Web Life

I Wish I Could Be Ernest Jones For A Day!

Despite truly heroic efforts, madaboutjewellery.com remains stubbornly on Page 2 for that most important of key words “jewellery”.

A pretty impressive position for a small independent, I know, but sales – and therefore life – was so much better when we were on Page 1!

Horse Revolution

Illuminating and edifying video. Competition has a lot to answer for.

Jean-Michel Cousteau’s Statement on Captive Orcas & the Trainer Killed at Sea World

This video speaks for itself. This particular killer whale has killed a human twice before, so you would think these people would learn their lesson. The “prisons” they are kept in are outrageously small and hopelessly inadequate for the space needs of such a large creature. If you were locked up in a 10 by 8 cell for 23 hours a day would you perform without question for your jailers pleasure and profit? The main problem is that animals cannot speak so we assume everything is ok. Until something like this happens. And then we’re surprised and usually blame and label the animal. Anyway, I get too emotional about these things so I’ll let Jean-Michel Cousteau say it.

Vista Tip To Reduce High Memory Usage

I have a high powered laptop that has 2 gigabytes of RAM and yet, when I run just two pieces of software I am interrupted by a message saying I am running low on memory and should close some programs before I continue. Is this Bill Gates’ ideas of a joke! My old desktop with Windows XP performed ten time better on half the memory.

Water or Coke?

This information, found by a good friend of mine is positively illuminating. I have to say that as a result of this I started a regime of drinking several glasses of water a day – previously, not even a drop of plain water passed my lips other than to make coffee, tea of fizzy orange – the results were immediate and amazing. My daytime fatigue, pretty much disappeared, I felt energised, stronger and more focussed. Also, my aching hip from osteo-arthritis (caused by a sports injury earlier in my life) stopped aching all the time. I can hear you saying “it’s just the placebo effect”, but if you don’t ever drink just plain water, try it and judge for yourself.

Amazing Speech by Iraq War Veteran

I think this soldier has tremendous courage to say what he says here. More courage than being sent to the front line to face someone elses enemy. At last someone is saying, loud and clear what we all need to hear. It is hard to know what to do to change the rampant greed and indifference to humanity that grips the banks, the government and large corporations. Their narcissistic pursuit of wealth and domination is becoming increasingly transparent, and this soldier’s words are a poignant reminder!

How To Stay Afloat In Shark Infested Waters!

Had a lengthy discussion with my business partner today about the state of play with our business and how exactly to proceed. This conversation was sparked by a call from a media company who specialise in writing and distributing professional articles for the purposes of increasing website exposure and popularity. They were extremely professional in their approach, calm, confident and knowledgeable. For the princely sum of £1,000 per month they would write 20 articles on our subject, peppered with our keywords. This was to be a one year contract, with 6 months notice of quiting but as a favour to us would drop the notice period to 3 months provided we make up our minds by the end of the month. It sounded good. In a struggling economy and us fighting for every order, a tsunami of exposure across the social network focussing on fashion and celebrity sounded like just the help we needed to attract the well-heeled hoards to our door! They almost had us on board!

The Google Idiot-Bot

Our site has been established since 2001. We have been on the first page of google’s search results for our main keyword since I can’t remember! Years. Over those years we have been growing steadily. We complied with the “Which Webtrader Code of Practice” which shows our age and provides an indication as to our trustworthyness. We have hundreds of reciprocal links, but in truth this is an area that has been somewhat neglected due to a massive workload on a skeleton staff caused by rapid growth and the need to survive.

Cheers To Getting Your Priorities Straight!

I can’t remember where I found this great story. It is so “zen” to me, and laced with a little humour. I think it puts things in order. I really want to share it because this sort of stuff is invaluable.

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Here are a few tips to help you get on with others under pretty much any circumstances.

1. Learn to remember names. Inefficiency at this point may indicate that your interest is not sufficiently ongoing.