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Despite the biting cold rain I just had to head down to the beach today and get a few photos of this amazing rainbow. Not sure that the pictures really do it justice, but vividly bright arcs were clearly visible over the eastern end of the island.
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Lou and Steve are heading back to Oz, so we headed over the Brighton this weekend to say goodbye once again.
Despite the rail system’s best efforts to stop us, we all made it to Brighton and met up in the Lion & Lobster pub for a Sunday roast, a few drinks and some good jazz.
Comments(0) Interesting article listing 93 factors that may (or may not!) have an effect on SERPs. Must have a good read of this at some point.
Comments(0) Spotted an interesting hack attempt on a couple of my sites today.
Seems that someone is testing contact forms to see if they can add to the headers they use to cause the form contents to be BCCd to additional addresses. Presumably they then use the forms to relay truck loads of spam to unsuspecting net users.
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Had a really fun little solo-kayaking adventure today. I wanted to join my sister and the boys who were having a day on the beach at the other end of the island, so I decided to paddle down to see them rather than walking or taking the car.
The yellow line on the aerial picture shows my approximate route (although in truth the line should probably be a lot more wiggly!). OK, this isn’t the greatest expedition ever, but I was pretty please with myself. It’s about 2.5 miles in total, which I did in 35 minutes. More to the point, it is also the longest straight line trip that I have done yet.
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Thanks, in part, to Squeak’s inability to sober up enough to drive a car the bank holiday weekend on the beach extended into Monday - giving us more time to enjoy the kayaks (and Squeak more time to perfect his bailing technique)
Comments(0) Just a post to allow me to embarrass friends. This post contains a gallery of photographs of people I know acting like goons. Read more »
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We finally managed to get the kayaks in the water again today after too many weeks of them being allowed to dry out. Only put them in over the road from home, but got a few hours out there is some reasonable waves.
Rick, Squeak and Carrie (who managed to avoid the camera!) came down with us - albeit a few hours later than planned. Mum and Jacob also joined us after a while.
Comments(0) OK, I know that this is old hat, but the entry about the Matt Cutts Blog made me think of it again, and I thought it worth noting here.
Google-guy Says is simply a site that notes when a particular user posts on the Webmaster World and Search Engine Watch forums. Not all that interesting unless you bare in mind that Google-guy, as the name suggests works at Google.
I’m not a huge fan of either forum as the signal to noise ratio is generally way off, but there is good information on both if you care to dig. Some of the best of it comes from Google-guy, which obviously makes Google-guy says a useful tool.
There now appears to be at least 2 sites running under the same name, both of which appear useful. I’ve therefore linked to both below:
http://www.markcarey.com/googleguy-says/
http://googleguy.zorgloob.com/
Comments(0) I’ve recently noticed a growing number of “mainstream” sites utilising trackbacks on their pages. Even CNN’s all powerful news.com now has a slightly messy trackback / pingback system in place.
Not sure of the history of trackback and pingback, but both systems are heavily utilised by bloggers as a way of providing related links to a topic. The basic principal of both systems is that that one information site links to another through an article and let’s the target site know that the link is in place. The target site’s automated system then recognises this link and provides a link back.
Considering how difficult it now is to get a good relevant link, utilising trackback / pingback methods could well now be the easiest way to get links in to an information based site. I’m not talking about spamming every trackback page you can find (although I am sure that a lot of people are doing this), but instead deliberately searching for relevant articles to provide as further information sources.
I’ve only really used either method as part of out of the box news/blogging systems, but can’t imagine it would be too difficult to put a standalone module together - which is exactly what I intend to do. I’ll probably experiment with it here on this site at some point then roll it out on to relevant work projects.