This is one of those ‘quick update’ posts. I haven’t written anything for a few weeks and I thought I ought to write something but I haven’t found the time (and perhaps the focus) to write anything meaty about one particular subject. Don’t get me wrong, I am well aware that plenty has been going [...]

The headline: Burping cows ‘harming environment’ The first line: Cows could be doing more damage to the environment than four-wheel-drive cars, scientists have warned. The full story: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/itn/20070710/tuk-burping-cows-harming-environment-dba1618.html And also, BBC News: Experts claim cows are responsible for about 3% of Britain’s greenhouse gases!   http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/mid/6288012.stm   Come on guys! Keep up, I blogged that [...]

This wordpress just keeps getting better and better… I started looking for a ‘email this post’ plugin and naturally, there was one! Simply entitled WP-Email. So easy to use like most wordpress plugins. Just upload the files, activate, insert a snippet of php and done! One thing to remember when downloading zip files: once downloaded, [...]

For any would be website owner wether it be professional, personal or otherwise, be sure to pick a good solid, reputable host. I didn’t for a few of my sites. I only needed a small amount of space and not a lot of bandwidth so I hunted around for a reseller account so I could [...]

UKMoneyPot after only a very brief spell online is already in the news! And not just the news but the Financial Times no less. In an article about the rise in the number of personal finance blogs in the UK. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/18a7f400-bdb0-11db-bd86-0000779e2340.html To be fair I was shocked when approached but the reality is there are [...]

About 2 years ago, my main website (yes, all mine, just me…) was ranking really well on Google and it did consistently for quite a while beforehand too. Then Google made some changes and my site got booted out of the listing for no apparent reason. I had done nothing different to my competition. But [...]

If you look hard enough you can fiind anything online! Even elusive snippets of code to customise your wordpress admin area. I’m building a site using lots of templates so I’ve got more editing control locally so I wanted to list my templates dropdown list in the wordpress admin area in alphabetical order. I searched [...]

Having conducted a preliminary search for UK finance blogs I can conclude that the results have not proven very fruitfull. Yes there are a few UK loan blogs and well, that’s about it! Most of the blogs don’t seem to have adopted the ‘community’ based interaction with other bloggers and I barely noticed a blogroll [...]

One thing that could make any wordpress bloggers life easier is quite simply WordPress.org Especially if you are new to blogging and web design stuff, it’s got to be your first port of call when trying to customise or modify your blog or template. It’s full of links to templates and almost every possible variable is [...]