The Great Walking Boots Bribe and How I Got a Free Pair Worth £90
It’s really great when people you don’t know can see the value in what you’re doing and today was such a day. I received a nice little email about my Glastonbury post where I mentioned buying walking boots in place of wellies. It said something along the lines of… “shame you’ve already bought some walking [...]
Preparing for Glastonbury 2010
So its coming close to the time when I’ve to pay the balance on my Glastonbury ticket so I’ve decided to go shopping and correct some of the mistakes I made last year. 1. Wellies Last year I borrowed a pair of wellies (thanks john). this resulted in much time wasted trying to get them [...]
Is Google Polluting SERPS on Non Chrome Browsers?
I’m sat here today with 3 browsers open, one using the latest build of Google Chrome, Opera and one using the new Firefox release. Both browsers have the search term Chesterfields inputted into Google.co.uk and im seeing startlingly different results. SERPS for ‘Chesterfields’ Position Google Chrome Firefox Opera 1 chesterfields.co.uk chesterfields.co.uk Wikipedia.org 2 distinctivechesterfields.co.uk chesterfieldriverfront.org [...]
72 Hours with the T-Mobile Pulse Phone
When my iPhone contract ended in April (last year) I was hesitent to jump on the band wagon with one of the smart phones of the time, mainly due to the massive whispers about Android and the leaked shots of some of the new android devices (Samsung Galaxy, Hero, Leo and the now X10) so [...]
Google Analytics Annotation HUZZAH!
At last! A feature ive been waiting for for an eternity (and had originally built into a previous in-house analytics package) has arived for Google Analytics – Annotation. This is a great little feature that takes the hassle out of monitoring events on the timeline. With Annotations you can add notes to the timeline which [...]
Simple PHP – Joining Text Strings
I’m no PHP guru, in fact I’d say im starting out and at the very bottom of a ladder. Never the less, I thought it wise to document any simple web development tips I’ve picked up. Most of these will be VERY simple, however theyre all things I’ve learned or needed to know in a [...]