Ok... So I have been a little busy over the past few weeks, but how I missed the launch of SNAP but Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction is beyond me.  It is quite likely if you have spent any time with me in past few months you would have heard me mention ROOT.  It took me some time to track down the bottles that currently occupy my shelf, but now I have a new hyper local concoction to lust over. 

Check out the introducing video...

As soon as I manage to procure a bottle I will share my experience and what I think here.  I have a number of cooking ideas for this and will try hard to get a bottle.

Well I am still sorting out all the issues with my server, but a move back to wordpress will probably have to wait till after Seattle Geek Week.  The next two weeks are just jam packed with the geekiest of activities and if you are in Seattle you should definitly participate.  You will be able to hear me speak or talk to me at the following events:

I am one of the organizers and acting MC for BarCamp Seattle and I am going to be talking about OODA loops and Digital insurgancy at what is one of my favorite events every year.  This event takes place at Adobe on Aug 14-15.

The good folks at Trada and Search Marketing Now have reached out to me to do a webinar on Cost Per Aquisition calculations.   You can listen to me pontificate on why spending a buck to make a buck is stupid and how to calculate your CPA and important it is to a successful campaign.   If you want to listen to this presentation you can register here:

Demystifying “Cost Per Acquisition” and its Impact on Search Marketing Campaigns

Also I need to thank Peter Chee and ThinkSpace in Redmond for allowing me to present from their facility and use their phone.

The Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) is a semi-annual gamer festival held in Seattle and Boston. I will be working the booth for Logitech and generally enjoying watching all the cosplay.  You can find me there and I might be doing some giveaways so keep an eye on twitter. PAX 2010 is Sept 3rd-5th.

The Houston Internet Marketers Association has foolishly invited me back to speak again this year.  I will be discussing the effect of other search engines and future search engines on your marketing campaigns and strategies.   If you are in Houston check it out; Sept 16th.

There are more events coming up later in the year and I am participating in a number of events as a citizen over the next couple of weeks here in Seattle so please feel free to reach out if you want to connect at a upcoming event.

So I hope you didn’t notice, but my blog got hacked.  The initial attack that locked me out of my site occurred about a couple of weeks ago and was while I was on the road for Logitech.  I didn’t notice until I got sent emails from a few good friends saying the site was spitting out Malware warnings.  I admit this is a pretty shameful thing given that I have preached about securing your wordpress and checking for tell tale signs of Malware.   But Friday night I set up a Squarespace account and moved my site of my server to buy me time to fix my server before relaunching the site.  

I consider myself pretty lucky the move from wordpress to squarespace to only a couple of hours. This is the big advantage of hosted solutions and I am thankful because I am on the road and the one thing I didn’t want to deal with was sending someone to a site that might infect or damage a computer.   If you visited my site in the last few weeks I am sorry that I may have poised a security threat to you.

Moving forward, I do have plans to continue move back to Wordpress and probably thesis. I remain a huge fan of the Wordpress community and I have a number of other sites that are running on Wordpress. I do have a number of sites on squarespace as well, but I find the environment a little limiting. So I will be looking at my site in the next few weeks and I will work out a plan to get the server back on line.  Thanks for the support!