Steering Clear of PC World

It’s sad to see Ellee having so many problems with the Tech Guys, a part of PC World. I’m not going to tell you my stories from people, but let’s just say that I’m struggling to think of a single IT person I know that uses them except as the last available option.
Personally, I shop […]

Google Whitehat SEO Question

Does anyone know if there’s a way to poke google to do a scan of a site? I’ve done one for someone that hasn’t been checked for 2 months. It’s non-blog and quite infrequently updated content (it’s basically an application, and I can’t say who the client is).
I’m not trying to raise ranking of a […]

Visual Studio 2008

This week, I paid a visit to Microsoft’s offices in Reading to get a peek at what’s in Visual Studio 2008 and .net 3.5.
I’ve been using Visual Studio 2005, and it was quite an improvement over the 2003 version, and I wasn’t sure what to expect.
For me, the two big differences are in CSS and […]

Radiohead’s Honesty Box

So, it looks like Radiohead are going to sell their new album “In Rainbows” by asking fans to pay what they think it’s worth. It sounds like a crazy idea, but I think there’s some merit in it.
In the era of digital copying, almost any song can be acquired from almost anywhere (in essence for […]