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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
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8:25 pm - Caddyinfo.com Cadillac Blog
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| Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
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9:01 pm - Caddyinfo.com
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| Saturday, September 6th, 2008
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10:56 am - Latest Blog updates
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| Monday, July 16th, 2007
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2:33 am - Win a Free Cadillac Bear Cadillac Related BLOG Contest
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Caddyinfo.com, a website for Cadillac drivers, is offering a contest with a "I love my Cadillac" teddy bear as the prize. You must own a Cadillac vehicle, and begin a BLOG on the new Caddyinfo.com blog system or link to an existing Cadillac related BLOG. Winner will be selected by random drawing among the first 20 qualifying blogs. See Rules.
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| Saturday, July 14th, 2007
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7:56 am - Adding BLOGS to Caddyinfo.com
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7:36 am - How To Repair a Cadillac Deville A/C mix door actuator
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Caddyinfo.com Supporter BodybyFisher was on a trip in his 1996 Cadillac Deville when the A/C stopped blowing cold. He documents how he researched and repaired his Cadillac. Very well done with photos and references.
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| Friday, July 13th, 2007
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4:38 pm
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Reference:
TOPEKA, Kan. (Jul. 11, 2007) - SCCA Pro Racing announced today two penalties following Round Six of the SPEED World Challenge Championships at the Steelback Grand Prix of Toronto.
Peter Cunningham, Pierre Kleinubing and Ian Baas on the streets of Toronto (Weber image).
Following the SCCA SPEED Touring Car race, the STaSIS Engineering team filed a protest with SCCA Pro Racing regarding the last lap contact between the No. 18 STaSIS Audi A4 of Ian Baas and the No. 42 RealTime Racing Acura TSX of Peter Cunningham. Upon review of the incident, SCCA Pro Racing put both drivers on a three-race probation and fined Cunningham five Drivers' Championship points for avoidable contact.
In addition, Ron Fellows was fined five Drivers" Championship points and an undisclosed amount of money for contact between his No. 16 Cadillac CTS-V and the No. 20 Pontiac GTO of Dane Moxlow in the pit lane, following the SCCA SPEED GT race.
All parties have until Friday, July 13, to appeal the decisions
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7:05 am - Indexing and Reader Selection
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There are so many indexing and Reader article selection sites now that we probably need a site that indexes the index sites. :-)
I studied Stumble, and Digg, and Reddit to try to understand better what each of these are like. The basic idea is that their readers highlight pages that the reader found actually useful. Then when you want to surf the web you can if you choose surf only pre-screened content. Why is this interesting? Because as more and more people participate in indexing sites, they become more important if you want visitors to your site.
My myspace mail was getting filtered into the trash, but that is fixed now, and I got over to MySpace and refreshed my profile a bit. I added a profile on facebook, although I need to understand that site better.
Made some mods at http://www.caddyinfo.com to try to help people find the right sections for some frequent activities, and to point back at our website how-to/faq section here: http://www.caddyinfo.com/howto.html
Also got a few pages updated to the new template/style.
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| Thursday, July 12th, 2007
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12:21 am - and then we could...
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Trying some new ideas to see what the http://www.caddyinfo.com community thinks. Added an online chat, but so far nobody really is using it. Certainly that helps me decide whether to expand it or not.
I keep wanting to figure out a way to do a sort of 'worst luck' repair pool. So we would accumulate some minor cash into a pool, then whoever among the member has the WORST car repair story gets the pool. Standard limits apply, don't try this at home, your mileage may vary. No one but me seems to think it would be a good idea / fun, but we'll see.
Sent off to one of the standing Cadillac clubs to offer to host a subforum on our site for their club. This seems a synergistic way to expand our reach.
Power went out for several hours and my Wife left me (for the night). Hopefully she'll come back tomorrow, now that the lights and A/C are back on.
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| Wednesday, July 11th, 2007
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7:07 am - Calendars and Birthdays and Oh My
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Played a bit with the http://www.caddyinfo.com forum setup and re-enabled birthdays and improved the interfacing for the site calendar on the main index. We have enough critical mass now that it's somebody's birthday most days, and I need to improve more community-minded info and features.
