I have been wanting for some time now to start a series based around helping people find better results in Google. One thing that immediately comes to mind that bugs me lately is when trying to search for a product review, the results that come back are mostly based around buying the product from some shopping site. While this shows me what I can buy I think Google really needs to work on whats relevant to me and not make me surf though 3-4 pages to find something thats really a review and not a shopping site.

A typical search that you would think would work for searching for a product review would be:

product name review

While this works with some items you might find your self looking at 2 pages or more of shopping results. What you can do next is us the ‘-’ (minus key) to remove keywords that you don’t want in your search. What does that mean you say?
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Not much of a blog post today, been working hard on a new project for mobile video streaming but here is a joke for all.

I read this funny joke in the new Playboy I got the other day and though I would share it. I have heard it before but I wanted to spread the love just in case you missed it. (more…)

One Night in Bangkok

Originally uploaded by Stuck in Customs.

Someone sent me this link the other day since they knew I liked HDR photos (high dynamic range). This one guy really seems to amaze me on the quality of his work, I’m sure their are some tweaks in photoshop but non the less his stuff is deff worth looking at. Check out more on his flickr account or head to his site Stuck in Customs.

While playing poker last night, I took a photo of the cards, don’t ask, i a shutter bug so I always have my camera phone or real camera out taking pics. After waking up today to my surprise the photo I took out caught a cheater in action or the cheaters ghost buddy.

In in all seriousness I thought this pic was sorta neat and im not 100% sure what happened, but it looks pretty interesting.

Just watched a new documentary movie based on the real cocaine traffickers and dealers back in the 70’s/80’s from Miami. This film was an excellent incite into a lot of what happened back then and who the real dealers where.

The city of Miami was both torn apart and also built upon drug money as this documentary points out. The film takes hours and hours of real tv footage, news reels, and accounts from some of the dealers them selves (I guess they already served their time and can speak about it).

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I arrived shortly after 6pm an the place was already packed with diggers. I was surprised to see allot of younger people at the Chalet, luckily this place wasn’t a 21 and only establishment. So I had some time to kill, I started talking to a few people and one of them was announcing a new magazine on the show named JPG which takes the best submitted photos on the web from amateurs and prints them in his mag. You can check out his site here. Downing another IPA (#2) the place started to get really packed and anticipation started to grow. Finally Kevin and Alex showed up and where mobbed by the diggers, almost along the lines of rock stars which is pretty cool that with the internet almost anyone with a video camera has the potential to become a net celebrity.

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Was out in san francisco taking some photos after a few days of rain, here is yet another geo photo, which is a way to write the long/lat to your jpeg files and services like flickr and others will map your photo for you. You can check out my photos section as well for more.
Click on the image which takes you to flicker, under the image you will see links that will display where the photo was taken (google earth, maps, satellite, topo, etc)