I noticed last week that my Google pagerank had dropped from four to zero. I assumed it was something to do with shifting my blog from the domain root to a directory. That’s probably the case, because the Google webmaster guidelines state: “Don’t create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content.” I suppose [...]
Weakness in South America
The Google visitors map I published recently here shows that this blog has little following in South America or Russia. Most readers are from Australia, with a healthy number in North America, some in Europe (but none in Iceland), a few in Africa and a handful in Asia. I have had at least one reader [...]
New look
You have managed to arrive here, so you are probably a regular reader. In that case, you will have noticed the new look. I don’t necessarily think it’s better, but I wanted a change and this is it. I also wanted to free up my main index page, so the blog has been moved to [...]
If I ruled a country …
This is one of those five-question blog prompts. I first saw it on Synaptoman. The starting assumption is that you are the absolute ruler of a prosperous, stable country without any immediate threats, no poverty or unemployment. That means I can answer this question safe in the knowledge I don’t need to interfere with the [...]
