It’s not until you try and use a website that its sheer user-unfriendlyness can come to light. One of the big examples is the website of RENFE, the Spanish railway company, which although it looks good and is translated into a handful of languages, completely fails as a useful tool.
My girlfriend and I are planning [...]

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Two of the universal laws of money seem to be 1) people who become materially much better off than they are accustomed to have an overwhelming desire to demonstrate gross bad taste a la David Beckham or any lottery millionaire and 2) that once they have had their gold-plated billiard table delivered and the appeal [...]

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If you ever read any of the webmaster/seo forums you may have come across mention of the so-called minus 30 penalty. It is easy to find out if your website is suffering from it because none of your pages rank above page 4 of the results (position number 31) and even if you search on [...]

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I was in the centre of Barcelona yesterday morning for a meeting, but beforehand I needed to go to Fnac to exchange a CD that I’d given for Christmas. After Fnac I walked accross Plaça Catalunya and was a little surprised to see a large, much-tattooed man wearing nothing but skin tight briefs.
Aha, I thought, [...]

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Adsense arbitrage is something I’ve thought about doing in the past but never got around to actually doing. This changed just before Christmas, when I read a report written by Brad Callen regarding a client of his who was making good money from it. Although he didn’t give full details, Brad did at least outline the [...]

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Last night saw the first round of the Barcelona derby with Espanyol playing host to FC Barcelona at their home stadium on Montjuic. In fact the I can see the stadium from the front terrace and if I stretch a bit the other way I can also see Camp Nou - or as most Anglophones insist, the Nou Camp.
But [...]

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I don’t know about you but I received some great presents for Christmas. One of them I’d been meaning to buy for ages but I thought would make a nice easy present if I gave enough hints (you know what I really need…). Luckily I did receive it. Unluckily it is close to useless.
What I’m [...]

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One thing I was happy to see in Casino Royale was the appearance of the Vesper. This drink is featured in the book and, as in the film, it was concocted by 007 himself and later named after the heroine.
Now, one of the ingredients in the Vesper is Kina Lillet and author Kinsley Amis took [...]

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I live in Barcelona where I have run a number of websites since 2001.
Before that worked in the UK, joining the internet industry in 1998 at Demon Internet for a number of years in various positions, including Product Manager for ADSL when it was first rolled out.
I later moved to Bulldog Communications in their startup [...]

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