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The blog has been down due to a hosting issue. My last backup was 12/7. No real loss other than my status updates, and I have been thinking about shifting those to a separate feed anyway…

Update – Apparently I did not backup my links. Hope to have them restored within the next few days.

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Someone was googling Corey Feldman and I think this time they were actually looking for me, or at least my Facebook page. I’m relatively hard to Google due to the a certain 80’s actor with whom I share a name. But I do have a big enough online presence that with certain key bits of information I’m actually pretty easy to find. Simply add DC (as in Washington) to a Corey Feldman search string e.g. “Corey Feldman DC” and my Facebook page is top of the list. Add my middle initial, even with out the DC – “Corey J Feldman” and you get my little website as the top hit, at least at the time of writing this post. Anyway, I was looking though my logs the other night and I found a google referral from the search string “Corey J Feldman DC Facebook”.

Clearly whoever was looking for my FB page knew enough about me to add my middle initial and hometown, yet they were not already a Facebook “Friend”. This eliminates a large percentage of people I know, personally at any rate. I don’t have any current coworkers, not for any particular reason, there are no embarrassing photos or status updates, I guess being in HR I tend error on the side of maintaining professional boundaries. I suppose it could be a Twitter “follower”, but I have not exactly been particularly active as of late. I’m also surprised that they googled it versus searched from within Facebook, although it is possible they don’t have a Facebook profile – I do actually know a couple people not on FB.

I am not sure why this caught my interest other than I find it fascinating and surprising when anyone actually looks for me. Though I am the consummate Leo (for the record I do not put any stock in Astrology, just using it here as a shortcut description of my personality) and I am drawn to center stage, I’m not always conformable being there. Yet I keep tweeting, blogging and facebooking and I occasionally read my site logs to see what my visitors are reading and what brought them here. So maybe I doth protest to much, or maybe like everyone else I am slightly messy and have conflicting personalty traits.

Are you ever surprised to find out someone has googled you? Or if you have a small/smallish blog, do you look at your site stats.

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Happy New Years everyone! Annoying resolutions post most likely follow.

In the mean time here are some interesting search phrases that brought people to my site. What are the key phrases that bring people to your sites?

corey s diaper

i hate mornings

baltimore harbor boats

port discovery baltimore human resources

port discovery hr

could this day get any slower

i hate the coreys

favia coffee machine comparison

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i hate mornings help

free ebook download mike carey vicious circle

man bag backpack

back ground corey check

corey feldman – where is he now – dec 2008

wrong

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did cory feldman have a baby

melissa and corey Feldman

health clubs

i think still the fundamentals of our economy are strong hurt

kidville Rockville

kidville blogs

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looking for a job or need a job or job search or job hunting or unemployed or got fired or layed off

mike carey vicious circle lit

american economy is strong

corey feldman and obama

corey feldman religion

how do u ping someone with an iphone?

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I don’t have a formal commenting policy, not that I have tons of commenters or anything.  But I have never “not approved” a message that was obviously spam free.  Today I received a comment on my McCain post that I still have sitting in moderation.  The commenter basically stated that McCain and Palin are way ahead of Obama in the polls, called Obama an idiot and stated that he would “go the way of Jesse Jackson and leech money from the African American Population.” Clearly I don’t agree but the reason I haven’t approved it was because he/she wrote it claiming to be Barack Obama.  Had it been written in third person, as much as I disagree, I would have approved it.  It’s a personal pet peeve of mine; you want to post something anonymously, that fine, just don’t pretend to be someone you are not.  I am curious what other bloggers do.   What do you moderate?   What are your comment pet peeves? 

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Had to install new version of Livejournal cross poster.  Fingers are crossed!

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Trying out the Wordpress App for the iPhone. It was easy to setup. Creating new post adding tags and catagories seems intutive. This is actually my second attempt at posting. The save button was missing first go round and I lost the post. It is a nice little app but given my challenges with spelling I doubt I will use it regularly. Apple, I need me some spell check!

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Updated wordpress to 2.5.  Hopefully it hasn’t broken the LJ crosspost plug-in…

Update:

The only noticeable SNAFU in the upgrade seems to be the substitution of some odd character substitutions for punctuation.  Although they were not re-crosscposted to LJ so it is only showing up on the main site.  I can live with that…

Update 2:

The problem is the original install encoded in latin1 while the upgrade uses utf-8.  I looked at the process of Converting Database Character Sets .  It isn’t particularly well documented but it looks more time consuming then difficult.  I will just wait for a script or update to g30rg3_x converter plug-in.  It is definitely not compatible with version 2.5.  It truncated several of my posts. Fortunately I heeded the backup warnings first…

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I am updating my MX which is what guides email through the intertubes.  If you need to reach me feel free to IM me at coreyjf on AIM

Update – Not sure if it is fully propagated, but I have email on the new server!