Foreign Perspectives

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Not so long ago you bought your TV, plugged in the aerial, plugged in the electric and away you went.

It’s a lot more complicated these days as few people stick to the limitations of the terrestrial channels so that adds a satellite decoder that needs plugged in. Then there’s the DVD player and perhaps you’ve still got the VHS recorder. Oh, and then you’ve the TiVO.

Whilst the connections have been growing in number even the TV itself has been improving so you’ve often outlets for bookshelf speakers for tv along with those for the stereo. Even the computer may get in on the act these days as there’s so much stuff available online that it’s handy being able to play that through the TV setup too.

Still, at least with all these advances we’ve the advantage that we can generally play the programmes on most, if not all, of the devices that we’ve collected over the years. My own kids are dead impressed with being able to watch Dr Who recorded on the computer and then transferred to their PSP.

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Ironically the most popular days for setting off on holiday are by far the worst ones to depart. Why? Simply because everyone else is trying to do exactly the same thing which leads to higher prices and queues everywhere.

For example, the shop round the corner from us doubled the price of a whole range of products yesterday. Even worse one supermarket put a number of items in the clearance bin that were priced substantially higher than the latest product on the shelves. You’d think that people would notice that but that clearance bin is very popular yet one particular item was almost TEN TIMES the price of a better version of the same thing sitting on the normal shelves just beside it.

The queues are unbelieveable too. That’s the motorway that we drive over but the queues in the supermarket was just as bad and we gave up trying to eat in the “fast” food place as the queue stretched right outside the door.

What you’ll not see in the above photo is any of those bikers with the Harley Davidson apparel because, of course, it is one of the more perfect days to be travelling on a bike as they’ve scooted past all those cars!

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One thing that constantly surprises me is just how little care people put into their SEO efforts.

Granted, most people don’t really bother about SEO at all but of those that do quite a surprising number don’t seem to have spent more than 5 seconds on writing up the description of what their website is about. I see these ones all the time via our directory: the majority of those who submit links to it don’t read the bit where it says that links aren’t free so I just let them build up until I get a proper entry that I enable and whilst I’m doing that I run the delete script to get rid of the junk (of which there’s over 1000 awaiting deletion at the moment!).

What’s sad in some ways though is that quite a lot of people have gone the extra mile in registering various permutations of their name yet they miss out on the final hurdle by selecting the wrong spelling. So, for example, Dennis C Carey used the version of the sitename with the hyphen in it but doesn’t actually use that particular website as he seems to have been running with the non-hyphenated version instead.

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