Posts by David Slack
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Basically as we continue to chase the sales in this environment we have been finding it necessary/beneficial to get much more personal and close to our clients
The big guys would appear to be doing the same. I have been getting regular attention from Google since late last year - "what can we do to help with your web site? What can we do to up your AdWords spend?"
First results were not good: they put up an "Optimisation Plan" which was beneficial in some respects - improved search keywords, improved targetting, but also pushed the per-click bid rate beyond a sustainable level. Traded at a loss in January. That won't be happening again. I've re-set the bid rates, and restored profitability, but I'll be more careful from now on.
All the same, an offer of help is welcome. There's a lot I have been failing to get around to doing on my site, and they're proving to be an effective catalyst.
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The original San Francisco Bathhouse in Welly
In 1979, we lived just around the corner from there, in a house in Athol Crescent, off Boulcott Street. We would often have a meal at the Casabalanca Steakhouse in the old style - plate of white buttered bread, T-bone steak, potato salad, pick a song from the juke box at the end of the booth etc. Then we'd go next door and up the stairs to the San Francisco Bathhouse for any combination of: game of pool, sauna, refreshing glass of orange juice and a Nutoata bar. It was also a knocking shop, but they didn't seem to mind that we weren't there for that.
All gone. Some days, nostalgia submerges me.
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I mean birthday cake = sugar yard-glass.
I have been enjoying that all day. Our cake efforts have been very modest by comparison.
If it’s a bad bump, he wails “I need a hug and a kiss, I really do!” and flies across the room - to give you the hug and kiss that will make him feel better.
21st Century Presidential.
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Or, if you're tuned for superloon thoughts, you could build a dam right across the strait. Imagine the power one could generate from the ocean height differential. That bright idea is sitting in the mad scientist box next to the power generator on White Island, which is powered by liquid hot magma.
That's what I'm talkin' about.
I've always liked your thinking.
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Ooh, link?
Still looking for one. I think the agents are Harcourts. The sign outside the house says they will be calling for tenders.
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Oh, it's worse than that. He died in 1957.
His house just came back on the market. I don't know if that's a coincidence or not.
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It's colourful, poetic, and... well, pretty damn sweet
I thought you were about to mention a kiln.
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Thank you for the kind comments, everyone.
Jackie, that's a very good point you make about scrapbooking. I plan to try out some new digital ideas this year.
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Scared of disk crash? Redundancy. RAID or the Mac equivalent.
Two weekly-rotating firewire drives taking a constant Time Machine feed from from my MBP. A further firewire drive running Super Duper which runs every morning (and which I used just yesterday to boot back into 10.5.5 when 10.5.6 nuked my built in iSight).
Daily download of database backup from my site in the US.
Daily backup to a second server on my site.
Offsite backup of the database daily to a third party provider.
Flash drive hooked to Karren's iMac, running Time Machine.
USB drive hooked to a Mac Mini in the lounge running Time Machine.Paranoid? Maybe.
Burned before? Twice.I applaud the concept of RAID but it's done little to