Archive for the ‘Quickie’ Category
Quickie: More 3G
I know updates are few and far in between, but here’s quick one long-time followers of this nearly abandoned blog will appreciate.
If you’ve been here a while, you’ll remember the excitement that surrounded the launch of AT&T 3G in Chattanooga a few years back. Those of us across the river in Marion County were left out to dry, with no word on upgrade plans.
I’ve just heard that the wait may in fact be coming to an end.
Let us hope. I need to verify some sources, but I’ll keep you posted.
Quickie: Blah, blog.
I’ve seriously got to get off my ass and finish a few things around on the blog. I’ve got tonight, a full day tomorrow, and Friday morning to work on it, so maybe I can get creative.
I’ve got to finish the new layout. This one is shit. With all due respect to the designer (it is actually a great design), the layout – and how I’ve killed it – just isn’t working for me anymore. I’ve got one in the works, but lazy ass hasn’t wanted to code since finishing up CPSC 312 this a month ago. I’ve gotta shake that bug.
I was also thinking about coding up a widget that takes that entire sidebar and makes it interactive, so that clicking one of the services pulls from any available APIs and gives a preview of the contents. But maybe not. I probably should focus on the layout.
Oh, and I need to write up my First Looks/Quasi-reviews for some new toys I’ve gotten like my Kindle, Wii Fit, etc.
Searching on Google
I noticed a few interesting things while reviewing stats and figures for ThisIsLee.com. I felt that I may need to enlighten you on a few things.
In case you didn’t know, a site owner can see everything about your request to the site. How long you stayed, how often you show up, what pages you read, etc. We can also see exactly what you search for on any search engine to get here. This is the one I monitor quite a bit. I like to find out what brings people to my page. This evening, when checking for any new search terms, I noticed something a little odd. Someone (or multiple someones) searched for “lee atkins att” to get to my page. Even more interesting are the particular stories that are pointed to. One story was where I talk about the AT&T 3g rollout, the other was a tweet where I talked about the new LG Vu I got to play with. I say maybe “multiple someones” because this is the first time I’ve ever seen this search term show up, yet it is #1 with a bullet on the Google search result page.
What is interesting about this other than the fact that “Atkins” isn’t my name? Oh, nothing other than the fact that everyone from the level above me at AT&T (my rep) on up do not know that Atkins isn’t my name. My SME phone that is provided to me even has the name Atkins associated with it.
Coincidence? I think not.
I like that, AT&T. And by AT&T, I’m talking to specific people that work for you. You know who you are. Googling for your SMEs’ names and “att” to see what we are chattering about across the intertubes? Pretty smart. Clever, even.
But we can see you.