In recent times you may have noticed that I have become obsessed with statistics and rankings with respect to my blog. Just last night is was rummaging through some e-mail when something caught my eye. I was using Gmail and there in the PageRank plugin for Firefox was a score of 7/10 for my Gmail… Read More »Google Pagerank?
Just got myself a Joost invite yesterday and decided to try it out. I’ve heard good and I’ve heard bad things about it. However, I went in with an open mind. Within 5 minutes of downloading the application the dancing crystals started to drive me mad but that’s just one of these things so I… Read More »First touch of Joost
As I have tipped the hat in previous years to this day, “Work/Life Balance Day”, I do so again this morning. Albeit a made up holiday by the government that will largely go ignored, it does highlight an important issue that nobody is really paying any attention to. I don’t think that greeting cards are… Read More »Even up
It’s official, the government have set in motion ASBOs for young people as of today. I have to admit that when the idea of ASBOs first became a pop-culture talking point, I was was very uncertain about the effect that it would have on the social structure. The whole branded for life thing was a… Read More »Junior ASBOs
Autopinger – Automates Ping Blog and Podcast for Free Ping your blog. Ping your podcast. Autopinger.com does it all (tags: ping blog podcast update) Slashdot | Chinese Develop Remote Controlled Pigeons Remote controlled pigeons are finally here (tags: pigeon remote controlled control fly chinese) RFC 1149 A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on… Read More »links for 2007-02-28
Just found out that I have been named as the winner of some Feedburner goodies. I’d like to congratulate my fellow victors, Frank and Bernard T and also to thank Paul who ran the competition and Bernie G who sent me in the right direction. Finally I will have a garment to be proud of.… Read More »I’m a winner!
I’m sure that this will not come as a surprise to many but it certainly did to me. In recent times family members have gotten the urge to give something back to the community and wanted to volunteer their services to local charities and such. Amazingly the response is either we don’t want anyone right… Read More »Charity begins… nowhere!
Personally I really hope that this doesn’t happen as I have grown quite attached to my @gmail.com address but there is a badger on Google’s arse, in a manner of speaking. Apparently another company already has rights to the gmail trademark and Google have already lost the case in the UK. If they lose the… Read More »Gmail no more?
If like me you maintain a mirror of your main blog and that mirror happens to be a conveniently free wordpress.com account but your main blog is based on MovableType then this might be interesting to you. No doubt you will have already noticed that you can import your MovableType content without any real trouble… Read More »Exporting from MT to WordPress
A few days ago I posted a little article about how I feared that I had become a link whore. Today I read this warning shot from John Chow about the dangers of being, shall we say a rank enthusiast and going beyond the call of duty to improve your blog’s ranking. Worth a read… Read More »Dangers of being a rank enthusiast