Below you’ll find the interesting tidbits for 2010-02-23 through 2010-03-10:

• Clients From Hell
  Just like it says…
• Social Media Network Icons | Komodo Media
• Moyer Made – Projects: 1/6th Scale Chevrolet V8
• How P2 Changed Automattic — Matt Mullenweg
• 5 reasons why your company should be distributed « toni.org
• Make the Most of Your Transactional E-mails
• Seven Ways to Make Pay-Per-Click Pay – WSJ.com
• Reader Story: Rental Properties for the Average Joe
  I've always had an interest in owning rental property.
• SEOmoz | Offline Reading List: Magazines and Books for SEOs

The problem is: Snow is wet.

Many Texans (myself among them) just don’t have the right clothes for spending time in the snow. Staying warm isn’t a problem, it’s keeping your pants (and everything else) from getting soaking wet. The ski bums among us have the proper gear, but that doesn’t help those of us who spend our winter months in warmer climes.

As I write this, my oldest son is peeling himself out of his second pair of icy cold jeans. Hooray for snow!

Below you’ll find the interesting tidbits for 2010-02-02 through 2010-02-17:

• 32 Essential WordPress Plugins I Use…And You Don’t!
• Study Finds Exposure to Chemical Pollutants Increases Fat: Scientific American
  This sucks.
• Business Owner's Toolkit: Business Ratios
• YouTube – STS-130 Launch & SRB Separation
  STS-130 was the last shuttle night launch.
• Geek Run – Affordable Xen VPS and cPanel shared hosting
  Inexpensive virtual private servers based in LA.
• The Once & Future Sun
  Projected life cycle of the sun.

Below you’ll find the interesting tidbits for 2009-12-21 through 2010-01-12:

• YouTube – OK Go – Here It Goes Again
  The song is really good, but the video makes it.
• Using Search To Prove Social Media’s Value
  Some really good tips on determining how useful social media is in driving traffic to your website, and then explaining it in dollars and cents.
• Holidays: To Go or Not to Go on Vacation?
• Third Base Brewery Is No More
  Oops!
• Epic Win FTW » Admiral Ackbar Approved
  Holy frap, this is funny.
• “Nerd” and “Geek” Should Be Banned, Professor Says
  Hm…

Below you’ll find the interesting tidbits for 2009-04-19 through 2009-12-19:

• DNA2Diamonds.com
  This is unexpected. They take the ashes of your loved ones and turn them into diamonds.
• What English sounds like to those who don't speak it: – Barking up the wrong tree
• Marketing Bullets | Gary's Arsenal
• Padraig’s 400-metre par three – watch the video!
• Fifty things you might not know about Barack Obama
• Crap Gadgets

When stepping into a DQ, there are only two things you need to be aware of:

1. The Dude
   DQ has a bunch of other stuff on the menu, but all you really need to know about is The Dude (that’s the #6 combo at my DQ). The Dude is a chicken-fried steak sandwich.
2. Blizzards
   Most folks already know that Blizzards are a soft serve treat. A good DQ employee will flip that Blizzard over to show you how thick and delicious it really is.

   What a lot of folks forget is that there are 3 seasonal Blizzard flavors that must absolutely not be missed:

   • Thin Mint
   • Pumpkin Pie
   • Peppermint Chip

   When these flavors are on the menu, you must pull over and grab one. Other than that, just about any flavor is acceptable (though Heath Bar is the best).

1. This is chili weather. My wife taught me that it’s good with sour cream.
2. They could stick those heat tiles to the bottom of the Space Shuttle with wet Fruity Pebbles.
3. As I rediscover every year, Southern Comfort brand eggnog is the best. It comes in traditional and vanilla spice. I tried Hood cinnamon eggnog. Also good.
4. My wife and kids had never had Jiffy Pop until last week!
5. Ranch Style Beans are highly underrated.

• Several bug fixes. Some weren’t really noticeable; others resulted in internal server errors.
• A few SEO related changes were made including changes to title tags, and new META tags.
• Cleaned up several listings, especially related to search.
• Other little things that probably bothered us more than you.

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• Treasure Island, which you’ve heard of, and
• Dead Sleep, which you may not have.

Check them out; I really enjoyed both of them.

Initially I gave the plugin a cutesy name: SlaptiGooglePR. This was somewhat informative and tied into the title of my high tech site, Slaptijack. I felt the name was clever, but still indicated what the plugin did. After nearly two years of service, I decided that it might be helpful to rename the plugin to something more descriptive. I noticed that the plugin did not rank very high in the WordPress Plugin Directory’s search results for common terms like “pagerank” or “google pagerank.” In the end, I decided to simply call the plugin the Google PageRank Tool.

Honestly, the tool hasn’t been a huge hit over the last two years. There have been over 2,000 downloads, but nothing to write home about. What I have noticed, though, is that the act of changing the name tripled the average daily downloads!

So, what’s in a name? Maybe more than you thought.