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Are you a Pestonphile too?

November 6, 2008 – 2:27 pm

Over the last couple of months Robert Peston, the business editor at the BBC has been everywhere. When I get up in the morning he’s on the radio and he’s on Newsnight most nights. I’ve even started reading Pestons’ blog and have subscribed to his RSS feed to get a more regular fix.
His blog is [...]

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Number10.gov.uk – title attribute spamming?

October 31, 2008 – 2:39 pm

Over at number10.gov.uk I was messing about yesterday to see if they ahd left trackbacks on. Before every spammer starts pinging them they don’t. Which impressed me.
What hasn’t impressed me is the level of content within the title attributes within the calendar widgets on the site. The title attribute on the link for October the [...]

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Google Chrome Easter Egg

September 5, 2008 – 10:19 am

This is going to be the last post about Google Chrome – for this week anyway
I just got an email telling me about an Easter egg within the Google browser. In the address bar of the browser type ‘about:internets’ and you get a hidden little thing.
On a similar theme of you type just [...]

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Google Chrome – Crashing with Symantec (Part 2)

September 3, 2008 – 3:39 pm

As mentioned in previous post you can turn off the sandboxing in Google Chrome to stop it conflicting with Symantec Endpoint Protection. However this is really a bit of a hack and as the sandbox is one of the cool things in Google Chrome turning it off isn’t really a great solution. As sandboxing means [...]

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Google Browser Announced – Google Chrome

September 2, 2008 – 8:53 am

God I hate geeks :p But this morning Jamie emailed me about a new Google browser (called Google Chrome)- you can tell I was working late last night when I completely missed this by turning off my mail client and thereby not seeing the RSS feeds which now fill Thunderbird about this.

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Is the credit crunch killing your holiday plans?

August 29, 2008 – 11:11 am

Times are tough. Every where I look people re crying out about recessions and negative equity and thoroughly depressing prospects. In these times can you afford to not go on holiday? It sounds strange I know but my girlfriend has started pestering me about holidays for next year already. But she has her sights set [...]

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PageRank update due – woo hoo :p

July 25, 2008 – 10:38 am

Woo hoo a Pagerank update is apparently imminent. So that’ll give everyone something to talk about while I’m away. Have fun and please try not to kill anyone when the green pixie dust changes.  PageRank is dead anyway :p
I know some of you will be sitting rattling the future pagerank stuff @ SEO chat for [...]

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Can Search Engine Optimisation Endanger your Online Business?

March 26, 2008 – 10:04 pm

Recently there has been a lot of bits and pieces kicking around online about how dangerous Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) can be for online businesses. One of the major stories driving this is that American Express are no longer going to be using Search Engine Optimisation.

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Mozilla Firefox – Ebay Edition (The end of civilization)

August 16, 2007 – 4:19 pm

Right here I am going to Last FM to get my fix of music for the day – fancied listening to the darling buds if the truth be told, and I find a big bloody banner for “Mozilla Firefox the Ebay Edition”.
Christ its like the nineties here we’re all soon gonna be able to get [...]

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Domaincest – A new word for your Online Lexicon

July 27, 2007 – 11:08 am

Domaincest
Today was speaking to Boydie and he came out with the word ‘domaincest’. We have now been banding about an appropriate description of this new word, and the semantics thereof.
Definition of Domaincest

Domaincest in a concatenation of two unique words

Domain
Incest

Domaincest is the act of

Continually purchasing domain names
Purchasing all extensions of one website name. Example Below

www.domaincest.com
www.domaincest.co.uk
www.domaincest.tv
www.domaincest.co.ck
www.domaincest.net
www.domaincest.biz
www.domaincest.org
www.domaincest.edu
www.domaincest.mobi
www.domaincest.coop

So get [...]

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