This section covers posts that in general do not fit into other sections easily. They will mostly be made by admin on whatever I am adding at that moment, which is usually something to do with writing, publishing, websites, eating or Thailand, which is where I live :-)
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Jailed – Locked in, but Locked Out! At six o’clock yesterday evening, I decided that I wouldn’t go to the local pub for a drink, as I usually do, but that I would get a few bottles from the off-licence and carry on working, as I have two audiobooks to approve, which is eleven hours’ …
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Facebook and Its Spam Detectors I don’t know whether you have been a victim of Facebook and its Spam Detectors (a.k.a. spambots) recently, but they are giving me a lot of gyp. For example, Facebook and its Spam Detectors used to force me to fill out its questionnaire and change my password about once a …
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Quick Blog or Website In this article, I will show you how to set up a quick blog on your own using pre-designed templates for the site and the content. The first thing that you will need is a host for your publication – somewhere which will store and display it. Professionals pay for this …
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Why Every Webmaster Needs PLR Content Just to get one thing clear from the start, PLR stands for ‘public limited right’, and is a short way of describing an article that you have acquired, free or at a cost, which you have permission to use within certain confines. Needless to say, free PLR content is …
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Originally by Washington Irving Abridged by Fiza Pathan and Michelangelo Zane Illustrated by Farzana Cooper Reviewed by Barry Boy The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Fiza Pathan and Michelangelo Zane is a rewrite, an abridged version of the 1799 American classic by Washington Irving, and illustrated by Farzana Cooper. The …
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Holidays for Webmasters Exclusive! $7.99 for Two Weeks or More! As the owner of every business knows, it’s difficult to get away on a decent holiday, because it’s hard to find someone who will devote as much time and attention to your business as you would. This is usually a very real problem in the …
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Building a Website Using PLR For the purpose of this article, I am going to assume that you are a complete novice at building websites, if you are not, there are other articles on building blogs and websites elsewhere on this site. This short article though will teach you the basics of how to make …
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Lucy Andrews Hello, could you begin by telling us your name, how we can reach you and where you come from, please? Name : Lucy Andrews Social Media : https://www.facebook.com/LucyAndrewsAuthor https://twitter.com/LAndrewsWrites Country: England Do you prefer to read a particular genre? : Yes, I usually read either historical or science fiction novels. When I read …
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Penpals – Do You Remember Them? When I was a boy, and that was quite a while ago, writing letters, telephoning or sending a telegramme were just about the only means of communication over long distances. Middle-class children were encouraged to write letters, not that I was from that social group, and one of the …
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Non-English Books For My Blog I run this blog as an author who writes and sells books, but I have never written or tried to sell any non-English books. How would I go about it? Not the writing, I have learned seven languages to a high standard, although I am now rusty. However, I wouldn’t …
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Our Tenth Wedding Anniversary Yesterday, March 30th. was our tenth wedding anniversary. Well, one of them, anyway, since most foreigners who marry Thais get married twice and not necessarily on the same day. However, despite the two chances, neither of us would have remembered the occasion, if it hadn’t been for Facebook’s built-in calendar reminder. …
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Moving To The UK I am from Wales, the UK, and my wife is Thai. Those of you who read this blog will already know this, and we have to get back to the UK under European law, before Brexit pulls up the drawbridge in March 2019, because of my wife’s nationality, as those dear …
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Piracy and Google If you make anything that becomes successful, you can expect it to be copied sooner or later. In the case of physical goods, it can take a while to set up the plant and machinery to produce those copies and the contacts to sell them through. However, there is also the theft …
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Using Keywords to Attract Interested Visitors As you progress with the establishment of your blog or website, one of the main things that you need to keep an eye on is using keywords to attract interested visitors. This is a major part of white-hat SEO, and it means using relevant keywords in your content to …
No Reply I suppose the phrase ‘No Reply’ can apply to several situations… phone calls, letters and emails, etc, but I want to talk specifically about email, since it is so easy to reply to… There is no need to put pen to paper or phone back in the hope that the previous caller will …
Returning To Old Haunts Returning to old haunts is said to be a guaranteed disappointment, and I am wondering whether that’s true… hoping that it is not. At least, not necessarily so… However, instinct tells me that the saying is true… Depending on how long the gap between the visits is, I suppose. I studied …
The weather on the Costa del Sol is usually fabulous. I love it in Andalucia! However, it can turn surprisingly cold around Christmas time!
Alexa Rankings Almost from the day I went online in 1996, or perhaps a few years after that, I discovered Alexa, which was a tool for ranking the popularity of websites. In those days, a high Alexa ranking was de rigeur and, so, highly sought after. I have sort of forgotten about my sites’ Alexa …
