IM Fun

I love IM. Here’s why - I was greeted with this blinking IM window when I came back to my desk:

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I haven’t posted in weeks but I think my baby boy deserves a post to himself.

Dominic Michael Dalasta
“Nico”, “Dom”, “Gillypop” (don’t ask)
He’s a happy little guy.
Born: 10/7/07.9 lbs 1 oz
Full head of hair
Vikings fan
Has his own website already, but he’s not allowed on myspace yet - dad will be closely monitoring usage
Likes it when you fake hiccup

Thanks to all family & friends for all the gifts, love, and support. It’s been an incredible life-changing experience.

I’ve also learned a ton of new keywords because of this experience. From collicky to thrush to laction consultant (which I picked up lactationconsultant.com - sweet)

An SEO seminar on Insider Secrets from a “Master”. Apparantly being a master means you don’t have to worry about such things as title tags or functional navigation.

Gotta love this: <title>titlefixme</title>
http://www.the-dma.org/seminars/seocopywriter/

Someday the Direct Marketing Association is going to surprise us all and show how they really do understand this internet thing everybody is always talking about.

UPDATE 5/17: nice work guys, you fixed your title.  Next step, firefox support for your nav.

Not every post or page needs an image. If you’re really struggling with an image to go along with the article or profile you’ve just written, just don’t do it. Seriously. Here are 2 examples of pages gone very wrong. If you - as a reader - are able to make it through the content without losing focus to the train-wreck images you have way more focus than me. No offense guys.

• BCM-Law.com Lawyer Page (he is a trial lawyer, maybe he’s just showing off his courtroom tenacity)
  
• Wired.com Article

thanks to Marshal for showing me this

taken w/ a camera phone during “write in your journal” time

The deceased chain letter and email forward has been reincarnated to blog tagging. This round seems to have picked up some steam. I got tagged from Trose. He may call himself a D list blogger, but that means I’m totally off the grid. Much like the rest of Seattle the last couple days.

So here are my 5 fun facts:

1. My grandpa could have run a front for the Iowa mafia, but turned them down
Who would have even guessed there would be such a thing as the Iowa mafia…let alone that they would need a front. Still. It would have been sweet if I was a card-carrying member of the mafiosa. I wish I could have gotten the full story from him before he was sleeping with the fishes.

2. like Todd, i also was a waiter for many years.
That all came to a crashing halt when a customer at chili’s found a handle from the mashed potato machine sticking out of his side and loudly and intensely complained. I laughed, he got madder, I realized my subservient days had to be over.

3. I was a pipsqueak when I was young.
I had to sit on phonebooks to take my driver test because i was so small (no, i didn’t pass it the first time. let the hazing begin). Until i turned 21, my license had me at 105lbs 5′4″ - which at the time was even a lie to make me seem bigger

4. Most interesting brush w/ fame was when Prince’s car ran out of gas at my bus stop in 4th grade.
It was a white convertible with a purple top. He was just getting home - 7am-ish - and asked us to use one of our parents’ phones. i didn’t know who he was at the time, but I think he may have been the only person at the busstop who was smaller than me.

5. I proposed to my wife through a website (noraanddarren.com)

Since I don’t even have 5 regular readers, let alone 5 that have blogs, it’s going to be tough to tag 5 people.
1. Chase
2. Marshal
3. Jeff
4. John
5. my most frequent visitor: random dude from torrence, ca that shows up in logs