This is the weblog of Brian Curd. A lot of it is written on the spur of the moment and any benefit you gain from it is worth exactly what you paid!
I had a call this morning from one of my web customers; they have been contacted by a company called something like “First Found” offering to make sure their website appears at the number one position in various search engines.
This is an old ploy which, I suppose, may work in some cases. Unfortunately the results [...]
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Filed under: Scams, Search Engines
Yet again, Christmas is almost upon us.
Since we decided to stop sending so many cards and instead to support the RNLI lifeboat crews with the money, it’s this time of year that I’m reminded about the fantastic work they do. In order to raise extra funds the RNLI have arranged an SOS day on 25th [...]
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Filed under: Seasonal
I have been moving my registered domains and sites away from Fasthosts over the last week or so and now, only a few remain with them.
I’ve been moaning about Fasthosts for a while now and things reached a head recently with a complete lack of response from their tech support system – I really had [...]
For some time I have been bugged by the spambots registering as users on this blog. So far it seems pretty easy for them to get through the basic defences which are built in, however, help may be at hand!
Paul Marek has written about the problem and seems to have found an answer via the [...]
