This entry first appeared in a blog I called "The Mobius Life":

Many things in life that look different are, like the sides of a mobius strip, actually the same. And sometimes things that look quite similar are in fact completely different. The Mobius Life explores things that aren't what they seem at first glance....
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Listening to Talk of the Nation address the issue of religion in schools today, I wondered what those who oppose religion in schools would say if a church were established that taught evolution. Would they then opposing the teaching of evolution in schools? If not, how would they justify the exception? By saying that the...
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I've just posted a keyword density analyzer on my site. Use it to check whether your webpages repeat the keywords you want to optimize for the proper number of times. Don't repeat them often enough, and the search engines won't know what your page it about. Repeat them too often, and search engines will discount...
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I've just posted a new SEO article on how to increase your PageRank by creating more web pages. It covers a few dos and don'ts to help you maximize the benefit you get from adding new webpages to your site.

"There's a big difference between 'mostly almost ready' and 'all almost ready'." -- Paraphrased from the Princess Bride

After a bit more thought and discussion, I've found there are a few more things I'd like to see in Atom before we call it 1.0. Nothing major, but a few loose ends that we can hopefully...
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Is Atom 1.0 almost ready for prime time? Tim Bray seems to think so. Today, he posted a proposal to the Atom wiki suggesting that we incorporate one more proposal (for a category element), clean up the draft, and submit it. I must admit, I was surprised to see someone make the suggestion, and even...
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Two-party politics has its virtue--it leads to greater stability because the parties don't need to create and maintain coalitions in order to get enough power to get things done. However, it also has its problems.

When two parties dominate politics, choices are limited: you can choose one party or the other, or you can be...
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"The thing is is..." I remember when I first started hearing the double-is. It grated on my ear. At first, I thought it was a local thing--provincial Utahns adopting each others' bad speech habits--but I've now heard at least two people on TV do it.

Interestingly, when I pointed the grammatical error out to people,...
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In response to my article on using RSS for SEO, the question has arisen of whether outbound links from a web page really reduce its PageRank. The answer? Yes and no.

Without going into too much detail, Google doesn't take PageRank away from one page and give it to another, so the answer is no....
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One of the problems with SPAM is that you have to spend so much time downloading and deleting it. Another problem is that people you send email to do too. Your legitimate message may get lost in the deluge. How do you avoid the problem? One way is to offer people to whom you send...
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