Edinburgh Groups in Facebook

I don't know if any Edinburgh users of Facebook have noticed that the majority of groups in and around the topic of Edinburgh are being used by three main groups - students (the alumni army), visitors (see a photo of me outside a mounment) and advertisers (look at the nice image it says buy me). Where are have all the Edinburgh bloggers gone? Where have all the Edinburgh people gone?

It should be noted that a third of Scotland is without Broadband!!

engage in edinburgh - bored stiff at dynamic earth

Last week me and some of my work mates went to the 'Engage in Edinburgh' run by the IAB at the Dynamic Earth center and if this was 2002 I would have really enjoyed it. What a waste of time. A whole day of sitting there listening to the majority of speakers with very little to new to say on a wide range of topics with every speech ending on the stony silence of question time. Any member of the audience could have gleamed from Google the vast majority of this information moments before and even found the 'witty' mp3's and youtube clips that speakers embedded in their powerpoint slides to be 'wacky'.
At the end of the day we were all invited down to London where we were promised speakers from Google and Facebook, as opposed to what we got, sales pitches from past it powerpoint peddlers

My final thoughts on the conference:
There was no wifi available at the internet conference and 30% of the people who went to the conference turned up with laptops. I lost a days work due to this.

web design skills added to homepage

I am a little doubtful about my addition to the homepage of my website, now that I have added an image of some of my web design skills. I will as usual leave it up for a while and then see how I feel about it later on.

web skills

I have created a loose skills page which will begin to list my web skills: php, mysql, perl, postgres etc. These can then link into examples and lists of the software that I have used.

homepage review - the brains behind new york

I have started a monthly review of the homepage and seeing what I could do to add to it and if there is anything that needs to be removed. At present, it seems ok, but for the site in general I think it needs a lot more content. In my opinion it needs about 100 pages of content and at present I think it has about 10. So it is time to put my SEO and Web Design hat on and start looking at what can and can't be done online. Page 13 and counting

Andy Warhol in Edinburgh - pop art in Princes' Street

There is a major exhibition of the work of American pop artist Andy Warhol on in Edinburgh at the moment. A good selection of his work on the theme of life and death is on display and it is a good opportunity to get to know some of his less seen work.

My favourite bit of trivia about Warhol was how he used to go to mass in the morning to pray that his work wouldn't go for less than a million and his prayers were answered.

meta description and just what does it describe?

I have changed the meta description of my homepage as I realised firstly that it was not unique and secondly that it did not mention the name of the site that I was hoping to improve the rankings for. So i have changed it to mention the name of my website twice and see how that affects the rankings.