tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24130390Sat, 21 Feb 2009 07:41:25 +0000Random observations, or rants. I write about whatever captures my attention - and a few useful tips for webmasters, too. Oh and I have blue eyes (hence the blog name). ;-)http://blueeyedpaul.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Blue Eyed Paul)Blogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24130390.post-116311166824660071Thu, 09 Nov 2006 22:31:00 +00002006-11-09T22:34:28.246ZWant to make Mad Money? For those of you living in the good old US of A check out Jim Cramer's Mad Money and find out what's bullish and what's bearish! Love him or hate, there's no doubting Cramer's investment tips are wise and he makes MAD MONEY!http://blueeyedpaul.blogspot.com/2006/11/take-walk-on-wild-side-with-your-money.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Blue Eyed Paul)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24130390.post-115392498384198737Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:41:00 +00002006-07-26T15:43:03.840+01:00I finally got around to moving my blog to its own domain, www.tiglo.co.uk, and almost finished moving all the articles. Some new posts to come shortly, especially about php scripts for managing adsense ads.http://blueeyedpaul.blogspot.com/2006/07/my-blog-has-moved-to-its-own-domain.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Blue Eyed Paul)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24130390.post-114960115677466826Tue, 06 Jun 2006 12:54:00 +00002006-08-14T19:42:22.033+01:00Snippet: "The media likes to create hype as it sells papers, get viewers and listeners. Now they're hyping a date, a number and religions would like us to believe it has evil connotations. A date that is 06/06/2006 AD, not 06/06/6 AD, but 2006 AD: 662006..."My blog has now move to http://www.tiglo.co.uk/. You can read the full post at: http://www.tiglo.co.uk/culture/All-The-Fuss-About-06-06-2006.http://blueeyedpaul.blogspot.com/2006/06/all-fuss-about-06062006.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Blue Eyed Paul)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24130390.post-114899180212060655Tue, 30 May 2006 12:10:00 +00002006-08-14T19:43:07.443+01:00Snippet: "Harry Ramsdens (from now on HR) is a famous fish & chip shop in the UK. Apparently, HR also has fish & chip shops abroad too. Good business sense, ambition and marketing is what sets HR from the rest, I guess, because I have never noticed anything special about their food compared to any other place. Not that it isn't good, it can be, but your local fish & chip shop might turn out tohttp://blueeyedpaul.blogspot.com/2006/05/harry-ramsdens.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Blue Eyed Paul)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24130390.post-114735607033542056Thu, 11 May 2006 13:52:00 +00002006-08-14T19:43:57.730+01:00Snippet: "When I was last in Germany (December 2005), my Polish co-worker took me to the city's "largest" shopping centre (in reality, it was quite small compared to say the Metro Centre)."My blog has now move to http://www.tiglo.co.uk/. You can read the full post at: http://www.tiglo.co.uk/technology/Germans-Like-Skat.html.http://blueeyedpaul.blogspot.com/2006/05/germans-like-skat.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Blue Eyed Paul)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24130390.post-114494093677846876Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:03:00 +00002006-08-14T19:46:01.360+01:00Snippet: "There was a lot of excitement about the release of the .eu top level domain. Finally the EU would have its own TLD and people of the EU would be able to register domains of their choice (as long as they didn't infringe valid trademarks)."My blog has now move to http://www.tiglo.co.uk/. This post can now be found at http://www.tiglo.co.uk/technology/internet/http://blueeyedpaul.blogspot.com/2006/04/best-eu-site-so-far.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Blue Eyed Paul)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24130390.post-114426554784124287Wed, 05 Apr 2006 18:20:00 +00002006-08-14T18:54:21.130+01:00My blog has now move to http://www.tiglo.co.uk/. This post can now be found at http://www.tiglo.co.uk/IT-internet/What-Kind-Of-Site-Should-I-Make-For.html.Snippet: "A question I often come across is what kind of site to make for <insert advertising network here> (usually Google Adsense or Yahoo Publisher Network).>"http://blueeyedpaul.blogspot.com/2006/04/what-kind-of-site-should-i-make-for.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Blue Eyed Paul)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24130390.post-114415337525779558Mon, 03 Apr 2006 13:10:00 +00002006-07-25T11:37:54.526+01:00My blog has now move to http://www.tiglo.co.uk/. This post can now be found at http://www.tiglo.co.uk/IT-internet/Challenging-dmoz-Part-2.html.Snippet: "Not content with just one directory with a large amount of categories, Amit has now made a new directory with an equally large amount of categories. His new directory is.."http://blueeyedpaul.blogspot.com/2006/04/part-2-challenging-dmoz.