“A kind of weblogged almanac of assorted interests to keep my hand in with writing, SEO, design, ads, analytics, Gen’ AI and other technologies…”

  • WordPress code for highlighted category links

    If you want to display a higlighted category to your  visitors so that they know where they are in the site, use the following code, which checks to see if the page is of a…

  • Round the Island ’09

    Well it was another good race round the island this year – we didn’t do quite as well, but it was just as eventful! We started at 0750 on Saturday morning heading west from Cowes…

  • WordPress

    As part of learning how to use wordpress for work (we are switching all our sites to it) I have decided to port all my websites to the wordpress CMS in order to learn a…

  • Round The Island 2009

    I am more than a little bit excited about this weekend – there are nearly 1800 boats signed up to take part and the weather isn’t looking too shabby either! Last year we came 5th…

  • Track adwords PPC ROI from a contact form using Google Analytics

    Following on from my last post, here is the analytics tracking code in the onclick handler that will pull the text entered into the contact form and submit it to google analytics event tracking. This…

  • Technical & Service Information for Ford Cars

    Online service and technical reference (Sorry – bit of a personal book mark this one!)

  • TVersity iPhone Profile

    Note: this is an archive post and the information may no longer be current or up to date. Also, Plex media server has since become the market leader for media streaming from your local network.…

  • Fluffy American Pancakes

    Makes about 4 large Pancakes (you only need 2 each!!) The Ingredients: 135g plain flour 130ml/4½fl oz milk 1 large egg, lightly beaten 1 tsp baking powder ½ tsp salt 2 tbsp caster sugar 2…

  • Yorkshire Puddings

    You can also use this recipe to make amazing toad-in-the-hole to feed two hungry people. Pour the batter into a hot ceramic dish (with hot oil) and then arrange the 6 toads (bangers) in the…


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