Today I recieved this in my inbox: SITE PROBLEMS: Our site has been incurring ongoing unexplained problems. We are at this time, unable to stop this continued onslaught. We do not have the expertise to counter what has been happening. Over the past week the site has been down several times. Bugs have been appeared [...]
Ramblings
Google NZ Adds Movie Session Times
Posted by Richard on September 10th, 2009
Recently Google has made a change that allows you to see movie session times within Google. Just search for the movie name plus your town/city. The information on Google is very basic, there’s no movie description, trailers or reviews. I’ll be sticking with Flicks for now. Check out their movie trailers, movie reviews and competitions.
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Tags: Competitions, Flicks, google, Google Search, Movie Reviews, Movie Trailers, Session Times, Trailers Movie 
1 Comment »Trademe Epic Outage
Posted by Richard on August 25th, 2009
Tonight the unthinkable for a lot of online New Zealanders happened. Trademe went down In reply to this, twitter kicked into life: Will this rock the reliance on such a giant? Somehow I don’t think so. Picture if Google had an outage for a few hours. Would people stop using it? Probably not. However in [...]
Posted in Ramblings Tags: Auction Component, Epic, Giant, google, New Zealanders, Online Auction, outage, Presence, Reliance, Reply, Telethon, trademe, Twitter Updates, Unthinkable No Comments »3deals.co.nz – How not to launch your site
Posted by Richard on May 12th, 2009
A little while ago I signed up to recieve emails from 3deals.co.nz - a 1-day.co.nz competitor. Anyway like the early days of 1-day, 3deals has fallen short. Either the servers not responding and dishing up a 404 error page or the page is not there so returning a 404. Things you should do: [...]
NZ SEO – The Good
Posted by Richard on September 18th, 2008
Following my previous post about my plan for NZ SEO – The Good, The Bad, The Ugly This post has been the most difficult for me. Having to start over and over again, which is one of the reasons why this has taken so long to do. “Good SEO” is up for interpretation. Over the [...]
NZ SEO – The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
Posted by Richard on July 1st, 2008
Following the comments from my post yesterday. I have been thinking about how to structure my shakeup of SEO in New Zealand. I want to be sure I don’t step on anyones toes, nor do I want to post some basic boring post that I wouldn’t want to read myself. Here’s the plan. Over the [...]
Google Chat Now On My Blog
Posted by Richard on February 27th, 2008
With the new development for google talk you can now chat to me online. Just click my little speach bubble to the right -> Be interesting to see how long it stays on the site Edit: Removed as it wasn’t working well
Many Thanks
Posted by Richard on February 16th, 2008
Big thanks for all the support received over the last week or so. Quick updated on my parents. They are improving heaps! Dad saw big improvement yesturday and likely to be getting into a ward soon. Which is always a good sign. Mum is going to be discharged on Monday or Tuesday next week. Things [...]
Passing the Hat Around
Posted by Richard on February 13th, 2008
Last Sunday, my parents were involved in a head on car accident just outside of Cambridge, where a car coming in the opposite direction slid accross the road into the path of my parents car. As a result of this both of my parents are in hospital. My dad isn’t in the best shape with [...]
Webhelp Dofollow’s Blog Comments
The time has come for me to give back even more. I’ve decided anyone taking time out to post a comment deserves something. This blog is now decleared a dofollow blog. So go on then what are you waiting for, drop me a comment and get a nice sparkly backlink. I will still be filtering [...]