Author: Oliver Jobson
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Unemployed and homeless!
Well, I’ve finished work and moved out of Bournemouth – it had to happen eventually, but the start of summer seemed a pretty good time to do it! My parents have recently moved back to the UK so it will be good to spend some time with them down in Cornwall. So, bring on summer…
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mySQL on a mac
Some things to note: Uninstall cd /usr/local ls –l Delete file /library/Receipts/mysql**.pkg sudo rm –R mysql…. Then delete the other one too. Locate directory locate *mysqld* Change directory: cd /usr/local/mysql Connect to test database: /usr/local/mysql/bin//mysql test
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Online Real Time HTML Editor
Does exactly what it says on the tin: Square Free HTML editor is a great little lightweight tool that allows you to input html and see the results in real time.
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Link Strategies
As an SEO, I restle with link building and its ethics (viewed as if by Google), but here is a great forum post about the main methodologies and their associated pitfalls as well related discussion. I’m posting this as it is the first time I have seen such a comprehensive “waffle free” list of these.…
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Sailing!
I’m still on a high at the moment having just got back from sailing Wazobia, my parents new Beneteau Oceanis 40 on its maiden voyage from the Hamble, near Southampton to Falmouth, in Cornwall. The weather could not really have been much better – sailing under beautiful star lit skies and scorching sun during the…
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Web analytics
A great post about analytics and how to solve some of the problems that come with it.
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Turning a colour photo into a black & white photo!
I used this technique to produce this image: This technique is particularly elegant because it allows you to apply any of the entire spectrum of color filters just by dragging the hue slider. This allows one to
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Customers… its (not that) hard to keep track
Update, 01-07-2020: I came across this post that was first written a while back and can’t believe how fast things have moved in just 13 years. Nowadays SaaS applications for managing your customer database are ten-a-penny free (like Hubspot) and come with a large array of standard features even at that price point! I couldn’t have…
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July – going up
Sales with one of my sites are up a huge 37% month on month! The other has dipped a little, due to decreased demand for Novelty gifts and the personalised gifts being out of stock. New promotions are to be created for some of the slow moving stock whilst others have simply been identified as…