The Curse of User Generated Content
‘User Generated Content’. A lovely phrase dreamed up by marketing people getting all excited about their website visitors creating fresh new content. This golden content would then propel them to the heights of Google with almost no effort required by them. ‘Building a community’. The Holy Grail of internet marketing. Not so fast. While this […]
Why I Am Deleting My Social Network Profiles
I am gradually closing down my social network profiles. There are many reasons why I have decided to do so: I get way too much email and it’s got to become more manageable. I want considered, meaningful communication with people in my life rather than rushed, ill considered mass broadcasts in each direction. I waste […]
The “Four Hour Work Week” and the Service Industry
What Is the Four Hour Work Week? I recently read Tim Ferriss’s Four Hour Work Week, and got rather excited afterwards. He talks about outsourcing, creating better processes and removing yourself from your business so you can do the things you actually want to do with your life instead of working. Great ideas. I have […]
Building the Responsive version of FCSWebsites.co.uk
I have recently rebuilt my main business website at www.fcswebsites.co.uk using responsive design techniques. I was confused by the whole thing until I read Ethan Marcotte’s book Responsive Web Design, which explained how responsive design is based on a flexible grid, flexible images and media queries. Converting to Responsive After a brief bit of planning, I stripped back […]
RetroPower Ascona 400 Replica
WOW. Just wow. Loads more info and about a million pictures on Retropower.co.uk of this incredible Ascona B restoration.
Phone spam from PC support company “PCEFIX”
I keep getting calls about my “Windows computer” from some idiots who say they are from the “Service centre for windows operating system”. This looks to me like an attempt to sound like they are calling from Microsoft. I get other phone spammers trying to make out they are calling from Orange when they are […]