“If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” – Steve Jobs

I was not going to post an obit on Apple founder Steve Jobs (since every major web and blog has one)… but then I read this inspirational quote:
“When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”

1839, only survivor of a slang fad in Boston and New York c.1838-9 for abbreviations of common phrases with deliberate, jocular misspellings (cf. K.G. for “no go,” as if spelled “know go”); in this case, “oll korrect.” Further popularized by use as an election slogan by the O.K. Club, New York boosters of Democratic president Martin Van Buren’s 1840 re-election bid, in allusion to his nickname Old Kinderhook, from his birth in the N.Y. village of Kinderhook. Van Buren lost, the word stuck, in part because it filled a need for a quick way to write an approval on a document, bill, etc. The noun is first attested 1841; the verb 1888. Spelled out as okeh, 1919, by Woodrow Wilson, on assumption that it represented Choctaw okeh “it is so” (a theory which lacks historical documentation); this was ousted quickly by okay after the appearance of that form in 1929. Okey-doke is student slang first attested 1932. Greek immigrants to America who returned home early 20c. having picked up U.S. speech mannerisms were known in Greece as okay-boys, among other things.

EVERY MORNING in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows that it must run faster than a lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must out run the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.

It doesn’d matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle — when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.

What Happens in Vegas, Stays in Vegas – In a Nutshell

The advertising agency of R&R Partners, Inc, created the slogan, “What Happens Here, Stays Here” for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA). In 2004, the LVCVA sold its interests in the slogan to R&R Partners for $1. R&R has applied to register its trademark of the slogan.

However, Dorothy Tovar of Placerville, California, registered a trademark of a similar slogan, “What Happens in Vegas Stays in Vegas,” and is reportedly using it on T-shirts and underwear sold at Las Vegas souvenir shops and elsewhere.

R&R Partners and the LVCVA have sued Ms Tovar and her company “Pure Pleasure” for trademark infringement because of the “What Happens in Vegas Stays in Vegas” products.

In 1958, President Eisenhower, in an internal discussion, observed to his staff “There’s a campaign of hatred against us in the Middle East, not by governments, but by the people.” The National Security Council discussed that question and said, yes, and the reason is, there’s a perception in that region that the United States supports status quo governments, which prevent democracy and development and that we do it because of our interests in Middle East oil. Furthermore, it’s difficult to counter that perception because it’s correct. It ought to be correct. We ought to be supporting brutal and corrupt governments which prevent democracy and development because we want to control Middle East oil, and it’s true that leads to a campaign of hatred against us.

As long as we are supporting harsh, brutal governments, blocking democracy and development because of our interests in controlling the oil resources of the region, there will be a campaign of hatred against the United States.

Prefessor Noam Chomsky

http://dissidentvoice.org/Articles/Chomsky_DV-HotType.htm

Jill and Kevin’s Big Day

Jill and Kevin’s Big Day, is a joyous beginning to a marriage, brought tears to many eyes. Best wishes for a lifetime of happiness. This is like a real-life classic moment between friends caught on tape, shared with the world now. I’m just blown away.

When you use the tag, you can indicate the canonical URL form for crawlers to use for each page of content, no matter how it was retrieved. This puts the preferred URL form with the content so that it is always available to the crawler, no matter which session id, link parameter, sort parameter, parameter order, or other source of variance is present in the URL form used to access the page.

To do this, specify a tag in the section of your page content:
<link rel=”canonical” href=”http://www.seous.com/services” />

The above tag indicates to the crawler that the URL it is present on should be represented canonically as http://www.seous.com/services. This would eliminate the following duplicates:

http://www.seous.com/services?trackingid=feed
http://www.seous.com/services?sessionid=hgjkeor2
http://www.seous.com/services?printable=yes&trackingid=footer

It is easy to see how businesses that are not so familiar with the inner workings of SEO can find themselves feeling overwhelmed. The great thing is, there are a number of search engine optimization consultant firms out there that you can work with in order to help you get the results that you are looking for without all of the headaches. Such consultant can help you to grow your online business by not only boosting the visibility of your brand, but also by helping to bring up the productivity and your overall bottom line.

If you feel that you could use the services of a search engine optimization consultant, you can do some research on the types of services that different firms can offer. When you stop to think about it, you want to have a consultant that will be able to coordinate with your business needs and help to compliment the marketing strategy that you have in place. By adding to your marketing plan with a search engine optimization plan, you will be able to increase your viewership and then sales.

Many of the reasons why businesses will look to the help of a search engine optimization consultant will be boost their online presence and to attract a significant of targeted customers. By helping your business to learn a wide variety of effective SEO skills and techniques, you will then be able to increase your sales while also helping to protect your online reputation. If your budget allows, you can keep on using your search engine optimization consultant or start to take on the journey of SEO on your own. No matter what, you will have learned all sorts of techniques and skills that can help your website’s effectiveness and get you the traffic that you desire.

Greg Rutter’s Definitive List of the 99 things you should have already experienced on the Internet unless you’re a loser or old or something.