What do you mean by descriptive file names?

Things like colin_firth_in_a_bathtub.jpg as opposed to colin_firth_03.jpg, for ex.

(OH HAI COLIN FIRTH IN A BATHTUB!!)

I could change the alt text to be the name of the person and the topic of the site.

That might help. This stuff is always a little experimental anyway -- there's no definitive guide. But the more the machine has to go on, and the better structured it is to show what people would actually be looking for, the better. After all, the machine knows about cat videos now, so how far off can wet men be?

(we could do more research on yr sites, I'm sure.)

Hmm. Changing the filenames from sequential order would mean recoding the entire system of sites, so that's outside my scope.

I think I'll h2 tag the names, make the alt text a tiny bit more descriptive and use captions more often.

If I could work out a way to incorporate "Iron Man" and "Avengers" into a RDJ page, for instance, but it's not like I want to tell the viewer those words. That they know. I just want Skynet to know...or maybe it already does.

My understanding is that search engines go by headers, then text, then alt text, then file names, more or less. (amych, jump in if any of this is crazy talk.) Links to the site are increasingly important. So if all the Buffistas with blogs linked to all the Buffista blogs, their positions would all go higher.

So my brain adapted fine to the new trackpad scrolling paradigm in OS X Lion.

Just one quibble: Now I keep on scrolling the wrong way while using the mouse's scroll wheel on my work computer. It's an XP machine with a Microsoft USB Intellimouse and there's no way to reverse the scroll wheel direction.

(Yeah, we're still on XP. Vista was out when we bought these computers, but our hardware consultants refused to support Vista so we got the computers with XP.)

I guess I'm SOL unless I want to do some hardware hacking.

The robot revolution begins here: [link]

It's funny because the robot wins by cheating.

Which is not inconsistant with a robot revolution.

"I busted him up." -Data

I still had debugging on when I went to Facebook and noticed this t id="facebook"class="hide_post_actions_until_hover expand_nav_messages2 hide_old_comments fix_comments fix_comment_cursor fix_comment_wrap hide_happening_now unlock_right_col chat_disable_sidebar hide_top_story_indicator lock_header timeline_hide_friends_box timeline_hide_maps timeline_single_column ticker canHaveFixedElements bfb_theme_year_2012 bfb_theme_month_5 bfb_theme_date_29 bfb_theme_hour_8 bfb_theme_minutes_51 bfb_theme_seconds_38 " lang="e

Google Chrome Browser, Google Drive Coming to iOS [Now Available]

Google announced today that it is releasing a version of its Google Chrome for the iPhone and iPad. The company says it will go live on the App Store later today. Macquarie analyst Ben Schacter predicted last month that Google Chrome was coming to iOS.

One issue:

The biggest hurdle that Chrome features, of course, is that it cannot be set to be the default browser on iOS devices, a capability that Apple also reserves for Safari. So, while you can use the browser to your heart’s content, it will not be the default handler for any URLs clicked. That’s a huge hurdle to overcome.

I shall try it out and report back.

eta: kinda hard to edit this text box as the keyboard makes the text box small. Ok it's better in portrait mode.

eta: Can't hide the URL box either. May be a deal- breaker.