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Red Kites in the Garden
Whilst working from home last week, I suddenly noticed that there were three Red Kites swooping in and out of the garden and the woods. They were only a few metres away and just glorious to watch. I quickly swapped lenses on the camera and popped outside for a better view and a couple of…
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Clicks and Mortar the future?
I undertook a presentation giving my thoughts to a customer’s board of Directors the other day. It was a thought provoking process and allowed me to bring various thoughts together on business in particular business on the Internet. The existing big businesses have been very slow to capitalise on the Internet, allowing the rise of…
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Curry, Partying and Cycle Rides
Another packed weekend but all very enjoyable again. The weekend kicked off with a curry in Malik’s in Gerrards Cross with some good friends, one of whom (Al Spicer) challenged me to enter the Chalfont St Giles 10k and try and win the 40+ age category – unlikely in the cold light of day (sans…
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Google and Recent Updates
I am very lucky as a web designer. I absolutely love my job and look forward to doing my work. One aspect of it is that I have many clients who have varying requirements and routes to market, some are dependent on their existing clients and repeat business with their sales team and account managers…
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WordPress CMS
I’ve been asked by customers over a number of years to be able to edit their web site so they can update it once I’ve completed the initial work. I’ve looked at many solutions including the customers purchasing the same software, Adobe Incontext Editing (which worked well… until they pulled it as a free service…
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New Music Arrivals
Had to buy some toothbrush heads for R & J so purchased a few more records. Magazine – Secondhand Daylight Soundgarden Classic Album Selection (present for Chris) Soulsave – The Light the Dead See (features Dave Gahan reminds me I haven’t got the VCMG CD yet) Soundgarden – Screaming Life / Fopp (Chris) Ultravox –…
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Feast Day, Crabbing, HMS Victory
An extremely busy weekend and a very busy week to follow so far – i’ve not had time to stop and actually do anything this week. First up was Friday night in the Santhi in Amersham, where a good crowd gathered to celebrate Chris’s birthday – Scott even flew in from Abu Dhabu especially for…
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Budgens Chalfont St Peter and Supervalu
I’ve posted previously on here and on forums about how poor I think Budgens is and their tactical positioning in Chalfont St Peter. I’ve moaned about the fact that : They had 10 years advance notice of Tesco building a store in GX then only doing a refurbishment once their sales are hit Waiting so…
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Sports Day
It’s sports week at Jamie and Rebecca’s school. Watched Rebecca all morning today, I say watched all morning, she only had 3 races which equates to one race every hour. One of the races was to push a tennis ball through some cones and then to a line – which was tricky when it was…
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New Music
Just thinking about doing another Amazon order, but still listening to my last one which consisted of Cream Club Anthems 2012, Best Coast / The Only Place, Paul Weller / Sonic Kicks, Garbage / Not your kind of people, Graham Coxon / A & E, PIL / This is Pil, Hot Chip / In out…