Posts Tagged ‘Geek’

Commission Junction suckle on my account balance

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

A bad affiliate program is one that does everything in its power to make you feel like you’ve just paid a visit to an alcoholic, sausage fingered, proctologist.
In the good old days Commission Junction were quite good to me. I was doing reasonably well with them, largely on the back of their relationship with eBay. [...]

It’s Brewfest in Azeroth

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

For those of us unable to make it to Germany for Oktoberfest I may have stumbled across the next best thing… Brewfest. One minor problem though, it’s in Azeroth, so you’re going to need a World of Warcraft account.
Once you’ve got that sorted, head to the beer garden outside the dwarven capital city Iron Forge. [...]

How to improve your Technorati rank – one week on

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

A week ago I wrote about how to improve your Technorati ranking. At the time of writing that post, the Technorati rank for SwollenPickles.com was 91,357.
Since then, I’ve taken a couple of measures outlined in that post, but to be honest, spent very little time working on it. In that time, my Technorati rank has [...]

Technorati Experiment Day 2

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Here’s a quick follow up to yesterdays post “How To Improve Your Technorati Rank”.
Yesterday my Technorati rank was 91,357, as of writing this it is 88,547.
Another interesting point is that yesterday if you’d search Google for “improve your technorati rank”, there would have been no sign of SwollenPickles.com. Run that same search today and SwollenPickles.com [...]

How to improve your Technorati rank

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Are you looking to improve your Technorati rank?
A bold experiment
I read an article on Untwisted Vortex detailing how to improve your Technorati rank. RT is conducting an ongoing experiment to determine if blogs participating in the project will experience and improvement in their Technorati ranking as a result.
As RT rightly points out, a blogs Technorati [...]

Funky ASCII art

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Long time pickle pal David Rader has painstakingly put together a list of ASCII codes for those hard core geeks out there looking to create some “ASCII Art”.
I was a little shocked to find out that ASCII art is still out there, as I thought it’d died out following the age of the [...]