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I found myself part of The Verge’s article about SEO today, and I wanted to address some of the things that are specific to me. For background, this is my personal blog. What I’m writing here in this post isn’t officially from Google. No one at Google has reviewed it. These are my personal thoughts. […]

What's it like owning a Vestaboard split-flap display? Wonderful! This post shares my experience after a year of ownership.

The Fisker Ocean seemed like the perfect vehicle for me. A great looking SUV that’s all EV, at a great price and plenty of range? Sign me up! And so I did, back in January 2022. Since then, my future dream ride feels more and more imaginary. Will it ever arrive? And will it have […]

One of our favorite Thanksgiving traditions is watching the classic Mad About You episode, “Giblets for Murray.” It’s the one where Jaime & Paul Buckman host Thanksgiving dinner for their family and friends. We love it. I highly encourage everyone to watch it! Below — and spoiler alert — a recap of some of the […]

Hi Bob. So it’s Halloween, and you want to go dressed as someone from the Apple TV show For All Mankind? Or maybe you fancy some For All Mankind cosplay for an event? How about making your own iconic duct tape space suit? It’s easy and cheap. Here’s how I made ours that we wore […]

With wildfire smoke causing so much unhealthful air, I found myself wanting my own air quality monitors. I wanted an outdoors one both to better understand what’s happening in our immediate area and to help contribute insight to others. I wanted indoors ones to better understand what the air quality was like in our house, […]

What’s the current situation with COVID-19 / coronavirus cases in Orange County, both countywide and for particular cities? This page compiles statistics from the Orange County Health Care Agency along with some other sources, to help provide an overview. Hospitalizations & Deaths I think the most useful data we have for Orange County COVID-19 trends […]

The Orange County Health Care Agency began releasing stats showing COVID-19 / coronavirus cases for each city in Orange County at the end of March. Each day, the stats are refreshed. However, stats from previous days are not retained. This makes it impossible to see trends for particular cities. For those interested in this, I’ve […]

When I retired from search journalism in June, I had no idea what I would be doing next. I just knew I was ready for a break and something different from what I had been doing for so long. That something different has arrived: I’m joining Google as of Monday. My title is still being […]

Finally, you can buy the Star Wars films in digital format — digital streaming, that is. Technically, we’ve had Star Wars in digital format via DVD and Blu-ray for ages. But if you wanted to stream Star Wars digitally from the cloud, you couldn’t until today. There seems to be no lack of providers offering […]