WordPress bloggers — or most bloggers, for that matter — don’t need to do anything for keywords in their blogs to get noticed by Google. Google, and other search engines, have programs that search and categorize web sites so that when you run a search it locates sites including those terms.

Doubtless you searched for words that were found on my site. Thanks for your kudos, I’m a bit remiss in posting here, but maybe I’ll take your advice and blog again about baseball soon.

Good luck!

Very impressive that this blog is syndicated through Google and is it something that is just up to Google or you actively created?

Obviously this is a popular blog with great data so well done on your seo success..

The baseball greats you should write about next!

I’m in the habit lately of sitting by the door, putting my head down in a book, and looking up when we arrive. I dislike getting stuck in the slow-moving herded cattle crawl on the ramps, so try to get toward the start.

The ride is still here, NM. And the bay. Besides, deserts are good places for cacti and scorpions and roadrunners — but for people?

I loved that ride!

A new state emergency district has taken over the ferry this year (along with the Vallejo ferry) so it’s changing hands again.

I wrote about one of the wilder rides back when I first began this blog:

http://ombudsben.wordpress.com/2006/12/28/welcome-to-mr-toads-ride/

I think it was operated by Blue and Gold when I started, but then I think the Port of Oakland (I caught it in Alameda after it picked up in Oakland) took over part of the operation in ‘99. It was such a great commute.

Not just that they learn the behaviors they will need to fit in. Not just that they learn appropriate behavior when meeting other dogs and humans. Not just that they learn tricks.

Just learning how to learn. What the training process means. Obey the command, get a treat, the little doggy light bulb flips on: everybody is happy, it’s a win/win!

Poor little Kiwi gets so little training he doesn’t know how to act so he just does the canine equivalent of a human child or infant acting out. Bark-bark-bark-bark-bark!

Wow — we arrived in Alameda around the same time. I followed a job from SF across the bay to Alameda. I’d lived in SF for a while and loved it (still do) but hated the commute. I was driving from the Inner Richmond to Alameda, the first job I’d ever had where I had to drive to and from work (and I lived in Southern CA 2 separate times, once for seven months and the other for three) and at the end of the workday sitting stalled in rush hour was NOT what I wanted to do.

The timing was perfect. I was at a point in my life when I was *ready* for Alameda. Now when I drive in the City, 10 to 20 times a year, I think it’s ridiculous — how did I ever live like this for 15 years?

The irony is that the Alameda job only lasted a couple years, and now I’m commuting this direction–into the City. I could walk to where I last lived in SF. An easy commute. Rowrbazzle!!!

Yes, I lived in Alameda off and on from 1997 - 2003. From 1999-2002 I was up and down the coast between LA and SF Bay Area doing gigs, until LA claimed most of my time. I knew it would happen again (I was there before), but I was still sad to leave Alameda.

With a to-do list of shifting priorities already, photos on the blog just sank down the list.

Now that I have the visual toolbar I get a much quicker sense of what’s happening. I’ll play with it a bit, and find what fits in the template.

Re baseball — your Astros have more offensive depth than they have enjoyed in a while. They’re capable of scoring some runs. Unfortunately, after Oswalt, I don’t see much depth in the rotation. In a division where the Cubs have some pitching depth and with that young Milwaukee club and all their sluggers, your ‘Stros will have some real competition this year. (I think St. Louis is hurtin’. They could finish in the 2nd half of the division.)

Yes, Alameda is warmer than the other side of the bay. Much as I love SF, I no longer endure as many of those instances of coming out a restaurant door, happy and full, and getting hit with a cold gust.

Did you live in Alameda?