There is an upcoming Reader get together in NJ, so that plays nicely on the upcoming events reminder.
Reminded by a BLOG post http://www.johnchow.com/live-by-the-google-die-by-the-google-part-2/ that depending on ONE customer for 100% of your marketing is a disaster waiting to happen.
Worked for hours to get some php scripting added. This was a simple change, once I knew how to do it lol. I find that life is often this way. The wonderful thing is that we have such a learning infrastructure around us now with the internet and online support. What would have required years of apprenticeship under a single teacher to master now takes searches and reading and you're done.
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| Tuesday, July 10th, 2007
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10:26 am
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Embedded link to an article at theonion.com entitled "Dieting does not work":
I think that it is more correct to say that dieting, or reducing the number of calories you consume to below your metabolic rate, causes weight loss. Dieting by eating healthy for a while then returning to an unhealthy diet of more calories than your body requires will cause you to gain weight again. Permanent weight loss requires that you permanently change your diet to a healthy level that matches well with your metabolism.
The article title is misleading; what the scientists find is that people often don't do this, not that dieting does not work.
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8:09 am - Link Exchange made easy
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Started the day with a nice link request from 123greetings.com. Links are a way for sites that are related to make it easy for their readers to find related sites. The problem is finding sites that my http://www.caddyinfo.com readers would enjoy that are related to our topic, which is Cadillac automobiles and Cadillac ownership. The part that made this particular link request attractive is that the person or robot took the time to request a link to a page of car greetings within their 123greetings.com site. So right off I could see that I was offerring my readers a link to something they might use/enjoy. That makes a good link exchange. Sometimes I will get requests from sites that ARE automotive, but don't have any relation to Cadillac, such as an import-only parts site. Those type of requests I assume are just targeted at any automotive related site, and we are one, but are actually not of interest for linking.
While I was updating my http://www.caddyinfo.com/links.html page to show the new link, I also put it on the updated format. It still could a good stiff brushing, but as with many chores if you improve things as you go along the work goes easier.
VIncent Chow sent a link to his page http://www.vincentchow.net/1379/the-winner-of-day-777-contest-is
Vincent had run a $7 free contest on 7/7/7. Anyone who commented on his blog got their name put on a slip of paper, and then he took a video of mixing the papers up and selecting one as the winner of the $7. I find this amusing.
Dribbling along friend requests on my Livevideo channel. http://www.livevideo.com/caddyinfo
I use livevideo and youtube to host in-car video's, or video's from driving simulators/games, or other Cadillac related video's. I have found that the channels also help people to find http://www.caddyinfo.com .
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| Monday, July 9th, 2007
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7:59 pm - Working
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More editing on Caddyinfo.com; the site developed over a number of years (started in Feb 98) over a number of hosts and approaches, and I am trying to get everything on the current design. Lots of detail work, updating old pages. Our teenager sat down with me and learned the process, so he may be able to help out.
Read through John Chow's current BLOG entries at http://www.johnchow.com/
He primarily addresses ways to monetize one's efforts on the internet. John seems to have the ability to squeeze funds out of any pixel, so he makes an interesting read.
Joined sitepoint.com and did some webpage review inputs. This is a site for webmasters and addresses content creation, marketing, advertising, and related topics. In one subforum people post their website URLs and request a review of their format, template, advertising placement, etc. I have been enjoying another site, http://forums.digitalpoint.com/ which has a similar target audience but different community feel. I find both of these to be good resources for ideas on marketing, advertising, and the current web. There is a lot of noise in the signal, but I have learned interesting things at each site, more at digitalpoint perhaps because I have been visiting longer there.
