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    LOL! Stop saying that. Reminds me how old I'm getting too.. I remember buying a 4MB drive for $100. ...
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    I'll tell you what, you've got a good deal there. I bought one for this computer and it costs me ...
 

Jan 6
2012

Posted by richard

I was seriously thinking about upgrading my computer that I work on. And of course, given that I read voraciously, I am all agog about solid state drives, or at least I keep telling myself that. (Ooh yeah I want one of those, you know what I mean)

The past few years have been an era of expanding hard drives (now you can get 3TB drives!), but the solid state drives, despite what we have heard, are going a bit slower. I mean, you can get a 1TB SSD but the price is a bit high (£1622).

I think I’ll wait.

Of course, I could wait for the flying cars they promised up forty years ago…

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    Gordon, how are you!? Magnesium, funny you should say that really, I took magnesium for a while to help with restless ...
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    Hi Richard, My personal consultant (Anne) advises you take Natures Own Food State Magnesium 400 mg and a cup of PUKKA ...
 

Dec 6
2011

Posted by richard

It is SO strange how well we keep time.

What makes me write about this is because lately I’ve been having some strange sleep patterns. I wake up every 90 minutes, give or take a few minutes. The past few nights though, I know exactly what time it is.

Now I know you think yeah right, ‘exactly’.

But last night, I woke up at 1:30am, and I knew it was 1:30 on the dot, I checked on my phone and sure enough it was exactly 1:30. Then again at 3:05am, again at 4:35am and again at, strangely, 6:14am. Yes, 6:14am, I just thought to myself, “it’s a little bit before quarter past six”.

Although, yes, it’s interesting, how on earth do we do it?!

But, I honestly wish I could have an uninterrupted night of sleep!!

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    I believe all the SEO stuff is geared more towards the internet bully we've come to know as Google. And ...
 

Nov 16
2011

Posted by richard

I have a site I’ve worked on for years, GRS Sign Company, it’s owned by my family so I have a vested interest to work hard on it. I follow many if not all of the generally gathered advice about SEO/SEM, and I have to say, get generally good results.

But what irritates me to no end is Yahoo and Bing. They don’t notice the site, or barely do so. One of the major pieces of advice especially for Bing is, add quality content, consistently. Interesting, given that GRS updates their site every week with new photos of their work, we write about the work, use keywords efficiently but not overly so. Yet, in search results in Bing, we’re never found. Odd don’t you think?

The same thing happens with Yahoo.

Now, one of the ‘advice’ sites I’ve read up on says that Yahoo and Bing like proper use of meta tags. Ok, interesting. So let’s search for ‘corporate signage’ on Bing and this site, www.modelsignage.co.uk, appears No. 1. Just take a look at the <head> section for that. The only meta tag is for http-equiv. The document is relatively old, written in html 4.01 Transitional and it’s table-based layout! Clearly Bing has put a cutting edge site right at the top of 11,500,000 results…

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    You got one!!!??? I only have the first one.
 

Apr 15
2011

Posted by richard

I’m not necessarily one to say that technology is a thing of beauty, I’m more interested in the functionality of things and what the capabilities are. But I have to say that the iPad 2 really is impressive.

Never mind the fact that it’s an improvement on existing technology, There’s still been a lot of thought that went into it and for me at least, I’m duly impressed.

Now if only I could get it to make a cup of coffee!

And oh yeah for some reason the categories list doesn’t scroll in the iPad, bummer.

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    If you do, I'd like to know how they like it. I don't know anyone who has one.
  • richard
    Oh wow that's perfect! I'm going to have to get the parents one :)
 

Jul 11
2010

Posted by richard

This is something that I’m really surprised hasn’t been more of a market.

My mother uses this really old mobile phone, a simple Nokia with no frills, barely even a digital display and fairly large buttons (although not too large IMHO). She doesn’t need anything else, as it’s only for emergencies anyway. She can’t see well, and she’s not too tech savvy, so it’s perfect for her.

