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How about a really personal New York sight-seeing trip?
2008-03-19 22:20:00 There are loads of different tours that you can take of New York . They’ll all show you the big sights (or at least as many as they can pack into a morning or afternoon) and they’ll pretty much all take you around on some kind of coach. But one New York tour is different: Family in New ... More About: America , Personal , Holidays
How about a really personal New York sight-seeing trip?
2008-03-19 22:20:00 There are loads of different tours that you can take of New York . They’ll all show you the big sights (or at least as many as they can pack into a morning or afternoon) and they’ll pretty much all take you around on some kind of coach. But one New York tour is different: Family in New ... More About: America , Personal , Holidays
Hectic days a-coming up
2008-03-19 22:11:00 Over the next few days it’s going to be pretty hectic here as the Spanish are coming, as usual for their pre-Easter break. Also, as usual, they wait ’til the last minute to book. Just a few weeks ago, we had nobody down for the next few days yet as of tomorrow we’re pretty much full ... More About: Holidays , Business , France , Spain , Days
Hectic days a-coming up
2008-03-19 22:11:00 Over the next few days it’s going to be pretty hectic here as the Spanish are coming, as usual for their pre-Easter break. Also, as usual, they wait ’til the last minute to book. Just a few weeks ago, we had nobody down for the next few days yet as of tomorrow we’re pretty much full ... More About: Holidays , Business , France , Spain , Days
Transforming a room with some blinds
2008-03-19 21:44:00 Funnily enough I’m usually the last person to notice blinds or sheer curtains in a room and the OH always gives off when I take a promotion photo of our rooms and haven’t bothered to arrange the curtains properly. Having said that, I find that discount mini blinds are a great way to completely change the look ... More About: America , Room , Blinds , Home Improvements
Thinking of setting up a US company
2008-03-19 21:35:00 I find myself in the unusual (for me) position of thinking about setting up a company in America . How did that come about? Well, some back of the envelope calculations indicate that there could be a lot of money to be made were some of my websites hosted in America and in some circumstances it looks ... More About: Business , Web Development , Company , Thinking
Looking for a credit card but tagged as ?bad credit??
2008-03-19 21:23:00 When even the banks themselves get tagged as being bad credit risks, there’s clearly quite a market out there to serve those people who find themselves as being tagged as “bad credit”. Surprisingly, perhaps, some of the deals on offer via bad credit credit cards are actually quite good with offers of APRs under 10% for some of ... More About: America , Finance , Card , Credit , Tagged
American Adventure
2008-03-19 21:13:00 Some years ago I moved all my websites from a US hosting service over to a UK one to take advantage of the search engine boost that you get when your sites are hosted in the country where your target audience are searching from. Ironically, now I find myself moving some of those same websites back ... More About: America , Web Development , Adventure , American
What about golfing in Las Vegas?
2008-03-18 21:34:00 Las Vegas is one of those places that seems to have everything that you could possibly be looking for in a holiday. Las Vegas golf vacations are no different with courses set in fantastic scenery like this at Paiute Resort. That’s just one of many courses that you can book golf packages with via the Las Vegas ... More About: Las Vegas , Golfing
Will the interest rate drop help YOU?
2008-03-18 21:24:00 Interest rate changes by central banks are peculiar affairs. For one thing, the banks aren’t actually obliged to respond by lowering interest rates although, usually, they do so by a similar amount. It’s usually a similar amount rather than exactly the same amount though which affects people differently: it’s common for banks to drop interest rates ... More About: America , Commentary , Finance , Interest , Rate
Looking for a new free credit card?
2008-03-18 21:17:00 If you’re looking for a no annual fee credit card then there’s still quite a range on offer, despite the credit squeeze. What you will tend to find though is that the credit score required for no annual fee credit cards is a little higher than it used to be. Therefore, it’s useful to use an edge where you ... More About: America , Finance , Card , Credit , Free
Trying out American hosting
2008-03-18 20:56:00 Several years ago I made the move from US based hosting to UK based hosting because of the extra traffic that you tend to get when your site is hosted in the same location as your main customer base. That particular move worked really well in that I ended up with around 30x (yes, thirty times) ... More About: America , Business , Commentary , Hosting , Web Development
Accepting credit card payments
2008-03-17 21:30:00 Many businesses can’t really function with accepting credit cards these days. However, even for those that don’t have to accept credit cards, there are a whole range of plus points in accepting them. The big one is that, in general, people using credit cards tend to spend more. That’s a little misleading though in that, usually, people ... More About: America , Business , Card , Credit , Credit Card
Where should I host my sites?
2008-03-17 21:14:00 Although the main customer base for my listings sites is essentially the English speaking population of Europe, there’s an even larger English speaking population just across the Atlantic that don’t see the sites as often as they should since they’re hosted in the UK. I have tried the sites on an American host in the past ... More About: Marketing , Web Development , Sites , Host
Kauai - a taste of paradise
2008-03-17 21:05:00 Hawaii has to be one of the best spots in the world to go on holiday. In one fairly small area, you’ve everything from the bright lights of Waikiki on Oahu through to the wilderness of Kauai and everything in between. Whilst hotels are the way to go on Oahu, it’s entirely different on Kauai where ... More About: America , Holidays , Paradise , Taste
Happy St Patrick?s Day!
