Author: Olly

  • The difference between an Epidemic and a Pandemic

    I turn on the news, or turn on our DAB digital radio – and all i hear about is pig flu! Im not really bothered about it to be honest, its a flu bug that affects people who have had sex with pigs – and since im no swine-ger (haha see what i did there?) im not at all bothered!

    Anyway, i kept hearing about this “pandemic” and i wondered what the difference was between an Epidemic and a Pandemic? Someone told me that an epidemic was localised and a pandemic was global. But then im sure i had heard people referring to a global epidemic?

    So what’s the difference?

    Well the topic came up over dinner at my mums, and none of us knew the difference.

    I received an email off Mum with the follwing in so i thought i would share with you;

    • Epidemic – Disease prevalent among a community at special time.
    • Pandemic – Disease prevalent over the whole of a community or over ther world.

    What the fudge?

    So basically an Epidemic is when a disease spreads through a community, and a Pandemic is when a whole community is diseased.

    I think.

  • New office, new start!

    We have merged our office with Liam from DL Motorsports, as we are now working very closely with each other. We now have 3 offices merged into one and its HUGE!

    Its like a new start for us as for the first time in 3 years this place finally feels like a proper office. Heres to the future! 🙂

  • Hey, where did my pagerank go?

    My blog seems to have totally lost its pagerank. I am 100% sure that it was at least a PR2 on the homepage, and i have a shed load of posts that had awesome pageranks due to them being commented on a lot and linked to and they are all now PR0 too!!! What the hell has gone off??

    Im totally fucking pissed!

    Someone please tell me its a glitch in the matrix???

    Crap!

  • Making my blog more social?

    To many people the internet is still something to be wary about, a huge thing that only nerds and rocket scientists can understand, although to many of us its familiar, useful and in many ways our home-from-home.

    I have been using the internet for personal and business-y related stuff for 12 years now – and for most of that time i have had some form of making-my-blog-more-socialwebsite or blog. However, it is only the last few years that i have started to truly understand the potential there is to be had from a highly ranked long-standing website.

    So i have decided to start making my blog more visable to the world in an attempt to spread my very limited knowledge just that little bit further.

    The last few months has seen me dive in to the world of twitter head first, and to be honest its the only social networking site i have ever really liked! And i have recently picked up the slack in regards blogging about stuff. I had really died down with it due to other work commitments.

    I dont particularly want to use the sidebar widgets that my mate wiggy uses – he gets a lot of traffic and comments from them, but in order to get this traffic he has to browse sites and do stuff in return and i am a busy guy so allocating time to do that is harder than you might imagine.

    So i have decided to use the power of wordpress and its huge plugin database to help make my blog more social.

    Im using twitpress which posts a message to my twitter page every time i add a new blog entry (dont worry i dont blog that often) Its something i try and do now and then anyway, so having a plugin do it for me automatically is just a bonus really!

    I am also going to give my blog an overhaul using the thesis framework as it is something i have bought recenlty and have been using for a while – and i love it!

    Once i have the design out the way i’m also gonna look at other subtle ways to get my blog noticed a bit more on the internet.

    If anyone has any ideas then feel free to leave a comment! 🙂