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I recently wrote Annie Chun about some soup.

Dear Annie Chun,

 

I recently visited your website and have to say that it is quite nice.  I am in the middle of a debate about your Annie Chun’s Korean Kimchi Noodle Soup – With Shitake Mushrooms, and would like to know why I should follow the Best By date on your food.  There is no answer to this on your website that I could find that would tell me why your product would lose quality, value, or taste after this aforementioned date of 19 May 2009.

 

Waiting to eat my soup,   

TurkReno

So, I’d like for you to voice your opinion on why you should not eat expired foods.  I’ve found a few different articles on the internet, such as:

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt93964.html

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090407133334AAlDfLG

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_it_safe_to_eat_expired_canned_food - This was on Canned food. Related, but not to the product in question.

There is a lot to learn here.  I really like Annie Chun’s site.  It’s very well built and extremely well composed (minus the fact that I couldn’t find the answer to my question even after I searched and looked through the FAQ.

Post some other good examples of sites with good composure and your thoughts on expired foods.

Update (06/17/09) – I recently got an e-mail back from Annie Chun! Yes!  Here’s basically what they had to say:

Thank you for purchasing Annie Chun’s Kimchi Soup Bowl. Although it is unlikely that you will get sick from eating an expired shelf stable product, we do not guarantee the flavor of the product after the expiration date.

 

Please let us know if you have any additional questions or concerns. We appreciate your support and hope to hear from you again in the future.

 

Happy Eating!

 

Annie Chun’s Inc.

Ok, Annie Chun!  We appreciate it and will completely indulge ourselves in your Kimchi Noodle Bowl until the end of time!

Quillhost Review – Rated Best Webhost for VPS and cPanel.  Quillhost offers extraordinarily superior preforming web hosting and is one of the best VPS and cPanel providers around.  Around October, TurkReno and Quillhost both began offering official services to the public and we both haven’t looked back since.  We are partnered with Quillhost to offer some amazing things: OpenVZ, XEN, cPanel Shared and Dedicated Hosting, and cPanel VPS hosting – all at a very affordable price.  Their servers are backed by a few Level 1 Providers, so network speed has never been an issue.   

When we were in our infancy several years ago, we used shared hosting from providers such as Dot5, 1 and 1, and Brinkster.  Out of all three providers, Quillhost is FAR superior to them in means of Customer Support, Service Uptime, and Overall Experience. You don’t get all of the bloatware frills to distract you from your primary business, so it really is Hosting at it’s best.  Allow me to go into a few points on the three things I just discussed:

Customer Support – Quillhost is superior here, even at a young age, because of the knowledge their support staff has.  Not a single shared host that we’ve used has the know-how that Quillhost has.  Let’s take a simple apples-to-apples comparison.  Quillhost has staff that deals directly with the datacenter and the servers so there’s no middle man.  Shared hosts have someone they pay minimum wage to answer the phone and give confusing and usually very unhelpful answers.  This is not the case with Quillhost.  They are on top of their game and know exactly what they’re doing.  With their simple service and reliable staff, you just cannot beat their prices for the service you get.

Service Uptime – Quillhost, yet again, is on top of their game.  With these other providers, you could have a downtime that lasts for days.  At Quillhost, in the entire time that they’ve existed I’ve had ONE outage issue that lasted less than two hours and they honored their SLA (Service Level Agreement) and credited my account as soon as the network came back online.  Quillhost doesn’t just cram services together either; each hosting node is balanced equally so no one client can overpower the entire node. 

 Overall Experience – I couldn’t ask for much more from Quillhost.  Pradeep and his team truly delivers the best hosting experience that I’ve found to date.  Any issues that I’ve had have always been addressed within 24 hours, which I find to be completely reasonable.

Do we recommend them? YES! Of Course! If you are unhappy with your current host, contact Quillhost and find out what they can do for you!  Quillhost is in the process of getting a forum AND a blog up and running and we look forward to seeing it soon!

TurkReno Cuts I.T. Overhead for Customers

New Offering from TurkReno Equals Expert Support & Great Value

Daphne, Alabama (April, 18^th, 2009) – TurkReno, Inc a Professional Web Design and Computer Service, is expanding options for its dedicated server customers by adding an Assisted Service Plan–a professional solution without the traditional costs.

TurkReno’s technical support will address needed patches, backups, monitoring and vulnerability assessments.

