by Vinny O'Hare on April 28, 2012
On Friday I decided to go out and try to capture a few shots of the space shuttle as it arrives at JFK Airport. This ended up being an adventure and a lesson all rolled up in one and one heck of a good exercise. For the past week I have been tracking the plans and try to come up with a strategy for getting good pics. I was figuring that they would have to use the longest runway and land into the wind so it was kind of easy to figure out where to go. On Thursday I joined an aviation forum after seeing an article online about the best places to view the shuttle landing.
I really have to thank the guys on the forum for some tips. After chatting with a few guys I found out that the popular place to go was by the Inwood golf course. To me this didn’t make sense as the plane would be going down the runaway and all you would see is the tail. I wanted it from the front so I decided to go to the place near the train bridge on the north side of the runway. To me it just made more sense. I walked about 3 miles to the spot where I thought would be the best for taking pictures.
There were four of us on the beach and it was very windy and a little cold but I knew we were in the right spot. I actually met some guys from the forum. How often does that happen? Join a forum and the next day you meet someone from that forum. I was glad because one of the guys suggested a camera setting which I used to get these shots. I also learned a lot about taking pictures of airplanes from them.
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by Vinny O'Hare on March 20, 2012
A few days ago my nephew and his cousin come over to get their laptops fixed by “Uncle Vinny” since he is a computer person. Since I spend all day online my family assumes that I fix computers for a living. Yes I am good at seeing what is broken after they tell me what they were doing and I am usually successful in fixing their computers.
This week my nephew Joey’s computer wasn’t playing nice after a windows update and Norton’s decided they didn’t want to play nice together. That happens from time to time. We did a roll back and all was well until the windows update happened again and we went right back to square one. We have a new computer shop around the corner from my house, we took the laptop in. I gave up on it.
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by Vinny O'Hare on March 2, 2012
On Tuesday we had our monthly Affiliate Summit meetup and we started talking about backlinks. We usually talk about this topic all the time but this time around we talked about checking backlinks. Actually I was glad to see people are looking at backlinks since Google uses them in part to rank their websites in the search engine.
Someone brought up that he noticed that one of his keyword rankings had some funny things going on. The top website ranking for the keyword had under 10 backlinks but the second site had about 1008. I think he said the 3rd site had like 5 or so. We are not talking about a very competitive niche so it didn’t take a lot of keywords to rank well.
His question was how does a site with 10 backlinks beat out a site with 1008 backlinks. The answer to me was obvious but to someone new I could see why it would be confusing. Without knowing the exact details I blurted out that it was because the second site bought 1000 backlinks from someone and they really only had 8 real backlinks.
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