Memorial Day weekend is mostly important to me because as an auto racing fan, I get a triple play this weekend… The F1 Monoco GP, the Indy500, and the Coke600… ( you can get all the results by visiting Racing News… )

So as a result, Sunday was spent actually indoors much of the time, enjoying the racing and attempting to get some work done (which I did) and napping out.  This has lead to my current problem, for me it is still Sunday night but it is Monday 6AM.  Not sleeping, not good.  🙁

Anyway, the F1 race was a decent start to the day (got to see it live on TSN, no waiting for the CBS tape delay for me), although Monaco’s track is very tight and not at all easy to pass on, which leads to much of the action coming in the pits as people try to leap frog over other cars in pit stop exchanges.  Michael Schmacher, starting last after a penalty for being creative in trying to keep the pole ran from 22nd to 5th, proof that some passing is possible, I guess, and looked like a better man for doing it.  Alonso won again… the points run away is starting.

The Indy500 was a real classic, decided on the last straight of the last of 200 laps… damn good racing.

The Coke600 was long, with tiny little fuel cells there was something like 20 pit stops, the race took a long time to run, and the last laps a bit of an anti-cliamx.  Congrats to Kasey Kahne, he did a fine job putting a Dodge in the winner’s circle and making sure that Jimmie Johnson didn’t end up there again.

As for work, well, nothing much I can show you at this point, some template development for galleries, and some back office work on sites and stuff that it pretty hard to track down.  You can see some “please fuck my wife” videos if you click here, that is one thing I did today that was public.  Otherwise, it really was behind the scenes stuff setting up for a very, very busy month of June. June will have new galleries, free sites, and blog entires every day, so stay tuned and RSS or bookmark this site, because I will be listing much of it here so you can find it.

I added about 200 new galleries in rotation to Sexy Asian Thumbs…  and reviewed and approved a bunch at Thumbskingdom as well.  Enjoy!

Just so that my webmaster friends know, I added a page quickly that explains some of the link trade situations I have available.  I want to hook up with as many people as possible, so come on down:

Rawalex’s link trade info page – click here

I should know better, considering my duel citizenship puts me both as Canadian and British… I should know more about the Queen’s birthday and whatnot, but I honestly cannot be bothered.  Worse, because of issues in QUebec, they call it something else, so that french people won’t get offended or something by taking a holiday on the Queen.  What the fuck ever.

That’s not my department, so fuck it.

Updates time… Porn Pig Blog Thing got it’s facelift, not entirely done but pretty much on the go.  A little frustrating because the designers used non-standard techniques in the template which makes it a little hard to make changes, some features are missing, and so on… but I am getting it all together and it is looking better all the time.   More and more people are bookmarking the site, so that is a good sign 🙂

I also added almost 1000 galleries into the rotation at Sexy Asian Thumbs, and I changed the display order a bit to put the most popular thumbs right near the top of the page.   This means you can find the asian pussy you want faster, m’kay?  Me love you longtime and faster too.

As you can see from the RSS feeds on the side of the site, there are a tons of updates all over the place, I have been working hard to find fresh porn and get it up and running as quick as I can… so stay tuned!

Oh yeah…    🙂

One of the more interesting parts about working in a net based business is that it is often very hard to put together cause and effect.  There are many events that happen between a small tweak and a result in visitors, sales, or SE listings, so it is very hard to put things together.

This is doubly true for search engine stuff.  For those of you who might of stumbled in here without knowing the deal, basically all websites to one extent or another try to get good listings on the various search engines, like Google, MSN, Altavista, Ask, and so on. The better we rank (closer to the top of the list) for the search words and expressions we want, the more people come to our sites.  For some that is where the concept stops, the pure vanity of counting people who have read our words and consumed out thoughts… for others, visitors (aka traffic) is a requirement for making money.  Potentially buyers, maybe clicking on a paying ad or whatever, or doing something that someone is willing to pay for.

Attempting to get better listings in the search engines is a game without end, without timeouts, and without written rules or clear boundries.   This leads some people to go to very large extremes to get thier sites listed.  Others (like me) are a little more middle of the road, concentrating on building good, informative, or entertaining websites that people would actually want to visit.  No tricks or smoke or mirrors in my work.

The time delay on changes can be maddening.  Google, as an example, updates their listing all the time subtly, but bigger updates (also known as a google dance) happen every so often, tossing the salad as it were and re-ranking sites and altering the listings in google.   Because the amount of time between these major upheavals is hard to predict, and with a new system at google that does this shifting over time rather than in one day, it is a very hard thing to predict.   So I can update a site or make changes, and it can take days or weeks to see if the results really worked.  That is painful to play with.

Other things (like link exchanges, listings on blog pages, etc) happen much faster, but often have a much shorter shelf life.  So in the end, much of what happens in site design, layout, and the pace of updates and listings is very directly attached to this weird web rythem that all websites follow.  It is a bumpy ride 🙂

If you bookmarked rawalex’s random thoughts or linked to the site, please update your bookmarks to http://www.in-the-raw.com .  I have been enjoying writing a blog enough that I decided to give this thing it’s own little place in the sun.  I put in a 301 coded redirect so everything should work out okay by itself, but just in case, I wanted everyone to know.  This will be the home for this site for at least the next year, so get f-ing use to it, okay?

I have a ton of other things to do today, I will do them and probably be back to post some updates later… enjoy 🙂

Top of the morning to ya, even as I write this in the afternoon.

Last night’s late session took me down the path to creating a new blog, Project Pussy.  This one is going to be an all carpet munching affair with girl girl action and whatnot.  This really is every guy’s fantasy, it seems, and there are a ton of really good sites and things out there, so I figured why not?  Plus I get to play some more with the same basic template I am using here, to see what I can do with it.  It is a very interesting concept, if nothing else.

I also continue to work toward a personal goal or two.  Weight wise I am down at 171 this morning, so no big celebration posts until I can take a picture of me on the scale at 169… then I will be quite impressed.   I have been close a couple of times, but I think this week is where it will happen.  If the weather could stay a little better I could be out riding my bike and getting some good exercise.  It’s been hard with almost a week of rain here.

Other personal goals include some business stuff, and I am happy to say that for the first time in a long time I am either hitting or coming close enough to goals to satisfy myself a bit, but not to make me slow down.  Seeing some patterns and things develop in the search engine world has given me much food for thought, so much so that I am well fed but still hungry for more.  The light at the end of the tunnel is in fact the exit to the tunnel, from what I can see 🙂

Anyway, I got to see another preview of the official design for Porn Pig Porn Party today, the designer is hard at work and it is really quite cute.  I think it will do well, and if nothing else might get the site noticed.  No matter what, it is a learning process for me, so I am ahead of game in the end.

Oh yeah, CNN managed to make Bush look like a lost case again last night (that isn’t hard)… What’s my line?

Have an exciting day… more porn later on this dirty channel.