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arresting the washer or spacer in groove
2008-09-17 07:19:00 how to arrest a washer or spacer in the groove that it will free to rotate in groove but it wont come out
Spacer ed Aqua Icecreamed, due bellissimi set di sfondi astratti per il vos
2008-05-03 12:00:00 Carissimi amici geek vicini e lontani, anche questa settimana è giunto il momento di rimboccarsi le maniche e dedicarsi un po’ al lato effimero dell’informatica, quello relativo all’aspetto esteriore dei nostri amati desktop grazie all’utilizzo di qualche sfondo gratuito davvero degno di nota. Oggi abbiamo deciso di esagerare, presentandovi non uno, ma ben due bellissimi set ...
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Alicia Keys invita audicionar a traves de MySpace
2008-05-02 20:29:00 ¿Deseas ser la cantante de reserva de Alicia Keys? La estrella de R&B está invitando a cantantes mujeres que tengan entre 21 a 30 años a audicionar a través de MySpace. Tienen que enviar un vídeo de 30 segundos o mas, de sí mismos cantando una canción a capela en el sitio de Alicia Keys en ...
Torque Valve for Plastic Spacer into Metal
2008-04-14 20:03:00 Hi, We are using Bossard stand off M4x40 mm length (PART NO- BN 7372, Material polyamide 6.6) in our Electronic chassis assembly to fix our parts. This stand off is going to fit into the M4x10 PEM Flush head self clinching stud (PEM PART NO FHS-M4-10 stainless steel). I assigned 7 lbs-in Torq
Should you get your satellite navigator from a specialist shop?
2007-12-30 13:51:00 Buying from a specialised shop often means that you pay a little more for the same product than you would from a supermarket. After all, the supermarket operates on the basis of “pile ‘em high, sell ‘em cheap” which is an excellent way to go for standard items like beans and whatnot. However, move into a ...
Translating pens
2007-12-20 09:57:00 Whilst I was doing the Spanish course, the big dictionary was the way to go. On degree level courses small dictionaries just don’t cut it and neither do electronic ones, most of which have a considerably fewer number of words than even the smallest of the paper dictionaries. However, when you’re settling down to read a ...
A few more fall by the wayside in the degree stakes
2007-12-19 19:30:00 It’s been six years since I started off on what subsequently became a modern languages degree and from the original 25 of us there are only two left in the “race” at this point. It’s not so much that people have failed but rather that they’ve reached the point where they have achieved their intended objectives ...
Upgrading the maps
2007-12-18 18:27:00 After promising people for ages that I was going to upgrade the maps on the listings sites, I’ve finally gotten around to making a proper start on it as you can see from the first edition of the new map of Europe that appeared on the site this afternoon. That European map is long overdue as ...
Travelling at Christmas? Then watch the prices rise in front of your eyes!
2007-12-18 10:47:00 If you’re travelling over the Christmas period and haven’t booked yet, then don’t hang around when you see a decent price as it’ll not be there for long. Just about all the discount airlines operate load balancing software which means that as the plane fills up the prices rise automatically. Actually, it’s as the plane appears ...
The stories of lives laid waste by google continue
2007-12-17 21:49:00 Stories abound about the lives ruined by the latest slapdown by google. I’ve just read of two people losing their jobs because of it. The drop in pagerank is a theoretical thing for google yet now two people are on the dole because of it and they didn’t violate google’s terms of service because, contrary to ...
The google pagerank debate rumbles on
2007-12-08 14:59:00 Google’s widespread dropping to zero of the pagerank of sites that accepted payment for links has kicked off quite a debate on the issue on various sites including their own webmaster blog. For technical reasons, they would much prefer that all links between sites on the Internet are purely for altruistic reasons with no payment or ...
Why don?t the Spanish eat breakfast?
2007-12-08 12:44:00 As usual when there’s a Spanish holiday, we were pretty much completely full over the last couple of days and yet nobody took a breakfast! In some ways that suits us as it gives us a bit of a break from the need to get up very early to do the breakfasts. But why don’t they take ...
Transferring domains out of 1and1.co.uk
2007-12-08 11:43:00 1and1 have something of a reputation of making it difficult to transfer domains away from them and rightly so as no matter how much you look around their website, you’ll not find how to do it. It’s actually fairly easy once you find the site that you need to do it from. login to your 1and1 account ...
Flying soon but would still like a bargain?
2007-12-07 20:57:00 Normally speaking you need to book travel well in advance to get the bargain prices but that’s strictly true only for the very peak of the peak periods and outside that there are often unexpected bargains around if you know where and how to look. What about the location? Well, if you’re not especially set on ...
Moving the domains: stage 2
2007-12-07 18:27:00 I’ve been moving my domains away from their previous host and now have all the easy ones moved over. Stage two is starting as you read this and involves re-registering the domains with the new registrar. The snag is that there’s obviously a period when things are in limbo between the two so the idea is to ...
Misleading airline ticket prices
2007-12-07 14:14:00 Airline charges are such a ripoff these days, aren’t they? I’ve just booked a flight where the flight charge was EUR 3 yet the plane ticket actually cost EUR 24 courtesy of the basic charges. And that’s not even including the EUR 9 that the checked luggage is charged! OK, I can accept that taxes are the ...
