Launching Operation SaturatEng - Because I *Could* Care Less
I always find it amazing how successful certain memes can be. Amazing and, in the case of some memes (could care less, loosing etc), depressing.
I find “I could care less” to be the worst given that just a moment’s thought surely makes it clear that it actually means the opposite to what the poster meant [...]
Does Google Need A Disclaimer?
There has been a lot of discussion recently about Google’s latest update and specifically about drops in PageRank (see Greg Boser, Andy Beard, Daily Blog Tips, TechnoSailor and, for a list of other discussions SearchEngineLand). Many assuming that it is some sort of penalty.
Many years ago I worked in a casino. Very few people who [...]
Phacebook?
(One word of warning before getting on with the post, don’t bother going to look at the .com of the title. It’s your bog standard parked page.)
I’ve just finished reading Sugarrae’s Updated Unofficial and Smartass Guide to Using Facebook. A great resource. Having only recently signed up to Facebook, and, with a baby in the [...]
You’re Just Not Important Enough!
You’re not important enough. I’m not important enough. In percentage terms almost nobody is important enough.
It’s worth remembering next time you have an impulse to declare Google broken.
This posting was prompted by an, admittedly funny, recent parody - What if… Google had to be designed for Google. It got a lot of attention from many [...]
You Shouldn’t Be a Web 2.0 Developer If You Don’t Find These Funny
I recently came across a cartoon (first link below) that made me laugh out loud. I showed it to several colleagues and they all laughed out loud as well. Yet it was absolutely clear that if I showed it to my wife it would be absolutely meaningless to her (”…and you find this funny?” was [...]
11 Ways To Overextend The “Keyword Seasoning” Metaphor!
While I’m at it, I might as well also over extend “x ways to…” ;).
In the “Focus Pages” to do, I wrote
Sprinkle your keywords like seasoning - lightly.
At the time I thought the metaphor was ripe for overextension. So here we go…
Sprinkling seasonings lightly can make your dish tastier for the critics (search engines).
A [...]
Email Validation Regular Expression
When I was looking for a regular expression to validate email addresses the examples I found tended to fall into two camps. Camp one were simple, easily confirmed, regular expressions that just as obviously did little beyond insisting on an @ in the middle. Camp two were more complicated than I wished to reverse engineer [...]
How To Reduce Spam and Bouncebacks, Organise Your Email And Still Keep The Convenience Of A Catch-All!
Well, it’s a long title and it’s likely to be a long post… even by my standards.
A few weeks back I had a major, and unexpected since I started using SPF, run of undeliverable bounce backs from somebody else’s spam run as I reported in “Does SPF Make You A Target“.
My email provider suggested that [...]
