03.02.12

3,000+ Page Views a Month!

Posted in Blogroll, News, Photos, Random Thoughts at 12:22 am by Liv

In case you haven’t guessed it, yup, I’m talking about this very blog hitting a new milestone and hitting over 3,000 page views a month! I know this doesn’t sound like much for a “serious” website, but for something like this blog it IS a lot! Even more so as a lot more of the traffic nowadays seems to hit my technical articles — though, granted, there’s still quite a bit of traffic from people (my mates I guess?) looking at my pictures from what I can see…

This statistic was pulled from my beloved WassUp WordPress plugin — which this morning (PST) showed me this:

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26.01.12

Joke of the Day: Julius Caesar

Posted in Blogroll, Fun Time, Random Thoughts at 9:43 pm by Liv

Julius Caesar walks into a bar.

“I’ll have a Martinus” he asks the bartender.

The bartender looks at him puzzled: “Do you mean Martini???”

“Look”, says Julius Caesar pissed off, “if I wanted a double, I would have asked for it!”

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24.01.12

Get Your Geek — Funny Advertising

Posted in Blogroll, Fun Time, Photos, Random Thoughts at 3:22 pm by Liv

I know that by posting this I am in fact providing free advertising to this site, which I saw advertised recently on the net, but had to share this screenshot as I thought it’s hilarious!

I heard previously of “specialized dating” — from married people seeking extra-marital affairs (ahem!) to “positive dating” (no comment) and rugby dating and the likes. But this one I thought went the extra mile — GEEK TO GEEK dating!!! I mean talk about creating an online community, this is it, right?

Trouble is, do they envisage that these people will meet? They’ll be the best of sending emails and such but…do they ever leave the house?

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17.01.12

Advertising or Information?

Posted in Blogroll, News, Photos, Random Thoughts, Tech at 10:52 pm by Liv

This goes out to all you ad skeptics out there who bang on about how useless the internet advertising is and how it should be banned / destroyed / 101′d etc: it is sad that not often advertising is delivered as a complement to the content being viewed, and as such it doesn’t come across as an intrusive piece on the page. However, when it happens, it creates something useful!

I have just experienced something like this just now, looking at some technical article online — and even though I worked for Vibrant Media before, there’s no hidden agenda in highlighting this ad unit I spotted as one such piece of great advertising. (I know I slagged them off in the past as well, hope they don’t take it personally : guys, I’ve slagged off Google more than you, so don’t read too much into it! )

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11.01.12

The Sad State of Banking

Posted in Blogroll, Fun Time, Random Thoughts at 2:33 pm by Liv

OK, I’ll give you the fact that this is a pretty bold title! I’m not going to talk about the state of banks per se though, why are they struggling in the current climate and/or falling over — I am simply going to talk about the way the banks employees feel about working there (I have touched on this subject before if you remember).

While maybe so far one might have thought the whole thing is based on just a personal feeling of mine, I’ve just been proved that this is not the case — hence this post!

For those of you who use WordPress/Wassup the screenshot below probably says everything, however, a bit of explanation for those of you who might not “get it” straight away. Read the rest of this entry »

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