Sex Sells
A fairly simple fact of life: sex sells. It sells everything from tractors down to toiletries through subtlety as much as through blatancy. Anything remotely sexual is going to grab a person’s attention, even if it is for a split second. But themes on blogs? The question has been raised by Rebecca Markowitz in a [...]
Pearls Of Wisdom
You can search for hours – and get completely lost in the process – for information, quotes, relevant texts on the Internet. Everyone has their little bit to say, everyone has their favorite quotes and once you begin sifting through all that is there, a few hours can whisk by in a moment without you [...]
Educating The Masses
Don’t you just love it when someone corrects you? Good, on the one side it can be helpful in the right situation, on the other it says a lot about the person doing the correcting. Especially when that person is making a correction to a comment made which really goes wide of the mark, then [...]
Feel Good Factor
Who hasn’t heard about Internet abuse, about mobbing, bullying and the singling out of one person to be a target, a victim? Who hasn’t wondered what sort of people are involved, what their mentality can be, why they do such things? For some people it is a daily part of their lives, much the same [...]
Death Of The Printed Word?
The printed word is dead, long live the printed word. Technology has overtaken the art of the book and is in the process of sucking the final drops of blood from its still quivering body or, at least, that is the impression gained from reading headlines in specialist papers, listening to talks from those in [...]
Losing The Clutter
A post on Lorelle’s blog caught my eye yesterday afternoon: Under the Hood Spring Cleaning and got me thinking about the amount of clutter I could have on this blog, all the stuff that you don’t get to see, like dust above the doorjamb. It suddenly occurred to me that every single post I write [...]
Fitting Together
Somethings just seem to fit together like peanut butter and jelly, somethings appear quite by chance. And so it is, sometimes, with Tweets on Twitter: you read through a whole mess of different Tweets, each one an individual thought (or waste of time) and suddenly a whole series will appear from different people unconnected one [...]
Cool: A Different View
Perhaps I am a little bit biased – well, I most definitely am, but that by the by! – and find many of the self-shots by men just a little bit too over the top sometimes. Chocolate sauce is one thing, but there is a time and a place and, to my way of thinking, [...]
Too Cool For Words?
I am at a loss sometimes for words to describe some of the things that I see when surfing through the World Wide Web. Or, better, perhaps I am not at a loss for words, more at a loss to understand how some people can allow such things – photographs, text, videos, whatever – to [...]
Google Spammed Me?
I still fail to understand the mentality behind spammers, as I am sure we all do. Fine, they’re trying to get back-links, trying to get their (often faked) product out onto the market, trying to make money. I think we can all agree on that. But why, if that is the case, would anyone write [...]
Publicizing Cheese
For those who happen to find their way here by searching for milk product marketing, sorry, you’re at the wrong place. That doesn’t mean you have to leave here right away – hold back on that mouse move buddy! – but I’m not in the business of selling cheese or even, much as I love [...]
Customer Service Fails
You must have come across them more then once, service industries (shops, restaurants, general businesses online and in Real Life) who boast of high things, and then fail miserably. I came across it personally just the other day, going into a store I use three or four times a week because I needed to use [...]
The Bookstore
Working together we other people is one thing, getting to know them quite another. I was surprised to discover that one of my friends here – a friend of my Dad going back many years – has more to do with books than I had suspected, and this experience, this knowledge has pushed me on [...]
The Gay Guide to Wedded Bliss
An excellent article in The Atlantic Magazine highlights to benefits heterosexual partners can gain by looking at their homosexual counterparts. Perhaps, for those who are not stuck in a rut and only believe what they have never checked out, there will be a few tips in here on how to improve their own marriages. And [...]
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