Remember our Veterans
We’d like to take this time to publicly thank our veterans and currently enlisted soldiers for all their sacrifices for keeping America safe and free. The point was really driven home for me last week when we were setting teams for our local old man’s hockey league. One of the [...]
A Bit of Fry, Laurie, WP7 & Enterprise Enjoyment. No, Really.
Now you all know House is English, right? No, not the program but the doddering doctor played by Hugh Laurie. Back in the day, Hugh had a show with a certain Mr. Stephen Fry doing comedy skits. From there they moved onto other ‘amusing vehicles’ such as Jeeves & Wooster [...]
Be The Master of Your Own Domain
I want this to serve as a cautionary tale – that even us so-called ‘professionals’ sometimes get it wrong. You see, when I started out, I did what most people do and looked for the cheapest hosting. You’ve no real idea as to how busy you’ll get and it’ll be [...]
Massage the Mind Tank by Searching the Internet
A spoonful of search helps the brain cells go round… As we all know, it takes all sorts. I’m a fan of exploring our differences and what makes us tick. But, there’s one thing I really don’t have any time for, and that’s intellectual atrophy. The lazy brain that accepts [...]
The (t-) Shirt Off Your Back
Well I think it’s over. I can’t swear blind who exactly wound up with the Democratic party nod as entering Hillary Clinton’s parallel universe that defies all laws of mathematics has sent me into an intellectually self critical tailspin of Nietzschian proportions. I love it when the American media announces [...]
Frankly, Mr. Shankly.
There are probably quite a few things you might be wary of being controlled by the internet – your love life, your business, your banking, your shopping, etc. But all of those pale into insignificance when compared to something as important as your football club. Paul WoodhousePaul looks after the [...]
Yahoo! Search Marketing to Scrap Fixed Minimum Keyword Bids – EWS v. 4.0.0
Just got this email from the higher-ups at Yahoo! Search Marketing and it appears there are changes afoot. The most interesting being the change to no fixed minimum keywords bids. Paul WoodhousePaul looks after the SEO side of things here at Direct Online Marketing as well as trying to work [...]
Really Dim (Sum) Shadies
What is it with Lou Dobbs? If I’ve heard him whine about illegal immigrants and Chinese outsourcing once, I’ve heard him whine a thousand times. His current (and other ‘commenters’) crispy-shredded beef with China’s non-existent quality control borders on the hysterical. I’m almost starting to believe that there are secret [...]
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
And thus the saga continues…….. There are two types of people in this world – those who love what they do and those who just do it for the money. Yes, we all need a dollar or two to keep the wolf from the door, but not all of us [...]
The 40 Gig Granny
And there was me all impressed about my mother joining the internet revolution and various grannies and whatnot becoming HD compliant and going all dolally over email. Y’know, just like we all were when we first started. Oh, happy days. Now if that wasn’t enough, we now have another old [...]
Corporate Customer Service: an Oxymoron?
There are times you have no other option than to be an absolute pain in the backside as a customer. In fact, I could argue we should perhaps all do it a little bit more. Last year I recall having a torrid time trying to get my broadband switched from [...]
You'll have to get on at some point.
Many mouldy moons ago, when I first set about my own personal journey of Web discovery, the script read something along the lines of my brother-in-law at Butler Sheet Metal performing the cardinal sin of the Web by asking a relative to make him a site because said relative knew [...]
You're Never Too Old.
The last time I visited the UK was to surprise my mother for her sixtieth birthday back in October. I know, I’m a lovely son. If truth be told, I had a return ticket from the previous month’s emigration and was feeling a little bit homesick. It was as much [...]
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