Monthly Archives: September 2008

SEO Seminar (10 Oct) – free ticket giveaway

Google 4 Grown-Ups is a search engine seminar with a live afternoon workshop, written and presented by yours truly: Google 4 Grown-Ups SEO Training Seminar 9am – 4pm Friday 10th October, 2008 Radisson Edwardian Grafton Hotel, London UK The short … Continue reading

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Some interesting twitters from Tory fringe events in Birmingham

At the fringe of the 2008 Conservative Party Conference, a ‘Freedom & the Internet’ panel was chaired by notorious control-freak and liar Iain Dale, and featured Guido Fawkes, Phil Hendren, Chris Mounsey, Nadine Dorries. Oh, and last-minute hanger-on Praguetory. Quite … Continue reading

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Images, goodies and updates

Hi gang! It looks like Google Images has dipped in for a second helping over at the B3ta boards (click here for background) so it’ll probably be a few weeks yet before we see any relevant results for ‘julie moult’ … Continue reading

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Bloggers issued with hastily-carved ‘Ten Commandments’

Oi, you lot! Go work your own side of the street… this spot’s taken.

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Dracula’s Lament (by Jason Segel) – lyrics and tabs

This is my new favourite thing: Dracula’s Lament (Jason Segel) From the not-bad movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall. The best cover I’ve heard so far is here. It’s so sad and lovely, and I’d like to encourage further appearances of this … Continue reading

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“But she’s got a new hat.”

By now most of you would have seen this video of Sarah Palin crashing and burning on CBS just as David Letterman pointed out that McCain himself doesn’t appear to think that Palin can handle the campaign, never mind the … Continue reading

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Nadine Dorries: the second-boldest liar in the blogosphere

FACT: Nadine Dorries was using facilities paid for by the taxpayer for campaigning purposes… Bloggerheads.com – Nadine Dorries and the minor matter of misappropriation Liberal Conspiracy – The case against Nadine Dorries MP (pt 1) FACT: Nadine Dorries was found … Continue reading

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The return of Sgt Streetwise

I have another thrill-a-minute excerpt from Sgt Streetwise for you. In this episode, Wise is a lush lush on the hush-hush. Tramps never go out of fashion! (Psst! Did you know that Sgt Streetwise was written on a regular basis … Continue reading

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Matti Juhani Saari (and assorted idiots)

An alert popped into my inbox at around 3am this morning, letting me know that Julie Moult finally returned to work late last night (almost a month after this embarrasment), apparently by ‘researching’ the vapour-trail left behind by Finnish gunman … Continue reading

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Nobody could have predicted…

Independent – Bush launches $700bn rescue plan and confesses he didn’t realise how severe problems were Justin sees another parallel here. Applaud* the artist here. (*Save something for Tinkerbell.) (Oh, and for Dog’s sake, stop playing with your pocket change.) … Continue reading

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