I won’t be getting paid as soon as I thought, so all that lovely Yule spending is off. Botheration. No camera, no new whizzy-fast computer. And no prezzies for anyone. (Not that I could have afforded to match the iPhone that Grandchild no.2 received for her birthday last Tuesday – but sending her a gift […]
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Feeling quite pleased with myself – just spen a good hour submitting the newly-completed Windows Hotline website to the search engines. I’m never sure if this is really necessary – good design, standards-compliant coding, keywords and linking should be enough, along with one-time submission to Google, Yahoo Search, Bing and DMOZ. However, companies pay quite […]
Yes, it appears to have stopped raining. For now. And we’ve actually had some sunshine today. We’ll see how long it lasts. Hm. I’ve started feeling optimistic and unwontedly happy lately, with a feeling that something nice is coming my way. I know I have a chunk of money due to me, but it’s more […]
Almost finished the Windows Hotline site. I’d started out thinking it would be a very simple bit of work – a straightforward HTML site with some slideshow galleries for the products. A fortnight’s work at most. But of course, rapid complications developed. First, the client hated the template and logo I’d lovingly crafted, so I […]
“It is usual to have the polite convention that everyone thinks” Alan Turing
Homeopathy with Dr. Werner Dr Werner is a homeopath and here she claims that the latest discoveries in science prove homeopathy. Unfortunately, all her video proves is how staggeringly ignorant she is about science. She confuses mass with density; she gets Einstein’s equation wrong; she thinks that Stephen Hawkings (sic) thought up String Theory (wrong); […]
Yesterday, we sent out for our big monthly shop and bill-paying day. As usual, I took along my camera, in case there was the chance of some decent pictures along the way; I popped it into my old green shopping bag. Having done an errand in Kilmarnock, our almost-final stop was at Morrisons in Ayr […]
I do a lot of online consumer and marketing surveys – it doesn’t pay much, but every little helps (most of the cost of the new mattress we bought last month came out of my survey money). Having been doing them for years, I’ve come across far too many badly designed surveys that don’t ask […]
Just been looking through the listings on a freelance writing jobs website. One that caught my eye: Horror torture tour scripts require someone with expieriance [sic] . Experience of what, exactly…?
….or rather, the lack of it. Had one enquiry about web design this last week, on Monday, wanting to know my prices. So I told her and haven’t heard anything since. She’s undoubtedly gone off to find somebody cheaper. It’s difficult knowing what prices to charge. An elderly astrologer whose judgement I respect once told […]