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A Key to Lines

February 27, 2009 3:01 am / Leave a Comment /

They flow on with the morning rush
don’t hear, don’t see, don’t feel
this human flood of vain concerns
uncouth, unclean , unreal

He travels on the metal road
and weaves on dreams unique
of ticklish clouds and purple pines
of papers that can speak

She comes and sits in front of him
and opens up her book
but words are smudges on a sheet
fordone, forborne, forsook

I watch them smile, I watch them talk
I watch them laugh and glow
I watch the sparks and flame and fire
I know where this will go

She’ll make him just a stepping stone
a mean to a selfish end
a milestone on the long road home
then make another friend

He’ll break and burn and tear and turn
He’ll think his life is gone
and then he’ll learn to live alone
let go, forget, move on

They’ll keep on flowing on again
to leave their pasts discreet
but all live on a single tale
recall, repent, repeat

6 May 2008 8:34 PM

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Creating Canonical / Normalized Links and URLs

February 17, 2009 2:52 am / Leave a Comment /

Here is a short intro on how to make sure that major search engines (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft) can be directed to see different URLs with the same content as a single ‘conanical’ URL. For example, the following links point to the same page but have different URLs

The solution is to select a single point as your representative URL and include this line in the HTML code.

Although a standard 301 redirect should work too, but this would be a bit easier for the non-techie designers and SEO enthusiasts to implement.

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Am I asking the right question?

February 10, 2009 11:35 pm / Leave a Comment /

Twitter asks ‘What are you doing?’
Google Latitude asks ‘Where are you?’
del.icio.us asks ‘What are you browsing?’

As in science, one of the most important things in web application development is thus asking the right question (at the right time). A properly phrased question can identify your niche along with giving you a guideline for keeping your focus on a single problem.
As some people might notice, I tend NOT to write much anyway. So until the writer in me is back (if there _is_ one at all), I’ll try to write something even if its a one liner.

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