Hope you had a good weekend. I went to a "BodyPump" class yesterday for the first time in weeks and it felt like someone had spent the night hitting me with a hammer when I woke up this morning. Sigh. Anyway, let’s take a few more steps down the path of writing good English. Today [...]

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I’m a bit of a tea leaf magpie when it comes to websites I like. When I come to a website I rate highly, one of the things I try to find out is how it got to be that good. What decisions did they take, what changes did they make to get it looking [...]

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There’s a lot of advice on the Internet on how to get good [tag]search engine rankings[/tag]. Some of it is both effective and ethical, some of it is effective and "black hat" – or unethical. I think in the long term it’s more trouble than it’s worth to indulge in dodgy techniques like [tag]keyword-stuffing[/tag] and [...]

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I have a confession to make: my attention span is terrible. I’m not joking! It sometimes makes me laugh when I realise how my plan for the morning’s work has been completely waylaid by an interesting news item that has then led me to look stuff up on Wikipedia, which has then made me check [...]

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There’s a campaign starting in the UK right now, organised by the Local Government Association. They’re working to eradicate jargon from the lexicon of government workers. I’m really happy about that. I’ve been meaning to move forward with establishmentising an entry about jargon for a number of business cycles, but was never able to action [...]

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