December 30, 2006 at 10:32
· Filed under Misc, Web Stuff
Blog tagged, that is. I’ve been tagged by Dan and Pete. Since I haven’t posted for a while, this seems like an easy way to slip back into it.
Rules of Blog Tagging - I have to tell you 5 things about me you wouldn’t already know, and tag 5 other people.
Things about me:
When I was 11 years old my mother took me to the doctor as she was worried I was too thin. No, really!
My RL nickname is Baloo, given to me by one of my rugby mates because of a similar walking style I’m told.
I have broken my nose seven times. Or rather had it broken by other people usually.
I can drink a Bacardi Breezer in under 3 seconds on a good day!
My Great Grandfather was awarded the Freedom of the City of Glasgow for his part in the Boer War. My Grandfather was a POW in WWII for over 18 months. My father quite sensibly became a plumber.
People I Tag:
Don’t really know any of these people, but I do read their blogs!
December 11, 2006 at 19:40
· Filed under Misc, Marketing
Love this! Commonly referred to as our “other national drink”, Irn-Bru have been producing humorous TV adverts for years. They’ve outdone themselves this year with a cheeky remake of the classic Christmas film “The Snowman“.
December 11, 2006 at 00:28
· Filed under Web Stuff
I’m a big fan of mod_rewrite, Apache’s URL Rewriting Engine. It allows us to hide the inner workings of our websites, to present a page’s URL as an extra description in SERPs, and just looks more professional. When I first used it, the great advantage was the Seach Engine bots found it much easier to navigate a website without falling over several ampersands in our URL’s. Now that advantage has mostly been overtaken by the ability of the bots.
A lesson I learned shortly after implementing mod_rewrite in one of our sites was the danger of relying solely on mod_rewrite to interpret your URL’s. Herein lies the lesson…
This time of year is bonanza time for internet retailers, the online Christmas rush is in full swing. Every other day someone claims “today” is the biggest day for buying online, and no doubt before December the 25th there’ll be reports about the demise of the High Street. I’m not especially gifted that I can see into the future, it’s just what happens every year.
Believe it or not, this is our slowest time of the year. No one is really that interested in travel, too busy shopping and getting ready for the big day. For us things kick off around the first working Monday after New Year. People get back to work facing the certainty it’s only 350-odd days ’til next Christmas and get to thinking about booking a nice holiday somewhere warm. Or going on a diet. Or taking out a loan.
Usually a marketing tool generally overlooked by UK shoppers, this year the discount voucher is making waves amongst many top brands in the run up to the biggest spending weeks of the year.
It started with Threshers giving a South African wine company a 40% off voucher to distribute amongst their employees, families and friends. They posted the voucher on their website, and it went “viral”, with the BBC reporting the voucher had been downloaded over 800,000 times. Read the rest of this entry »