Googles effect on the blogosphere
2007-12-06 18:05:00 Things were trundling along quite nicely with the business of sponsored posts until a couple of weeks ago when google decided to pull the rug from under a promising cottage industry and downgrade the pagerank of thousands of blogs to zero. Ordinarily, pagerank (the little green bar you see if you have the google toolbar loaded) ...
Writing travel reviews
2007-12-06 16:05:00 One dilemma that the business about sponsored reviews poses is that of the money on offer influencing what’s written but it isn’t like that in the vast majority of cases, at least for me. Yes, it’s true that I’ve written things for money on specific topics that I’d not otherwise have covered here but in a ...
A trip to Belfast?
2007-12-06 12:45:00 My parents are missing James and John so we’re thinking of taking a short trip over to coincide with my Dad’s birthday next week. Ordinarly, such a short time before booking the flights would mean crazy prices but, of course, we’re in the lull before Christmas and in fact the return tickets are a very reasonable ...
Mixing and matching database contents
2007-12-06 11:27:00 One of the perennial problems that you have when trying to use information from someone else’s database is that they never code the information in quite the same way. If the external database is one from an unrelated company on the Internet then the only way around that is to create a little translation routine or, ...
Adding XML processing to the websites
2007-12-05 18:41:00 Although I’ve been running database driven websites for a couple of years now what I’ve not done before is to access other peoples’ sites from my own until now. A common way to offer people access to corporate databases via the Internet is by way of providing an XML feed. What’s XML? Well, it’s a way ...
Where are all the readers?
2007-12-04 17:19:00 It’s always interesting to look at statistics on the websites. They never fail to turn up surprises. For one thing, if you strip out ourselves, the majority of the visitors to this site are from America with the UK coming in second place. Or at least that’s what google says. For alexa on the other hand, ...
A difference in understanding about pagerank and how that technology works
2007-12-04 16:13:00 Something that’s very typical of any technology is that those producing it use some of the terms to describe it in a way that it completely at odds with the understanding of the users of that technology. Perhaps the highest profile example around at the moment of this divergence in understanding is “pagerank” or PR. You’ll ...
More changing over
2007-12-04 10:49:00 It took ages but I’ve finally got the images for the listings sites uploaded to the new host and the domains that I’ve transferred seem to be operational too. That leaves me with about half a dozen domains to do today to complete the move of the listings sites. They’re the simple ones so there shouldn’t ...
The common theme between learning a language and running a business
2007-12-03 22:18:00 Learning a new language and running a business might seem to be very different tasks but they have one thing in common: a need to be stubborn. To learn a language you need to be stubborn enough to just keep going when you hit difficulties from time to time. In fact, often it seems to be ...
It?ll be a ?while? longer to change the hosting service
2007-12-03 21:47:00 One thing that I’d not allowed for in changing my hosting service was the sheer size of the photographs that have been uploaded by those on my B&B and self-catering listings sites. They don’t seem terribly large individually but when you’ve got over 1800 of them that amounts to a hefty chunk of discpace which in ...
Are you a brochure advertising person?
2007-11-30 22:47:00 When we started off the original plan was to get going on the Internet marketing first as that would be a quick success (hopefully!) then we’d move onto advertising in the books & magazines. Notably absent was the idea of advertising by way of brochures and it was quite a deliberate omission too. Why? Simple really: ...
Long term guests
2007-11-30 22:13:00 You might think that we’d see long term guests more than we see overnighters but in fact it’s the reverse that’s generally true. There are two different reasons for this. Firstly, the long term guests who come out of season are generally staying with us because they’re visiting relatives who live nearby. This means that they basically ...
How complete do directions need to be?
2007-11-30 21:22:00 As a general rule, places in towns require a little more in the way of directions than places in the country and therefore it’s natural that directions to hotels and whatnot vary in the amount of detail that they include. We’re in the lucky position of being the only building on the road between two villages ...
Getting in the cash from repeat customers
2007-11-30 20:45:00 Many places tend to treat repeat customers specially through offering discounts, extra services, or whatever. However, they remain customers and one of the key things about that is that you need to get money off them for whatever goods or services that you sell, even if they are both a repeat customer and a large one. One ...
Apartment or house: which is best?
2007-11-29 09:35:00 Unless you’re a “house person” or an “apartment person” there are many factors that you need to take into account in making the apartment/house decision. Is this going to be your home or are you buying it for an investment is perhaps the most important question. On the whole, investment properties are generally assumed to require ...
The France Show advertising
2007-11-28 20:14:00 For those interested in France and perhaps thinking of buying a house in France at some point there are really only two property exhibitions that are worth considering which are the French Property Show in September and the Vive la France exhibition (now called The France Show) in January. Anyone at all serious about property purchase ...
Are you a cold holiday person or a warm holiday person?
2007-11-28 19:29:00 With the Winter upon us people divide into the cold and the warm holiday camps whenever ideas for Winter holidays come up. Although the Summer is obviously the peak time for warm holidays, there are loads of warm holiday destinations available all year. For one thing, when it’s Winter in the northern hemisphere, its Summer in ...
