The other side of the screen

01 August is every thoroughbred horses birthday

Happy Birthday to all !!

Mike and the team at Organiclinker have come up with an egg-miles calculator.

http://www.organiclinker.com/egg-miles.cfm

Now, if only they can get this onto a handheld device to rebut spurious claims of locally produced eggs at Farmers Markets.

Last weekend we went to Faversham, and bought ‘local eggs’ that were actually from Lincolnshire, closer to my place than the market we visited! Outrageous!!

I’m getting back into golf after a layoff of more than a few years.

The last time I played was December 2005, on my Stag Doo, at Formosa Country Club.
We have a great driving range and 14 courses within a 4 mile radius, so I’m in a great place to play golf.

I tested out some clubs today with a view to buying them and have sore arms as a result. They’re more used to typing and shuffling paper than hitting a golf ball.

Technology has improved since I last owned a set of clubs so I’ll be purchasing graphite instead of steel shafted clubs with much better sweet spots, lighter drivers and easier to use fairway woods as well.

I can’t wait to get out for a walk and enjoy the fresh air in the evenings - now I have no excuses not to!

Our walls are in the process of being stripped back ready for sanding and lining before painting.
What a mess! There is dust and little bits of flaky paint and wallpaper everywhere.

The great news is they are now a blank canvas so we will get a quote to get them lined before painting.

We are off to B&Q tomorrow to pick up some Polyfiller (we might need a large box of it)

Coffee Forums UK and Tea Forums UK have been launched in the past 14 days.

With a growing member base and an eclectic mix of coffee and tea lovers we’re sure you’ll find the discussion and debates entertaining and stimulating.

So grab a cup and surf on over to Coffee or Tea.

I always read other peoples blogging tips but have not yet seen anyone promoting the use of the Tags function in Wordpress 2.5 or later versions.

I have recently updated all of my blogs and enabled the tag function and have seen search engine result placements rise pretty quickly.

It would appear that bots and spiders are hungry for tags and I’ll continue to feed them what they like, knowing that they will come again to check for more ‘food’ at more regular intervals.

You’ll note to the right hand side of this blog entry is my Tag Cloud
Clicking on the words in this cloud will take you to a relevant post, almost like a Wiki entry does.

The Tags function is enabled in the Widgets options in Wordpress.
Activate yours today and watch the results unfold over the coming weeks using Rank Checker from seobook.com or the Digitalpoint Keywords Tool from digitalpoint.com

Each weekend we head off to a Farmers Market to buy our fruit and vegetables.

The taste is so fresh and vibrant, unlike the supermarket equivalents that travel halfway around the world.
Recently we bought Squash from Tonga (we shouldn’t have due to food miles but there was no local butternut squash available) - we felt bad for doing so but it seems that it was scarce in Europe and ironically cheaper as well.

This weekend we will be at Wimbledon so will be looking for a Farmers Market in South London or towards East Sussex / Kent.

We recently came across http://www.farmersmarkets.net/ and use this as our resource for research.
Not all markets are listed on it (like Harpenden - third Sunday of the month) but the ones with a level of accreditation are.

Through farmers markets we have discovered Pheasant, Quince, Mature cheese and a dazzling array of herbs.

We support organic thinking and always take our recycled jute bags along, declining to take wrapped produce.

Have you been to a farmers market lately?

If you haven’t done so already I would recommend downloading Piclens, a fab application for viewing photos, websites, media on your screen.

I picked this on from 30DC and will be using it to view images on Google in future and when choosing from stock images.

Don’t let me hold you up from downloading this a minute longer!

I’m trialling the fish theme for it’s feed features and layout and have already noticed a small increase in people picking up my feeds on Flock, the newly launched social-bookmarking-friendly-browser.

I was put onto this by the 30DC team and have spent the last 2 days optimising it and not have all my favourite feeds at my fingertips, inclusing tools like Twitter, Twhirl, Grease Monkeys and Google Reader in colour.
Tweet me and ask me how @getnoticed

The theme you use can tell people a lot about you, what type of style (or lack of) that you have and also the way you like to communicate. Some blogs are dark and others are fresh and clean.

Many will argue that the content is what keeps people coming back and to an extent that is true, but you also have to remember that if a site doesn’t look very good then you don’t stand a chance of getting repeat visitors.

I use Alexking.org as my themes browser as this site always has a great list of funky new blog themes. I suggest you check this out and keep the themes evolving.

After what seems like an eternity I have decided to give my blog a little attention and gear up for the start of a rather busy summer, kicking off with the Thirty Day Challenge

Much has changed in the technology used for blogging since I took my blog offline (more on that later) and I will be adopting the new Web2.0 tools, social bookmarking and enabling more interaction than you ever thought possible.

At one stage Facebook took over the headlines but now the tables are turning back to blogging, and an emerging tool known as Twitter, with tweets replacing blog entries and enabling pushes to mobile phones.

Using cool tools like summize.com you can keep track of any number of keywords on Twitter…
I’m not going to give too much away at this stage, but if you would like further information head over to Twitter.com and send me a message @getnoticed

The blog will be continually revamped and will link to a number of projects I am working on at present.

Keep in touch and bookmark me, or better still - grab my RSS feed !