Tom Dalton gave a good presentation yesterday about Search Engine Optimization. It was quite interesting, and he’s made the powerpoint slides available on his website. I liked that his presentation wasn’t to technically oriented. He stressed the fact that we shouldn’t try to read too much into numbers or things that we have heard. If you want to know how to do SEO, learn the basic principles and try them out for yourself. There’s no magic formula (unless you work for Google and write the ranking algorithm yourself).

del.icio.us is a social bookmarking website that categorizes everything using tags, which are basically your own little one-word description of a website. You can put as many tags you want on a specific bookmark to put it into multiple categories, which are then viewable to everyone else. The other cool part about this site is that other people can then see your bookmarks, or search for popular sites in a certain category. My bookmarked sites are here: del.icio.us!

Gallery 2 Beta 4 was released earlier today, and we’ve upgraded our gallery to the latest version. The codename for this release is “Flippin’ Sweet”, which, for all you who didn’t spend last summer in Alaska hunting wolverines, is a reference to Napoleon Dynamite. Feel free to take the gallery off some sweet jumps, and we promise there will be more pictures up there in the near future.

I just created my first userscript for Greasemonkey. Basically it just removes the R-Rated movies from the catalog display. I may or may not update the script in the future. Here is the link: Blockbuster Rating Filter.

Feel free to comment here about things you wish this did/didn’t do, or if you have a better way to do it, you’ll get credit for it!

It’s here! Firefox 1.0 is out. Are you using Firefox yet? Well, if not, or if you just want to update to 1.0, then you can download it here or from FeFNet or a myriad of other websites out there. The moral of the story is you should be using a browser that’s not Internet Explorer. Wonder why? That’s another post in itself, but I’ll just warn you that Internet Explorer is full of security holes, especially if you haven’t updated to Windows XP Service Pack 2. Don’t know what that is? Confused by everything I’m typing? Leave a comment and we’ll get back to you.