Here I am (at left) with some good friends and workout partners helping and cheering a fellow student at testing. … [Continue reading]
Testing Committee for my 3rd dan test
November 1, 2005 by Leave a Comment
In August of 2005 I tested for -- and passed :-) -- my 3rd dan promotion test in tae kwon do. Here is the testing committee. Left to right are Master J.K Kim, Grand Master B.C. Kim (my instructor), Master Lim, and Master Park. With all due … [Continue reading]
Waltz Across Texas with you in my arms…
November 1, 2005 by Leave a Comment
After two and half years of planning and scheming we are finally "back home again" in central texas. For primarily equine-related reasons, we chose to drive the horses from Oregon to Texas ourselves -- what an education that was. To … [Continue reading]
Some special friends
November 1, 2005 by Leave a Comment
A fine picture of just a few of the many fellow students whose friendship and mutual support I will always cherish. This was taken before our promotion test, so this is the last picture of those belts. By evening there were brand new belts with … [Continue reading]
Boards actually do hit back
September 30, 2005 by Leave a Comment
Bruce Lee said "Boards don't hit back" -- which made for a great movie line, but it ain't quite so: Newton's laws assure us that boards hit us back with a force equal to how hard we hit them. Fine as far as it goes, and not much help … [Continue reading]
Smiling through the pain
September 28, 2005 by Leave a Comment
A certain amount of testing is just figuring out what you can make yourself do when you obviously can't do anything more. To highten the tension, and thereby make everything more difficult, every test is different and the specifics of any challenges … [Continue reading]
Group shot
September 27, 2005 by Leave a Comment
Here are we all, another stripe to our names, some with one, some with two, and still others with three, but none of us anywhere even remotely close to the masters that tested us. … [Continue reading]
Links that open a new window. Do they pass PageRank and Link Reputation?
September 10, 2005 by Leave a Comment
Spiders are simple little animals and the theory that guides the way search engines are built admit of few special cases, so generally speaking, a link is a link is a link. Let's consider some cases. The most often question is what happens for the … [Continue reading]
What kinds of “links” are spiderable
June 26, 2005 by Leave a Comment
When most webmasters talk about links, they almost always mean "navigation". There are several ways to connect your pages together so that humans can get from one to the next. By contrast, there is precisely one way for spiders to get … [Continue reading]
What are the problems in ranking?
June 17, 2005 by Leave a Comment
First, let's define terms. Dynamic content generally means that pages are generated by some chunk of software by reading data from a database. This is a common design pattern for big catalog style websites. But no matter how the content gets … [Continue reading]