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Paul Mackenzie Ross, Stating the bleedin' obvious since 1970. A personal blog of a guy deeply involved in the web industry.

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  • Jan Moir, Nick Griffin, Twitter and the Mob on Oct 23, 2009 in Internet politics

    Ever since Jan Moir wrote her piece in last week’s Daily Mail column questioning and commenting on everything surrounding Steven Gately’s untimely death her name has seemed to be a permanent fixture in the trending topics on twitter. Sure...

  • Accelerando on Oct 10, 2009 in CMS Internet Joomla SEO Zen business design philosophy tech

    28th day of August, 2009: For more than a year I’d been involved in a hefty Joomla! project, migrating a large 1.0.x website to the 1.5 version of the CMS. Having been far more involved in the SEO and editorial arts of the web in recent years,...

  • Healthcare in America on Aug 20, 2009 in Internet politics

    I have to say that I am quite appalled at the amount of venom that’s been pouring out of  the United States recently over the proposals of Barack Obama to reform the healthcare system. There are a number of points that I find pretty unsavoury:...

  • Greed on Jul 17, 2009 in business design finance philosophy politics

    There have been a lot of stories out of this difficult economic period labelled “Recession, what recession?” Whilst I’ve certainly seen no drop in workload, to the contrary there has been a large increase in demand for small busines...

  • Chancellor Needs Accountant? on May 25, 2009 in Internet Uncategorized

    Has anyone else spotted the irony in the fact that the man in charge of the country’s finances had to hire an accountant? Yes, Alistair Darling, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the man who is in responsible for this country’s economic &#...

  • The Right Dishonourable… on May 14, 2009 in Uncategorized

    This whole debacle on MPs’ expenses has been fascinating. The other night the actor & comedian Stephen Fry branded the whole episode as a Tedious bourgeois obsession with whether or not they’ve charged for their wisteria. It’s not tha...

  • The Tumbledown Dick - 15 Months On on May 5, 2009 in appeal business news

    One of our local pubs, The Tumbledown Dick, was shut down on 12th February 2008 for “environmental health reasons”. Whilst there’s no argument that the pub was in need of a serious renovation it’s a crying shame that this was...