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Got to hand it to Swansea Council. They make sure all of their signs are translated into Welsh. Or at least, they try to.
In this particular instance, they emailed the English off to be translated. For the record, the Welsh part of the sign shown above says:
I am not in the office at the moment.
Please send any work to be translated
On the bright side, they weren’t the first to cock-up. According to the BBC, cyclists between Cardiff and Penarth in 2006 were confused by a bilingual road sign telling them they had problems with an “inflamed bladder”.
Just one of those short moments in life that makes you shake your head…
Microsoft have just unveiled their vision of the future: Cloud Computing, a not altogether new concept but one they think is set to grow and grow. Google have been subtley doing this for a while, but MS reckon that remote applications and data storage is where the future lies:
“Microsoft believes consumers will also want to store far more of their data – from letters to photos to videos – on the servers in its “cloud” of giant data centres around the world, so that it can be accessed anywhere, from any device.”
Hmmm. Not sure about you, but I don’t want all my documents and spreadsheets and personal stuff stored anywhere other than on my PC where I control it. It’s not like I’m short of space and with Gazillion Terrabyte drives now available for little more than a Starbucks Capachino I’m hardly ever Read the rest of this entry »
I recently blogged about the scheduling of English Premier League fixtures and how the lure of TV money from around the world was potentially alienating the English footie fan. Well guess what?! This Saturday there is only one 3pm kick-off in the Premiership. Yup ONE! West Brom vs Hull! Wow. Can’t wait.
So a message to the FA: Screw you! Take your bloody Premier League, go get your millions and don’t worry about the fans. Like you did anyway – d’uh. I’m off out.
I’m not really into politics, especially not US politics but every now and again something comes along that just makes you laugh. And here is 30 seconds that should do just that…
If you find your Wordpress admin is running real slow and you use the aLinks plugin, chances are it’s this that’s the problem. In fact the same might apply to other plugins, but you can check by de-activating the plugin(s) and see what the effect is. Anyway, here’s the solution…
aLinks checks the authors website at Headzoo for updates every time you call a page in wp-admin. If the Headzoo site is down or slow, this causes a knock-on effect. The simple and easy way to solve this is Read the rest of this entry »
I see the USA has started to finally censor the Web after years of speculation. And to think they used to laugh at Russia 
Guess it would be funny if it wasn’t so serious. Thank God we live in the UK where at least the politicians show some common sense. With emphasis on the some obviously!
USA – Internet Censorship: Precedent Set?
One of the key aspects of the websites I write is the geo-targetting of information. This is primarily to ensure that adverts and location-specific info is shown to users from the relevant country.
To do this, I use a tool from MaxMind called “GeoIP“. There is a free version and a subscription version, and while the latter has more updates and more detailed information down to State and City level, I find the free version is perfectly adequate for country-specific requests. Read the rest of this entry »
Quite often I’ve seen questions on SEO forums asking which is better from an SEO perspective – using a subdomain or using a directory for a specific category of content. Up until now I’d have always said a directory is easier to rank and from my experience, it seems Google wants a subdomain to bed in before it shows it any love. Possibly a trust factor, although it struck me as odd if a domain was already ranking.
Anyway, I’ve revised my opinion a little recently. I still reckon a directory is better for most content, however Read the rest of this entry »