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I recently had to figure something out in windows that has driven me crazy for quite some time.

I edit quite a few files on windows that do not have file extensions.  I wanted to associate my favorite editor to the file when there is no extension, but it appears you can’t do this through XP’s graphical interface.   Here is how to do it:

Under Start->Run…
REGEDIT

You are now in the registry editor.  Create an entry for HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.\shell\open\command

as follows:

Set the Data to be the program you want to use:
C:\Program Files\Vim\vim64\gvim.exe “%1″

or, if you prefer notepad, you can use:
C:\Windows\notepad.exe “%1″

Today I’m starting my campaign to be the coolest guy in Utah, at least according to Google.  There are 417,000 google results for that term, but that really means nothing.  Based on the title tags and page ranks of the top 10, it doesn’t look too hard to reach #1.  Some very basic SEO techniques are all that should be required.  Starting on 9-4-2007, I’m posting this blog page and adding just a few links to it with the keywords “coolest guy in Utah”.  We’ll record how long it takes to ‘get to the top.

UPDATE:  09-19-2007

OK, to be honest I forgot about this until today,. when I noticed I had reached #1 for “coolest guy in utah”.  A couple of weeks is all it took.  We’ll see if the ranking holds up with no further interaction.  I also see that I am #1 and #3 on Yahoo as well. But on MSN, I am seeing some of the pages I placed links on in the rankings, but not this blog page yet.

A couple of side effect rankings to note, this page is now #23 on google for utah’s coolest and #4 for coolest utah. 

UPDATE:  10-11-2007

I just checked, and it looks like this page dropped out of the Google top 10 for the coolest guy in utah.  In fact, it doesn’t even show up in the top 100 right now.  The main blog page is #4 for that phrase.  This page is still #1 on yahoo and msn, though. 

 Looking at google’s cache: command on the page, it hasn’t cached it since Sept 5th.  My guess is it will come back in a while without doing anything.  Agreed that the title tag of this page isn’t perfect, but none of the other ranked pages are either.  We’ll just watch it and see…

UPDATE:  11-26-2007

Looks like it finally came back on google.  As of today, there is a #1 on google, and a #1 and #2 listing on Yahoo and MSN.  No additional link building or optimization was done since the initial placement.

UPDATE: 02-11-2008

Just revisiting this post.  Still #1 on google, but I noticed the estimated results dropped to “about 27,100″.  It used to show over 400,000 results, so google has paired down the way it estimates total results.  Still #1 on yahoo (of 572,000 results), and #1 and #2 on Live/MSN (shows 2,130,00 results).