The guy in the video below is Mohammed Qahtani, a security engineer from Saudi Arabia and he recently won the Toastmasters International World Champion of Public Speaking. I found his speech motivational and I really like the message… we can change the world with words and by being kinder to people. I think we all […]

The Power of Words

Do you feel you are in need of some inspiration?  Need a kick up the ****? Here are 14 inspiring quotes that you may not of heard of before… Quote number 1: “No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.” Who said that?  – Abraham Lincoln My thoughts on this […]

14 inspiring quotes to improve your day and thinking

There are currently over 7 billion people on earth.  How are YOU going to stand out?  Sure, there are bound to be similarities between us but I believe its good to be different.  It’s a natural trait that our attention is grabbed when we see or hear something that is a bit different from the […]

How to be unique and more engaging

So . . this isn’t my first blog post! 😉  I started blogging way back in July 2006.  This post is going to be different to most of my others.  It’s going to be personal, about ME and my desire to change things.  Sounds serious huh?! It is serious to me! I want to help […]

NOT my first blog post

The consequences of getting your website hacked range from slightly annoying, if your site is merely defaced, to totally devastating, if your site is a main source of income and it gets taken offline. How do these things happen, and what can you do to keep your site safe?  You might ask yourself “How do […]

How to protect your site against hackers

I wrote back in January about my entry into the SEO World Championships. To remind you, it’s basically a competition to get a new web site to rank top on the major search engines for the phrase “globalwarming awareness2007“. I managed to get the site listed in Google within about 2 weeks of launch. Not […]

SEO World Championships

Last Friday it was Friday the 13th. Unlucky for some – although for me I had a great day! Pat March a dj from Radio Kent needed a web designer to discuss web design (surprise, surprise) for his Friday ‘challenge’ slot. So who do the researchers turn to? Moi and Saxon Internet Solutions! (probably coz […]

On the radio

Yesterday evening I went to watch my beloved football team Whitstable Town play a league game against Deal Town.  Well, what an amazing game of football.  I got to the ground just after kick off to find Whitstable down a goal after just 5 mins!  A dodgy decision by the ref gave Deal Town a free […]

What a fantastic football match

I sigh and stop trying to manually install a classified adverts script on a clients server that just doesn’t want to play. Me: Hello Caller: *Silence* Me: Hello? (a little louder) Caller: *Silence*  (I’m guessing now it’s a sales call as these call centres always seem to have this silence) Me: *waiting for some damn […]

Phone rings….

Last year we had to get someone to get rid of some seagulls that were nesting on our roof, between the chimneys.  They had become really aggresive and would swoop down on people as they walked down the road.  They had attacked some workmen who repaired some loose tiles next door.  They’d also dive bombed […]

Seagulls