On an hour long journey to a wedding at the weekend, I was stuck behind a van and a small car doing 40 in a 60 zone. This is my pet hate or at least one of them. Especially when I’ve got somewhere to be. “Why are they going so slowly?” I grumbled to my [...]
Archive for January, 2011
Patience is explodey
Posted: 31st January 2011 by By Adrian Willings in RamblingsTags: tyre explosion
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Being helpful can pay…
Posted: 31st January 2011 by By Adrian Willings in RamblingsTags: being nice, customer service
Poking around in Google Webmaster tools I noticed one of our clients websites was sending an unusual amount of links back to our site. Considering our company only deals in small website design (between 1 and 10 pages) it was surprising to see 196 links from their site to ours. Further investigation showed the site [...]
Old Spice Guy is back
Posted: 28th January 2011 by By Adrian Willings in Interesting DiscoveriesTags: "You can't get past the striking brown eyes, can you? Don't worry, it's commonplace."
Yep, that’s right, Mustafa is back on Youtube pimping the Old Spice brand. Remember how last time he killed the internet? What will happen this time? “You can’t get past the striking brown eyes, can you? Don’t worry, it’s commonplace.”
An interesting article about search neutrality
Posted: 28th January 2011 by By Adrian Willings in Ramblings, SEOTags: search neutrality, seo
Google is a thorn in my side. No one knows about how their algorithms work, what makes up the 200 factors that effect PageRank or how to truly beat the system – there’s good reason for that. Google (and the other major search engines) seek to provide the best possible results for the end-user. On [...]
Your Mum is more of a man…
Posted: 27th January 2011 by By Adrian Willings in RamblingsTags: Arnie, films, rambling
I recently lent one of my good friends a number of DVDs which I sincerely believe you haven’t lived if you haven’t seen. Included in the pile were things like The Untouchables, Casino, The Godfather Trilogy, Donnie Brasco, Ghost Dog, Way of the gun etc. He later informed me that his Mum said she had [...]
Get to the chopper!
Posted: 27th January 2011 by By Adrian Willings in RamblingsTags: Arnie, classic films, predator
Many things change, others stay the same. One thing I love about life are those unforgettable, timeless classics. Sometimes you have to be wary of rose-tinted goggles and it is ever so easy to ruin a perfect memory by trying to relive it. Examples – James Bond Goldeneye and Perfect Dark on the Nintendo 64. [...]
Clever and not-so-clever Volkswagen Advertising
Posted: 25th January 2011 by By Adrian Willings in Ramblings, WritingTags: advertising, copywriter, vw
Nice advert, you have to admit. From a copywriters perspective it’s both ballsy and clever. A swathe of text which might on its own be excessive and uninteresting, but add some clever strike-throughs and it now reads in two different ways: 1. Bluemotion saves you money 2. Our product does this, that and blah, blah, [...]
Life is extremely subjective
Posted: 25th January 2011 by By Adrian Willings in SEOTags: content, people, seo, writing
In my current role I’ve learnt not to take things for granted. Life is extremely subjective. Just because I’d do something or not, doesn’t mean you or Johnny from the street would do the same. An example – the goal of a lot of things on our website (like many sites out there) is to [...]
The Expendables – it is full of “hunks”
Posted: 24th January 2011 by By Adrian Willings in ReviewsTags: The Expendables
One of my crimbo presents included “The Expendables” on bluray. If you don’t know already, The Expendables is a new film, directed and produced by Sylvester Stallone and stars most of the old school action heroes – Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dolph Ludgrin, Jet Li etc, oh, and Jason Statham. The main problem with The [...]
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Posted: 24th January 2011 by By Adrian Willings in Ramblings, RantsTags: fake spam emails, gmail, google, phishing
Oh, spammers, what cheeky blighters they are. Today I got an e-mail purporting to be from Google… “We are deleting inactive e-mail accounts in order to make space for new users. If your e-mail account is still in use, please reply to this e-mail with the following information: Fullname: E-mail: Password: Country: Failure to complete [...]