Search engine optimization is not something you do once after you’ve built your site. Rather, it’s a living, breathing concept that needs to be built-in to, not just the development process, but your entire creative workflow. You need to keep your site updated with regular content (regular is subjective and relative to the content you’re providing), but you need to make sure it’s *meaningful* content. Posting three times a day and filling your site with posts that you spammed with keywords and…

Unrelated: my post categories suck. Moving on, I’m happy to see Absurdly Awesome is back from its seven month hiatus. And to think I finally removed it from my Friends link list not too long ago. Anyway, I noticed they switched over to Disqus for the comment system (this actually happened pre-hiatus, but whatever). After thinking about it for a bit, I decided to make the switch as well.

Just moved this site over to Media Temple. Let me know if there are any issues.

I just found out about a Firefox Add-on called ScribeFire thanks to Firefox 3’s Add-on recommendations. ScribeFire opens a pane at the bottom of your browser (or a new tab or window) allowing you to create a post to one of a number of blogging services, with the ability to edit multiple blogs and switch between them instantly. Check out their getting started page to learn more.

I just enabled Akismet so let me know if there’s anything goofy with the comments.

Forgive the lack of posts lately; since March I’ve been very tied up. At the beginning of last month I had all 4 wisdom teeth pulled; the surgery went well (local anesthetics) and the recovery went even smoother. After playing catch up from that, two weeks ago I came down with bronchitis, and I’m still suffering the remnants of the cough.

Just updated to WordPress version 2.3.3 due to a security vulnerability in WordPress. You shouldn’t notice anything, but let me know if something broke in the process.

Sorry about the extra downtime to anyone who was viewing Shattered Reality this afternoon. I was in the middle of updating WordPress when my server’s FTP crapped out, leaving me S.O.L. I submitted a help ticket and they rebooted the FTP daemon on the server and all’s well again.

Well actually, I’ve had an RSS feed since I switched to a WordPress-powered blog. But now I’ve got around to implemented a Feed Burner feed, which you can find here or in the sidebar.

I almost forgot to mention: some new projects are underway and will be announced soon. Stay tuned!