Customers can get the power of a dedicated server without having to perform all of the administrative tasks associated with an unmanaged account such as server startup, patching and anti-virus protection. Add-on services, with the purchase of a service contract, include security scans, backup and recovery, monitoring and escalation management, at no additional fee. Custom engineering options are also available, billed at a flat hourly rate.

The plan can be added to qualified dedicated hosting accounts during the purchase process. While users are provided with a basic startup environment, TurkReno can also assist customers who have special needs. As with all dedicated servers accounts, customers can choose from a wide range of options including operating systems, RAM, hard drives, processors and firewalls.  In addition, as with all TurkReno services, the plan is backed by TurkReno’s round the clock customer support.

For more information on TurkReno’s dedicated server plans, visit http://turkreno.com/contact-turkreno.html.

About TurkReno:

TurkReno’s mission statement consists two of parts: First, our goal is to attempt to serve our clients in any Internet Technology related issue and service.  Second, our mission is to virtualize companies to exist anywhere by using the Internet. 

As a company, and as individuals, we value integrity, honesty, openness, personal excellence, constructive self-criticism, continual self-improvement, and mutual respect. We are committed to our customers and partners and have a passion for technology. We take on big challenges, and pride ourselves on seeing them through. We hold ourselves accountable to our customers, shareholders, partners, and employees by honoring our commitments, providing results, and striving for the highest quality.

We have spent the previous two and a half years undergoing intense research, development and testing of our technology and strategies, while also building strong relationships within the community.  We are actively servicing our networks and carry voice and data services for many business clients and telecommunications companies.

- TurkReno, Inc. -

© 2009 TurkReno, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.

Well, since we started back in October, we’ve had great success in our Web and IT Ventures in the South Alabama (Eastern Shore) Area.  Not only have we taken on over 50 clients to date since we’ve opened, but we have created a great return-on-investment for our clients.  We have become not only an AVG Authorized Reseller, but a Wild West Domains Reseller, too!  Just a quick shout-out to some of our newer clients that we have designed for:

Dolphins Down Under in Orange Beach, Alabama

Church Products from South East Church Supply in Fairhope, Alabama

Emerald Spirit Fishing from Action Charter Service in Orange Beach and Gulf Shores, Alabama

Quote Cutter

Willie Bean For Mayor

S7S PS3 Clan

We really are stoked about some of the work we’re doing for our clients and we’re taking more every day!  If you are interested in having your site designed by us, please contact us using the form on our page and we’ll get back to you as soon as we get into the office to see it.

Well, it’s interesting to put all of my training to work. Yet despite all of the certifications and education that I have, it is interesting to contradict my scholarly standings with yet another blog post.  At this point, I want to discuss validator.w3.org.  Even though I have known about this handy feature for a while now, it should at least be questioned.  Does it make a difference?  In a few cases, I have found questions like this one below throughout the Internet:

I just wanted to present this question to all you SEO savvy people out there. I have recently been building websites with W3 compliant code as an added SEO feature. Do you think that it helps with SEO and if so, do you know if there are any statistics out there on the web that show how much it helps?

A lot of people answer no change at all… Some report high change.  I personally think that it is case specific.  Even with a site that may have several errors (+50), it is important to properly grasp the situation by giving a proper analysis.  If the site has never been launched before, yes – it is extremely important.  If it is a site that you have maintained with dynamic content and it has been done before, it may or may not make a difference.

There are some errors that matter more than others that can hinder your SEO for XHTML:

• Incorrectly defining your entire page by forgetting to declare your DOCTYPE
• No Alt tag on <img> tags
• Forgetting to close your tags the right way or within the correct tag
• Forgetting to put a <p> before text in a <div> tag

There are plenty more things.  I did a lot of what I described above when validating pages last night…even though the blog here is not yet validated.  Do I think that it makes a difference?  Not really.  Because if this was a magic bullet, then my pages would be where I want them to be at this very moment.  But of course, I would tell my competition that

Have thoughts?  Please leave a comment!

William Conrad Rotter with Deer in Headlights Look

You know that deer in headlights look someone gets when they get caught?  This picture and video is a perfect example of that.  William Conrad Rotter recently attempted to burglarize my friend Gillis’ house.  Little did he know that Gillis is a security guru and had cameras installed.  This just goes to show that you shouldn’t fuck with nerds because you’ll get caught.  We like our stuff.  We watch our stuff.  We know when you’re eyeing our stuff.

