I am in the process of re-vamping my .Com site. So if you have noticed a bunch of items are gone, please visit my .org site.

As to my Google Outage, well the mail came back at some point last night, my .org and scottsbots site are back in the Google index, but my .Com [...]

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Google is giving me fits. Monday GMAIL was down for about 12 hours, and today it's down again. (though my wife's machine is fine) I don't know how long it will be… To top things off, I went from number 2 in my Google Rank yesterday to out of the index today. That's [...]

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Google is giving me fits. Monday I was down for about 12 hours for email, and today I am down again. I don't know how long it will be… To top things off, I went from number 2 in my Google Rank yesterday to out of the index today. That's right, if you search on [...]

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I was working on a quick little google rank hack that I could run via batch / shell. It would take 2 args site, and keywords. It's only 28 lines, but works and is fast. Enjoy.
<?php
if (count($argv) != 3) {
echo count($argv) . "\n";
echo "\n ERROR: usage php googlerank2.php [site] [keyword(s)]\n";
die();
}
$sitename = $argv[1];
$q = $argv[2];
$start = [...]

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My first post on my new Technical Blog… Stay tuned for more…. Remember my personal blog is at www.scottpreston.org.
As soon as I upgraded my Windows XP machine to 2GB of RAM, and went into Hibernate, I got this error "Insufficient System Resources Exist to Complete the API" then nothing else worked. The Microsoft KB [...]

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I switched to GMAIL a few weeks ago, things were going fine, no problems. In fact I was really getting use to it, but it's been down all afternoon and I am not liking it too well at this point. That's all for now.

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I need to make more Biltong. The last few batches have been really nice, but I have been so busy with this house  I keep forgetting. So what have I been doing on the house, well for starters I am still getting that electric sorted out. I still have 2 holes in the walls [...]

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I have stopped updating my .com site for a bit to redo it with a more technical version. I will soon update this site with a more current look & feel and some FLICKR images.

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I have decided to give my site a shake-up. I will soon be posting
personal blogs to www.scottpreston.org, and I
will post my technical blogs book reviews, amazon stuff, etc at scottpreston.com. I will also
be posting some photos a flickr and directly in my blog vs having a
separate pics site. Since it has zero traffic.
I will keep [...]

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