Kris Tarr

I finally bought my first fully electric vehicle: an electric scooter. I rode it home from downtown, about 30 km distance and I did not use a drop of gas. It probably cost me about 5 cents to get home.

To fully charge its batteries takes 4-6 hours and costs about 10-15 cents. A full charge seems to be more than enough for me to get to places in the city. I imagine that a single charge will be enough to get me to work and back, though the bike storage at my office has a wall outlet so I could charge my bike there, and will too… Why risk it for nothing eh? Read the rest of this entry »

After owning and driving large trucks and SUV’s for several years I decided to change for the better and take on a new project to help similar thinking people saving the environment by reducing greenhouse gases spread in the air by my vehicles and saving energy. The whole thing started when filling up my 6L Yukon XL 2500’s nearly 150L tank, I realized how much money I waste every day on fuel, though most of the time I was traveling alone in the 8-seater monster. Read the rest of this entry »

Last summer, for my 33rd birthday I created a search engine for myself. I called it Accelax. The site quickly got a PageRank PR1 and later PR2 ranking with most of its pages included in the Google index. The site was successful enough, but I felt that something was missing. So I developed a new search engine, knoole.com with more features, more functional and better looking design as well as the new SEO techniques I applied to the site. Read the rest of this entry »

Can you imagine that a site as huge as YouTube (powered by a company as huge as Google) could go down for as long as an hour?

On February 24, OpenDSN posted this explanation to the fact that youtube.com was down:

“Youtube.com is down right now because Pakistan Telecom has decided to (accidentally probably) hijack their IP address space which means that nobody in the world can reach Youtube.”

Spooky eh?
Let’s think about it for a moment: What precautions do you or your web hosting provider take to prevent downtime?

Lemme share with you this video I found on youtube today:

A reader from one of my blogs sent me a PM to ask why I’m not using feeds provided by other search engines. He was kind to offer me his help and ideas. Let me post here my reply: Read the rest of this entry »

I forgot to write about a Christmas party I attended to back in December 2007.

The event included dinner, show, games and even gambling. All employees working for Bodog and some Bodog clients were invited to the party. Read the rest of this entry »

I have been building search engines for a couple of years now. The reason I started doing this is because I figured that if I want to be better at SEO, I should understand exactly how search engines work, what kind of challenges search engine engineers have to deal with on a day-to-day basis, how to keep up with the changing world of the Internet etc.

Soon I realized that the top search engine operators are in it for the money, so I started making money with my own search engines as well. First, just to cover the server operating costs, later to cover my mortgage payments and in better months even earn a good living. I remember a time when I was operating over 30 search engines and my total gross income was as high as $1300 per day. Read the rest of this entry »

When your site moves to a new domain or a page moves to a new location or the file name changes for whatever reason, search engine crawlers will keep trying to find the moved file(s).

The web server will handle the situation by either giving back a 404 Not Found HTTP response which tells the search engine spiders and web browsers a note that sorry but the page cannot be found on the server. Search engine spider will eventually remove these pages from their indexes. Read the rest of this entry »

Today my daughters and I became citizens of Canada.

Finally, after nine long years living in Canada, Citizenship and Immigration Canada decided to give us citizenship, which I was told today by the citizenship judge, means that I am married to 33 million other Canadians. It’s because we made promises to the Canada including all of its citizens. So here I am, 33 years old and married again after two failed divorces. But this time not another women sucked me into a deal, but about 18 million women. Read the rest of this entry »