Spammer’s Xmas Lists

Posted on Tuesday, 20th December 2005 | 2 Responses
Tony has written the best christmas blog post this year!! He has done some investigating and found the Amazon wishlists for a number of people in the Search industry. Included are: Jim Boykin, Andy Beal, Aaron Wall, Jensense, Matt Cutts, Todd Malicoat, Chris Pirillo, Sergey Brin & Jeremy Zawodny. Funniest items have to be Jason's "SEO for dummies" and Zawodny's "The Clitourist : A Guide to One of the (more...)

Matt Cutts - Private Detective

Posted on Monday, 12th December 2005 | No Comments
Newsflash!! - Matt Cutts, everyone's favourite Google Engineer and PR supremo has been moonlighting as a Private Detective!! Is this his new method of tracking down spammers? Or has he returned to his Government Intelligence roots? Or maybe Earl Grey is just canonicalizing Matt & Newsweek for finding his spam network.

Order Accounts in Thunderbird

Posted on Saturday, 10th December 2005 | 2 Responses
It has always bugged me that you can't change the ordering of the accounts in Thunderbird. But today I came across something built for the job - Folderpane Tools

2005 Search Blog Awards

Posted on Saturday, 10th December 2005 | No Comments
Search Engine Journal are running a Search Blog Awards. My scores (out of 5): Best Search Engine News Blogs: Pandia - 4 MarketingPilgrim - 3 SearchEngineBlog.com - 2 Search Engine Lowdown - 4 Search Views - 2 John Battelle Search Blog - 3 Search Engine Watch Blog - 4 Threadwatch - 5 Google Blogoscoped - 3 Search Engine Roundtable - 5 Research Buzz - 3 Top Rank Blog - 2 Best (more...)

Web Week in London

Posted on Saturday, 10th December 2005 | No Comments
Yesterday there was Matt Mullenweg's WordPress meet up in Covent Garden that unfortunately I couldn't get to. Then tonight is Geek Dinner with Robert Scoble. Even Danny Sullivan is attending. Address: Texas Embassy Cantina 1 Cockspur Street, London SW1Y 3DQ [Google Map or Multimap] Tel: 020 7925 0077 Fax: 020 7925 0444 Email: enquiries@texasembassy.com Tube stops: Charing Cross, Piccadilly, Leicester Square. But unfortunately I can't make this either, (more...)

I Am God

Posted on Friday, 9th December 2005 | 3 Responses
Well, seeing that Andre is flexing his muscles on personal rankings, I thought I'd check out some of my rankings: That targeted anchor text really can pay off ;-)