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Surf Zone Class

Last weekend I summoned up the energy to haul my boat up to Crescent City for a surf zone class led by Mike Zeppegno and John Day. Wearing a collection of owned and borrowed equipment to keep the bay at bay, I plunged into the waves and tried to keep my kayak from turning [...]

The Apocalypse Approacheth?

So the interwebs are all a-flutter with the Swine Flu possible pandemic. You haven’t heard? Then you are not connected!!! Are you not using Twitter? Don’t you have your Google Alerts set to swine flu as it happens?

Seriously, the news cycle is now measured in nanoseconds and is unverified but replicated endlessly. Perhaps, [...]

Humboldt Electric Vehicles

I went to the Bayside Grange breakfast this morning. If you haven’t been this is a fun community event with good eats! But today they had an exhibit of electric vehicles from the Humboldt Electric Vehicle Association. There was quite a line-up of vehicles from what looked like a completey fabricated hot rod (built [...]

Can You Get My Site on Page One of Google?

Sure. For what search term?

I don’t do a lot of  pure SEO/SEM work. Why? Because I ask too many questions that clients can’t or won’t answer: For what term(s) do you want to be highly ranked? Isn’t the real goal to make more sales or get qualified leads? What kind of traffic are [...]

Price Fixing in Web Development

I subscribe to a number of web development mailing lists, RSS feeds, Twitter streams, and, of course, talk to web development clients all the time. What I have learned, if that’s the term, is that pricing web development projects is way more art than science. There are apples and kumquats. There are formulas and [...]

Sunday Kayak

Finally got out in my boat, today. A beutiful, sunny, calm day on Trinidad Bay. I was hoping for whales, but even though I paddled out to Pilot Rock and beyond, I didn’t see any. Others I talked to did. That’s OK. It was a great morning. Refreshing.

These photos were taken with my [...]

Eureka Chamber Launches at Last

It’s been a long road, but the new Eureka Chamber of Commerce web site finally launched this past week. This is a Drupal site with a nice design by our friends at Carson Park Design. We converted their Photoshop file to a Drupal template. We installed and configured numerous modules, ported content and imported [...]