Lightning-AlleyLightning-AlleyMy personal blog relating to technology, books, weather and random facts and information Articles
Homeless
2008-02-24 07:12:00 Well my house is sold… it took a whooping 14 days on the market with a FSBO sign in the front yard. Granted, we were very lucky and the timing helped a lot since neither I nor the buyer had a realtor. This also meant that the buyer got a great deal on the home, ... More About: Real Estate , Homeless
Tucson Complete passes 1 million rank
2008-02-08 02:53:00 Check it out!!! Tucson Complete passes the 1 million mark in traffic rankings, which is actually pretty darn good!!! Technorati Tags: Tucson Complete, Tucson Wiki , Alexa Traffic Rank ings More About: Websites , Million
Project AR-15
2008-02-03 22:11:00 So… I have a new sick and twisted project that I am currently investigating. Unlike the others, this one has pretty much nothing to do with technology… at least not IT that is. I am currently investigating the possibility of building myself an AR-15. Yeah, I probably don’t REALLY need one, but I want one. ... More About: Project , Weapons
January Traffic Report
2008-02-02 03:54:00 I would say that December was a good month for all three websites that I host. Here is the breakdown for each of them. Lightning-Alley 458 Total Visits From 305 Visitors (42.58% Direct Traffic , 8.08% Referring Sites, 49.34% Search Engines) 38 Countries Visited 31 States Visited Analysis: Stats are pretty much identical to December. However, there were a few ... More About: Websites , Report , January
Tucson Complete Looking Up
2008-01-11 04:49:00 Well, after undergoing drastic changes, Tucson Complete is almost back to the stage where it was a week or so ago. In the time that I have been thrashing about with the page a number of exciting things have happened involving the site. Just today I took a look at the Google Page Rank and Tucson ... More About: Websites , Wiki
Seeding A Wiki
2008-01-04 18:20:00 I think there is a large misconception about Wiki s in general. A lot of people have the idea that if you stick a Wiki out ther people will come and people will contribute… not true, at all. The truth of the matter is, you have to have enough information at the wiki to keep people ... More About: Websites
Tucson Complete & Search Engines
2008-01-04 07:11:00 Blah… I have made a number of changes with Tucson Complete to clean up the URLs and things along these lines. However, Google still has the long and drawn out URLs thanks to the fact that I didn’t setup my robots.txt file properly and let the site leak on to the web before I was ready. ... More About: Search Engines , Search , Websites , Engines
December Traffic Report
2008-01-02 18:53:00 I would say that December was a good month for all three websites that I host. Here is the breakdown for each of them. Lightning-Alley 463 Total Visits From 242 Visitors (46% Direct Traffic , 11.88% Referring Sites, 42.12% Search Engines) 36 Countries Visited 33 States Visited Analysis: For what it is, a blog without a directed focus, Lightning-Alley did pretty ... More About: Websites , Report
Twilight Zone Marathon
2008-01-01 20:12:00 Well, if you find yourself wondering what I am doing on New Years day… other than working on Tucson Complete, there is a good chance that watching the Sci Fi channel’s Twilight Zone Marathon is the right answer. I just cant get enough of that show. On an off note, there is a good chance ... More About: Movies , General
Tucson Complete Search Results
2007-12-29 07:38:00 In trying to establish Tucson Complete’s online identity I often times check key search phrases to see where the site turns up. Here are the results for some of the keywords that I typically try… keep in mind that the site has not quite been out there and going for a month yet. All searches ... More About: Results , Search , Websites , Wiki
Tucson Complete Growth
2007-12-27 00:25:00 I am very satisfied with the rate at which Tucson Complete is currently growing. It is nearing the 200 page mark quite rapidly and we almost have 10 users now. Traffic has been great with visitors coming from 11 countries and 22 states. The really great thing is that the majority of people who arrive ... More About: Websites , Growth , Wiki
Merry Christmas!!!
