The Catling Mindswipe

It's come around again. That question. How do you get a good listing in the search engines? How do the search engines index the web? Why can't I see my site? Do I need to employ one of those Search Engine Optimisation companies (short answer: NO!)? Forget the SEO merchants, a good search ranking depends on two things: good content and a good description of that content. Will that guarantee you spot at the top of the first page of results? No; there are no guarantees in this life and certainly ont on the web. Can you push up onto that first page? Maybe. If you match precisely what users searching are for.

Happy New Year to all Full Circle-ists; December may have passed but Full Circle 116 is still here. This month: Command & Conquer How-To : Python (Arduino), LaTeX With Zim, and Program With FreePascal Graphics : Inkscape ChromeCult: Zoho Docs Linux Labs: Zoomtak T8H V8 Android Box NEW!  KODI Room: Tips & Tricks Review: miniTube Ubuntu Games: OpenRA

Some time ago Twitter decided to break the widgets on Blogger because it wanted to retain control over the dissemination of content (and probably because Twitter and Google fell out). There's a bunch of new - compatible - Twitter widgets out there, variously chargeable or over-branded services and you know what - can't be bothered with 'em. I've gone back to the native Twitter API for my Twitter widget because it's easy...

The money-pit continues to soak up time and money; time I now have, since I gave up trying to do three people's jobs; money I don't have since I gave up the job and voluntarily made myself one of the unemployed. We also had visitors over Christmas. Two sets of visitors. My parents, so all work on the house closed down. And the critters. My parents went home at New Year. The critters didn't.