These are my links for April 19th through May 7th:

• Missing The Point: It Doesn’t Matter If Torture “Works” –
• Transistors go 3D as Intel re-invents the microchip –
• DSLR Mirror Lock-Up – Worth the Effort or Not? –
• Take Shape For Life –
• A Keyboard and a .45 –
• Oleg Volk Photography –
• CrimeReportSearch –
• The First Zombie-Proof House –
• OOSChecker: The Ultimate iPad2 Treasure Hunter –
• Affordable Weekend Getaways and Vacations – LivingSocial –
• Texas3006.com –
• Corps Lakes Gateway: Texas –
• Lily Ponds Cottage – New Ulm, Texas –
• Google Encrypted Search –
• Portal 2 and Steam on PlayStation®3 –

These are my links for November 7th through November 21st:

• Das Keyboard –
• Hyperbole and a Half –
• AustinRecruiter.com –
• AccessUT – UT students and alumni recruiting – HireTexas
• the Experience eRecruiting Network – University of Texas Natural Sciences Career Services eRecruiting
• Necropolis of Britannia Manor III (Unknown Cache) in Texas, United States created by LordBritish –
• ArduiNIX – Arduino Nixie Tube Kit
• Twinkie diet helps nutrition professor lose 27 pounds –
• Is Death the End? Experiments Suggest You Create Time –

These are my links for August 18th through August 19th:

• How to Interview a Programmer –
• Getting the Interview Phone Screen Right –
• Microsoft Interview Questions –
• Intel agrees to buy McAfee, decides that security matters –
• Steam Game Performance Improvements in Latest Mac OS X Update –

I sent a support email to Technorati a few weeks ago. It seems my site would not get indexed by the service no matter how or when I pinged it. After a few days of no response, I googled to see if anyone else had the problem, and it seems as though this happens to even the most active of blogs.

It was disheartening to hear stories of websites continuing in this state for longer than 140 days. Those website owners never got any response from Technorati’s support. But some did. I was beginning to think I got myself banned or put on a blacklist. Prior to this, Technorati would update within 30 minutes of a ping.

Technorati is a great place to reference blogs and personal websites. It has a great tagging system and I though it updated continuously. I would find all kinds of gems on there. A lot of traffic to drzy came referred from Technorati, as well as many crosslinks and trackbacks.

Today, I finally received a response from Technorati support, and my site has successfully indexed. They didn’t spell out the problem, the email just indicated that they “adjusted something on their end”. Many other people with the problem got the exact same response with the exact same results, but over much different time frames.

I’m glad. I had almost written Technorati off. I even removed their link from my page. I’m not confident that they have the problem resolved, but am content that their band-aid for it is working, for now.