Wildlife, wild places, photography - plus The Big G Bazaar!
Wildlife, wild places, photography - plus The Big G Bazaar!
Just contributed to a Webmasteworld thread, 1/4 of all users cannot do a Google search – sparked by a finding reported by web usability guru Jakob Nielsen, Bridging the Designer–User Gap. My posts (didn’t mention my dad not having figured…
Post I’ve just made to a webmasterworld thread on duplicate content – after I saw posts about “stubs”: pages that may have a word or two as title, and subsittuted elsewhere, yet otherwise all content just as many other pagees…
post I made to Joomla forum: I’m late to see the problems with Google “supplemental hell” – in which many or most of a site’s pages might be in Google’s supplemental index, not the main index: seems to mean being…
Article on Google's "secretive new center on Columbia River", includes: Quote: Google remains far ahead in the global data-center race, and the scale of its complex here is evidence of its extraordinary ambition. Even before the Oregon center comes online,…
Though Google seemed fantastic when it appeared, lately become something of a behemoth, with fingers in many pies, and evidently no longer focused on delivering excellent search results. – I've lately contacted them, re some sites that have pages with…
While climate change resulting from human activities might seem a new-fangled concept, there have been on-point predictions dating back many years. For instance: Eunice Newton Foote’s pioneering experiments from the mid-1800s Though insufficiently recognised, it seems Eunice Newton Foote was…
While I have a page on this site featuring some of the fake Facebook accounts that have sent me friend requests – several of them quite absurd, it’s also interesting to delve a little into information on fake accounts. Here,…
Over the past few months, I’ve received a succession of friend requests from Facebook accounts that are clearly fake. Often, they are accounts with photos of fairly young, attractive Chinese women – perhaps as I live in Hong Kong. Also…
And now, it’s time for some spam; just posting some of the crap I and many others receive day after day after day. Yeah, no use to anyone really, unless someone finds this and somehow doesn’t take up one of…
Walking into the old part of Ngau Chi Wan Village, I’m soon on a path between two-storey buildings, which include a relatively grand old house, built in 1927 of grey bricks and mortar, with granite blocks around the doorway. Standing…
From time to time, I receive offers from people I’ve no connection with, offering to write articles for my websites. While this might seem a real fine service – with no monies required – these are really about having links…
While a website page can look simple as you view it, there might be a lot going on behind the scenes, especially using a content management system like WordPress: if you’ve reached this article, you’ve likely had a peek behind…
After I saw two Japanese Yellow Buntings (aka simply Yellow Buntings Emberiza sulphurata) in Hong Kong this spring, I happened to notice that Birdlife has changed the species’ status from Vulnerable – as it was from 1994 to 2016, to…
I’ve read accounts of the Spanish Flu, which was the last major pandemic, mainly in 1918 [so over and done with relatively quickly]. At times, could seem responses were odd: maybe trying to act as if there was no disease…
