10 things that made me cry this week

I’m a sensitive guy. I cried when I saw the movie Gallipoli. Of course, my parents had dragged me to see it when I was 11, which is enough to permanently warp anyone.

This week, though, has really raised some humdingers:

1. The new Google Reader interface, which resembles a cross between an Etch A Sketch and a 1986 Mac Plus.
2. A web page with a record-breaking 32,000 lines of HTML code, and 5 lines of visible text. That’s bad, in case you were wondering.
3. OS X Lion’s continued inability to run Flash plugins, in spite of me having given the entire laptop a configuration enema.
4. The NBA.
5. The crowd at SIC 2011, who cruelly mocked my speedy new car. Sniff.
6. Agency growth.
7. The fact that I still have to explain title tags, then provide numeric predictions of the increased site traffic should a developer finally deign to edit them.
8. My continued delivery of free advice to development companies, all in the name of helping my clients rank higher, or have pages that load in under 124 seconds, or similar. Today, I gave a tip to a dev firm that, if they do it, will give all their clients a 5-fold increase in traffic. To help my one client. What. The. Hell.
9. Google’s rapid rollout of search query ‘security’. It’s eating up so much useful information I feel like I’m in Congress.
10. An SEO solicitation from a firm run by a ‘former Google employee’ that’s so sleazy they’re my next blog post, unless something really great happens that makes me so happy I give them a pass.

Tomorrow’s post may be angry. But it won’t be this whiny, I promise.