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Blue Eyed Paul)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24130390.post-114405942925948884Mon, 03 Apr 2006 09:27:00 +00002006-07-25T11:38:51.100+01:00My blog has now move to http://www.tiglo.co.uk/. This post can now be found at http://www.tiglo.co.uk/IT-internet/The-Purpose-Of-robots-txt-For-A-Website.html.Snippet: "What Is "robots.txt"? It is a file place in the root directory of a website that provides some instructions for a crawler/spider (Bot) about which files and/or directories are not to be indexed. It can be used to instruct a http://blueeyedpaul.blogspot.com/2006/04/purpose-of-robotstxt-for-website.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Blue Eyed Paul)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24130390.post-114405479532066574Mon, 03 Apr 2006 08:56:00 +00002006-07-25T12:23:17.090+01:00My blog has now move to http://www.tiglo.co.uk/. This post can now be found at http://www.tiglo.co.uk/football/Red-Devils-Part-2.html.Snippet: "After a busy weekend, I finally got myself writing another entry.."It was a successful weekend for Manchester United."http://blueeyedpaul.blogspot.com/2006/04/red-devils-part-2.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Blue Eyed Paul)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24130390.post-114372379365010120Thu, 30 Mar 2006 12:27:00 +00002006-07-25T12:25:15.486+01:00My blog has now move to http://www.tiglo.co.uk/. This post can now be found at http://www.tiglo.co.uk/football/Red-Devils.html.Snippet: "Manchester United took full advantage of their game in hand and closed the gap to 9 points. The pressure is really on Chelsea, the current Premiership leaders and defending champions, now to maintain their lead over Manchester United."http://blueeyedpaul.blogspot.com/2006/03/red-devils.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Blue Eyed Paul)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24130390.post-114366762404876302Wed, 29 Mar 2006 20:48:00 +00002006-08-14T18:57:20.133+01:00My blog has now move to http://www.tiglo.co.uk/. This post can now be found at http://www.tiglo.co.uk/technology/adsense/Do-Adblockers-Really-Cause-A-Hit-To-Revenue.html.Snippet: "On a forum I frequent, there has been a.. "reactionary thread" is one way to put it... about adblocking plugins and extensions for browsers."By reactionary I mean that people have been over-reacting to something that ishttp://blueeyedpaul.blogspot.com/2006/03/do-adblockers-really-cause-hit-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Blue Eyed Paul)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24130390.post-114364981045199511Wed, 29 Mar 2006 15:57:00 +00002006-07-26T16:00:45.993+01:00My blog has now move to http://www.tiglo.co.uk/. This post can now be found at http://www.tiglo.co.uk/economy-politics/Censoring-Junk-Food-On-TV...Snippet: "Every morning on my way to work I keep myself entertained by reading the metro newspaper (or sometimes BBC News' mobile edition from my phone). It is, from my point of view, the best free newspaper and I always feel happy if I manage to find http://blueeyedpaul.blogspot.com/2006/03/censorship-on-junk-food-on-tv-taking.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Blue Eyed Paul)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24130390.post-114358911991086405Tue, 28 Mar 2006 22:35:00 +00002006-07-26T16:06:09.646+01:00My blog has now move to http://www.tiglo.co.uk/. This post can now be found at http://www.tiglo.co.uk/football/Chelsea-Dont-Care-If-You-Hate-Them.html.Snippet: "I meant to write again about Chelsea a lot sooner, but most of what's been written in my favourite paper, metro, hasn't been at the forefront of my mind of late."http://blueeyedpaul.blogspot.com/2006/03/chelsea-dont-care-if-you-hate-them.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Blue Eyed Paul)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24130390.post-114355038890726297Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:17:00 +00002006-08-14T18:59:00.603+01:00My blog has now move to http://www.tiglo.co.uk/. This post can now be found at http://www.tiglo.co.uk/economy-politics/Public-Services-Strike-In-The-UK.html.Snippet: "Getting to work today was a nightmare due to the strike [1]. I have to be honest that while empaphise with the low income (and therefore low pension) people who are striking, everytime time there are public-services strikes it's nothttp://blueeyedpaul.blogspot.com/2006/03/public-services-strike-in-uk.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Blue Eyed Paul)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24130390.post-114340766827624715Sun, 26 Mar 2006 17:39:00 +00002006-08-14T19:01:18.133+01:00My blog has now move to http://www.tiglo.co.uk/. This post can now be found at http://www.tiglo.co.uk/technology/internet/Challenging-dmoz.html.Snippet: "Most people have heard of dmoz, the so-called Open Directory Project, for reasons both good and bad.Regardless of people's personal feelings, it can't be denied that dmoz is a very large directory and also a 'complete free' directory."http://blueeyedpaul.blogspot.com/2006/03/challenging-dmoz.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Blue Eyed Paul)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24130390.post-114314856849388983Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:49:00 +00002006-08-14T19:02:57.996+01:00My blog has now move to http://www.tiglo.co.uk/. This post can now be found at http://www.tiglo.co.uk/technology/internet/Part-1-Preventing-Image-Hotlinking....Snippet: "Recently, on a forum I frequent, some requests for help were posted to deal with web scraping, Referral Spam and hotlinking (bandwidth theft).There are a few solutions to each problem and some of the problems also share a common http://blueeyedpaul.blogspot.com/2006/03/part-1-preventing-image-hotlinking-web.