Remember canned Irish air? How about "genuine" New York garbage? I was half listening to Morning Ireland this morning when they interviewed Justin Gignac, who literally sells rubbish. For a "mere" $50 you can get a signed and numbered cube of NYC rubbish (garbage). The $50 includes free shipping worldwide. You can find out more on his website. … [Read more...] about People Will Buy Anything
Webmaster Forum New Logo
Peter in Edenweb is the genius behind the nice new shiny logo for the webmaster forum: I think it looks great! He even did a nice little favicon to go with it … [Read more...] about Webmaster Forum New Logo
Telling Google that pages are gone
Until recently I was under the impression that search engine spiders conformed to "sane" standards. If a page returns a HTTP status code of 404 you would have thought that the page / link would be removed from the index. Seemingly this is not the case... I've now been advised that I should try to use either a 410 status code There are some interesting differences between the … [Read more...] about Telling Google that pages are gone
Recruiters Spamming
Dear Recruitment Agency Yes I post to mailing lists. No, that does not give you permission to email me as if pulling my email address from there was "acceptable". Thanks Michele … [Read more...] about Recruiters Spamming
More Domain Scams *sigh*
Yet another UK company is trying to scam Irish business with charming threats of domains being registered by others.. This seems to happen every 3 to 4 months... In any case I've posted a sanitised version of one of their emails on the company blog if anyone wants to read about it. … [Read more...] about More Domain Scams *sigh*