Life Archive

Improve your SEO – write a blog!

We've been running this blog for a few months now, and one of the reasons we decided to launch it was to see first hand what effects it would have on our search engine rankings. We've put a variety of topics in here about all sorts of things that interest us,...
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Support your local . . .

Our local village shop has recently rebranded (click here to see what we've done for them) and opened as a delicatessen, showcasing the best that the region has to offer. I have to admit I am genuinely impressed by the thought they've put in to this. It's all very well having...
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Safe surfing – common sense prevails.

I receive around 50-100 legitimate emails every day. My server's junk filters do a pretty good job of filtering out the undesirable ones. However, a few pretty convincing 'phishing' emails always make their way through, and normally I can spot them pretty quickly. The one I received earlier today though had...
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It wasn’t like this when I was a lad!

I've finally accepted that I'm getting older. I realised this when I heard myself saying "It wasn't like this when I was a lad". It happened just a couple of weeks ago. A friend of mine is currently travelling around Australia, and regularly updates friends and family via their mobile phone...
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Inspiring stuff!

A couple of things have got me thinking about inspiration and where it comes from. I'm sure it works differently for different people. Some are inspired by nature, some by science, but for me it's always specific individuals and their actions or achievements. People inspire me, and in many different...
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Networking from the comfort of your own home

Social networking - the internet buzz words of the moment! So what exactly is it, and how can it work for you? I must admit that as a web developer I knew little about social networking until recently. I saw it as 'something that the kids did', and so that meant...
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Are you smarter than an 8 year old?

Last Wednesday I had the enviable task of doing a presentation about a career in web design to two full classes of 8 year olds at a nearby primary school. Not having children myself I suppose I wasn't sure what to expect, but I was genuinely suprised at how 'on the...
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