Random rants and miscellaneous mewsings on nothing, the internet, culture, food, cats and life in a foreign country … in three languages; English, Spanish and Rubbish.
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Cat Fancy, originally uploaded by cfcpgv.
A cat in a […]
The whole concept of Reality TV, I shall never understand. Most of us have to suffer enough backbiting and bickering in our everyday lives, so you would think that we would want to avoid exposing ourselves to more of it in our relaxation time. Almost everyone I come across rates Reality TV as more cheesy […]
You often come across people talking about using misspellings, usually related to capturing “lost” traffic by using misspelled keywords in your pages, so that the bad spellers of the world will still find what they were really looking for when they search online.
A quick way to find out who, among your competitors, is targeting such […]
Whist MarketingVox report that the Online Advertising Spend to Reach $20 Billion in ‘06 - for the clear and obvious reason that advertisers must be finding it worth their while to advertise online - I thought I would share a personal story which measurably proves that it works.
In this case, a neighbour of mine in […]
Eric Giguere explains that Google’s just put together a great little help page called How do I block the Googlebot? which, he says, could also be titled How do I let in the AdSense bot? The page shows how to use your robots.txt file to allow or disallow the various crawlers to crawl parts of […]
Useful little tip for those of you designing and sending HTML emails, which puts a number on the optimal size range:
The majority of HTML emails are measured in pixels and are generally 500 to 650 pixels wide. In the early days of email your mail client (Outlook, Mail etc) was developed without the ability to […]
“There’s a pervasive myth that there has been no Internet content discrimination by the large phone and cable companies. “That is simply untrue, ” writes Matt Stoller of BlogPAC. Stoller points to Cox Cable, which for three months has blocked their customers from accessing the online classifieds super-site, Craigslist.”
It is obvious, although there are […]
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, a couple of days ago there took place what may have perhaps been Australia’s first ever Buddhism for pets event - at which one hundred animals including cats, dogs, mice and mudcrabs were blessed. (Why not? Where I live horses, cattle, goats, sheep and pets are blessed annually in […]
Providing your readers / subscribers with as many ways as possible to get at your content is a good idea, of course. Blogs produce feeds that people can subscribe to and many services [1] also provide a way for emails to be generated from your blog and feed content. Done this way, you post your […]
We all know that eating fresh veggies and salads is healthy, but you can get tired of “rabbit food” and, if there is only one of you, salad ingredients tend to go limp before you get a chance to eat them anyway.
Gazpacho to the rescue!
Apart from the fact that this Spanish cold summer soup (or […]
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