Content Development, SEO, Squidoo Lenses and Assorted Mayhem

Back in 2008 I created Netbook Comparison and just recently, I focused on Toshiba laptops since we’ve owned them for about 6 years and are looking for an upgrade – Toshiba Satellite Laptop Review.

I’m digging their commercials, which are getting some flack for being stupid, but hey, most commercials are crap! At least theirs are somewhat innovative and entertaining, even if the technology costs extra. To wit:

Toshiba Zombie Commercial

Halloween is past, but it’s always a good time for zombies.

For that matter, check out my Zombie Guide to Survival, because zombies need help too.

A few years ago we saw an inflatable hot tub being advertised at the state fair, and it looked neat. Since then, I’m seeing more and more people get them, as a smaller, less expensive option to a more permanent luxury hot tub or spa.

I did a little research and developed some lenses about hot tubs. Then I stumbled across people running hot tub rental businesses. I thought that was just a darn cool idea.

I’m hoping to get one of these babies and take it for a spin (or a jet) soon, and will report on the results.

Lenses
Inflatable Hot Tub Review
Aqua Spas – Inflatable, Portable Hot Tubs
Hot Tubs For Rent – New Business Model for the 21st Century

I’ve been playing 40K since the early nineties and despite forays into Eldar, Dark Eldar, Orks, Tau and IG, the Emperor’s Finest are the army for me. The Space Marines have everything a 40K player would want: Toughness, mobility, big weapons, good saves, flexibility and, depending on your chapter, ridiculous special rules.

I myself prefer codex armies, and like to build on the myriad backgrounds of hundreds of chapters, or build my own for those that didn’t get any fluff love.

My lenses are steering towards more content about Space Marine chapters, strategy and tactics, units, my forces and more.

Here’s what I’m working on right now, mostly introductory stuff, with some in depth details, with more in depth lenses coming soon:

40K Marines – All Things 40K Space Marines – My intro to the game and my 40K Space Marine lenses.
Space Marine 40K – An Introduction – Getting started with Space Marines.
Tactical Squad – More information about tactical squads to help players get started.
Assault on Black Reach, The 5th edition intro game that includes some Space Marine forces, the basic rulebook and some Orks to beat on.
Warhammer 40K Stuff – My old warhammer 40K info from older editions, good for a laugh until I update it.
40K Rulebook – A look at the current rules and older rulebooks.
Citadel Finecast – A look at Citadel’s new line of resin models that will replace the old metal minis.
Space Marine: The Game – The new game Space Marine is out. I was hyping it up after the demo and now it’s here!

Lenses in the works:

Razorbacks, Drop Pods, White Scars (Marauders), Aurora Chapter

I’ve been spending quite a bit of my free time lately playing Minecraft. It’s more of a crafting game than a killing monsters game (although there’s some of that, too) and for a game without a goal or set of objectives, it is tremendously addicting.

I’ve put some observations down on my lenses and have the first three lenses available:

Minecrafting Guide – Getting Started
Crafting in Minecraft – Outfitting Your Shelter
Minecraft Blocks

I’m hoping to add lenses on weapons, baddies and more advanced info soon.

Update: Added Minecraft Monsters and Pets and Minecraft Items. Still a lot more to add.

If you’re looking to try out Minecraft yourself, go to Minecraft.net and get your own!

I discovered the Flip Mini HD camcorder and created a quick lens for it. A lot of YouTube videos are getting cranked out on these suckers, they are inexpensive, produce decent to great quality video and fit nicely in a stocking – (big hint!)

From the Table O’ Contents

1. Introducing the Flip Mino High Definition Camcorder
2. Flip MinoHD Camcorder on Amazon
3. Flip Ultra HD – 2nd Generation
4. Flip UltraHD Camcorder on Amazon
5. See What Others are Saying about Amazing Flip High Definition Camcorders
6. Flip High Definition Camcorder Showdown
7. Other USB Products
8. Flip High Definition Camcorder Comments

Learn more about the Flip High Definition Camcorder.

We travel as much as we can, and it took a load off our mind to get travel insurance when we took our first trip to Hawaii. Good travel insurance protects you from unforeseeable incidents, injuries and health issues, protects your luggage and time, and compensates your beneficiaries if the worst should happen.

Find out more about travel insurance here – Medical Travel Insurance and from the source – Sue at Mill Avenue Travel, who is the Travel Insurance Online Guru was a great help, and you can get good direct travel insurance for a small amount compared to the potential loss of a canceled trip.

Don’t forget to check out my travel lenses:

Grand Canyon Vacations
Oberammergau

In being challenged to the Herman the Merman Quest, I created my Queen CDs and DVDs – The Music and Motion of One of the Greatest Bands of All Time – Mission Accomplished.

I would challenge just about anyone to come up with a better, more complete band than Queen, filled to the brim with songwriters, singers and real musicians, churning out complex music that few can match.

Check out my lens for more info and the skinny on 14 of the greatest albums ever put on a platter (both vinyl and plastic).

With Halloween around the corner, it’s SquidBoo time, so I opined on one of my favorite subjects, Halloween decorations, and this year’s theme – Spiders!

Go check out Spider Decorations for a Creepy, Crawly Halloween

From the Table O’ Contents:

1. Giant Spider Decorations
2. Rubies Costume Company – Giant Spider Decorations
3. How to Make a String Web
4. And If You Don’t Want To Make Your Own…
5. Spider Victims
6. Sometimes You Just Need a Hand…
7. Bonus Spider Decoration Idea – Yourself!
8. Spider Costume
9. Spider Queen Costuming
10. What Do You Think?
11. Alternate Arachnids and Other Scary Stuff
12. Tell Others About These Spider Decorations
13. Spider Decorations – Comments

This is the greatest lens ever!

Ok, it isn’t, but I’m conducting an experiment on Spanish Language Software on Squidoo. If you don’t speak Spanish, but want to, you should check it out.

If you don’t speak Spanish, and don’t want to, then you’ve read this entire post and wasted your time.

Go outside and play a while.

Phoenix residents may know the eclectic, zany location that is the Indoor Swapmart (now the Fantastic Indoor Swapmart) They’re celebrating their 20th year in the Valley of the Sun and have created a Squidoo lens to showcase some of the amazing selection of hundreds of shops they have in their 3 acre indoor space.

Quality definitely varies, but there are quite a few gems there, and more vendors are finding out about the huge traffic they get into their place only three days a week (friday, saturday and sunday).

Check out their Fantastic lens. They should be adding more as time goes on, and be sure to check out their website – Fantastic Indoor Swapmart with Phoenix Shopping, Phoenix Foods and Phoenix Events. They’ll be celebrating their 20 year anniversary the weekend of July 31 and August 1.

The red, white and blue U.S. Flag, in one form or another, has been around since the Flag Act of 1777. In 1814, it took on another form when the Americans repelled the British from the port of Baltimore through the resistance of Fort McHenry. Francis Scott Key’s immortal poem, and eventual song, became a reminder of American resilience and our national anthem.

Learn more about the Star Spangled Banner itself, the 15 starred and striped flag that stubbornly flew over Fort McHenry back in the War of 1812.

From the Table O’ Contents:
1. The British are Coming! (Again)
2. O’er the Land of the Free…
3. …And the Home of the Brave
4. More About Fort McHenry and The Star Spangled Banner
5. The Star Spangled Banner – Legacy
6. Fly Your Flag Proudly
7. The Star Spangled Banner – Four Stanzas
8. Red, White and Blue?
9. Celebrate Independence

Star Spangled Banner