Google ranks pages according to 200 factors and makes hundreds of changes to its core search algorithm every year. Most of those updates are minor and we users see minimal effects. Some updates, however, are huge, and businesses have been known to suffer overnight as...

You'll be delighted to hear that I've updated this site's glossary, so there are now slightly fewer holes on that particular page. Have a look here and fill yer boots. >>>Playlist<<<

So Trump doesn't like Bitcoin, Facebook’s proposed Libra digital coin and other cryptocurrencies:   I am not a fan of Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies, which are not money, and whose value is highly volatile and based on thin air. Unregulated Crypto...

School mornings, music lessons, trains to catch: we're often in a rush in our house but sometimes the girls' urgency is, er, questionable. "Come onnnnn!" I plead. Then I tell them, for the hundredth time, about The Amazing, Disappearing Last Five Minutes - those...

Eagle-eyed readers of this blog will have noticed that there's a new item on the menu... You know all those single pages that contain a week's worth of posts? Well they've now got a home. For your convenience. It's here....

The book I'll self-publish before the end of this year is the 11th I’ll have worked on in some capacity. What's it about? Good question. It touches on: Personal battles Family relationships Parenting Impostor syndrome Fulfilling potential Formal education, and how we...

I found an image on my laptop recently that's pretty useful: If only I'd seen it before 2007, when I embarked on training to be a driving instructor but really wanted to be a professional writer.What I had was two plan As - one ridiculous and the other...

I log in to this site to publish this post and decide to look more closely, finally, at the SSL errors that are showing. When looking at the front of the site, as you are now, it's not at all obvious that there's a problem: But on the inside, errors are...

I came across a site today which was great for cropping images: befunky.com: Just type in the dimensions you need, click the box to lock the aspect ratio, then maybe move the grid to get the best part of the image, then hit save. Job...

It's Sunday evening, I'm relaxing at home and I have a decision to make that's testing my patience: Is the comment that's just arrived on this very blog genuine or a load of old spam?     What are the signs that it might be rubbish? The exuberant "Hey!" at...