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Entries from February 19th, 2008

False advertising is very annoying. I’m hardly going to buy from you now am I?!

February 19th, 2008 No Comments

So I see an ad for stunningly low price dedicated hosting on Gmail. I get excited. Its cheaper than my 256Mb Celeron dedicated. I tell people about it.
Then I click through (you’ll have to do the same to actually be able to read the text in the image) :

Lesson: Don’t get excited and tell people [...]

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SEO is not rocket science

February 19th, 2008 3 Comments

Richard just posted an article about basic Search Engine Optimisation. Rich is no SEO - he’s a coder, but in an hour or two of research he picked up the basics of on-page. I’m constantly shocked at some of the comments I hear regarding SEO. Its regularly sold-in to clients as a “black art” - [...]

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Email efficiency - ruthless or freeform?

February 14th, 2008 No Comments

I just stumbled on an old post at Tom Raftery’s blog referencing this article on Macworld. A ruthlessly efficient way of taking back control from your email client. Sadly I can’t see myself sticking to this any more than I stick to the “one beer a night” rule I tried to impose on myself a [...]

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Hotlinking is a right not a privilege

February 14th, 2008 No Comments

http://ni.hili.st/post/26298197
The temptation to hotlink this image was almost overwhelming

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