Jem – UK blogger

Squeak squeak: now that’s what I call a mouse! (Not suitable for children.)

I didn’t think I’d ever need to explain this because it seemed pretty obvious but a recent conversation at Snark proved otherwise… If you want to be listed in Google with your name (or any other word for that matter) you must include that name/word on your website. Search engines/spiders aren’t psychic and won’t be… read full entry »

On the 2nd of July (this year) a friend of mine received an e-mail from “Frozen Midnight, LLC” hosting. The e-mail contained threats of legal action and the involvement of local law enforcement because my friend’s account had apparently been caught breaking the Frozen Midnight terms of service. In a fluster, my friend agreed to… read full entry »

New design, ’cause I got bored of the old one.

One of the things that I find most annoying about myself is my inability to concentrate on a long term goal, or work on a project over a series of months. It’s not that I have issues seeing things through because I do eventually get there, just that I find it a huge struggle to… read full entry »

Customer accidentally asks for their shopping to be sent to the wrong address. Customer tries to get parcel redelivered but the couriers refuse and send the contents back to the depot. Customer e-mails online retailer and asks for the parcel to be resent, quite happy to pay second delivery costs. Do you, as said retailer:… read full entry »

New BellaBuffs is up, see the readme.txt for info. Hope to update BellaBook/BellaBiblio too this week.

Rhys posted today about the things that he’s yet to achieve as a blogger, which in turn got me thinking about the things I have achieved as a blogger slash site owner slash developer (why the hell am I typing out “slash”?!) Although getting free t-shirts and reaching a global audience of thousands is pretty… read full entry »

E-mails, notes, work, script changes, plugins, tutorials, a half-finished review, phpFanBase, the qbee, fanlistings, link changes, CMS, friends, birthdays, questions, forums.. argh! Everything is creeping up on me and I’m finding it impossible to organise myself. Time is my worst enemy it seems. If I drop off the face of the planet, I’m not dead… read full entry »

When I said a while back that I was planning on redoing my CMS, I thought it’d take me forever to even get ’round to thinking about it (partly because of workload, partly because I didn’t know what I want to do with my site). However, the surge of comments on my free t-shirt post… read full entry »