Saturday, July 31, 2004
Tit for tat [carefully ignoring any literal-minded implications of that phrase].
As she linked me, I guess I better plug her back. Introducing Mrs Rachel O'Dywer, a 23 year old Yorkshire lass, who describes herself as "Now with added pregnancy". She too has discovered that subtle use of certain keywords can do wonders for one's hits. The only apparent downside is that she claims to like both McFly and Busted. Have you no shame woman?
She also seems quite happy that I bought some of her blogshares. Well, what can I say - you were cheap.
[And see, link whoring does work].
Via the only other person to have used that map thing on the left, this London-based curiosity, full of random semi-factoids. Which is my conversations sorted for, ooh, about the next 3 years. [What do you mean it's not true? Not even American tourist true?]. The best bit is the second item in this.
In other news: How long before the American press notice, and start making use of Kerry's initials? His name is John Forbes Kerry, so that would be JFK, who also happened to be a Democrat [whether or not being JFK2 would be seen as a good thing, I'm not sure]. And is that Forbes as in the business news people [Oh, apparently not]? Well, with a Heinz by proxy on board as well, this is getting very dynastic.
Though I'm very surprised to find the official website including this bit of text [which showed up when I searched for "Forbes"]: ...On paper, John Forbes Kerry's background doesn't seem all that different from that of George W. Bush. Like Bush, Kerry is a son of the Eastern establishment, with deep roots in the exclusive institutions that have traditionally... Kerry is like Bush, and this is a good thing?
And does anyone else find it slightly peculiar that the American political parties can never decide if they are red or blue? For comparison, the "That's Walker with an n" site.
I have to say, aesthetically, the Democrats have it: Bush's site is just too cluttered. It looks like a mix of Yahoo on a bad day, a tabloid newspaper, and one of those entirely computer generated traffic manipulation websites [the type of thing that suggests car rental companies on Rockall].
And hurrah, it's not that people don’t like me - it's just that I managed to kill off the tracker. Did you know obsessive-compulsive-ing the code for the tracker, so it makes the page source HTML look neat, is not big and not clever, and is a very good way of making the thing die not-quite completely. A quick copy-and-paste later and it's back to normal (except for one minor edit, so the border matches. OCer to the last).
Anyhoo,
As she linked me, I guess I better plug her back. Introducing Mrs Rachel O'Dywer, a 23 year old Yorkshire lass, who describes herself as "Now with added pregnancy". She too has discovered that subtle use of certain keywords can do wonders for one's hits. The only apparent downside is that she claims to like both McFly and Busted. Have you no shame woman?
She also seems quite happy that I bought some of her blogshares. Well, what can I say - you were cheap.
[And see, link whoring does work].
Via the only other person to have used that map thing on the left, this London-based curiosity, full of random semi-factoids. Which is my conversations sorted for, ooh, about the next 3 years. [What do you mean it's not true? Not even American tourist true?]. The best bit is the second item in this.
In other news: How long before the American press notice, and start making use of Kerry's initials? His name is John Forbes Kerry, so that would be JFK, who also happened to be a Democrat [whether or not being JFK2 would be seen as a good thing, I'm not sure]. And is that Forbes as in the business news people [Oh, apparently not]? Well, with a Heinz by proxy on board as well, this is getting very dynastic.
Though I'm very surprised to find the official website including this bit of text [which showed up when I searched for "Forbes"]: ...On paper, John Forbes Kerry's background doesn't seem all that different from that of George W. Bush. Like Bush, Kerry is a son of the Eastern establishment, with deep roots in the exclusive institutions that have traditionally... Kerry is like Bush, and this is a good thing?
And does anyone else find it slightly peculiar that the American political parties can never decide if they are red or blue? For comparison, the "That's Walker with an n" site.
I have to say, aesthetically, the Democrats have it: Bush's site is just too cluttered. It looks like a mix of Yahoo on a bad day, a tabloid newspaper, and one of those entirely computer generated traffic manipulation websites [the type of thing that suggests car rental companies on Rockall].
And hurrah, it's not that people don’t like me - it's just that I managed to kill off the tracker. Did you know obsessive-compulsive-ing the code for the tracker, so it makes the page source HTML look neat, is not big and not clever, and is a very good way of making the thing die not-quite completely. A quick copy-and-paste later and it's back to normal (except for one minor edit, so the border matches. OCer to the last).
Anyhoo,
