Author Archives: Owen

Get yourself a streetlight

Ok, you might not really need a street light, but it’s a great example of how you can get pretty much anything you like online. I found a website that lets you purchase any sort of commercial lighting including street lights. The website actually sells a whole collection of different lights, both residential and commercial [...]

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Get new keywords

Here’s a cool tool which you can use to help optimise your websites. You know that you need to focus on keywords at time, to try and attract the right visitors to your website. Well, Google have a Keyword Tool that can help you find the right keywords for your website. Let’s say you have [...]

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Blast from the past: Only Webcams

I was speaking to Leo today about Only Webcams a subsite here I had built some 5 years ago aimed at ranking different webcam sites around the Internet. Here’s how it worked:
Only Webcams consists of a ranked lists of Webcam websites submitted from all around the Web. When a Webmaster adds his/her site to the [...]

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Hitting the big 50k

I’ve just noticed that I’ve just surpassed the 50,000 mark on Akismet. That’s quite a bit of unsolicited comments and this blog has been particularly busy on that front in the last couple of months. And it varies, from messages offering credit card 0% APR 15 months all the way to data center automation. Akismet [...]

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WordPress 2.7 almost here

It’s great to see that there’s a new beta of Wordpress 2.7. It’s currently in Beta 3 and looking just fine! I have it running on a couple of websites and it’s only time that has stopped me rolling it out to my other blogs. My favourite feature is the fact that a couple of [...]

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Dealing with clients

I was speaking to a friend of mine who was having a hard day and he was going on about how some clients are harder to deal with than others. He was doing a job in a hotel in Las Vegas and was getting all sorts of stick from the boss’s PA. The man in [...]

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Shop and Confess

Do you have a great holiday shopping confession story to share? Well, if you pop down to ShopandConfess.com you can share your experiences and see what other great stories other shoppers have left. And you can win some great cash prizes for sharing your story if you’re lucky. Here’s something to give you a taste:

Here’s [...]

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Bug fix on Only Postcards

I had a bug that can only be called a “latent bug” on Only Postcards that I fixed recently. It was basically caused by not properly validating some data coming out of a database and falling over when a particular field was empty. I’m still considering whether I should rewrite the whole thing in PHP [...]

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Get a free ski ticket

Interesting idea down at Snowlist.com, a free classifieds site for the Utah Mountain Community. They are giving a free lift pass to all members who submit 10 free items in their free listings section. It’s bound to attract some traffic and help improve the presence of the website.
Here’s the press release
FOR NEW AND RETURNING SKIIERS, [...]

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Trimming down The Only Network

Well, I think I need to start getting ready to migrate this website off a Windows platform; and the best way to start will probably be by trimming off the excess that’s no longer used. These are old bits of the Only Network that really served as proof of concept and never gained any traction. [...]

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