MightyFunk

A TinyURL is a way to obfus­cate — and sim­plify a long URL into some­thing much sim­pler. Recently, I’ve seen more and more friends post them on sites such as Face­book. I think that these types of links and ser­vice are here to stay. In fact, one rea­son why I am writ­ing about this is because I noticed a Word­press Plu­gin that offers to turn every one of your links into a TinyURL — which while in con­cept I think is nice — but in prac­tice is a ter­ri­ble idea.

I recently wrote a long and some­what detailed arti­cle on set­ting up a Word­press Blog. It’s meant for peo­ple with lit­tle to inter­me­di­ate knowl­edge of nav­i­gat­ing around the web. You do have to get your hands “a lit­tle bit dirty,” so it’s not com­pletely “easy,” but most peo­ple should be able to fol­low the steps out­lined there. I also give away a few of my secrets to obtain­ing a high rank on the Inter­net for search engines.

If you have a moment, please check it out!

http://www.lunarlog.com/2009/08/setting-up-a-wordpress-blog/

My other blog, Lunarlog has been com­pletely revamped. I did away with my old design and updated it with some­thing “sleeker.” I also tossed out that old Mov­able­type engine which I hadn’t updated in years.

I let it fall into neglect because I’ve been too busy with my busi­ness, and plus every time I posted an arti­cle on it, I would get hit with tons of com­ment spam for months to come. So excuses aside, it’s up and run­ning now. I’ll be post­ing more indus­try spe­cific news related to Lunarstu­dio, 3D illus­tra­tion, and Archi­tec­tural Ren­der­ings there and try to reserve this blog for more mis­cel­la­neous infor­ma­tion and top­ics. Please check it out and let me know what you think when you have a chance.

Just installed the 2.8.4 update because of a secu­rity hack which allows peo­ple to change the admins pass­word. If you don’t have it on your blog, I would rec­om­mend that you install it now.

There’s a say­ing which goes, “if you don’t like some­thing, don’t do it.” Or rather in this case, “don’t use it.” Unfor­tu­nately, in the case of my Inter­net Ser­vice Provider, there really isn’t any bet­ter alter­na­tive than Com­cast (which I’m effec­tively renam­ing “COMCRAP” in the Boston area. I could go with sec­ond best, which is Ver­i­zon FIOS, but to be per­fectly hon­est, Comcast’s over­all ser­vice and pric­ing is much bet­ter. I do obtain rel­a­tively fast Inter­net speeds, good up-time, and the cus­tomer sup­port (when prob­lems do arise) is gen­er­ally top-notch. How­ever, I am cur­rently tak­ing issue with Comcast’s lat­est “method of con­duct­ing business.”

This web­site has been updated to the lat­est Word­press 2.8.3 update. If you encounter any errors while try­ing to post or view any­thing here, please feel free to com­ment and let me know. Thanks!

I just added a new domain and parked it on top of my www.lunarstudio.com web­site. It’s called www.architecturalrenderings3d.com. The whole point of this is to see if it has any influ­ence on the Bing search engine key­word rel­e­vancy which I spec­u­late it does. As to whether or not their seach engine detects parked/masked domains and down­ranks you for dupli­cate con­tent — that I’m not so sure. By mak­ing a link appear here, hope­fully it will trig­ger the major search engines to pick it up. I’ll get back in a few days to see if it has helped for any of the engines.

I recently posted an arti­cle on Google’s new beta ser­vice called Knol. It’s actu­ally a fairly good web­site and looks promis­ing, assum­ing that users main­tain a higher level of qual­ity and rat­ings regard­ing sub­jects. I try to describe my line of work to the gen­eral com­mu­nity, called archi­tec­tural ren­der­ings. What­ever extra traf­fic and busi­ness “atten­tion” I receive for Lunarstu­dio is of course, highly wel­come espe­cially in this cur­rent econ­omy, but I think my post actu­ally con­tains a mes­sage that many read­ers could poten­tially use.

I’m test­ing with my sytem to see if I can get PageR­ank back onto my main web­site by post­ing the fol­low­ing links. Recently, I changed some of my folder names then a few pages dropped from PR4 to 0 or unavail­able. I need to fig­ure out if there’s some way I can repair that. I hate to “scar” my blog like this (although, I really should redo this web­site) but I need to see if I can get the back­links rolling again.

Here’s 4 links that need the repair and I’ll see if this trig­gers a reindex:

http://www.lunarstudio.com/portfolio/architectural-renderings-commercial-interior.html

I’d like to men­tion that I have recently made a major web­site update to my Archi­tec­tural Ren­der­ings com­pany web­site, Lunarstu­dio. The over­all look and feel has stayed the same, but many of the images, as well as new ones have been updated. Sev­eral new cat­e­gories have been added includ­ing Sketchup Mod­el­ing Ser­vices and Cus­tom 3d Mod­el­ing Ser­vices.

If you have a spare moment, please check out my archi­tec­tural ren­der­ings web­site at:

Archi­tec­tural Ren­der­ings by Lunarstudio.