Come Adventuring

Well it has finally happened, Abra has graduated high school. In a three hour ceremony that we had to sit through she finally received her diploma. I’m proud that she finally did am am relieved that the pressure is off of us as well.

Being her parents does place that pressure to make sure whe has everything to succeed. While we have tried it’s been difficult as, well, she still is a kid and thinks she knows everything.

I found it funny that while the victorians were giving their speeches about how the graduates where now entering their adulthoods, having passed the toughest years of their lives, I could only chuckle that they had no idea of what was in store for them.

It’s awesome though, Abra is working on going to Fashion college to get her Bachelors Degree and I will support her anyway I can. Her father came down for the event and at the moment they are both fighting on where they want to go to spend the day together. I’m trying my best to stay out of it.

Abras graduation pictures are here: Abra

Last year around what October Google introduced its rank spank to a vast amount of blogger who had supposedly had paid posts and links. I say supposedly because my original site Tech Raving got zerod in the first round of the hit.

Tech Raving had absolutely no paid posts and at the time no advertisements as well. So why did I get hit. I theorized because I work for PayPerPost / IZEA. Although after researching a great many blogs outside the PayPerPost system I don’t see where it was strictly targeted towards PayPerPost.

Fine, I got spanked. Big freaking deal as I was still indexed (without PageRank) by Google but the amount of indexing but metacrawlers and the other search engines I wasn’t even concerned about Google. Nope not in the least. Keywords were still moving me forward even if not on Google.

So I set up Come Adventuring here two weeks ago. Just to completely speak my mind outside of technology and the what not. One thing I did however was attempt to make peace with Google by asking for a re-evaluation of Tech Raving.

Funny thing that, Come Adventuring was a page rank of ZERO when I added the sitemaps and no posts. Tech Raving was spanked. Now Come Adventuring is a Page Rank of ONE and Tech Raving is still spanked. Not in the fun sort of way either.

Fine let’s test this theory. I work for IZEA, PAYPERPOST, ZOOKODA, URLBRIEF, BLOGGERS CHOICE AWARDS, IZEA RANKS. Now lets’ see how long I hold onto PageRank. If I lose it now, then yes Googles targeting certain keywords. If not then there is nothing to worry about. Other than Google is way to big for its britches and needs a spanking (stocks) of it’s own.

I always listen to music at work. Trevor is always saying the DJ in my head is playing the music too loud. Well that’s because I love music, in most forms at least. Country is, well, not my style. So I’ve been listening to Live365 and several stations there for my daily fix.

When I started to work for IZEA on of my sites was starting to because over-bearing because the popularity took of. I had to consider creating more servers for a full genre network in order to meet the demand. That was not an option as it was a free site.

Here a little over a year later I have restarted the streaming. You can listen here http://urlbrief.com/6ff99c . I’ll run it for a while to see how it goes. If it goes well maybe I’ll add back in the live shows on a weekly basis.