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Aaron Wall: Emotionally Engage or Enrage:

Market research, site structure, and on page optimization are important. Doing them well can double or triple the earnings of a site, but when you get into the big fields where people are deeply passionate or interested links are needed to win. And those links are often a reflection of our emotions.

When you look at your site do you find anything that is emotionally engaging? enraging?

As the web gets more efficient and search engines gather more data, those who evoke emotional responses will keep gaining marketshare while bland webmasters fall quietly into the abyss.

If you aren't linked to by others, you have no chance of being seen or heard.

Of course, there is a chicken and the egg here.

And as Aaron Wall suggests, it pushes us to post content that shouts out to be heard.

java.net: Java Performance Tuning: A Conversation With Java Champion Kirk Pepperdine:

While I'm all for performance planning, I'm dead set against premature optimizations. When is a plan a plan, and when is it premature? I guess it's a little like the difference between art and porn: You'll know it when you see it.

I'm long overdue to post new photos of Emma, but I really should start to post videos because pictures can't capture the singing, dancing wonder that is Emma Rose. Wow.

Last night she was dancing to Funky Town, while singing and and playing her Ukulele (her guitar).

I kid you not/

We're looking into different classes for her to have some fun at.

io9 has a terrific guide: "Doctor Who: How To Discover Classic Doctor Who In 3 Easy Steps".

To protest the Communications Decency Act of 1996, a large portion of the Web had turned their site's background color black. Read about it on Wikipedia and read Howard Rheingold's thoughts on the historic day.

It's interesting to hink about the collective action that it represented and to think about that in today's context. I mean - Yahoo! turned its home page black!

An Introduction to Compassionate Screen Scraping

It always comes down to teamwork - or lack of it.

The Atlantic has published an eye opening piece that is a must read.

Brain Workshop - a Dual N-Back game - fun and challenging.

IBM developerWorks: Practical threaded programming with Python

Mom loved Neil Diamond and on some level, his music remains a part of my life.

NYTimes: Backstage With Neil Diamond, the Marathon Man of Pop

"I never expected that I would be doing this for as long as I've been doing it," he said after his sold-out show at the XL Center here on Thursday, having changed out of his black silk stage costume and into jeans and a loose-fitting cotton shirt, his eyes hidden behind small round glasses.

"So looking back and seeing that it's been over 40 years since the first hits makes you think, 'Is there a time that you stop?' " he continued. "But I don't think I'm ever going to stop. It's the only challenge I have left in my life."