Most of the time, we’ll just say that you’re gonna get electrocuted when we’re just joshing around with you.  But that’s not entirely inaccurate.  Some security systems use electricity to ward off attackers.  Luckily for Mr. Rotter, Gillis’ floor was not an electrical grid like they have in Metal Gear in the latter levels. 

Moral of the story is:  Parents should allow their kids access to computers.  Look at what Gillis saved!

By the way, if you’re looking for a decent security company, check out one of the sites that I designed and give them a call: http://www.rapidresponseinc.net

More from the News:
Mobile police link Theodore man to 16 break-ins

Theodore man accused of burglarizing his neighbors

http://www.wlox.com/Global/story.asp?S=9645347

Today, I decided that I was going to hang up some more flyers since money doesn’t make itself.  I created a simple document in Microsoft Publisher 2007, found some images on Google Images, and Titled it “Computer Help Done Right”, and added the following text:

If you are in need of help with any type of computer problem, please give me a call.  I am fully trained and certified in Computer Repair and Troubleshooting.  I won’t waste your time with computer jargon and the job will be done right the first time.  I can also assist with Set-up / Installs, Microsoft Office, Web Design, and Network / Wireless issues.  Call me today and begin enjoying your computer again!

Pretty simple.  Then I drove around Daphne, Spanish Fort, and Fairhope, Alabama and put them in the post office, grocery stores, and apartment complexes.  Hopefully this flyer will work for you, too! 

If you’d like to download it, go here.  Best of luck out there!

Spend the Rest of Your Life on Velvet

I found this in a friend’s garage…pretty interesting tin.

They won’t let this type of advertising fly anymore.  You can’t say something to the effect of spending the rest of your life on it.  There were lots of “Joe Camel” and “Marlboro Man” type ads like this too.  Eventually I think that some government oversight committee said “No, that advertising is too suggestive and it’s proven to kill” or something to that effect.

Wikipedia says this:

Internal documents produced to the court in Mangini v. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, San Francisco Superior Court No. 959516, demonstrated the industry’s interest in targeting children as future smokers.^[3] The importance of the youth market was illustrated in a 1974 presentation by RJR’s Vice-President of Marketing who explained that the “young adult market . . . represent[s] tomorrow’s cigarette business. As this 14-24 age group matures, they will account for a key share of the total cigarette volume — for at least the next 25 years.”^[4] A 1974 memo by the R. J. Reynolds Research Department points out that capturing the young adult market is vital because “virtually all [smokers] start by the age of 25″ and “most smokers begin smoking regularly and select a usual brand at or before the age of 18.”

See, what really gets me is that people think that advertising really started like 10 years ago with the beginning of the Internet.  It really didn’t.

In June 1836, French newspaper La Presse is the first to include paid advertising in its pages, allowing it to lower its price, extend its readership and increase its profitability.

Almost 200 YEARS!  Now I really don’t mean to make this an entire article about smoking or some foolish thing like that, but I want to illustrate that the typeset is suggestive enough to show that the same type of advertising is done today.  It’s done a little different though.  In these days, ads are truly subliminal messaging.  You have things like a McDonalds ad that had dollar bills as lettuce.  Or you have Electronics ads that only fool the consumer.  Its all targeted.  So think about who you want to target and see how your competitors are advertising.  It’s quite simple.  Match and refine their process and you will come out on top.

Web Services by TurkReno

Here I am sat in front of the computer waiting for one of my business partners to arrive and I start to think…’Does Running a Web Consulting Business Mean No Bank Holidays?’

Well, the truth is out there, as the saying goes, and take a look at any successful network marketer and they will tell you one thing. You never stop.

It might seem as though you’re listening when your partner walks into the room, throws a cup of coffee your way and tells you the kids have just climbed up onto the roof and are throwing rocks at the neighbor’s cat for the fifth time this week but the truth is you haven’t heard a word of it and so you smile curiously and say something like, ‘Oh, okay, I’ll be with you in a minute. Thanks for the coffee’.

You haven’t heard a word because you’re too busy looking for that next million. The Internet is taking over your home and there’s nothing you can do about it. So why not make a web site?

And listen, if this is you…

It’s okay.

Really…we understand…we know what it’s like to rush down stairs at 3:47AM because there’s just that something you need to do online because the guy you were talking to an hour ago in Hong Kong promised to get back to you and you’re sure he’s probably online right now waiting for your reply and besides you’re not really that tired.

We understand.

So go do your thing this bank holiday and forget that others around you have different lives.  We’re still here giving quotes.

Yours is exactly that so make the most of it.