently is written. They need to define many of the conditions in which the government would be allowed to act before it would be “safe” (safer) for private citizens and enterprises.

Comment on Cybersecurity Act of 2009 by Chris Dimmick

Chris Dimmick — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:03:24 +0000

Oops. Meant to say “Will it go through AS IS”.

Comment on Cybersecurity Act of 2009 by Chris Dimmick

Chris Dimmick — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:02:43 +0000

Thanks for lookin into it. Will it go through is the next question I suppose.