Author: Olly

  • Getting older isnt what its made up to be!

    Oh deary me! I thought getting older meant that i would get bigger faster and stronger! Well, i am bigger.. and faster.. and loads stronger! But i keep getting a poorly tummy and having accidents in the night. I think its because of all the random things i eat when im having a walk. I ate a load of grass today too, and that has just come back up the wrong way all over the carpet..

    Dad wasn’t amused! 😛

    I think they have got it in their heads that im doing this because i can and cos i want to. I’m not, honest! Its just getting a bit hot for me, and i do eat a bit too much grass, I’ll admit it!

    Here’s a photo Dad took of me after mum threw a stick for me. I love chasing sticks, did i tell you already? Its my favourite thing to do, ever!!

    So yeah, things are going OK apart from the sicks and the poo’s – my new best mate is our next door neighbour who’s name is Ogi, it was supposed to be Yogi but their little kids couldn’t say it, so it became Ogi 🙂 He is a massive St Bernard, and he is ace! He did have a bit of a liking to the back of our garden though, especially when he needed a poo. So dad has put a thing up to stop him getting in. I think he said it was called a fence, but it looks more like some bits of wood to me.

    I still go and see my grandma and keira and ruby and the clan, i love going there as i can play all day with keira and ruby, cos at home dad has to work so i can only play with my toys. I love going down the woods still too, and swimming! Wow how i love swimming! I will show you in another post though!

    Bonnie xx

  • Because advertising is a war!

    Since the dawn of the internet, there has been many quirky ideas for new ways to advertise your business. Million doller homepage was one of them, he had a really clever idea that was sure to both give people exposure, and make him a bucket load of cash.

    Me and dave are working on the next online advertising revolution that will sweep the internet all over the world.

    Because advertising is a war!

    Adwars! – www.Adwars.co.uk

  • Different google results in different places?

    We do a fair bit of SEO work for ourselves and also our clients, so we monitor the search engines and check the positions of our clients in the results when searching for their chosen search terms.

    We do SEO work for Wheelworx and they wanted to be on the front page of google when someone searched for Alloy Wheels. We have found that the sites move on a daily basis, sometimes more than once a day. We have had our client up to position one, then a few weeks later down to position 10.

    I checked it today, and on my computer they were at position 3. I told my business parter to check and they were 5th on his computer. How can this be?

    We both checked the world wise search, and the UK search on google. And both were 3rd on mine, and 5th on his. How can there be such a difference in the results even though he is literally down the road from me?

    It makes it very hard for us to do reports for our clients as we are never sure if when they click on the links in the emails they will see the same results we do!

    Anyone got any ideas how all this can be?

  • Google’s New Favicon – My Theory

    Many people today noticed that internet giants Google changed their Favicon from the familiar big G with a square round it, to a simpler lower case g with no border.

    I scoured the internet looking for a reason why they changed it, but only found other people with the same questions as me.

    Many people talk of a rebranding? but surely that would be a dumb idea due to how wel know the google logo and simpple layout/colourscheme is?

    But i have my own theory behind the most talked about favicon in the world.

    In the last few months i have been using Firefox 3, and they have made quite a few changes to the layout of the browser window, more specifically the way it displays favicons.

    They are displayed on a grey background instead of a white one, and you can now see if the favicon is transparent or not. Googles old favicon is in a square, and wasnt (as far as im aware) transparent, so would of looked like this Blogger favicon;

    Blogger Favicon

    This is square, boring, and doesnt really look much different from before. This is the new google favicon;

    Googles new Favicon

    This new favicon shows off the cool white glow type thing you get when your favicon is transparent. Google would of missed out on the cool glowey shit, so in order to keep up with the times, they have updated it, and dropped the gay border so you can see the glow round the g.

    But as my friend DJB quite rightly pointed out, they are suppsed to be the BIG G – maybe now they wanna be known as the little g – as written by Philipp Lenssen who pointed out that one of googles core values is to think and act like the underdog.

    I guess they will officially let us know soon enough.. Maybe its just some new employee who decided to change it for the shits and grins. I wonder how much bandwith in total – across the world -this new favicon has sucked?

    Wow.