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7:35 pm - Aviva Web Directory
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Caddyinfo.com was added to the Aviva Web Directory this week. Web directories are interesting, as they provide a sort of pre-screened content. It is easy to think that searches show you everything you could want, but that can be a problem. If you get 21 million or even 21 thousand responses to a search, it is hard to skip the worthless responses. Web directories try to help their users skip the chaff and home in on the signal.
current mood: contemplative
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| Friday, July 6th, 2007
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3:45 pm - Updates
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Changed some forum links. Updated some info. Added Google Referral ads to the footer.
current mood: contemplative
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| Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006
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9:24 am - Up to date til the next script attack
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i mentioned having to scrub the Caddyinfo site again for a script attack. The corrective action was to install the newer version of the forum software. When the techs started that he quickly identified that we were out of space in the hosting package, so I upgraded to the next level. With the new software up and running and all was well, except not completely so. When the install had run in the out-of-space board, files here and there ended up at 0 bytes. This included a key login file, so new users could not join, and regular users could not log in. Luckily, I was able to determine the problem and replace from an original, and then IPB tech support found more 0 byte files and fixed those as well. Fun, fun. No complaints about tech support btw, just things that happen with computers.
But, this gave pause to consider other features of the forum software, and review how the site was doing overall. With the new expense, I added some contextual advertising via google adsense. I improved the look of the site a bit, enabled a news feature, and an RSS export, and improved our RSS import feeds. Basically I reviewed sections of the board with fewer readers to try to make the sections more appealling, and cleaned up a bit.
Same thing at the home site; gave it a slightly new but familiar look, and generally cleaned up a bit.
One nice feature of the adsense ad system is that it also provides stat info on the various ad locations if you choose to set it up that way. So now I can see how many imprints google tracks of various ad locations by date, and which ones brought in user clicks, which is what makes the advertisers happy. Adsense does seem to do a nice job of matching ads with the site; ads for my local Cadillac dealer frequently show up on Caddyinfo for example.
current mood: okay
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| Friday, May 19th, 2006
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5:25 pm - Fridays
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My theory is, Life is too hard / confusing / frustrating, and Someone owes everyone a refund.
On the other hand, life today is not harder because we have computers and instant communications and electric lawn mowers. I think people just don't realize that they are not having to spend 18 hours a day in manual labor, so the time we do spend actually having to do something slightly inconvenient get over magnified. The opposite of global warming is a natural, normal ice age where glaciers crawl across Europe again, wiping out most species.
The revolution will no longer be televised, unless the bandwidth to portable devices goes up significantly. Everyone's just too busy.
current mood: annoyed
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| Thursday, May 18th, 2006
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4:06 pm
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Commute, breakfast in the car, meet/discuss, give a briefing, commute, juggle cell phone for call-in remote complaint, lunch in the car, short commute, give a training session, short commute, juggle cell phone for call-in Wife1 report, catch up on mail, listen to phone messages, send debrief, drink soda, im son2, home for dinner, son2 piano lessons.
Apparently missed my briefing goal of doing well enough to be well thought of, but not well enough to be invited back.
Wife1 reports she wakes up (by clinical observation) 40 times an hour, and subsequent treatment is planned. Obviously this will make you more tired than if you slept though sleeping.
current mood: blank
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| Wednesday, May 17th, 2006
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10:47 pm - Cleansing commutes
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Had a long drive to a remote work site today. The short cut was over 50 miles long, and involved 3 or 4 different highway changes. Luckily I was able to string together that although the highway was one street on the west side of town, it actually was a different street on the east side of town, and get off on the right path.
Finished listening to all of Kristy Kruger's new album, which is all quite listenable indeed. Although my morning commute was long, after I got past the panic of not finding the highway to start off on, it was a nice drive. I arrived at my meeting actually somewhat more relaxed than I started, which is handy.
current mood: cranky
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| Tuesday, May 16th, 2006
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11:13 am - bleh
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More script attacks on caddyinfo today. This time from a pc in Amsterdam. Appears that the new host software patches held up ok, and I cleaned up the user posts, deleted the user, banned the computer, etc. Possibly the same script kiddie that gave irritation over the weekend.
I wish the world was a better place, so that people everywhere had full, productive lives and did not feel the need to mine for email addresses to spam, or spread viruses or bots, or whatever was the intent in this case.
current mood: pessimistic
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