By Greg Hluska
Over the last few weeks, I have tried to write something of an introduction to web site marketing. I tried to teach you how a search engine ‘thinks’, showed you the basic tools you can use to drive search traffic to your site, and wrote an article on some tools you can use to research various keywords.
Today, I am going to write about a topic that will especially interest people who have just started a web site. The sandbox refers to a probationary period that all new sites must go through with major search engines. I am writing about it because it is a topic that very few new webmasters know about it, despite the fact that it should play a huge role in how they plan and administer their web sites. Read more »
By Greg Hluska
These words brought us luck last year…
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Have no fear for atomic energy,
‘Cause none of them can stop the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look? Ooh!
Some say it’s just a part of it:
We’ve got to fulfil the book.
By Greg Hluska
The Legislative Building, Regina.Saskatchewan
In less than twelve hours, one of our friends is going to face ‘the music’ at the courthouse on Smith Street. It makes me very sad – a wonderful man with some horrific problems is being forced to fight for his right to earn a few extra dollars a month. When I last spoke with him, he was angry, but hopeful. He dreamed of hearing the court throw out the charge and of feeling vindication.
But, most of all, I am sad because our city is telling a wonderful man that he does not belong. That he cannot live the kind of life he wants. That he is not deserving of the rewards of free enterprise.
My friend has been told that he is not as human as I am. And that, my friends, is the greatest crime of them all.
By Greg Hluska
One of our vendors is facing a ‘panhandling charge’ and is due in court on Wednesday morning. Despite our problems from last year, this is the first time that one of our vendors have faced actual criminal charges. I am incredibly worried about him right now and am sad that it has come to this.
By Greg Hluska
If you enjoy Monty Python, I suggest you watch – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSqkdcT25ss and then follow reginastreets on Twitter. And, if you don’t like Monty Python, you should follow us anyways.
By Greg Hluska
Regina writer/publisher/wacko, Greg Hluska broke the reginastreets.ca template – hence the magazine’s newly launched site is using this crappy default template.
When asked for comment, Hluska complained, “Internet Explorer 6 is my downfall. The site is perfect in Chrome, Firefox, Safari and IE7+ but I can’t figure out how IE 6 handles (or mishandles) CSS. The template passes W3C Validation, but it still looks wack in IE6. I have had a hard week, leave me alone.”
By Stacey Lolacher
Don’t you just love when cool stuff is happening all around you? Take the Frozen Show… like most of the interesting occurrences, a friend (in this case my roommate) told me that they saw the coolest thing, a TV show on the internet that’s all about Canadian innovation in technology, and it’s produced in Saskatoon! Now, my roomie’s a total tech-head, lol… and I’m but a minor enthusiast. But I checked it out and really enjoyed it!
Moreover, the Frozen Show is very important in the broader sense to Saskatchewan. As the article in this month’s issue aptly points out, Saskatchewan is traditionally thought of as a resource economy. That, “conventional wisdom suggests that our province lives or dies by agriculture, mining, and the petroleum industry. However, this… ignores a very strong (and rapidly growing) technology sector”. (RSM, June 2009) Read more »
By Stacey Lolacher
I just really couldn’t be more excited about this cool new gadget… and its groundbreaking technology was developed right here in Regina, SK. I just love when great innovation happens in my own backyard (so to speak)! Even better is that it seems the Smartswipe was made for me! It’s a totally secure credit card reader for those who want to shop online. I don’t shop online regularly, for the most part because I don’t want all my money and information stolen!! I realize that it’s unlikely and that it’s safe to shop online… or is it?? Read more »
By Stacey Lolacher
A confession – I absolutely love to vote! I actually thought that voting was mandatory in Canada until I was 12 years old, lol… when I found out it wasn’t mandatory in Canada, just in our house. But when I go and vote, I know that my views, like many of yours, will not be represented. I live in Saskatchewan, and it pains me that our voice counts for so little when the polls close. I also find myself a bit confused over the absolute reluctance on the part of the public and our politicians to really commit to a positive change in our antiquated first-past-the-post system. Our electoral system was designed to serve a society in which only white, male property owners could vote!! And we still use it! It served a certain population then, and it serves a certain population now.
It’s almost funny, I mean, this issue isn’t a stalled car people! The damn engine has seized!! LOL… the public has been convinced that proportional representation is too complex, and all sorts of bad things will happen! Yeesh… talk about a myth! Read more »
