1. 20 April 2006

    Man do I

    994 days ago

    I just noticed that I’d started a few of my last posts with the word ‘Man.’

    Man. Man do I think that’s a bit weird. I didn’t notice it until just now, much less think about how I did it. I think this whole flipping blogging thing is getting to my head. I write school papers, and start to get mad when any of my paragraphs are too long. I use the informal first person. But hey, I like it.

    In related news, Paul Graham nailed one of the main reasons I (think I) ever started having a website, and also why I haven’t just given up on this place yet.

    I’m trying to keep a light touch (I’ve resolved more then you’d care to know in the past months to stop talking about politics, haven’t quite figured that out), and my speculations about how the world works are in a different file, although I’ve been meaning for them to start going here.

  2. 03 January 2006

    1101 days ago

    kjell - Google Search

    Mission Accomplished. Mostly. I win.

    Kjell Olsen1101 days ago

  3. 23 December 2005

    Google hates me

    1111 days ago

    I used to be ranked pretty well in google. I remember once my site had a page rank 6, I came up as the first result for kjell olsen and consistently second or third for just kjell.

    But the other day a friend said he looked up my name on google, and it was nowhere to be found. I looked into it, and whoa! I’m eleventh for kjell olsen and I’ve dropped out of the top 100 for kjell. My name!

    Now being ranked high in google made me a little nervous, that someone will google my name and find my site and laugh all night about it. But I really could care less.

    But it’s still a bit of a kick in the balls to get thrown out of google. This site in fact come up first for kjell on both yahoo and msn, but who really even cares?

    My pagerank (according to the firefox google toolbar) is even a tick above that of kjell.com, the site that’s been in the first result for kjell as long as I can remember.

    So I have a few ideas as to why:

    • Awhile back I decided to put about three times as much stuff onto the front page. Maybe google wants the homepage to be more concise, and I threw off the ratio between the amount of times kjell appeared on the page and everything else.
    • For awhile I’d ignored <meta name="author"/>, <meta name="description"/>, and <meta name="keywords"/>. But I don’t think I’d ever bothered to put these in, I don’t know why all the sudden google would drop me because they weren’t there.
    • I’d signed up for google analytics when it came out, maybe google saw how little traffic I really get and decided that nobody would want to find the site.
    • All I ever do these days is repost quotes from what I read off the web, the ratio of those to original content isn’t as high as it should be. I really hate it when I google something and get a link to someone who linked to the primary source, I bet google does too.
    • I don’t comment on other peoples blogs much, but a have a few times. It might have been the whole rel="nofollow" got me, there aren’t too many sites linking to mine.

    I put the meta tags in my <head>, but doubt that will do much. My markup is fairly clean, although I went a bit far structuring everything with lists. I don’t know how hard I’ll care to work to get myself back into google, but it would be nice. And I’m insidiously hoping that I mentioned my name (kjell) enough in this one article to make google notice me again.

  4. 05 October 2005

    Thousands

    1190 days ago

    So not only did I hit 1,000 posts here the other week, but since I’ve uploaded my 1,000th photo to flickr, logged 10,000 songs to last.fm, and my favorite CMS has hit 1,000 commits. I also added the 10,000th song to my iTunes library.

    And with any sort of luck, by the end of the week I’ll have $1,000 in the bank for the first time ever in my life. I plan on celebrating by promptly spending some of it on something.

  5. 28 September 2005

    Thousand

    1197 days ago

    Posts.

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