On the Clickinlove dating site there is currently no anti-spam measures in place. There is a need for such a mechanism due to the possibility that spammers may pointlessly sent their robots out to populate profiles with fake details.
I have a measure implemented, but it exists on the revamped site design, which I have not rolled-out. However, for a trial period I may allow the new design to go live and see if I experience a drop in registering users.
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SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) is a boring and repetitive task that takes a lot of time and dedication. Results with SEO are not obvious and take a long time to be seen and appreciated. All of these factors lead many people to lose interest in this field and to give up.
One needs to persevere. You are in it for the long run and results will be few and far between for many months or even in some cases a few years, depending on how competitive your field is. Be unemotional about your work. Everyday get those links, write that blog, update the forum and scour the Internet for related content on which to obtain a backlink.
Do not expect results and get used to disappointment. Again, as I said, do not get emotional about your work. Treat it as an investment. Overtime you will see returns, but only if you are dedicated enough to keep going when no results are on the horizon. Once you do make your site competitive from an SEO perspective, then you are well on your way to using these skills you have developed, as well as the tricks you have learned along the way, to do SEO for another site… and another. it just gets easier and easier. Eventually, you will have created a site or two that ranks well in Google and generates revenue (if you have monetised your site in some way).
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So the US presidential campaign is kicking off and McCain has chosen Palin as his running mate. The problem here is that they are conservative and by definition should be pretty strict on the likes of, say, teenage pregnancies. Everyone knows that when you start dating, things can get out of hand and young women are particularly at risk as their knowledge of contraception is limited and they are inexperienced in these matters. Hence why good parenting is important to help a young adult navigate this minefield. So how can the presumptive Republican presidential candidate choose as his running mate a mother who arguably may have failed her daughter to a certain degree – teenage pregnancy is a blight on Western society and conservatives normally look down on this sort of behaviour.
In today’s world, normal people accept that teenagers can get pregnant and accept that even with the best parenting, ‘accidents’ happen. However, we are talking about normal people, and bible-bashing, god-fearing conservatives may not fall into this category. The question is, will the religious folk (you know, those who voted in George W.Bush two times) expect McCain to publicly flog Palin and banish her to Devils Island? Or will they forgive McCain for choosing a 44 year-old grandmother, with little experience in public life who encourages her teenage children to have babies?
More to the point, why am I writing about this on this blog. Well, the connection is that conservatism and reality are not always good bed-friends when it comes to relationships. McCain has highlighted the flaws and contradictions in conservatism when he chose Palin. Why does this matter? Well, I believe politics and the beliefs of an individual in this area are actually quite fundamental to how compatible couples are. The Governor of California, a Republican, is married into the Kennedy clan – I find this how to digest and think this sort of marriage of people across the political divide is not as common as those successful relationships within their own borders.
Here is an article by the BBC on teenage pregnancy in the UK.
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So the new Google Chrome browser became available yesterday amid a lot of speculation as to how good it is. So how good is it? I downloaded it last night as soon as it became available and installed it on my XP-64 machine. My first reaction was a little confusion as to where bookmarks were added and accessed, but it is actually far simpler than I had imagined and very convenient to perform these actions. The tabs fitted nicely along the top and the speed of startup, loading new tabs and traversing them was very fluid. Amazingly, I noticed little in the way of compatibility issues with other browsers. I have been used to dealing with the eternal Firefox/IE battle when designing websites, but I was surprised at how few bugs I found on this browser. I did notice one or two javascript anomalies which I will notify Google about, but on the whole, an excellent job has been done by the Google engineers.
The browser does start up fast, but the speed improvement I was expecting did not materialse. I am hoping this will be ironed-out over the coming months and we can start to see the full benefit of this innovative browser.
I was a die-hard Firefox fan beforehand, but in one fell swoop, I suspect Google may have displaced the competition.
Yes, there will be issues with Chrome, but it is open source and that counts for a lot. Give it time and you could see this browser really taking off. IE8 is trying to compete and itself has a few innovations which may compete or even slightly surpass Chrome; however I am off the opinion that making Chrome open source will effectively force the other browsers creators to take note and improve their own offerings.
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It appears Google is on the verge of releasing it’s new browser, which has been in development for around 2 years. This will be open source and includes many new features and innovations which are sure to please. The most important thing about this new browser, called Chrome, is that it is the first new browser in many years which is written mostly from scratch. Tomorrow or this evening I shall use this blog to link to the Chrome download page as soon as it becomes available, so post a comment here and I will notify you via email when it is available and send you the link.
A few of the highlights:
The Chrome process manager decouples each tab from the other tabs and houses the data in an encapsulated environment. This should prevent one site causing the browser to ‘freeze’ in the event that the site hits some issues. In addition, phising and malware are tackled by the way that Google identifies suspect sites, but also by the way that permissions are handled. Another neat feature is the way that search boxes on some sites will automatically be accessible to the user even when not viewing that page. Could be a handy feature. for when you wish to search for something without having to load the page beforehand. Of course this capability does exist as an Add-on on some browsers anyway, but still nice to have in included by default.
Webkit and V8 form the internals on Chrome. Webkit is a simple to follow API and should prove a nice tool for the web developer to play with, if she/he so wishes. Another great innovation is the change from ‘interpreting’ Javascript, to the generation of machine code. This could speed things up a lot in the long run. Actually, there are so many great features that I am rambling on a bit. Visit Google Chrome Overview for a rundown of what the new browser offers.
Don’t forget to bookmark this page and come back later to get the download link, else leave a comment and I will email it to you.
UPDATE: the link to the Google Chrome Browser download is here.
Happy browsing,
Will
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On the subject of Munich dating, it has been noted that Munich is the singles capital of Germany, so why would there be any need for a dating site devoted to the people of Munich. The truth is that dating in germany is not a concept that makes much sense to those outside the English-speaking world. A date is such a foreign idea here. The reason is that people in Germany develop relationships and don’t aim for a ‘date’ – i.e. an evening spent with the intention of developing a relationship. I can see where the concept of a date does indeed sound a little silly.
However, there are a lot of foreigners in Munich and dating is normal for them. Consequently there is a difference in expectation between what they want and what they get. To clarify and clear up any cultural misunderstandings perhaps both parties shoudl make the effort to make it work. English-speakers should try to make friendships first before delving into something deeper, whereas Germans could try and embrace slightly the concept of a date.
Munich speed-dating could be a very big flop here. On the other hand, it could be just what the ex-pat population need.  Post comments here if you feel there is a need for speed-dating in Munich.
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