SES Chicago 2005 began yesterday and although I couldn’t attend this year (I had a free pass from a friend with a booth in the expo hall, but I found out too late), I’m keeping up with everything that’s going on via Barry Schwartz’ Search Engine Roundtable Blog. Barry and the other site authors do an awesome job of covering the key information from each session while leaving out anything irrelevant, and the additional comments they include keep it interesting.
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While employed for over 4 years on different contract positions as a Software Quality Assurance Engineer, I became very familiar with a variety of programming languages (not HTML or CSS which are markup languages, I’m referring to ASP, PHP, JAVA, XML, and a few others). Some of these languages I actually became so involved with that I ended a few projects as a novice programmer in whatever language I needed to focus on as required.
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I realize that it’s a superlative title to a very subjective matter, but I have honestly felt for years that the talented and intelligent (and sometimes not even intelligent) people I have met that are successful all share one common characteristic. They’re all able to get past the single biggest obstacle that prevents most people from being successful entrepreneurs: self-doubt.
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I have actually owned this domain name since 2000, not March of 2005 as whois.sc and all other domain information sources show. I purchased this domain five years ago as an easy way of showing some of the websites I had designed as well as post my resume for potential employers. And thanks to the Wayback Machine (when will it update, Jim?) I at least have proof that I’ve had a site here since 2001.
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The guys at Best Of The Web just added a blog directory! If you haven’t heard of Best Of The Web, you should submit your site(s) ASAP because: 1) it’s a very old directory (been online since 1994) 2) it’s a very high quality directory, human-edited and truly focused on relevancy, and 3) the site owners regularly attend marketing events and are fun to party with as I’ve found out on a few occasions.
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Just read a post over at Yahoo’s Search Blog indicating that Yahoo has added a few new search shortcuts to the site. Their list of shortcuts is now up to 30, which is great, but as usual this news follows on the heels of their competitors.
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Being new to blogging, I initially envisioned a free-flowing format with articles, advice, and news from around the web with my own two pennies thrown in here and there. I’m now encountering a big problem that I didn’t even see coming, and it’s prohibiting me from posting the kind of information I’d really like to share with the rest of the world.
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So….maybe I should have given it a little more time before my first post about how great Google’s new free web analytics service is.

I setup another seperate account a few days after my initial post, since I have some websites that I own with other investors and some that I own 100% of. It appears that Google has somehow confused the two accounts with each other.
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