My father on the other hand, a bit more tech-savvy although still like comparing a four year old with a five year old. He at least knows he can get information on train/plane times on the internet and recently started asking me about phones that do this. He got a Nokia X6 the other day, but today he called me to say it was awful and he couldn’t get on with it.

So my question is, why haven’t these large mobile phone companies, with all their resources, made phones for the aging? Big buttons, less gadgets and stuff on them, perhaps more intelligent voice control or large video displays or at least bigger icons and text? There must be a market for it, as more and more people use mobiles phones on a daily basis, and generally speaking people don’t see as well when they get older, or hear as well etc.,

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Jun 3
2010

Posted by richard

Not a bad job at all on the iPlayer redesign. Currently it’s still in Beta, but I think it’s a real improvement on the one currently there, and that one wasn’t too bad either. Not sure if people not from the UK can see it, but it has sliding panels left/right that you can use to navigate categories.

I suppose that with the news that they’re integrating it all with social media (twitter et al) and allowing other networks’ content to be played on there, they had to do it for ease of use. As good a time as any!

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Oct 2
2009

Posted by richard

This is one of those posts that market something. I’ll be upfront about it, I might get paid. Well, I hope so anyway. I’m not doing this solely to get paid though, I got an email from a website I use, and they had a good idea and I thought I’d lend a hand, so to speak.

The service, Small Rivers, lets people of the same mind talk about the same subject, and link to one another. It’s not quite like a search engine because search engines are blind and bombard you with generalised information. It’s more like a library index where you can look at ideas, subjects, conversations, and decide which one is of interest to you or more like your own areas of interest.

Anyway, I’ve added the little image below to prove I’ve posted about it. In the future I’m going to keep on trying it out, get more into my own blogging.

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    LOL! Right on! In your FACE FOX! Fox news is like a rag mag IMO. It's only good for a laugh, ...
 

Sep 19
2009

Posted by richard

I thought that this was beautiful. Having lived in the US, and having watched Fox News, I know firsthand how biased it is, and often, how wrong it is.

I ran across this on LiveLeak and thought it was worth reposting. It’s about Amsterdam, Fox News (Bill O’Reilly to be precise) blasted the city as a cesspool of corruption, a bad place to bring up kids, etc., A film-maker made this short movie, thought you should see it.

God Bless the freedom of speech.

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    Apparently yes. The deep south, fundamentalist christians etc.,
  • melody
    Really? There are still religious people here?
 

Sep 14
2009

Posted by richard

Yes, you’ve heard right. Darwin, that staunch rock upon which all of our biological sciences are based, is too controversial for American audiences. Apparently they’re all too religious and will be offended by Darwin‘s ideas (as though they didn’t already know them), especially in a movie. Surely if they’re offended by them, then they wouldn’t go to see the movie? Anyway, moving on.

So this nation of nearly 300 million people, which houses the dominant pornography industry, can’t stomach a film with major actors in it (and no porn!), that explains how one species might give rise to another. This, despite the fact that it has been proven in many species and you can even see it in action in some instances (butterflies in the UK, finches in the Galapagos).

God help us. Oops, did I just say God? That’s right, Darwin doesn’t say God doesn’t exist. He merely says that God didn’t design and create humans, but rather that He was the impetus for life, and life spawned more life and so on. That seems to be too difficult a concept to imagine for many Americans though.

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    That should be pint not punt.
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    Your filtering a punt or two through your system while thinking this one up Rich? Lol!
 

May 26
2009

Posted by richard

We have been here, in some kind of similar form for what, liberally let’s say five or six million years. That’s not a bad time scale to go from dumbish apes to what we are now, semi-dumbish apes.

So why then, given that they had the run of the world for hundreds of millions of years, were there no intelligent dinosaurs that reached the same kind of intelligence level that we have? Language, culture, building etc. All those hundreds of thousands of species and not one building or construction or sign of intelligence?

Tools for example, did they never even reach that level?

I asked myself this today when I saw the video on the BBC news site of the rooks using tools, and knowing that birds are supposedly the dinosaurs’ descendants, thought that perhaps these last vestiges of great dinosaurs are probably the most intelligent!

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