An SEO site, Majestic (not the wine shop, although that’s a great place too) recently published their view of the top million websites in the world.
It’s downloadable from the above link in excel (60Mb) or flat txt form and it has the full 1m sites, in order.
And I’m in the list…
Part four in an occasional series sees me repeating my earlier mantra of ‘it just works’.
So, today we’re learning about spurious screen-dimming, screen savers and an emergency exit…
Another Alton Towers coaster; this time Air.
Air is a ‘flying’ coaster, which is the term for a coaster where the rider has a near horizontal seating position whilst riding, giving the impression of flying, like Superman.
I’ve only ridden this a couple of times before this visit, because for some strange coincidence it always seemed to be ‘off’ on my last couple of visits.
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nother trip to Alton Towers recently prompted me to catch up on a backlog of coaster reviews I’d been meaning to do.
First up – Rita, formerly “Rita: Queen of Speed” (see below*), is a LSM launched coaster, much like the Aerosmith Rock n Roller Coaster in Hollywood Studios Florida, technology-wise. It uses a Linear Synchronous Motor to accelerate the cars from 0-62mph in 2.2 seconds. It does take your breath away a bit.
I have posted about this a couple of times now.However, it still never ceases to amaze me, so here goes…
Another significant milestone was passed yesterday. Over 500,000 low-life, would-be spammers have joined the bimbogami forum in an attempt to post links to their often offensive, sometimes vile, but always pointless rubbish.
It was all going so well.
I’ve often sung the praises of WordPress as a blogging platform. Particularly its functionality, flexibility and ease of use.
My blog’s been running for a couple of years without as much as a hitch. Adding themes and plugins, and upgrading to new versions were always a 1-click breeze.
But complacency sets in, and perhaps you don’t back up for a while. And, as everyone knows, that’s generally when disaster strikes.
I could never be accused of being one of the most profligate blog posters in the world but I do keep an eye on my hits on each post, since I put a wee WordPress hack in place to count them.
I’d always thought my ‘Shame of Shamu‘ and ‘Is Disney Eco-Friendly?‘ posts were doing pretty well, beaten only by older posts. But they’ve been overtaken by one particular, more recent, post…
Well, Tom Yum really, as this is Tom Yum soup with crispy Wontons.
This is the end product (the photo, not the food) of my first venture into ‘proper’ pictures, ie. for a purpose other than my own pleasure.
It was done as a part of a small photo-shoot I did back in Frbruary, for Blue Chip Marketing, of a few dishes made by Tony Singh at Oloroso in Edinburgh.
The shots feature in a Visit Scotland-sponsored foodie booklet, along with the recipes to make the dishes and a competition to win foodie-goodies. The booklet is included as an insert in this month’s Sainsbury’s Magazine, out now, and The Observer Food Magazine, which came out at the weekend.
I posted, just over a year ago, about how I solved my spam problem on the bimbogami forum.
At that time, I had passed what I thought was a significant milestone. I had blocked just over 25,000 potential spammers from posting on the forum. Automatically.
I thought 25k in a single year was a lot. That’s about 68 attempted registrations a day.
‘TH13TEEN’ is, at time of writing, the newest coaster at Alton Towers theme park in Staffordshire, England (UK).
Like a number of rides at Alton Towers, it’s a ‘first’ in a genre; in this case a ‘free-fall’ track coaster.
The coaster was built on the site of the original “Corkscrew” coaster, the initial main attraction when the park opened, which was in itself a world’s first; a double helix coaster. A piece of Corkscrew’s track is now displayed in the entrance area to the theme park.