2008-03-17 14:31:00 Since it’s St Patrick ’s Day, we thought it was a great day to add our entry for Downpatrick on our world guide where, argueably, he’s buried under a massive stone in the chuch graveyard. Naturally, there’s nothing on over here for St Patrick’s and we were hoping to get over to Dublin for the parades but, ... More About: America , Commentary , Ireland , Happy
Did you ever fancy being a freight broker?
2008-03-15 21:47:00 I always thought that these were the kind of people who you’d find sitting in offices around ports and long ago they would have been but these days communications technology has changed this into a job that you could quite easily do at home or, for that matter, off on some island paradise somewhere. Basically a ... More About: America , Broker , Fancy
Developing a series blog
2008-03-15 21:35:00 After you’ve been blogging for a while you tend to find that some of the articles you write could be collected in a series. So, for example, this blog has a series on living in France, another about banking, and so on. However, I’ve been thinking of doing a blog for the listings sites which is quite ... More About: Series , Blog
Looking some wheels to get you around the New York area?
2008-03-15 21:16:00 If you’re looking for some transport round the New York , New Jersey or limo service Brooklyn areas, why not splash out and go for a stretch limo? Actually, given the prices, it’s not as much of a splashing out as you might think with airport pickups in a limo around the $150 mark. To put it ... More About: America , Shopping , Wheels
A new washing machine
2008-03-14 21:31:00 Yeah, I know, boring. However, interestingly our strategy of simply buying the cheapest available machine nearly four years back and replacing it when it was at the end of its life does appear to have been the correct one. The original one cost us around EUR 200, worked perfectly for over three years and has been ... More About: Commentary , Machine , Washing
The Na Pali coast in Hawaii - a must see at least once in a lifetime
2008-03-14 13:23:00 There are places that you must see at least once in your lifetime such as the Grand Canyon, Jerusalem, the Great Barrier Reef and the pyramids. The Na Pali coast isn’t quite so well known but definitely deserves to be in that list as you can see from the photos on this Kauai boat tours website ... More About: America , Holidays , Hawaii , Lifetime , Coast
You?ve moved abroad and need a bank. Which one should you choose?
2008-03-14 12:50:00 It’s obviously impossible to name a single bank which you can choose simply because no single bank operates in every country of the world. There are some general pointers as to how to go about choosing your bank though. One school of thought is that you should choose the local bank with the most branches in the ... More About: Commentary , Finance , Cultural differences , Bank , Choose
Fancy arriving with style?
2008-03-13 21:43:00 Let’s face it, if you’re going to a special event, the only way to go is in a stretch limo. They’re not cheap, but then pure luxury never is and these are very definitely in the pure luxury arena. That photo is the inside of a Hummer: a very highly customized Hummer that’ll certainly not be ... More About: America , Entertainment , Style , Fancy
What category do you put a ?soapbox? blog under?
2008-03-13 21:35:00 Although there are loads of categories that you can list a blog under, “soapbox” isn’t one of them. That’s a shame really as many blogs would sit very neatly under that particular category. After all, there are a great many bloggers who would have been standing on their soap box in earlier times. It’s not just ... More About: Blog , Category , Soapbox
Business loans
2008-03-13 21:16:00 Although unsecured business finance is exactly the type of financing that many startup businesses are looking for, it’s often not that easy to get. Fortunately though there’s EZ Unsecured who special in these Business Loans . Their loan approval process is aimed squarely at this type of loan so you can expect the combination of a clear process, ... More About: America , Finance
A google experiment
2008-03-13 20:43:00 It seems like google hand you pagerank when you’re not looking for it so I’m going to run a little trial on another blog domain to see if I can pick it up delibrately. What I’ve been doing in the past has been to use a test domain when trying out new versions of my listings ... More About: Google , Web Development , Experiment
What about investing a little in silver?
2008-03-13 13:51:00 Although when times seem tough many people think first of investing in gold, in fact silver is a much more practical nest egg reserve to turn to. Why? Well, gold is greatly affected by the “gold bugs” whereas silver is widely used as an industrial product with many practical uses outside the investment world. To give ... More About: America , Finance , Investing , Silver
Being too helpful with online services
2008-03-13 13:38:00 Online everyone tends to assume that there are infinite resources behind every website and, of course, that’s just not the case in reality. For example, we like to be as helpful as we can to those properties listed on our holiday accommodation listings sites and to that end we offer a range of free services notably ... More About: Business , Services , Web Development , Online
CFares - a membership based low cost flight finding service
2008-03-13 10:45:00 There are probably hundreds of websites out there offering to find you the cheapest flight from A to B but on the whole they give you the cheapest retail flight. Now, you might think that you have to pay retail price for your ticket in that you’re not a travel agent but that’s not necessarily the ... More About: America , Holidays , Service , Cost , Flight
How valid is google?s algorithm?
More articles from this author:2008-03-12 21:09:00 Reading the original research presentation of google highlights a number of points where the weakness of the algorithm can still be exploited and those cracks are starting to become very obvious. One thing that they never allowed for was that once money came into the equation then people would pay to manipulate how their site was ... More About: Google , Commentary , Web Development 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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