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From http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,22900111-5014111,00.html

Hard drive making a noise?  Drill a hole in the case and add oil.

Frustrated with the computer not doing what you want?  Shoot the computer.

Amazing that these people have enough common sense to be alive!  They should be barred from all technology. 

From new.com.au

In a radical plan, the NSW Police is going to force drivers who get their cars confiscated under anti hoons laws, to first watch their car being crushed and then have the video posted on YouTube.

I am all for stopping speeding drivers and helping people see the consequences. My fear with this is, is that it will provide a hoon driver with their 15 minutes of fame and make them into a "hero" with their friends.  The real way to stop speeding drivers is more police on the street, creating a visual presense to reenforce the use of speed cameras (and not the other way round).

Apparently it is healthy to swear at work to combat stree, according to a recent Bristish Study.

"A study of leadership styles by the academics at the University of East Anglia found the use of "taboo language" boosted team spirit..."

So next time you are feeing the stress due to the latest Google Dance or Yahoo! Weather watch, feel free to swear and blame it on being stressed. :)

I recently saw a press release from a company (wo will remin nameless) boasting about the number of weekly impressions they manage on behalf of their clients. It was along the lines of:

"managing over 3 million impressions weekly on behalf of our clients"

Whilst it appears to be an impressive stat, does it really mean anything?  Impressions are not - in any way, shape or form - a measure of how a good a company is managing your Ad Words campaign.  Rather, it just says they are bidding (on behalf of their clients) on some highly searched keywords.

A better measure - at least for the informed - is to call out heir average ROI or CTR.

Impressions are meaningiless.  The Pay Per Click / Paid Search industry needs to evolve to establish an agreed set of criteria in which companys can be judged.  Either by becoming a defacto standard or SEMPO stepping up to the plate and putting down guidelines.

Otherwise, everyone in the industry is going to be tarnished with the same brush of making figures say what you need them to say.

Ripped from http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/2007/09/04/top-21-signs-you-need-a-break-from-seo-2007-version/ and full credit to the Author.

Back by popular demand, one year later! Here’s the 2007 version of “Signs You Need a Break from SEO.” Enjoy!

1.) In the middle of Sunday morning church services, you decide that The Ten Commandments are the original linkbait.

2.) You know the names of Danny Sullivan’s dog, Matt Cutts’ cat, and Matt’s other cat.

3.) You setup a new blog for your 9-year-old, taught him what RSS is and how to use Bloglines, and told him to start reading the Problogger feed, because if Stephan Spencer’s kid can make money online, yours can, too, dammit.

4.) Even though you’re not a homeowner, even though you’re not a real estate agent, and even though you don’t care about real estate in any way, shape, or form, you read the Zillow blog … “because Vanessa Fox works there now.”

5.) Without even looking, you know how to spell Philipp Lenssen’s name correctly. (That’s one L, two Ps, two Ss.)

6.) You’re filling out a registration form for your child, and when it asks for Emergency Contact, you put Matt Cutts. For Relationship, you put “I commented on his blog once.”

7.) Your spouse makes you erase that, so instead you put Danny Sullivan and “Father (of SEO).”

8.) As you arrive at your vacation destination — a gorgeous, beachside hotel in Honolulu — a pretty, young lady greets you. This is heaven, you think to yourself. She puts a lai around your neck and says “Mahalo!” You punch her.

9.) You’re out with friends and one of them tells a fantastic story. At the end, you start to twitch because you can’t find a “Sphinn This” button anywhere.

10.) Your spouse leaves you a note with five chores you have to get done over the weekend. You ignore it because you’re tired of numbered lists.

11.) When your spouse gets angry three weeks later because the chores aren’t done, you tell her the note is stuck in your supplemental index. And you take away her ability to see what other notes are in there.

12.) You’ve not only thought about, but you’ve also written about the business benefits of Twitter.

13.) You know more about the famous chef Dave Pasternack than you did at this time last year.

14.) You have a dream one night in which you’re on a beach, competing in a Survivor-like competition that has something to do with running as fast as you can and collecting flags from various “stations”, only you’re not trying to win a million dollars and Jeff Probst is nowhere to be found. Instead, you’re competing against Stuntdubl and Jeff Probst’s role is being handled by Danny Sullivan. (I’m not making that up. I had that dream.)

15.) As a music fan, you’d really like to get into Linkin Park, but you don’t because it sounds like a bad neighborhood.

16.) The nurse tells you and your spouse that you’re going to have twins. You secretly hope they’re not identical. You know … duplicate content issues.

17.) You care about what this guy or this guy think about SEO.

18.) You’ve quit your fantasy football league and started new fantasy game based on points being earned on YOUmoz.

19.) The candidates’ use of social media, SEO, and PPC will have even the slightest impact on your 2008 presidential vote.

20.) Your friend, the longtime Apple geek, is reminiscing one night about how much he loved the Lisa, and you think to yourself … Barone?

21.) You laughed at anything on this list!

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Related: Top 21 Signs You Need a Break from SEO (2006 edition)