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Blue Eyed Paul)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24130390.post-114307164466623678Wed, 22 Mar 2006 20:59:00 +00002006-08-14T19:05:51.090+01:00Snippet: "... that you wish you'd slept through.... had just never happened.... that you wish will never happen again.... that just plain sucks!"My blog has now move to http://www.tiglo.co.uk/. You can read the full post at: http://www.tiglo.co.uk/literature/Poem-It-Was-One-Of-Those-Days.html.http://blueeyedpaul.blogspot.com/2006/03/poem-it-was-one-of-those-days.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Blue Eyed Paul)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24130390.post-114298522167575687Tue, 21 Mar 2006 23:44:00 +00002006-08-14T19:12:02.246+01:00Snippet: "An example of companies putting profit before all else: South East England is apparently going through its driest spell since 1933. However, it's far easier to apply for drought orders so that the public are restricted on water usage than to fix the leaks (these 3 companies combined are leaking 145million litres of water every day)! An even further kick in the face is that water bills http://blueeyedpaul.blogspot.com/2006/03/sickness-that-is-uk-water-companies.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Blue Eyed Paul)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24130390.post-114294499606158779Tue, 21 Mar 2006 10:42:00 +00002006-08-14T19:14:34.706+01:00Snippet: "n October 2006, the UK's national minimum wage is set to increase by 6% and unsurprisingly companies are complaining yet again about it.These companies, though, need to consider where they would be: Without employees Without customers who can afford their productsThe UK is an expensive country to live in, at times, and not because of the national minimum wage, but because companies http://blueeyedpaul.blogspot.com/2006/03/uk-national-minimum-wage-increase.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Blue Eyed Paul)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24130390.post-114290101425126592Mon, 20 Mar 2006 23:12:00 +00002006-08-14T19:17:01.423+01:00Snippet: ".. of screaming tenage girls, often referred to as 'teenieboppers', going crazy over boybands. It really wasn't a pleasant flashback ... the last thing I want to remember is the (terrible) music produced by the endless number of manufactured bands that were around then (and I guess some still are today)."My blog has now move to http://www.tiglo.co.uk/. You can read the full post at: http://blueeyedpaul.blogspot.com/2006/03/flashback-to-1990s.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Blue Eyed Paul)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24130390.post-114285237353637389Mon, 20 Mar 2006 10:43:00 +00002006-08-14T19:18:53.970+01:00Snippet: "On my way to work today, I read an interesting story in the Metro newspaper about Chelsea FC manager, Jose Mourinho.Following Chelsea's defeat to Fulham, he is quoted as saying, 'There are 19 managers and clubs, plus one,' in reaction to a referee's decision to disallow a handball."My blog has now move to http://www.tiglo.co.uk/. You can read the full post at: http://www.tiglo.co.uk/http://blueeyedpaul.blogspot.com/2006/03/jose-mourinho-chelsea.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Blue Eyed Paul)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24130390.post-114279968198748839Sun, 19 Mar 2006 20:18:00 +00002006-08-14T19:21:12.570+01:00Snippet: "There's nothing more annoying when visiting a website than being spammed by lots of pop-ups/-unders advertising useless junk. Haven't advertisers yet realised how annoying these are? Isn't the fact that most browsers have built-in pop-up/-under blockers a hint that people don't like this kind of advertising?"My blog has now move to http://www.tiglo.co.uk/. You can read the full post at:http://blueeyedpaul.blogspot.com/2006/03/pop-up-under-adverts.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Blue Eyed Paul)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24130390.post-114272877386485591Sun, 19 Mar 2006 00:36:00 +00002006-07-25T00:13:13.330+01:00My blog has now move to http://www.tiglo.co.uk/. This post can now be found at http://www.tiglo.co.uk/literature/An-Essay-On-Oedipus.html.Snippet: "Whether this is really an assignment someone handed in, or just a joke, I do not know. However, regardless of that, the essay is very funny and at the same time clever. :)"http://blueeyedpaul.blogspot.com/2006/03/essay-on-oedipus.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Blue Eyed Paul)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24130390.post-114272729153713939Sun, 19 Mar 2006 00:03:00 +00002006-08-14T19:40:46.410+01:00Snippet: "Well, if you hadn't guessed... I'm Paul! And I have blue eyes. OK, now we've got past the obvious ...:I'm just a regular guy and finally decided to motivate my lazy self into making a blog. I did make a blog on msn's spaces but ... to keep this blog 'clean' I'll say no more about msn. ;-)"My blog has now move to http://www.tiglo.co.uk/. You can read the full post at: http://http://blueeyedpaul.blogspot.com/2006/03/who-am-i.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Blue Eyed Paul)