Archive for October, 2009

It’s a bad internet day

By Greg - Last updated: Thursday, October 22, 2009

Yep, I am having a bad Internet day. It took me forever to drop on a few blogs this morning, ok reading them takes a while but the EC widget wasn’t loading, either the ad was not displaying or the ‘drop’ button wasn’t loading, so have given up on that for a while. I was [...]

EC sponsored ads are advertising EC

By Greg - Last updated: Thursday, October 8, 2009

Entrecard announced that sponsored ads are now appearing as of 6th October 2009. They are stating : ‘Currently, we are not taking any outside sponsors. As of now, there are only 2 ads in circulation. This first is an Entrecard ad that links back to entrecard.com. The 2nd ad is promoting Entrecard Market which is [...]

Christmas lunch booked in October?

By Greg - Last updated: Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Yea that’s right, it’s October so Christmas has to be planned. No Really:) If you are considering eating out for Christmas dinner then September/October is the time to  book. A few years ago we hadn’t decided if we was going to eat out or at home until about mid October by which time it was [...]

Remember remember the 5th of October

By Greg - Last updated: Monday, October 5, 2009

Here in the UK there is a Rhyme, ‘Remember, Remember the 5th of November’ which refers to the date when Guy Fawkes was caught in the cellars of the Houses of Parliament with several dozen barrels of gunpowder. Guy Fawkes was subsequently tried as a traitor with his co-conspirators for plotting against the government. Fawkes [...]

Who’s a plonker?

By Greg - Last updated: Friday, October 2, 2009

I am and I must apologise. I had not seen/missed emails notifying me that the domain Dropaholics.com was due for renewal. The domain actually expired last night/early hours of this morning. As  is normal these days the registrar kept the domain on their nameservers and pointing to a ‘parked page’.  As soon as I found [...]