Magzalez’s eyes on media

Weather.com is always my answer to the loaded question, “What’s your favorite Web site?”

Well NBC announced on Monday that they would buy the Weather Channel for $3.5 billion. Check out the story from the BBC.

I’m going to be on vacation for the next week. So no posts unless I find something totally awesome.

I upgraded my blog to WordPress 2.5. There is some crazy sh-t going on with this thing. Overall it has a pretty cool feel, but it is going to take some getting used to. More on this another time.

Unrelated: Future U.S. sucks! Nintendo Power still doesn’t have a Web site. I can tell you this without even checking because I check it almost everyday. The reason for that: I haven’t gotten a damn issue of the magazine since they took over! Despite repeated complaints, no results.

I’m thinking about starting a cooking blog. I’ll take notes of what I cook, the ingredients I use, hopefully take some pictures and just discuss some of my methods.

I think it’ll be a fun project. There will be opportunities for video, pictures, slideshows and other things. It will also give me a chance to start up a new design and fiddle with WordPress some more. I’ll have to visit some cooking blog sites to gather some ideas on how to get this going, but I’m excited.

I thought I’d point at that when I started this post it was just a thought, but now as I finish it, I’ve pretty much made up my mind.

Any cooking blogs you might recommend?

So I have been trying my hardest to make my site and me more googleable. One of my main problems is that my name, Matthew Gonzalez, is actually quite common among first- and second-generation Hispanic-Americans.

Today I was happy to see that when I googled “Matthew Gonzalez” (without the quotation marks) that magzalez.com was fourth. Now, any first-page hit to me is awesome, I don’t need to be No. 1.

Even though Matthew Gonzalez is a common name however, there is really just one Matthew Gonzalez that gets me every time, former San Francisco mayoral candidate Matthew Gonzalez. This guy is a Green Party member who came dangerously close to becoming the first Green Party member to ever win anything including, but not limited to, mayoral races, presidency, beauty pageants, raffles*.

Well guys, things are going to get even tougher around here. I was watching Jay Leno’s monologue last night, and he was dropping some jokes about Ralph Nader and the ridiculous nature of his presidential candidacy. Out of the blue Leno says Nader has chosen a running mate, and he drops the name of our favorite San Francisco lawyer, activist and Green Party Member, Matthew Gonzalez! Now the idea of his joke was to just say his name and then say “Who’s that guy anyways?” Naturally the joke was wasted on me because I know who that guy is. I know him very well.

¡Ay Cuba, tus hijos lloran! What is this going to do to my googleability?

Paradox of the day: I need to vent about my googleability, but I am just adding to that other Matthew Gonzalez’s googleability by linking to stuff about him.

Fun stuff for today: I won’t have another post on Feb. 29 for four years.

*This may or may not be hyperbole.