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Entries from February 2007

Search Engine Marketing 101 – Lesson 0

February 28th, 2007 · Comments Off

In this Search Engine Marketing 101 I’ll be writing a series of articles walking you through the steps to help you get your own site to rank well in the search engines.
I once read an articles in the Chartered Institute of Marketing’s magazine in which the author said something about website marketing which was along [...]

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Tags: internet marketing

George W Bush’s strategic approach to climate change

February 13th, 2007 · 4 Comments

I recently read about a leading climateologist who run a climate simulation on thousands of PCs across the world. The first stage of the process was to run multiple climate models on decades worth of historical data to find the models that worked best. The second stage was to run these selected models into the [...]

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Tags: humour · life

Reinstalling XP

February 5th, 2007 · Comments Off

On Saturday it finally happened - I had to reinstall Win XP on my PC. Once reinstalled I then couldn’t get Outlook to work so suffered a bad tempered Sunday. All back to normal now and most of my regular software is back and functioning, and some of it works better than it did before. For [...]

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Tags: life

Bastard

February 3rd, 2007 · Comments Off

Imagine this; you’re going about your own business walking your dogs in a forest. The only other person around is 300 metres away in a 4X4. At the end of your walk you find a note on your car windscreen in semi-literate Spanish telling you that your dogs should be wearing a muzzle. And you [...]

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Tags: life

Gran Festa de la Calçotada

February 1st, 2007 · Comments Off

The other day I talked how bad RENFE’s website is when I was trying to find a train to Valls, near Tarragona.
My reason for going was as close to a pilgrimage as I think I’ll ever get; the annual calçotada, which this year was on Sunday 28th January. A calçotada is simply a feast of [...]

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Tags: food · life