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About six months ago one of “the dads” invited me over to his monthly poker evening. For those who are young and innocent, by “the dads” I refer to a …
How the Internet Helped me Catch the Poker Bug Read MoreIf you search Google for “what defines an english person?” at the moment the result is rather cheeky. The screenshot of my search results show the first result, a result …
What Defines an English person? Google is Being Cheeky Again! Read MoreThis wee on Radio 4 Stephen Fry took a look at the QWERTY keyboard and discussed whether it should be abandoned for being an out-dated, irrational system that is designed …
Time To Ditch QWERTY Keyboards? Read MoreEveryone loves a good Christmas tree. There are big ones, bushy ones, real ones and fake ones. Some are covered in fake snow, some drip with tinsel and twinkly lights. …
Techy Christmas Trees Read MoreTweet Just spotted on a couple of blogs that I did an automatic update on that the Membership was set to “Anyone can register”. Luckily the default lever was subscriber. …
WordPress 2.8.4 Automatic Update Warning: “Anyone can register” Read MoreAdwords is a great way to help drive traffic to a new website before your pagerank within the search engines improves enough to increase organic search referrals. AdWords is Google’s …
Adwords – how it works Read MoreA guest post about computer viruses. Call them what you want: viruses, worms, malicious software or Trojans. Really, it is all one and the same thing. And, just as with …
What are some of the Worst Computer Viruses ever Made? Read MoreRumours are strife that Google is on the verge or releasing its new cloud technology to the public – the Google GDrive. For several years now Google have been focussing …
Google GDrive is Getting Closer – Is GUnix Next? Read MoreI seem to be speeding ahead here. I am actually starting to read through the Ubuntu documentation, and it is very informative, and presented in a logical fashion. Just found …
Installation of Domain Name Service (DNS) – Bind Read MoreIf you have a static html website, but want to build an attractive and stylish menu, with different hover styles and active styles and sub menus, then it is really …
How to Create a Dynamic Menu on a Static Site Using PHP Includes Read MoreToday I skived off proper work to sit on a series of uncomfortable chairs at the inaugural Content Marketing Show, which was organised by the chap behind Brighton SEO (which …
The Content Marketing Show – Holborn, November 2012 Read MoreTweet OK, so one of the sites that I manage has been badly hit by the Google Panda update (previously known as Farmer Update). I have been busy implementing various …
Fighting Pandas With Platinum SEO Pack 1.3.7 Read MoreUsing the MediaElementJS – HTML5 Audio and Video plugin for WordPress and displaying an MP3 video from a flip cam. Autoplay set to “true” so that it plays when the …
WordPress Video Upload Testing Read MoreGoogle have created their own WordPress plugin to help WordPress site owners to more easily manage their advertising. Personally I have always been a fan of Ad Inserter, but I …
Testing the Google Publisher Plugin for WordPress Read MoreHere is a selection of blog posts on the two main social media platforms, Facebook and Twitter, and how they can be used to help promote your business. The Importance …
Using Facebook and Twitter To Promote Your Business Read MoreJust heard from Pierre Far, Googler that hangs out on Google+, that the all new sitelinks have been rolled out. I just Googled “Webologist” and sure enough, there is now …
Huge Site Links on Google Read MoreToday I upgraded WordPress to the latest version and also upgraded all the plugins with new versions. On updating Yoast’s WordPress SEO plugin my site died. It was totally offline …
WordPress SEO Killed My Site, Momentarily Read MoreI just had another of those “we love your site and created a fan page, please link to us” emails. It is obvious to an experienced webmaster that they are …
A Clever “Black Hat” Link Scam Read MoreNot actually a major problem, although without stats on Google site links usage, really hard to know! I love Bloomberg.com, it is possibly my favourite financial news website. Being the …
Google Creates Skip Ad Site Link on Bloomberg.com Read MoreWordPress Trademark Changes Hands Sep 10, 2010 The WordPress community took a big step forward today when Matt announced that Automattic has donated the WordPress trademark to the non-profit WordPress …
WordPress Archive – Wacky WordPress Words of unWisdom Read MoreUpdate on Google Drive: Burnt. When I started a new job about 7 months ago I recommended that we move away from Excel spreadsheets shared in Dropbox and do everything …
Dark Clouds on the Horizon – Google Drive is Down Read MoreJust received an update to the terms of service for advertising Amazon products on a website. From 1st May Amazon Associates members will now no longer be able to drive …
Amazon Disallows PPC Campaigns for Associates Read More[toc] I have been running WordPress sites for a few years now. I started with plain HTML, then moved to HTML/CSS, then started using Blogger to FTP pages to my …
WordPress Site Management – Administration Tools and Plugins Read MoreWell, Star Wars is now owned by Walt Disney. This will mean some great new rides at Disney World, and finally we get to see the next instalments of the Star Wars …
Our New Guide To Star Wars Read More