2006

End Of Term Party

December 7, 2006

Thanks to all of our customers for making 2006 a great year. To celebrate we threw a little party.

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A Blog Is Like Concrete Shoes

November 24, 2006

After a while a blog becomes like a pair of concrete shoes. It weighs you down and you begin to sink. I wonder if you can get treatment for some kind of non-blogging depression? That’s what happened here. I wanted to post daily. I wanted to build that sense of personal history. But I couldn’t. It was too much so it faded.

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Children In Need Is Britain’s Version of Thanksgiving

November 20, 2006

Children In Need is Britain’s version of Thanksgiving. It comes around every November and it changes the television schedules (not always for the better). And that’s about where the similarities end but they say you start a piece of writing with a punchy statement to hook your audience. So, there you go. Thank me later.

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Schumacher To Quit At End Of Year

September 10, 2006

After a fantatsic race in Italy, Michael Schumacher announced his retirement. The seven-time world champion will retire from Formula One at the end of the season

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Formula One Calendar 2007 For Outlook Import

August 30, 2006

Yet again I have created a file that allows you to import the 2007 Formula One race dates into your outlook clanedar.

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In The Air Again

August 29, 2006

Travelling again. And, once again I am heading for Oslo.

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Go Ant Go!

August 10, 2006

thought it worth noting that Anthony Davidson stood in for Martin Brundle as one of the ITV commentators last Sunday. Not only was it fantastic to have Honda’s third driver there for Jenson’s win but I thought he did a mighty fine job.

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Button Is A Winner!

August 7, 2006

Jenson went and did it in superb style yesterday. After six years and 113 races Jenson made it from 14th on the grid to take the podium at the winner in a thrilling race that saw both Fernando Alonso and Michael Schumacher fail to make it to the rain-soaked finish line.

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Bye Bye Juan Pablo

July 12, 2006

Following his agreement with Chip Ganassi Racing for next year, Juan Pablo will also be making initial preparations for his debut in a Chrysler Dodge NASCAR.

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What Is An Ad Impression?

June 29, 2006

Lots of publishers I have spoken to get a little confused when their ad impressions counts are different to their page impressions. So my goal here is to try and identify the common reasons for the differences. The fact that advertising systems counts ads not pages is the first key difference.

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What Are Page Impressions?

June 15, 2006

For anybody who works with web-based content then the ‘impression’ is a very important metric. It used to be the world talked about ‘hits’ but I think we’ve moved on from that: it being the least descriptive and most open to abuse metric upon which we measure successful web content.

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The Largest City On The Mediterranean Coast

May 24, 2006

I’ve been running a training course for a customer in Barcelona. Sometimes, despite the early starts and late night returns that play havoc with my social life, there are rewards.

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Behavioural Targeting

April 17, 2006

I believe we have a lot of research to do to find the true value of inferring things from on-line behaviours. Inferences are either too simple or require a vast amount of data and analysis (which is expensive).

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Ten Years Of The Palm

March 27, 2006

Celebrating 10 Years of the Palm.

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Helsinki, February 2006

February 16, 2006

I have to admit that it is colder here than I thought it would be. It was below freezing last week in Oslo but not this cold. I took my gloves off to take a couple of these pictures and the cold became quite painful. I am certain that the locals would have been laughing. Still, the hotel is warm and the restaurant is quite good here so I will have no need to leave this evening.

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