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Entries from October 2008

7 Deadly Sins of Web Analytics

October 30th, 2008 · No Comments

By Bryan Eisenberg of Future Now.    Bryan has written a very useful article for anyone who is at all concerned with Web Analytics.  The 7 sins he outlines are: Improper Implementation No Goals Setup No Segmentation Paying Too Much Attention to Irrelevant Data Not Setting up Milestone Events Documentation Not Combining Quantitative Data with [...]

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Tags: e-business optimisation

When pumpkins drink

October 13th, 2008 · No Comments

Just in time for Halloween….

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If the price of Oil is $79 per barrel why is the pump price so high?

October 10th, 2008 · No Comments

As the price of oil slides on the world market the price at the pump seems to not change that much. The graph is from InfoMine.com while the numbers are the average petrol prices in the UK (Unleaded) courtesy of TheAA.com In theory we should see the average price of unleaded reduce again back to [...]

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Does Iceland think it can freeze British cash

October 10th, 2008 · No Comments

It must not be funny if you are one of the people who put their cash into an Icelandic bank, but how can a country simply keep all these investments when it Nationalises a bank.  Surely that must seem like theft to those savers. What is worse is that a lot of money that has [...]

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The Palin flow chart

October 9th, 2008 · No Comments

Far be it for me to have a political opinion, other than that they are all crooks and lie through their teeth the whole time.  I did find this chart interesting, if it was not so scary. The US president is a remarkably powerful job and you would have hope that those just a heartbeat [...]

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The new Dollar Bill

October 9th, 2008 · No Comments

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Why do savers have to loose money

October 7th, 2008 · No Comments

This sucks. Savers with Icesave have lost their savings as the bank is declared insolvent. The Icelandic government took control of the bank and has prevented savers taking their money out. Why can’t the mortgage companies go bust and leave the home owners with no debts to pay. As sort of reverse insolvency. It seems [...]

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The Criminal Class

October 7th, 2008 · No Comments

During these ‘interesting times’ a quote from Mark Twain comes to mind; “It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.” This was penned back in 1897 but could this be seen as an appropriate way of describing the current reality of what is [...]

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