I guess junk/spam detection is still not quite sensitised yet on the new machine and this one came through to the inbox today: Customize your website design.
I am not entirely persuaded that these would be the people to go with, did I desire to do any such thing.
They offer 'best customized deisgn soultion' and /enquire 'Would you like to try any ( Read more... )

Okay, I am fairly used to somewhat incoherent solicitations like the following: I am planning to release an Upcoming Issue, for this we are planning to start this prestigious event with your articles and the receipt of your eminent work is the good sign for our success towards [journal with a very broad and capacious remit but only the most ( Read more... )

As dr rdrz probably know, yr hedjog maintains a website which is pretty much to modern website practice what wattle and daub huts are to skyscrapers, which is paid for as a hobby project and has been maintained in spare time for over twenty years. It may not get a huge number of hits but it gets a steady flow of interest from people who are ( Read more... )

But over the past several weeks I have been making as is my usual wont, yeasted breads, and I am finally coming to the end of a supply of fresh yeast laid in well before everything locked down -
- and really, it has been the fresh yeast supply That Could, it is still going strong, which is fairly remarkable given that it must have been early ( Read more... )

Every so often - I would say this happens with relative frequency - not so often as people who wish to Optimize Me, or rather, My Website, for Search Engines but have clearly failed to grasp that I am Not Selling Anything -
Okay, I daresay the idea that one puts One's Knowingz out there free and gratis for The Common Good may be a concept that ( Read more... )

Or, I have just been followed on Twitter by 3 people who are the same person, and I do not think there is anything holy about having 3 Twitter identities which are all touting your book/s.
I am also mildly beset by people who, having by some means or other found my website, and discovering something there moderately pertinent to their interests ( ( Read more... )

For several months now I have had a Marks and Sparks voucher. This week I finally got to the huge flagship store in Oxford Street in order to buy winter slippers - as the local branch is very bad on slippers for some reasons (the ones I got there last year do not keep my feet warm, point thahr misst) - and make up the amount in socks and knickers ( Read more... )

Oft, my dearios, have I mocked at spam emails offering me some dubious SEO service, where it is quite clear that they have failed to notice that my website is not about products for sale and therefore pitching to me in marketing terms is pretty much pointless.
(O, if only they could promise that my thoughts upon certain historical myths might be ( Read more... )

When you are pretty sure that the problem you are having with a particular website, whereby you log in, and parts of the site acknowledge that you are logged in and there is a My Account link at the top of the page -
And then you go to the area of the site which you have particular reason to want to visit, and it has Log In at the top of the page ( Read more... )

I.e. search string that found my webpage: -
Did Queen Victoria use a vibrator.
(Incidentally I see via Twitter that there has been another independent onslaught on the misapprehensions created by That Book.)
But we observe that these wild ideas go on to concatenate into an amazing farrago, and that when I was positing the Monster Victorian Mash-Up ( Read more... )