2007-12-25 19:06:00 Merry Christmas Everyone!!! I must say that this one is very special to me, given everything that has happened it is just nice to hang out with family and friends. Gwansho and JBCTech, you’ll be happy to know that my parents provided me with a new Halo 3 game for Christmas!!! That mean, soon… Ill ... More About: Merry Christmas , Merry
Cleaning Doku Wiki URLs
2007-12-23 00:16:00 This turns out to be a bit more tricky than I thought it would be… There are a number of settings in the Configuration Manager that would seem to do everything you need on the surface, but as it turns out most of them do not fully do what you want. I used the ... More About: Cleaning , Websites , Wiki
Tucson Legends
2007-12-22 05:09:00 So… apparently my new obsession at Tucson Complete has been legends, hauntings and such. I am compiling quite the list that I hope to have completed by Christmas. Then comes the fun part… research and investigation, pictures reports etc. On that note, Tucson Complete is growing quite well and is actually beginning to get indexed ... More About: Websites , Legends
The Break? ahhh
2007-12-21 05:28:00 Well, in all honesty Ive been on break all week, but it just dawned on me how nice it is to just do nothing. Funny, when your in college you think it is so hectic and what not… then you realize, not so much. On a plus note, Erica’s brother, Rob, just graduated (early) with ... More About: Break
Traffic Surge
2007-12-19 20:17:00 Well, hopefully its not just a fad, but I have noticed a significant traffic increase over the last week… which I would like to think is in direct relation to the fact that I have been posting regularly. The good thing is that with the new project I have a good excuse. Tonight I’ll be ... More About: Traffic , Blog , Websites , Surge , Urge
How To Take Lightning Photos
2007-12-18 19:23:00 Over the Thanksgiving holidays Glenn’s, over at Roi Rat Journal, family was down and happened to make a pit stop by the house to see the puppies. In the midst of talking with them his daughter’s fiance mentioned that he was wanting to learn to take lightning photos but had no idea how. At that ... More About: Photos , Lightning
Legends Of Tucson
2007-12-18 03:46:00 In my research for Tucson Complete, I have long been fascinated with legends and hauntings in Tucson. Well, my searches have come up with some results but not quite as many as I’d like… so, it seems fitting that Tucson Complete contain as many references to legends and hauntings as possible. I have been compiling ... More About: Websites , Legends
Aspen Loop From Marshall Gulch Hike
2007-12-17 04:03:00 I was able to dig up some pictures from a Marshall Gulch hike that I took a little over a year ago with Erica. The hike was actually back before we had Cody, so it was just myself Erica, Turbo and Tranny. I have to say that it is my most memorable hike of ... More About: Websites , Hiking , Aspen , Hike , Loop
Sycamore Canyon Hike
2007-12-15 17:47:00 A while back my buddy Glenn, over at Roi Rat Journal, went on an awesome hike through Sycamore Canyon in the Pajarito Wilderness of the Coronado National Forest. The hike was spectacular and Turbo thoroughly enjoyed himself, swimming in the stream and scaling the rocks as well as nosing through the weeds. We had a ... More About: Websites , Hiking , Hike
Arlington National At Christmas
2007-12-14 05:47:00 A good friend of mine and veteran Navy officer, Bill Woodward forwarded the following images to me in an email as well as the following information and short poem. Thanks Bill, for the information and for all you have done for me and our country as well as your brothers in arms. Readers should know that ... More About: Christmas , United States , National , Arlington
Tucson Complete Eclipses 100 Pages
2007-12-13 06:41:00 Tucson Complete is now serving up over 100 pages, 109 at the moment. This is a significant milestone and through my browsing makes it the most comprehensive Tucson Wiki on the web. We still have a long way to go to reach my goal of 1000+ pages by the end of next year, but that ... More About: Websites , Tucson , Pages
Tucson Complete Has Arrived!!!
2007-12-12 02:35:00 Well, I had intended on releasing this website a bit later… but it managed to get web crawled a bit earlier than I had planned. With that being said its time to introduce Tucson Complete !!! This is a brain child of mine that I had really been interesting in doing for a few years now… ... More About: Websites
Recent Events
2007-11-22 20:01:00 Well, life has found its way of changing best laid plans for me. What some might consider catastrophic events in my life have lead to a distinct lack of time to work on Lightning-Alley, or even my new project for that matter. That being said, the events at hand have actual been the biggest blessing ... More About: Events , Blog , Recent
Google Maps latitude & longitude
2007-11-08 04:05:00 As you know, the project that I am working on, which releases March 17, 2008, makes use of DokuWiki. I have known for a bit that I need to find a way to embed Google Maps into individual pages. Well I found it, the only problem is that the plugin requires latitude and longitudes… which ... More About: Software , Programming , Technology , Google Maps
DokuWiki Project
2007-11-07 05:11:00 Well, for those of you who may be wondering where I’ve been… I have been working on a project that I plan to release on March 17, 2008. On that note, anyone who wants to help beta test the thing let me know… I’d really love any help I can get in that manner. As ... More About: Software , Technology , Project , Wiki
Red M&M?s really ARE better!!!
2007-11-06 21:21:00 Even monkeys rationalize, study finds Nov. 6, 2007 World Science After we make a questionable choice, we often think up?or make up?new reasons to believe it was right after all. The process is called rationalization; and although it seems pointless and silly, it does sometimes help us feel better about ourselves.Now, researchers have found that monkeys do it, ... More About: General
Transformers at the IMAX
2007-10-24 06:53:00 My friends and I went and watched The Tran sformers on the IMAX , it just seemed to be one of those movies that I wold regret not seeing on a huge screen with awesome sound. Needless to say, it met all of my expectations and I am extremely happy that I went and saw it… again. ... More About: Movies
Dodge Challenger Countdown
2007-10-19 00:25:00 The Dodge Challenger Countdown to launch website, counting down the days, hours, minutes and seconds before the official production launch on February 6, 2008 at 11:00 am CST. I may have to trade in the Charger!!! More About: General , Adventures , Dodge Challenger
Super Secret Project?
More articles from this author:2007-10-11 05:38:00 Well not so much, since come of you already know about it. To make a long story short, one of the main reasons for the recent lack of posts would be due to my working on a project that I have been wanting to pursue for a some time now… and of course the fact ... More About: Project , Blog , Super , Websites , Secret 1, 2, 3 |
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