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Look at #1 (if that link is bad because of session vars use ‘montreal steak seasoning’ no quotes)

” Acadian Steak Seasoning” isn’t “Montreal Steak Seasoning”

What to do to resolve this? Spam stealing valid links …

I know you’re busy, but it was fun just to invite you!

Have fun,
Ron

Every time I visit SD I make time to chill on the cliffs of the Torrey Pines Glideport. Wide open space, no frills views of Black’s Beach and the Pacific. Steady 10mph wind off the ocean provides the power for radio controlled gliders flown by non-pretentious genuine *people*. Paragliding as well if you like thrills. I can sit there for hours and watch as the sun goes down.

Harry’s La Jolla is an old down home kitchenette/diner in La Jolla the travel guides don’t mention but every local knows as the best place to chow down eggs and pancakes right on the edge of town. Been there forever, again real people and real food.

In the past you couldn’t beat the fresh seafood at Point Loma Seafood; well worth standing in one of the ten or so parallel lines of customers to shout your order over the counter. Last year it had changed, however, so I can’t say I recommend it now, but I would swing by mid-day for a dozen on the half shell or some seviche.

Enjoy!

I’ve been struggling like everyone else to figure out how to get Google to take notice of me, wish it were as easy as the other engines, etc, getting pointers and changing when I can.

A theme that I see here is that everybody wants some sort of feedback tool from Google to tell them/us why our site is or is not doing well in the index. To me that is counterproductive, and would slam the actual “natural” results within about a week of its rollout.

Granted all of us honest to God good guys could use said tool to improve our site…. but so would the Viagra and Made for AdSense guys as well. With such instant feedback, the scum sites would more than likely quickly take over the sites that have real content.

It reminds me of an example in my own profession, engineering. Years ago, before my time even, part of the design process was drafting by actual pencil to paper people. The engineer would come up with a concept, red-line it, hand it to a drafter, wait a few days, continue to work on other aspects of the problem, get his/her drawing back, and make an iteration. Actual iterations before a final design were done, were few and of course far between.

Now we have almost instant gratification. Most engineers design on their computer, hit print, and go off to the plotter to view the results. What we have now is the engineer is spending more of his time adjusting the drawing than doing the actual design, because the cost (time) of an iteration is reduced.

A correlation can be made to web design today. As a Webmaster, we make a change, wait for a bot to take a look, wait for the index to be updated, view the results. During all of this waiting however we fill our time with actual site design, adding valuable content, searching for new references etc.

If this vital step, the time lag between change and reaction, is removed the designer of the site will become a pure designer for the SE and not for the site.

Do I wish I could no instantly if a change I made on a page would increase its ranking, yes I suppose, but if everyone else in the world had that information, those changes would in the end be impossible to do as we would all have PR of 10, and getting a good search result would depend more on the skill of the searcher than the quality of the web site.

In other words, we do need crap out there on the Internet, it makes the good stuff stand out. And the steep learning curve from bringing the site from crap to good stuff, improves the overall product, that is, INFORMATION.

We did Seaworld and the Zoo in July (and Legoland just up the road). Seaworld’s a must. Definitely an international attraction.

I found The Zoo much the same as Sydney’s or Auckland’s (I’m from a land down under). If you have children under 10 or you’re really into building 2 ft models of buildings go to Legoland. A friend of mine recommended the wild-life park as being as good or better than the zoo. We didn’t get the chance to go.

Here’s some photo ideas of things to do in San Diego from a few of my trips.

Personally, aside from the obvious like the beaches and the zoo, just rent a car and drive up the coast from San Diego to La Jolla. Keep going up to the gliderport as well.

I’d argue that San Diego is so yuppified it has no idea of what a hippy is. For that you need to head to Northern CA where folks frolic naked at the hot springs or work for free room at board at one of the pot farms. And when they’re done they catch rides up to Portland for fairie festivals.

heh