Category Archives: Winterdrake (the site)

New project in development

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Dehumanizer

You may have noticed that there haven’t been any news posts here for more than a week. No, I’m not “bored” with my favorite subjects (as if I could); the reason for that is that I’ve been relatively busy with … Continue reading →

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Conversion Wars #1: Post Mortem

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Dehumanizer

As I had mentioned before, the first entry on the Conversion Wars series (Out Run) revealed its format to be far too cumbersome; three long posts for a single game is simply too much. So, the second entry in the series … Continue reading →

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Conversion Wars: Intro

Posted on April 5, 2011 by Dehumanizer

Welcome to yet another series on Winterdrake! Just a little bit of personal info: I subscribe to the UK Retro Gamer magazine; among other reasons, because, unlike any other gaming magazine, I don’t ever have to worry about it getting … Continue reading →

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AWStats tip: removing ‘chromebar’ from search keyphrases

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Dehumanizer

Being still less than a month old, it’s normal that I keep looking at this blog‘s stats quite often, and one of the most interesting bits — especially if you care about SEO — is the top search keyphrases list. … Continue reading →

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Search engine hits: Google vs. Bing (part 2: positions)

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Dehumanizer

In my previous post, Search engine hits: Google vs. Bing (part 1), I showed how three of my sites — a recent US-hosted blog in English, a popular Portugal-hosted forum in Portuguese, and a search engine-weak US-hosted aggregator in English … Continue reading →

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Search engine hits: Google vs. Bing (part 1)

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Dehumanizer

Having been interested in SEO for a long time, one of the things I naturally do is look at how many people are coming from the several search engines. While many people seem to care only about hits from Google, … Continue reading →

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Now on PlanetGeek

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Dehumanizer

Yes, as of today, Winterdrake is a part of PlanetGeek, Portugal’s most popular (hmm, are there any others at the moment?) aggregator of geek-related blogs. Yes, this blog’s content is in English, and my “geekiness” relates more to the American … Continue reading →

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“The Games of my Life” is migrating here

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Dehumanizer

You may not be aware, but yours truly has had a blog completely dedicated to video games, “The Games of my Life” (no link, since it’s now closed, but it’s pretty easy to google for it, if you really want … Continue reading →

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Geeks in the US as opposed to Portugal

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Dehumanizer

I mentioned in the previous post that one of the reasons I created a new blog for posting about “geeky” subjects was that the otherwise most appropriate possibility was my personal blog, which is in Portuguese, and I wanted these … Continue reading →

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Welcome to Winterdrake!

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Dehumanizer

This blog (created March 3, 2011) will feature, for now, my ramblings and musings on several geek-related subjects: video games, movies, novels, comic books and so on. Yes, I already have a personal blog where I could do that, however … Continue reading →

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