Monthly Archives: October 2007
Google PR Update, What is it you ask?
The Google Page Rank system has gone through an update recently. This blog was a ZERO and now, according to Google.com’s agorythm, it is now a PR 1. Yay for me. The blog is only about 3 months old, so it just tells me that if I keep up the good work, I am in for a successful blog in PR terms.
What is the Google PR (page rank) you ask? Here is part of the general description from the Wikipedia web site.
PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page’s value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves “important” weigh more heavily and help to make other pages “important”.
So as you can see, Google thinks my blog is important 
Well, at least someone does and it’s nice to see that some people enjoyed it enough to link to it. Thanks to all of you that have done so! Hopefully the PR update didn’t do you harm like a lot of the “big guys” in the blogger world.
Lose $8 billion, pocket $160 million?
How the hell does this work? When you are at work and you decide you feel like a 2 hour lunch in stead of just one hour, you can be sure that when you get back, you will be hearing a speech about how time is money and your productivity is essential to your companies success. Right? Well, when I read about CEO’s that don’t do a damn good thing for the companies they work for, BUT get “let go” with a HUGE severance packages, it makes me itch.
The 2 latest ones are the CEO of Home Depot, which lost 10% in stock value in 2000, prompting the CEO at the time to jam out while he “was ahead”. His severance package? You guessed it over $120 million.
Now we have the CEO of Merill Lynch who wrote down over $8 BILLION, but still walks away with over $160 million dollars. These guys DIDN’T do their jobs, so why are they being compensated so well?
I just don’t get it, when I mess up, I get fired. But CEO’s can not make money for their company and STILL get paid when they are forced to leave. What do you think?
CallYourPlay.com Poll
We have all seen the CallYourPlay.com posts on this blog and most likely even registered a couple of caps. Maybe you have even won a Tshirt or hat. But this poll is to find out which play you are choosing the most often when you play the Callyourplay.com Pepsi Sweepstakes.
Please vote ONE time for the play you choose the most. We know you try for the truck, but everyone has a dream, right?
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