Entries from August 22nd, 2006
Hello! All you travelers and tourism people did you know that there is a new “top level domain” called .travel? Ha ha, what a joke. Back sometime last year we began getting communication through one of our trade memberships (American Bus Association) about pre-qualifying for the upcoming registration of the soon to be available .travel domain. The whole affair has been one big f*^&*%*$ joke. First you have to jump through lame hoops with some lady at the Bus assoc who vets your potential domain names to see if you are eligible. Criteria? I won’t even begin to bore you with the lameness that is ABA and their so-called pre-qualification criteria.
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Tags: travel
That’s it, the professional blogger/web designer/SEO person can now aspire to a new title. Social Media Optimization Expert. Oh, if your thinking that some doofus from MySpace is going to launch your website into the new millenium, unfortunately for 90% of the world, that is what your going to get and it might actually do you some good. On second thought, if your thinking about MySpace, you might be wasting your time. Please stop reading now.
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Tags: seo·web 2.0
Special Detail Scheduled to Patrol Eastern High Peaks Wilderness This Weekend
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Denise M. Sheehan announced today that a special enforcement detail will be patrolling the Eastern High Peaks Wilderness on the weekend of August 18-20, 2006, to ensure compliance with regulations requiring overnight users to store all food, toiletries and garbage in a bear resistant canister.
“The goal of the bear resistant canister regulation is to significantly reduce negative human-bear interactions in the Eastern High Peaks,” said Commissioner Sheehan. “Lack of compliance with this regulation can lead to bears obtaining food from humans and becoming nuisance bears – a situation that has proven unsafe for bears and people.”
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Tags: bear·camp·dec·high peaks·hike·wildlife
