John D. Rockefeller realized 135 years ago that the way to control the oil market was to control the transport of oil. So in 1871, he colluded with the railroad industry to form a cartel called the South Improvement Company.Under their plan, the rate to ship oil would double, and Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company would […]
Archive for July, 2006
Portland Gets Free WiFi
Wi-Fi network specialist MetroFi has been selected by the City of Portland to deliver and operate a citywide Wi-Fi network capable of providing free wireless internet access and substantially improved public services to Portland residents.
The Portland City Counsel voted unanimously Wednesday to proceed with the project that will grant free internet access to 95% of […]
Filed in: Web
Google PR Update
Finally, after a couple months of waiting Google updated the pagerank bar this month. My portland seo website and blog went up from PR0 to PR3. Not a bad start to what will probably end up at PR5 eventually. I don’t really see it getting any higher page rank than that considering I’m not trying […]
Filed in: SEO
Escort - Passport 8500 X50 - Radar Detector
The Passport 8500 has been hailed as the most revolutionary radar/laser detector ever. Forbes.com said, “it might be the best radar detector ever made!” Popular Mechanics called it “state of the art.” RadarTest.com named it “The World’s Best!”
So far I would have to agree with Motor Trend, the Passport 8500 detects pigs way before you […]
Filed in: Gadgets
A Twist…
For the last several days we’ve been positioned at #2 next to Gravitate Design, a well established web design and seo firm with locations in Portland, Washington DC and Seattle. Although we were pleased to be on the first page a couple weeks ago we struggled to obtain any position between the 6 to 10 spot on our […]
Filed in: SEO
When Your Parents Die Broke
Recently, my Mom passed away last May. It was an un expected death and she left a couple bills behind that my father didn’t know about. Sooner or later it happens to everyone.
Found a good article today on what to do when your parents die broke.