Financing those holidays
2007-11-28 18:54:00 I was leafing through the categories and funnily enough though I write a fair bit about both holidays and finance I don’t think I’ve ever written something that covers both! So, with the Christmas holiday season coming up, how were you planning on financing the holiday? Christmas is perhaps the worst holiday to finance as you ...
Odd links on the blog
2007-11-27 17:35:00 Some of the links that come up on websites are pretty peculiar, don’t you think? Now, I can understand where they’re coming from when a google ad appears on the blog that’s related to France. After all, I have written a fair amount about France in the past. But hold on: since I’m not writing much ...
Still a very low takeup for the free B&B listings in Northern Ireland
2007-11-27 09:42:00 I was a bit taken aback by the very high takeup from our e-mail to Scottish B&Bs and self-catering places a couple of weeks ago. So many took it up in fact that I’m going to have to implement a redesign of the site for Scotland that I’d not planned on doing ’til next year ...
The Stumbleupon effect
2007-11-26 21:16:00 I’ve been “hit” yet again by StumbleUpon for a post in the same subject area ie on The France Show. As before, there are the usual hundreds of hits and diddly in terms of adsense income from them as, on the whole, StumbleUpon people tend to be looking for something fairly specific (which is pretty ironic ...
Recycling old posts
2007-11-26 10:55:00 I read one time on a high profile blog that they recycle old posts if they can’t think of anything new to write on the basis that a) the content of the old post was still valid and b) nobody would notice because they had so many posts on the blog already. Whilst I don’t do ...
Christmas gift ideas
2007-11-25 09:54:00 The theory was that we would consider the Christmas break to Valencia as everyones’ present to everyone else. However, we’re finding that this is one theory that doesn’t hold a whole lot of water. Already the demands for not one but two PSPs are getting incredibly loud and we’ve still a good three weeks to go ...
One month to Christmas!
2007-11-25 09:40:00 Wow. This year has flown in for us alright. The Open University course, as usual, makes time really fly. Somehow or other I managed to go from being one month ahead in January to a bit of a rush in the final few weeks even though I managed to keep that one month leadtime right through ...
A busy day
2007-11-25 09:22:00 Between one thing another we didn’t get around to seeing the rally at all yesterday. The morning went in a bit of a rush to get the rooms sorted out for all the race officials who were staying with us last night. Since they generally book the whole building, we were using a few rooms that ...
The first of the Northern Ireland B&B entries
2007-11-24 13:06:00 As regular readers will know, I’ve been getting going on my direct mail campaign aimed at increasing the number of entries on the B&B and self-catering listings sites. The second use of the mailing list for Scotland pulled in quite a considerable number of properties over the last two weeks. So much so that I’m going ...
The rally arrives
2007-11-24 12:50:00 They’re just as disorganised as they were last year, at least as far as the non-rally administration goes. The race officials arrived early this morning before we received details of who is to stay in which room and indeed how many rooms are required. Anyway, they’re all in the wrong rooms but then two of them ...
The peculiar incoming links continue: mostly banking and finance
2007-11-22 21:11:00 The run of peculiar incoming links to this blog continue. Every time I mention something finance related, a whole raft of blog aggregation blogs pick up the post and republish it. The theory is that they’ll make money on the ads on their site and, of course, they don’t have any nasty work to do once ...
Did google really target the paid posters in this pagerank review?
2007-11-22 20:37:00 Googles pagerank review was due in the Summer but didn’t arrive with us until a few weeks ago and it still seems to be in progress. I suspect that this is one review that they may end up wishing they’d thought some more about as so much money has been lost as a consequence of it ...
Looking for some decorations for your garden?
2007-11-21 21:33:00 If you’re looking for some garden decor, why not go down a different route than everyone else? Forget about the gnomes and daft little bird baths and think instead about some wrought iron work instead. You can get a nifty little weathervane like the one here for under $40 (there are lots of different designs if ...
Aren?t some people really optimistic about the mind reading talents of othe
2007-11-21 21:19:00 We received a reservation a week or so back for two rooms for today. Not unusual really but it was from one of the many places that don’t tell us when people might be arriving. Now, November is a fairly quiet month for us and they were the only people due in today. It’s Wednesday so no ...
The changing face of the blog
2007-11-21 14:27:00 The category cloud on the blog is probably the best indicator of the direction which the blog is taking. I tidied it up a little this morning and it’s interesting to observe the difference in emphasis that it has now as compared to what it was like even as recently as six months ago. France is still ...
Looking for an apartment?
2007-11-20 10:54:00 If you’re moving to a new area it makes a lot of sense to rent first rather than dive straight in and buy somewhere. That’s simply because, no matter how much research you do in advance, you’ll never really properly know a new area until you’ve lived in it for a few months. That’s the amount ...
When should you look at houses to buy?
2007-11-20 10:42:00 If you’re looking to buy a home a fair distance from where you live, chances are you’ll try to make your search part of a small holiday and that you’ll be aiming to go there when the weather is good too. Whilst I appreciate the sentiment in trying to make it more of a holiday than ... |
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