Category: Weblog

  • Time slows for no man

    I think most people have the same problem as me, in that they dont have enough time in the day to do the things they want (or need) to do.

    My days are currently structured a bit dodgy as i cant leave the house till about 10am, as we dont like to leave ms bon chops by her self for too long. This means i dont arrive into work until about 10:30/10:45, which is fairly late in the day to be starting work!

    Since the start of the new year dave and I have started going to the gym every day, around 2pm – but this means that i get to work about 10:45, and im leaving again at 2! Thats only 3 hours! The original plan was to come back to work about 4 then carry on working till about 7 or 8.

    Unfortunately due to transport and stuff i haven’t been staying till 7 or 8, ive been going home earlier with the intention of starting work again when i get home, but this hasn’t always been the case.

    As of monday i am properly structuring my days, and im gonna start work at9:00am every morning at home, then leave at 10 like normal.

    The extra hour in the morning means i can reply to any emails that ive received overnight, and then when i eventually get in the office i can crack on with the work i need to do, and dont have to spend the time replying to emails etc.

    We have a lot of work in the pipeline, which is good – but im never gonna be able to achieve my targets if i dont start managing my time better!

  • Links from relative websites for SEO

    Dave and i have been spending a lot of time reading up about SEO and how to build effective links campaigns. We read stuff all the time, many of the things you see on the internet conflict with other things you read, but once you’ve read enough and tried and tested some of the ideas you get a good idea what to do.

    Anyway, the point of this blog post is talk about how google knows if a website you have a link on is in fact a relevant site or not. The reason im talking about this is because we have a “Top Sites” website for the cruise scene  (the modified car cruising scene) and it links to some of the top sites in the scene, and they link back. You all know the ones im talking about! The site has been running for ages, and it has built up a PR2 and as it stands its a pretty decent site to stick a couple of links on to one of our automotive SEO clients.

    As i was adding the link, i noticed the google ads displayed pretty much nothing about cars, and just stuff about caribbean cruises. The domain name and the majority of the content relates to something called cruising and the adwords filter and picked out ads for boat cruises. I guess in a lot of ways its right, but then in the actual sense of the word its not. So does google think its relevant, or not?

    I guess there aren’t many “cruise sites” that would advertise using google, and i dont suppose that many of the car related ads on there have been set to trigger when the word cruise is picked up. If there were some then i guess they would get picked up and used on this particular site, but surely the google filters could figure its relevant content anyway and still display relevant ads?

    I guess much of what google knows is down to what people search for on google its self. So if a word takes on a new meaning then people will be blogging and searching for it so google learns about it and hey presto.

    Im still unsure as to wether or not a link off there will benefit or not, but i guess like publicity – any links a good link (unless iton a site about pr0n or vhagrah. 🙂

  • Dont believe the hype

    It only seems like a week ago (oh wait, it was) when everyone was darting about sorting things out in time for christmas – and now it is all over. I did have a brill christmas day, from start to finish – but i still think the whle occasion is way over hyped.

    This year has been a bit of a strange one due to the liquidity crisis. Everyone was selling things cheap, sale signs in every single shop window. It meant people who ended up buying last minute got all the bargains, and everyone who bought early ended up paying through the odds.

    I dont buy things for friends, and i only buy things for my close family – and only items that they ask for. I dont see the point in exchanging cheap tat between friends – meeting up for a drink or something is much more of a gift than something picked up on impulse when in tesco.

    Its not that i dont appreciate gifts, i do, but i appreciate spending time with loved ones a whole lot more.

    Anyway, christmas done – birthday next! Then new year!

    Happy Holidays people!

  • DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince – Boom Shake the Room Lyrics

    Tonight Gemma, Bonnie and i have been using a cool website called GrooveShark – its a flash based music streaming website, and you can search for and queue tracks to play.

    The speeds are really good, and it seems to find most tracks no matter what the genre. We queued a load to listen to, and one of them was this beauty.

    Here are the totally tubular lyrics in case you forgot’em!

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