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In another vain moment, I rechecked my PageRank at Google. I remembered it being 5/10. I was right. Take that, Mike and his rank of 6. Edit: Doh. Higher is better. I’m a moron.

Because Mike wrote today about how his site is ranked 690,887 at Alexa, I had to find out what this site was ranked. Cue up “You’re so Vain” please. Apparently, I’m much more popular than Mike, sitting pretty at 530,545. Booya.

Heather noticed that I turned on several of the FeedFlare features for my RSS feed. I fall in love with FeedBurner more and more every day. Email this Send a link to your item to someone via email. Email author Allow subscribers to email you directly. (If there is no email address in your feed, this will be hidden.) Technorati Cosmos Display the number of links to your item from blogs, as measured by Technorati. (If there are no links, this will be hidden.) ...

A couple weeks ago, Gallery 2 was released. I’ve been using Gallery as my photo gallery software on this site for a long time. I probably would use it a lot more if Flickr weren’t so addictive. The problem is that Gallery is software and not a service. Therefore, I have to supply the storage space and bandwidth. I do have well over 5 GB of storage space and 120 GB of bandwidth at my disposal (thanks Dreamhost, which recently added unlimited domains to all their plans). I probably couldn’t consume that much space and bandwidth, but when I can upload up to 2 GB per month for $25 a year (note to web services: this is a good price point) and the photos can be dowloaded unlimited times, Flickr wins out. ...

I’d like to thank whoever bought Meet the Fockers, Pirates of Silicon Valley, and The Bourne Identity through my Amazon links. I really appreciate it. Hopefully this will be the start of a trend. Living in your own place is a little expensive.

I pulled the trigger on it. I added Google Ads to Tag Central. I’ve also added a shop section to this site. If you’re looking to buy something I’ve reviewed on the site or anything else from Amazon, please use that page. There is no cost difference to you and I get a percentage of the sale. It’s a great way for you to get some merchandise at a good price generally with free shipping and support the site. ...

Back when the Supreme Court handed down their decision on Grokster, I made a few quick conclusions based upon some cursory reading I did. I didn’t really expect to get quoted on Computerworld. Derik DeLong says Grokster assisted in the act of piracy and that it, “Wasn’t just turning a blind eye.” I need to find a better way to figure when I get linked. It happened over a month ago.

Some time ago, I used Feedburner to make a new feed for the site. I called it the Superfeed and used their service to add in Flickr photos and del.icio.us bookmarks. However, I found it way too limiting. There were other sources I wanted to add, such as my Netflix notifications and my Ta-da List. While I used it though, I became addicted to their statistics. I could instantly gauge how many people were reading. ...

I recently added a 43 Places page to the site. 43 Places is yet another website that’s under the Robot Co-op umbrella. You can track where you’ve been and where you want to be, something that many people were doing with 43 Things. However, as it wasn’t designed for destinations, lots of duplicate goals were registered at 43 Things. For example, you might have “See Germany”, “Visit Germany”, “Go to Germany”, and so on. 43 Places is much more exact and allows for places within other places be entered that way (such as having Fenway Park in Boston). ...

I went through my list of podcasts last night, transferring them from NetNewsWire to iTunes. One of my absolute favorites is the Winecast. Check it out. Even if you don’t drink a lot of wine or know pretty much nothing, this podcast is a pleasure to listen to. I can’t speak for experienced wine drinkers, but for a novice like me, the show is a godsend. It explains the origins of various wine varieties. ...