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Interesting stuff. I always thought Chrome was a breath of fresh air, and although was an early adopter, before it had extensions it was pretty limiting.

But this was weighed up with the speed and smaller memory footprint. IE was always memory intensive and the usual bloatware. FF was good, then lost its way, now seems to be getting better. I now use FF and Chrome, mainly because I'm lazy, and FF is set up with one google ID, with Chrome set up with another

Chromes only blip was last year when for a few months it went buggy and was crashing non stop, to the point I had to stop it auto updating and installed an older version. Google forums were awash with the same issue, but they eventually stabilised it, and touch wood it's been stable for me for the last 8 months or so.

I think Google are sometimes too quick to roll out new functionality and shiny things without doing adequate testing. With them now moving into the top spot, it's time to start acting a bit more responsibly as businesses have better things to do than troubleshoot a rogue browser. Keep it fast, keep it stable and I'm happy

Guilty I thought I was going to hurt myself


Grumpy git! Like I said, Olympic cynicism aside, it is nice to see towns around the country making an effort and a bit of a patriotic cheer.

Driving from Oban to Glasgow a few weeks ago, we unintentionally drove the same day as the torch was heading the opposite direction. Every town we passed was absolutely packed with flag waving and excited people, and events going on, local bands, BBQ's etc. I thought Scotland of all places the response would be a bit muted, after all the Nationalist propaganda the media gives us.

It's not often you see the country pulling together, normally too busy slagging each off! The Olympics themselves may be the preserve of dodgy Corporate Business and shady politics, but the average person in the street will be watching it on the Telly like everyone else.

That said, it must be a total nightmare living in London at the moment, so can understand why Londoners have got the hump!

Maybe rent your house out and make a few quid?

This weekend we had the Stratford River Festival plus the Olympic Torch passed through.

Olympics cynics aside, it was nice to see the town all standing together and a bit of flag waving.

Captured it on film if anyone's interested, including the disabled scooter that seemed to be following behind the procession and taking advantage of a police escort

Stratford Upon Avon Torch

I think it is critical!

I also think you can apply this to most forms of advertising, both on and offline.

What maybe classed as the headline in an offline advert could be called the title tag on a web page, <H1> tag, maybe a subject line in an email campaign or even a forum thread title, business listing title, PPC advert etc.

You always need a hook to draw people into your advert/website/content.

I'm a great believer in changing them as well, experiment and tweak until you are happy with the conversion rate.