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Just a short note. I finally launched BeeMedia, after much debating on the topic.

In an effort to use my new-found knowledge of SEO for purposes of good awesome, I decided to finally go for the gusto and let BeeMedia set sail.

The basic idea is that it will be a collection of reviews for affiliate products, each one of them given some decent backlink power to rank individually for their keywords.

It will be a slow, tedious build but at least it will have been indexed by Google from this point on.

Wii Fit

The other day, Sarah went to Target while she was waiting for me to finish work. While she was there, she spotted a Wii Fit and surprised me with it.

We’d been looking for one for a while, and they aren’t easy to find.

So for about a week, I’ve been checking in each day to weigh myself, get a BMI reading and do some exercises. I do push-ups, boxing, super hoola-hoop, yoga, the whole nine. It’s actually pretty exhausting.

The major benefit I’ve noticed is that I haven’t had a single headache since I started using it. In a regular week, I’ll get between five and seven headaches (sometimes two in a day). This could be attributed to the Wii Fit or to the fact that, coincidentally, I began taking a multivitamin a week ago. There’s really no way to tell but I do feel much better overall.

This is the first workout routine (besides riding my bike to and from work) that I’ve actually stuck with over a few days. I usually dread any kind of strenuous workout but with the Fit — number one, I get points and number two, I can see my progress up on the screen with the handy built-in calendar.

A while back, Sarah and I decided to start going to the gym but, well, that didn’t pan out. The $90 this thing costs was nothing compared to that; we can bust it out at any time, bust a move and not bust our asses getting to the gym and back.

Overall, I’m pretty happy with it so far. I used to be able to do over 100 push-ups in a set. Right now, I’m struggling with twenty.

Wow.

I just discovered an amazing source of Photoshop wizardy: Vandalay Design’s Photoshop Tutorials.

I’m no expert in Adobe Photoshop, but I do love to mess around and I use it to create designs and interfaces for my various web sites and web applications.

Here’s a little something I came up with just using one of the tutorials on the site-

This took me about 10 minutes to create just messing around with different techniques and the like.

Here’s another I did later on-

And again later on-

I’m still checking out the various tips and tricks on the site, but I wanted to let the people know!

-Scott

34,429.

That’s how many unique hits the blog got today and it’s the most uniques I’ve had to any website without paying for it through PPC.

Today started with me waking up to a ‘Bandwidth Exceeded/Site Suspended’ message and I knew either I had forgotten to check the bandwidth and a few hits had pushed it over the limit, or the unlikely had happened and Digg had killed me. I increased the bandwidth to around 10gb and the site was still down. That’s when my eyebrows went up and I checked my recent Digg submissions. Sure enough, I’d been front paged and there were angry Diggers asking for mirrors and describing the easy website take-down as ‘pathetic.’

It was glorious.

My first experience with the Digg effect and all for a picture of a kid jumping into flood water. Now all I had to do was to get the site back up and running with WP Super Cache! After about an hour of back and forth with support, I had the site back up with cached pages serving the digg users and everything was beautiful.

From that point on, my day has been spent doing work in between stat checks. It doesn’t bring in any money or anything like that, but it just amazes me how many people swarm to sites once they hit the front page of social bookmarking sites.

The hope is that the site gains some backlinks and a little more link power for future endeavors.

Out of all the things today, I am most amused with being the #1 result on Google for ‘invisible hammock.’

Strange day, but great experience. Hope it’s not the last!

-Scott

Hello and welcome to ScottMW.com!

I decided to break away from blog.scottmw.com as it’s a little old and lackluster. All I really want to do is have a place to post interesting things I find online, thoughts, jokes, etc., so here it goes. I may not post every day, or even every week but at least now I have a place to post basically whatever I want.

So there you have it. Thanks for stopping by.

Scott