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Great post, and I didn't know that, I assumed Mac hardware was particular to Macs.

It always used to be a graphic designers tool (at least back in my 1990's PC support days) rather than a generic office machine. Is there anything truth left to this, or is a well specc'd PC with an adobe subscription just as good?

For any plane buffs, last week marked the passing of an old lady, the VC-10, which finally retired after nearly 50 years service with the RAF!



VC10 - the final flight

For 404 pages, it's annoying but I guess its down to crawler refreshes to update Googles cache. Bigger sites will have a lot more churn and will be removing more pages. We've been moaned at that a listing is still being displayed in the serps, 2 weeks after we've taken it down. The fact it goes to a 404 is irrelevant if the former listing owner doesn't want it in googles results, or showing up for a keyword search.

Lack of relevance though has been an age old issue I think they still haven't cracked, and serps (I think) are more crowded/polluted with Adwords and G+ local results rather than organic. Having the knowledge graph in its current incarnation seems to reduce the organic results even further.

But until people vote with their mice and we have genuine competition, it's a case of playing the game

Propaganda post from Google, but very relevant if you are following the latest semantic search trends.

Search is evolving and traditional keyword optimisation is being slowly replaced with structured data.

Fifteen years on

Well it seems more of a policy from UKIP than the Tories, but the Chancellor has unveiled a "tough love plan" aimed at long term unemployed, with people losing benefits who break the rules, such as work placements, daily visits to job centres etc.

BBC News - Osborne unveils new conditions for long-term jobless

Must admit, at face value, I'm in favour of it, as we slowly start to break the cycle of dependancy. But suspect there will be plenty of outcry, and human rights arguments bandied about.

What does anyone else think?

Nahhh, that'll never catch on, plus who will build all those worthless links?

I think crowd funding is superb and have used it myself. If you have a genuine business plan, thought through, which will stand professional scrutiny then crowd funding is a good and straight forward option. You can look at equity versions, where the crowd own part of your company, or a straight forward loan which is made up by contributions of lots of investors.

But there are cons. Information is public, your business plans will be open to public scrutiny, with the risk of negative as well as positive feedback, which could affect your credibility if not done right. Not something to be rushed into, but well thought out, with good preparation, it is a good modern way to raise funds.

hic.. who said that..

Welcome aboard

Took me 4 years to break profit, so don't listen to me

Market market market! Tell the world where you are, or at least you're immediate neighbours. Print those flyers and pound the streets...

I saw one of these programs while the brain was parked in neutral, it was an American show, so maybe it was Storage hunters, I can't remember.

Basically 2 blokes were bidding on old storage lockers and they had to try and make a profit on the contents, and the show followed them round while they did deals and took items to get valued. Obviously things turned out to be a long lost one of a kind piece of valuable tat.

I've got to be honest, maybe it's my natural cynicism, but I didn't believe a word of it. It just so happened on the show I watch, they had numerous antiques, and specialist items worth a fortune, and ended up with Thousands of dollars profit.

I suspect this is very much staged, part staged or heavily edited to give a different impression. I'd imagine the majority of these storage units contain nothing much more than junk, and no doubt you could make a few quid at the car boot sale, but I doubt they are brimming with antiques and fortunes waiting to be cashed in!

But then maybe it's all true, and I'm missing out on a fortune of dead granny antiques tucked away in storage units across the UK....