“A kind of weblogged almanac of assorted interests to keep my hand in with writing, SEO, design, ads, analytics, Gen’ AI and other technologies…”

  • Keys to success..

    Found this and thought I’d share – I think number 2 is one of the most important in becoming a an efficient ‘self-starter’. Pursue what you love. Passion is an incredible motivator. It fuels focus,…

  • Delivering web video to mobile devices..

    Lately I’ve been trying to get Video on to mobile devices and it’s a maze of techniques, settings, programs and codecs for every device and device model so below I’ll try to clear up some…

  • Thinking Juice

    Whilst away sailing over Easter I read two great books that got me really motivated. The first was Seth Godin’s new book, ‘Poke The Box‘ which is the perfect book to read if

  • Easter Sailing

    Just spent 6 great days over easter sailing along the south coast with my parents and had an awesome time! I don’t think I really saw a cloud all week, we had good wind for…

  • Waste

    This morning a Toshiba displayport cable, that I had ordered from eBay arrived in the post and I was quite shocked when I opened the box. Not one thick booklet, but two – a ‘User…

  • My first BrightonSEO..

    This year I was invited by Graeme & Jo of Site Visibility, our SEO agency, to attend the SEO seminar that they were sponsoring. I thought it would be a great chance to immerse myself…

  • Load Balancing WordPress

    When we moved to WordPress, we ran into an issue with our load balanced servers – you can’t add a post to each server individually because of the unique post number added by wordpress when…

  • MAMP (LAMP) for Mac – Hosting Multiple Sites (without the pro version)

    You don’t need to shell out for the pro version of MAMP to host multiple sites on your Mac. All it takes is a couple of tweaks behind the scenes. Once you have MAMP installed…

  • An Earthquake, A Tsunami and a Nuclear Emergency…

    .. this may be a new definition of having a bad day. So the reactor safety systems: A BWR is similar to a Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) in that the reactor will continue to produce…


Any good recommendations for books, podcasts or blogs?