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Yesterday I attended Link Love, a link building conference hosted by Distilled at The Brewery on Chiswell Street in London. The venue, hospitality and content of this year’s conference was superb and I even picked up a dinosesaur for Comic Relief. All of the presentations were excellent and my favourites were: Ian Lurie from Portent, [...]

This year’s Ideal Home Show at London’s Earls Court runs from Friday 15th March to Monday 1st April 2013. Top of most people’s lists of things to see will undoubtedly be The Prince’s House – an eco home built in a contemporary country style. Supplying the lighting for The Prince’s House is SimplyLED, one of [...]

I’m proud to announce the launch of the new Care HR Solutions website featuring an integrated Content Management System (CMS) and a responsive website design. This approach was selected to ensure that the website’s layout adapts to deliver the ultimate user experience and to satisfy the requirement for a cost effective mobile solution. The CMS [...]

After a 12-hour overnight flight from the UK the words “Welcome to the Langham Sir” were music to my ears. I’d just arrived in Hong Kong on business and would be staying in this magnificent hotel for one night before crossing the border into Shenzhen, China. The Langham is a beautiful hotel, in fact it [...]

On Thursday I travelled to Brighton to attend an e-Commerce roundtable hosted by SiteVisibility. If you’re ever invited to participate in one of these discussions I would recommend that you attend. I found the opportunity to discuss issues being experienced by others in similar in-house roles to me to be reassuring. The roundtable lasted for [...]

Yesterday I attended the final day of the Wireless Festival in London’s Hyde Park with my Fiancée Debbie, her Brother Paul and his Wife Nicole. The weather was terrible and there was no shortage of mud; but the experience of being in the VIP enclosure more than made up for this. Upon arrival we found [...]

It’s the last game of the Tournament on Sunday. Please email or text me who you think will win the Final; will it be Spain or Italy? There are 15 participants in this Euro 2012 prediction game. You can download a spreadsheet showing each participant’s predictions here. This spreadsheet also contains predictions for the golden [...]

We’re nearing the end of the tournament. You can download the semi finals prediction sheet here. There are 15 participants in this Euro 2012 prediction game. You can download a spreadsheet showing each participant’s predictions here. This spreadsheet also contains predictions for the golden boot, tournament winner and tournament runner-up. Prize money will be distributed [...]

We’re now into the tournament’s Quarter Finals. You can download the prediction sheet and read about the rules for this round here. There are 15 participants in this Euro 2012 prediction game. You can download a spreadsheet showing each participant’s predictions here. This spreadsheet also contains predictions for the golden boot, tournament winner and tournament [...]

There are 15 participants in this Euro 2012 prediction game. You can download a spreadsheet showing each participant’s predictions here. This spreadsheet also contains predictions for the golden boot, tournament winner and tournament runner-up. Prize money will be distributed as follows: At the end of the tournament, if two or more players are tied in [...]

The 2012 UEFA European Football Championships begin on Friday 8th June and runs through to Friday 1st July 2012. Jointly hosted by Poland and Ukraine this will be the 14th European Championships. For a bit of extra fun I’ve created the EURO 2012 Prediction Game. Here are the rules and everything you need to get [...]

Yesterday I attended Distilled’s sell out Link Love 2012 conference in London. This was my first visit to an SEO conference and I was lucky enough to watch presentations given by the industry’s leading search engine marketing experts. In this post I’m going to share with you a few key pointers from each presentation.

KONY 2012 is a film and campaign by Invisible Children that aims to make Joseph Kony famous, not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest and set a precedent for international justice. Watch the KONY 2012 campaign video: How You Can Help: Join TRI or Donate to Invisible Children: http://bit.ly/yp5Ffv Purchase KONY [...]

This March the British Property Federation (BPF); backed by a number of backbench MPs re-launched their campaign to urge the Government and in particular the Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne to abolish the tax currently levied on empty property rates. Dubbed the ‘Bombsite Britain Tax’, the empty property rates legislation causes millions of square [...]

December 2011 saw the closure of the PiA (Primary Immunodeficiency Association) an organisation that had existed to look after the interests of people with immunodeficiencies in the United Kingdom. This left a lot of people vulnerable and without representation. Therefore, I decided to offer my web design skills to a group of fantastic people who [...]

Magento Connect is a wonderful marketplace where a plethora of fantastic extensions are available for installation. Some of these extensions will cost you some hard earned cash, whilst most are free and can significantly enhance your online shop / make life easier. To install a Magento extension in version 1.6.0.0 you need to sign in [...]

Hello and welcome to my new blog. I’ve been meaning to set this up for a while, but work and other commitments have delayed me until now. Over the next few months I’m going to try and document my travels around South East Asia and the Middle East. I made this journey in 2011 so [...]

Another early start, but strangely I don’t feel jet lagged – just excited and nervous about the prospect of trying to find the perfect engagement ring for Debbie. Having spent the last year thinking about my proposal to Debbie and digging for clues I already have a rough idea of what the perfect engagement ring [...]

Up very early for a journey to Gatwick Airport with my Mum and Dad; I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t sad to be leaving, even if it is only for 7 weeks. Some people go away for 6 months at a time, some even go for a year! You see I’ve never been [...]