Learning to develop your online strategy to make your web site successful
I’ll start by saying that I’m not an expert in this area (yet), so everything you read hear is a combination of my broad range of experience and knowledge, combined with my enthusiasm for online success. I’m currently filtering these ideas into my work, and evolving my skills to help better myself, my company and [...]
Read more...June 15, 2008 1 Comment
Where did the ‘Fail’ and ‘Epic Fail’ phenomenon come from?
Overnight, this strange event has occured. You can’t escape it! Everyone is now using the ‘fail’ phrase for just about everything! And strangely I’m hooked on it too!
If you’re not aware of what I mean, then let me briefly explain. Think of a scenario where someone has done something which has resulted in a bad [...]
June 11, 2008 No Comments
8 little things about Gregory Brine
I was tagged by Cheb 2.0 to write 8 little things about me. The meme is basically defined with the following rules: Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves. People who are tagged need to write a post on their own blog (about their eight things) and post these rules. At the end of your blog, you need to choose people to get tagged and list their names. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.
June 3, 2008 3 Comments
When building a successful website, think beyond the presentation and back-end code
Following on from my recent post, My concerns about Web Developer’s skill sets since asp.NET came to be, I thought I would justify why I think developers need to know more than just how to code a part of a website.
Lets start with coding itself. A lot of back end (ASP.NET for example) developers don’t [...]
May 24, 2008 No Comments
My concerns about Web Developer’s skill sets since asp.NET came to be
OK, so a slightly long winded title, but I have to express a concern of mine. Recently I’ve been trying to hire web developers for my team to build web site, but I’m hitting a continual brick wall… Most of them actually don’t know how to build a web site!
These people know .NET, which is [...]
May 17, 2008 1 Comment
Grand Theft Auto IV (GTA 4) - a players eye view
Anyone with an XBox 360 or PS3 not played this yet? If not why not? OK, so maybe I’m being a little pushy in pushing my opinions on people, but I’ve loved the GTA games ever since playing the original ones on an old mac running Virtual PC (Yes, I’m a mac head).
But what is [...]
May 6, 2008 No Comments
Playing Two up for Anzac Day in Sydney
So, this is the 2nd year I’ve been in Australia for Anzac day, and this year, I decided to do it properly. For those that don’t know about ANZAC day, I suggest you read the article on Wikipedia. In summary, it was the first major military action in the first world war by the Australia [...]
Read more...April 27, 2008 No Comments
The Geordie Thermometer joke and how cold Sydney Weather really gets
So I now live in Sydney. I’m originally from Essex in England, so I’m used to fairly cold weather. Went winter rolled in, the jumpers and jackets would roll out. After all, the great North-South divide declares us as Southern Softies.
But, “Up North” - you have to say that with your best Geordie accent - [...]
April 16, 2008 No Comments
Spring-cleaning your RSS feeds to keep yourself sane
I love reading about what’s happening and as a result, have subscribed to a lot of RSS Feeds. Be it about Web Development, or around the World News. Some are focused on SEO, some on marketing. There’s ones that are fun such as Dilbert. Several about one of my passions, cars and photography.
But, I have [...]
April 14, 2008 1 Comment
Top 5 Wordpress plugins to get you started
I’m relatively new to using Wordpress to completely manage my site, but I have found a few plugins of particular use in getting my site to a point where I feel it is really usable and enjoyable for everyone that visits. In this blog, you’ll find the 5 I’ve found most useful to help me [...]
Read more...April 9, 2008 No Comments

