Rod Collins

Dax Herrera, author of The Death of Aton du’Briyonce, has put his much admired facial appendage up for auction on ebay.
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The US Penguin books site appear to be Spammin & Jammin
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One of the most important, Read the rest of this entry »

Well folks, another Myspace friend has arrived. And things are definately improving.
Sadly for Katie my heart has been taken by another
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This week’s roundup of the best and the rest, the winners and losers, the Mighty Leaf and the Twinings.

Going Up in Our Estimation
1: Eva Green - Hubba Hubba Hubba!
2: Receiving packages - you know who you are
3: MSN search
4: Sainbury’s hot Tikka Masala
5: Craig’s CSS
6: The Monaco Grand Prix and that lifestyle
7: House of Fraser 20% off day for Henri Lloyd

Going Down in Our Estimation
1: Philip Green - paid £60k to kiss Kate Moss then passed
2: Queueing in the PO to send them
3: Google search
4: Sainsbury’s 2 hour parking limit
5: My HTML
6: Watching the Monaco Grand Prix in Lincolnshire
7: Already having everything that had 20% off

We have a still from the very first official photographs of Eva Green in character as Vesper Lynd for the forthcoming James Bond 007 film, Casino Royale.
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Google is in something of a mess following its ‘big daddy’ update.
If you have a website you may well find a large number of your pages are missing from the index.
Crawling and indexing is also greatly reduced. The frequency and crawl depth appears to be directly related to you page rank.

You can now go up to a month without googlebot crawling your site, then it may only go to second level depth. If your site is strong and well established things are not so bad.
That said they are what they were before! Then what is ?

Newer sites are really suffering. Anyone out there who, mistakenly, has a PHP site needs to check the number of pages indexed. I think you may well find you are in ’supplemental hell’

To searchers out there, missing pages means missing results. If you cannot find what you want you may well want to try MSN or Yahoo.

This is hugely important for anyone with a site, sorry if it is a bore for those without sites.

I had intended to do a photo-documentary of a visit to the seaside. The idea was to sarcastically illustrate the highs and lows of Cleethorpes, well largely lows I suspect.

I dusted off a digital camera I wisely invested £250 in a while ago, used it to take some pix for ebay a couple of times then abandoned it. Put batteries on charge etc - I was truly committed.

Whilst looking for a case to put the pocket brownie in I suffered an all out attack of ennui.
The whole project was abandoned due to a complete lack of interest.

I settled for wandering around the aforementioned resort, ate a sausage bun, which tasted nice but was no doubt highly toxic and crawling with bowel wrenching microbes.

I am lucky in having the constitution of a yak, such repast would fell a lesser man.

Okay saddle up here we go again with another choice offering from
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Nice to get a cheque instead of a bill!

THE ENROLLED FREEMEN OF GRIMSBY 100/0191
Income for the Year Ended 5th April 2006 I CERTIFY that COLLINS Rodney Dean of …,
is a beneficiary within the provisions of the Grirnsby Pastures Acts 1849 and 1940 of the Trust known as
The Enrolled Freemen of Grimsby, in the year ended 5th April 2006 and that the particulars given below are correct.
Information regarding the Trust has been given to H.M. Inspector of Taxes, Grimsby/ reference 6882G 68151
G ro s s A mo u n t of benef iciry’s share of Taxable
Income of the Trust………………………………….XXXX
Amount of Income Tax suffered theraon by the Trust…….XXXX
Amount of Net Payment of Taxable Income actually
made to/ or for the benefit of, the Beneficiary…………XXXX
Authorised P.J. Roberts, Treasurer
South St. Mary’s Gate Grimsby, South Humberside

Slightly off our usual beaten track here but word reaches me of someone who’s nursing a sore head after a night out.
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The creator of Sherlock Holmes, the greatest detective who ever lived, and resident of 221b Baker Street, was born today 22 May 1859.
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We have one of the latest behind the scenes on-set pictures from the new James Bond movie, Casino Royale.
It shows Daniel Craig, 007, and Eva Green who plays Vesper Lynd. Read the rest of this entry »

We return once again to that fertile hunting ground, for those seeking amusement rather than rare books, ebay! Read the rest of this entry »

Running a few tools to collate information on backlink changes for the week, showed only a few new links to various sites, none particularly outstanding.

One thing did stick out though, the stats showed one lost link!
Back traced it and it seems I’ve lost a myspace friend

Thankfully the lovely Katie is still my friend and jammin n spammin like a ‘good un’

Still who needs friends, they tend to be a drain anyway

The things that struck me as being on the up this week and those that are on the way down or suffered as a consequence

Premier League
1: Heather Mills McCartney - quids in, easy work!
2: My brother
3: Herbal tea
4: Keira Knightley - full marks
5: Science fiction - real earner this week
6: Highway code - stay alert

Sunday League
1: Paul McCartney - Mug
2: Big brother
3: Claret
4: Anglelina Jolie - stretch marks
5: Romantic fiction
6: Da Vinci Code - fall asleep