My Office Setup

When we moved house at the start of December 2007, everything from my old home office was packed in boxes and dumped in my new shiny study. At the time I just broke out what I needed to get me back online and left the rest in its boxes!

Shift forward a year and pretty much it was still the same, save the odd search through boxes for a stapler, envelopes etc.

I had finally ordered a new PC as my old faithful DELL was making strange grinding noises regularly and trying to run GTalk on it was like communicating with someone en-route to Saturn. 

So at the weekend I picked up my new PC from Happy (who’d ordered all the bits and stuck it all together). I decided to finally gut out /un-box my office/study on Monday to celebrate the arrival of new PC, otherwise it just wouldn’t fit! Read the rest of this entry »

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Think Visibility Winners

So who won the two tickets to Think Visibility?

Karen and Carps!

Thanks to all who applied and look forward to seeing you both there.

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Shopping For Lions

I’m off to South Africa in June for the British and Irish Lions tour. I know I’ve mentioned it before, but I’m pretty excited about it! It was the first time in a while I’ve used the internet to shop for a holiday (that wasn’t through sunshine.co.uk). 

Being a travel punter again was an interesting experience, so I thought I’d share how I arrived at booking with the particular company I chose. My (and Tweag’s who was coming too) requirements for the trip were -

• an organised tour, safety in numbers
• to include official match tickets
• to include the second test, as it’s usually the decider
• be less than 2 weeks long
• direct flights from London, preferably Virgin

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Win A Ticket To Think Visibility

Scarcer than hens’ teeth, harder to get than Take That tickets, gold dust to the online world!

A ticket to Think Visibility of course. 

Think Visibility is a one-day conference with a focus on the areas of web development and marketing which are usually left behind in the creation process: SEO, PPC, Monetisation, Blogging, Accessibility and Usability. 

All 100 tickets were snapped up quickly over Christmas, leaving you the option of sponsoring the event as the only way to get tickets.

Fear not! I have a spare ticket! Read the rest of this entry »

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My 2009 Calendar

We’ve been filling out the family calendar at home, here’s what I’ll be up to this year!

January

at some point we’ll release our affiliate incentive based on winning places on AF’s Barbados trip in June.

30th One year anniversary since we put pen to paper with Tripadvisor to sell Holiday Watchdog! Time flies…

31st Chris Brown’s 30th Birthday Party. Read the rest of this entry »

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