I sometimes come across things that really really amuse me but aren't, in themselves, post-worthy.  So I do what we all do, have a chuckle and forget about it.  Today I thought I would try to capture some of them and hand them off to you.  A mini-roundup as it were:

• I was reading an excellent article about how captchya's are being broken left and right and someone suggested that we switch from text to a HotCaptchya.  Go on over and see if you can pass the test 'for the other team.'

• We recently did a longish post on Outsourcing to India and while responding to comments found a great article from Lazy Owner on Outsourcing.  I think I like his article better than ours.  Dang.

• Back in January we wrote about using Bugzilla to control projects.  We're in the midst of a pretty big project, with hundreds of items to complete, test, and integrate.  And we have people working on the project in three different locations on two different shifts.  I was just able to go through fifteen or so tasks and dispatch them back to where they needed to go with only a few minutes coordination overhead.  All thanks to the lovely and free Bugzilla.  If you do big projects you owe it to yourself to get off the spreadsheet and onto the 'zilla.

• Would you believe someone has sold 15 Social Site Submissions for $10 on eBay?  With 200 happy customers?  Amazing.

• I just read a really good article about letting Page Rank flow into your Contact page.  I'd never thought about it, but, duh, of course your "Contact Me" page should rank above other people with the same name.  We don't over-tweak our robots.txt file because we decided a long time ago that we'd rather spend an hour writing content than trying to over-optimize search engine behavior.
  • Maybe we're just strange because we rarely no-follow links, except maybe to Wikipedia. <lol>

•  It's rare for me to find a new SEO/SEM blog and immediately find two great posts, but that's why I was so delighted to find Marios at All Things SEM:
  
  • Sphinn: Many Voices.  I like analysis based on numbers.  And I really enjoy sphinn, so when you put the two together, well you had me at standard deviation.
  • Scaling SEO Services.  We're all about SEO tools here at Promote-My-Site, so when someone says they're important, well, we love it.

•  Why pick famous people for their Digg names?  It's not really iikely that Kevin Federline is really my friend on Digg, is it?  is it supposed to make me react to the shout more?

• Speaking of crazy stuff, we were on a conference call today with a customer discussing, for at least 15 minutes, how to make sure that they had the right licensing paperwork for their servers and laptops when the project is complete.  Ok, reasonable enough, but if you figure that the maximum possible cost for the licenses was under a grand and their cost for my team on the call was about $4K/hour, then that was pretty much a wash. Plus, of course, the answer is that the XP/Vista licenses are glued to the side of the computers and everyone on the call should have known that.

• I got an email from a client complaining that he was going nuts looking for a simple semi-WYSWYG HTML editor.  I love an opportunity to "give" stuff out.  So I sent him over to the FCKeditor site.  It's an open source PHP based editor, so you can easily install it anywhere on your intranet.  But better yet, they have a "demo" version running on their website, so I can use that when I'm on the road and don't feel like logging into the VPN.  Very very supercool - it has all the basic features and toggles between raw-HTML and WYSWIG.

That's all my scratchings for today!  Have a great day.