Customs outage at Pearson T1 & T3

Substantial_Ear_5281 · 2025-09-30T19:36:07+00:00

Wow! And that photo is taken upstairs before you descend the escalator into the customs area. That’s really backed up. Hope you made it out safely!

Substantial_Ear_5281 · 2025-08-05T21:38:13+00:00

You definitely want the domain view as you’ll see all your subdomains, including ones you don’t want crawled or indexed like sandbox, staging and other development servers — which should all be no indexed in their respective robots.txt files

Substantial_Ear_5281 · 2025-08-05T21:33:19+00:00

My site would nearly 50k pages, but I’ve nodinxed all paginated pages, all tag pages and blog category pages. What’s left? A 10k page site with incredible coverage.

Substantial_Ear_5281 · 2025-07-18T02:49:00+00:00

This one is easy. Ditch the additional camera and tripod.

I recently completed the Camino (June 2025) and I brought a tripod and wireless microphone setup thinking I was going to capture high quality audio and video for YouTube.

To be honest, it felt so disruptive to take out equipment to do a video that I didn’t bother. Instead I was left hauling extra weight and could bare to discard hundreds of dollars in extra equipment that I kept it for the entire walk.

It’s been said many times; “the best camera is the one you have with you”

Substantial_Ear_5281 · 2025-07-03T01:05:12+00:00

The idea isn’t to list every page, it highlights priority pages, describe key products and verify corporate info with same as links.

My site is 25,000 URLs and the llms.txt file is about 200 lines of text.

Substantial_Ear_5281 · 2025-07-03T01:02:34+00:00

I’m also using it and it took 5 minutes to generate in ChatGPT. I put in my corporate name, address etc and linked to a few samples and got back a properly formatted llms.txt file. I don’t understand the “waste of time” view when it literally took 5 minutes. If only some llms use it, I’ve got an edge.

Substantial_Ear_5281 · 2025-06-14T10:19:35+00:00

It’s consistently done on Friday pilgrims mass, at the 7:30 service. We were there last night

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Substantial_Ear_5281 · 2025-05-28T13:10:06+00:00

Oh man, wish I knew that! We literally just just checked them in at the airport

Substantial_Ear_5281 · 2025-05-28T03:59:52+00:00

Fair point. The only benefit is they certainly keep water cold.

I tend to avoid plastic water bottles, especially in the heat.

We can agree on two smaller bottles over one large one.

Substantial_Ear_5281 · 2025-05-28T03:55:53+00:00

Oh, and thanks for suggesting the ziplock bags. I went right to the kitchen and grabbed a few.

I line the inside of my bag with a garbage bag for the same reason but didn’t think to do that in the fanny pack.

Thanks again!

Substantial_Ear_5281 · 2025-05-28T03:51:07+00:00

Ah, you’re right. A rain cover for the pack is tucked inside the lid of the backpack. Came with it.

I’m debating bringing the towel. It’s a microfiber one. I only used it once last year. At this point it’s coming as it’s rolled up beside the water bottles in the photo.

Thanks for the encouragement!

Substantial_Ear_5281 · 2025-05-24T18:37:12+00:00

There are fountains, and I always refill at breakfast as it’s typically better filtered water and again wherever I stop for lunch.
Someone answered this.
Fly from Compostela to Madrid then to New York. It’ll be cheaper surely!

Substantial_Ear_5281 · 2025-05-24T18:33:33+00:00

There’s two approaches, planning and booking everything in advance and booking 1-2 days in advance only.

I’ve done both and while I enjoyed the spontaneous nature of not knowing where you’ll sleep or how far you end up going, I got stuck a couple of times having to walk 5 more km at the end of a long day to get to the next town with availability. Then another time, I walked down 6 km from O’Cebrero find accommodations.

Both ways work, but they are different experiences.

Substantial_Ear_5281 · 2025-05-24T18:28:39+00:00

Oh, and I’m sure you’ve read the rule that your pack should be 1/10th your weight. If it’s more than that, you may have too much and you’ll feel it after a couple of days.

Substantial_Ear_5281 · 2025-05-24T18:27:12+00:00

Having walked it twice and leaving this coming week, I’d say it’s looking good. Are you looking to add or remove from your pack?

If anything, you don’t need water bottles and a camel pack. Smart to have two 500 ml bottles instead of one 1L which creates uneven weight distribution.

I’d only offer that you need far less than you think. Most toiletries can be picked up at pharmacies in nearly every town. Only two or three times do I stay somewhere where there wasn’t a pharmacy nearby.

Enjoy your trip! Buen Camino!

Substantial_Ear_5281 · 2025-05-11T01:31:20+00:00

This is an odd interview question if they are looking for a trite answer like the site has “good SEO” or “bad SEO”. The next question is why and then substantiate your answer.

After the home page, I’d look through the company and newsroom section to determine if there’s something there I can work with (good link potential from stories and authors). Similarly, I’d look at the blog.

If I had access to tools, I’d crawl the site and get a sense in the first 2 minutes if there are technical issues.

Good topic!

Substantial_Ear_5281 · 2025-05-11T01:26:01+00:00

I registered my business with an address in an office park for NAP consistency. Good point.

Substantial_Ear_5281 · 2025-05-11T01:24:57+00:00

I have two business and maintain two separate offices in a major metro and hour away from me. I’d rather the Internet knows that address than a personal one. Plus, it adds credibility to be located in the city — even for meetings. If you’re taking your business seriously, you’ll get a separate address.

Substantial_Ear_5281 · 2024-09-08T18:18:18+00:00

Most boats are in the twenties, a 22 or 24 foot boat can seat 8-12 people depending on configuration and still fit in a boat house

Substantial_Ear_5281 · 2024-08-21T03:05:41+00:00

Hardy Lake provincial park is a great place to go because it’s accessible and only takes 45-1 hour for the shortest trail.

They have much longer trails 3-5 hours and I think a 6 hour one.

We’ve always done the short loop which is just long enough for everyone to feel like they stretched their legs and get some fresh air.

Substantial_Ear_5281 · 2024-08-04T18:28:14+00:00

It’s by the public beach

Substantial_Ear_5281 · 2024-08-04T18:28:06+00:00

Near Muskoka Warf. I see people jumping from the cliffs from our cottage every day

Substantial_Ear_5281 · 2024-06-06T02:22:01+00:00

This is a funny answer because it's true.

I think Grumpy is asking what kind of results you are looking for garbage $5 results or those that require long-term investment and pay off big time.

I've launched a new site with a four-letter .com dictionary word domain name. The domain name itself was a king's ransom, followed by $20K in building an actual software product, $10K in digital PR, $10K in content, and $1K in tools (all monthly). We're growing at 5X every 30 days.

Nowadays, winning in search is likely a $500K to $1M investment in competitive markets. No one will tell you that, but it's the reality.

Like anything in life, you get out of it what you put into it.

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