In April this year I remember reading about how a US court had ruled that Customs or Border agents, whichever side of the pond you’re from, could search your laptop. In fact they could search any electronic device. I remember at the time that I have nothing to hide or do I? I work for Casino’s … is that Cool in the eyes of the border control officers? I knew already that I protected my browser history and cookies, I delete them on closing Firefox down, but what about My email? Ok I don’t need years of email but it’s nice to be able to jump back in time a little so this is what I thought would be the best solution ( btw of course I was way too lazy to implement any of this )

I have a Lenovo X300, awesome laptop, it runs Vista and has a Biometric finger printer reader ;)

Account One:
Border agents account, I would set up one account using my right hand because I’m right handed. This will be the dummy account so not to alert the border guards. I felt it might look a little odd if I swiped my left hand across the sensor if they thought I was right handed. In this account I would have Family photos of my parents and wife etc, No Firefox installed, a link to a hotmail email account on my desktop. I would have subscribed this account to a few websites like Fishing weekly and Home Husband World and possibly even Knitting weekly. But that I think that would be enough to get me through customs 

Account Two:
This time I use my left hand and one finger off my right hand just in case I lost the hand in a freak accident. I would want  to still get access to the good stuff wouldn’t I! I would set up VPN connections to my Home systems that I have my email client running on, Firefox fully loaded with loads of Voodoo plug ins, of course the finger scanner would only let me half way in. I would have PGP’d the whole drive up and made sure the password was never used anywhere else.

Account Three:
The Porn account, ok I needed to get my penis tattooed with a finger print and this is where I realised that maybe, just maybe, I was starting to get a little carried away.

Ok Microsoft what you upto? Why is MSN Messenger up and down like a fiddlers elbow? I have experienced a load of error codes this afternoon ranging from key ports, firewall, time synchronisation. The other odd thing is that the msn messages actually look for a short period of time if they have been sent, then  a bit later it fails. Great if your talking to an SEO client and mid sentence it goes belly up.

Added 11/11/2008

that’s what I’m getting grrrrr

Time to spice up the David Naylor Blog. Many ask does Dave really have an SEO Rock Star Lifestyle ? Well now is your chance to find out. What does he really think ? Do you have a specific question you want to ask him ? Starting next week we will be profiling the larger than life SEO and finding out what really makes him tick.

When you explore the SEO community many newcomers ask the question, what exactly are the famous SEO folk famous for? Good point. I’ll be asking those questions too.

Feel free to input your Seo questions,,to Dave and others…

As an addendum to his article on link building for kindergartner’s over at SEOMoz Pritam Barhate posits the idea of an SEO Wiki, which is an interesting idea to which my first reaction was “Cool! Let’s do it!”. But on reflection I think there are several reasons a public SEO wiki just wouldn’t work:

• SEO moves too fast
  Techniques and tricks change almost daily in the current environment. Much of an SEO wiki’s content would be out of date almost as soon as it was written. Even with a core of dedicated users trying to keep things current it’s not hard to imagine out of the way areas being forgotten and showing inaccurate content. And just like real encyclopedias bad information can sometimes be worse than no information at all.
• SEOs argue too much
  The endless point/counterpoint that fills the days of Editors and contributors on Wikipedia has nothing on the SEO community. For every person who’ll stand up and champion a certain method you’ll find at least one other authoritative voice willing to swear blind such a thing will get you googleslapped. SEO seems to be an area where it’s impossible to please all of the people all of the time. That isn’t a good fit for a community edited wiki.
• An SEO wiki
  When a blogger outlines techniques or methods you know who’s speaking and wether you value their word. An SEO wiki would be faceless and easily gameable. What’s to stop some nefarious SEO (no, not DaveN) seeding the wiki with techniques that lead to banning/lost rankings? Or to use a competiting sites techniques they’ve investigated as an example on how to do (or not to do) things, thus exposing their competition in a very public place? In short there’d be any number of ways to game an SEO wiki for commerical advantage, and few of them would be benign.

I’d love to see an authoritative wiki-style resource for SEO, but if it’s going to happen it’d need to be a closed system edited by a handful of experts…and who’s going to give away their entire armoury of techniques in that way?

Dan Mcskelly

Ok, I was chatting to a salesman about mattresses the other day, I have always liked the Big Heavy Feather filled type the sort you can actually snuggle into. Well Becky has been sold on the memory foam idea, but I’m not sure. Dan used to have memory foam but said “he just sank to the bottom but his wife said her side was fine!” … hmm Becky is about the same size as Dan’s wife and I’m only slightly smaller than Dan, So what’s the score… is Memory foam ok if you are 6 foot and heavy and you partner is 5′6 and very light ! Do you end up sleeping at different levels in the bed?

DaveN