Articles tagged with 022015
Hubpages Paid Me Again - So Regular It's Like Having a Proper Job!
Yes, Hubpages paid me again - it's so regular it's like having a proper job. Every month, as regular as clockwork, Hubpages pays me my cut of the goodies - and very welcome it is too. I do intend to write more there, write more, go more, etc, i
Eating for England
We all have those days, the days that can only be described as the days that we were Eating for England. The term refers to a contest in eating and therefore implies that all day we've not stopped eating. And today's going to be one of those days. I
What do Online Writers do All Day?
If you want to make a career from online writing, then you might wonder what do online writers do all day. Well, as with all flexible jobs the days can vary immensely - some days it involves wandering round in your PJs eating toast as you've no inspi
Hard Wired Smoke Detector Beeping
Since yesterday my hard wired smoke detector has been beeping. Although it is a hard wired system, it still has a battery inside it in case of power failure - they are all like this. So the alarm was making a beeping noise, like a chirp.
Adsense Dashboard - 385% Increase in 24 Hours
The Adsense dashboard is advising me that in the last 24 hours my income's rocketed by 385% - finally! Unless it's a blip I'm on the up! I've been working on a tiny bit of site promotion (er, put that on the timesheet as 2 minutes/day) and I've
Heir Hunters, BBC 1 - Barrie William Hassnip, Sleaford, Lincolnshire, 1937-2012
Today's episode of Heir Hunters was looking into the estate of Barrie William Hassnip, who lived in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England. Barrie had died suddenly, aged 75, on 28 July 2012 and had left no will and had no immediate family. He'd spent his life wo
Nice to see the Image Wizard Working (Again). Cheers elitecodex!
Well, panic over and all that - the Image Wizard is working so I've managed to attach an image to this post as well as to return to my last two posts and edit those to include the images I intended to accompany them. So far I'm only using Pixabay im
Image Wizard Pixabay Challenge: Tuesday
In an attempt to use the new image wizard, I'll be looking at unexpected image results. This morning I've just typed into the Image Wizard the one word: Tuesday. It gave me two images, and I wondered "What is Tuesday about that then?" This ima
Jamie Oliver Squirrel Recipes - Would You Eat Squirrel?
On today's Jamie and Jimmy's Friday Night TV programme, they looked at cooking squirrel meat - and tried some squirrel meat recipes. In the UK there is an abundance of grey squirrels, which are a pest. A few people are already cooking and selli
Time to Fill Up the Car - Petrol Prices Going Up Again
After many months of petrol prices going down, so it was better to wait until the last minute, then only 1/4 fill your tank, it's now time to fill up the car as petrol prices are going up again. For months it never made sense to have your car sitting, wit
World Domination by Adsense Doing Better Today
Watching my Google Adsense stats is painful, but I've ignored them for a few years and was ready to get round to doing something about my wrecked empire, so it was lovely to see the return of a little bit of green font on the latest stats. The last f
Vandals Smash Almost Every Window in Historic Carn Brea Castle Restaurant
Vandals have broken nearly every window in the historic Carn Brea Castle restaurant near Redruth in Cornwall, England. The restaurant is owned and run by the parents and family of well known TV presenter Nadia Sawalha. A total of 47 windows had rocks
Free Personality Test - Twitter Tool Analyses Your Personality Type
I've just tried the free Personality Test that scans quickly through your last 3,500 tweets and analyses personality into one of four types: Egoist Passionate Materialistic Mischievous The results surprised me a little, although with only fou
How To Make English Pancakes - a Simple Recipe
Today is Pancake Day, or Shrove Tuesday, in the UK - and people will be making pancakes for tea! When I was growing up pancakes were always THE meal, not in addition to the meal. We used to simply have sugar on them - I know others have lemon a
World Domination by Adsense Thwarted
I've spent the morning trying to sort out one of my old, abandoned, domains - not used since 2009 - that was a lot of work, including sorting out quite a number of systems errors on it. Having got to the point where it's tidy enough to create new p
Gambling Website Addiction Ends in £300k Fraud!
This morning a young lady is going into Court - what started as a visit to gambling websites has ended in a £300k fraud, losing her job, losing her local connections, losing her long-standing family reputation and now, potentially, losing her freedom
How Many of Your Articles are Indexed by Google?
Having written any article, you'll wish for Google's search engine to send you an endless stream of traffic! Once you've posted your article here and a few people have seen it, it quickly disappears from the home page and from your followers' recent
AOL Search Engine Traffic
AOL Search engine traffic? Until this morning I had no idea there was such a thing, but there it was, as bold as brass, on one of my Hubpages articles. On Hubpages you can see some stats which show you the keywords people used to end up on your
Do You Have a Right to Write Boring Posts?
Being boring is subjective - and part of your personality - so, if others consider you boring, your existence nonsensical, does it matter? Do you have a right to write boring posts here? I have the misfortune to be available to post at a time of day
Have You Thought About the Filesizes of the Images You Upload?
When you write an article and upload an image to accompany it, it impacts upon the speed of the site and the page loading. So, do you think about the image sizes you're uploading to the site and how large they are? Typically, in the past, a website
Sharing Top Secrets on the Internet
Sometimes I have some really hot little secrets that I could share on the Internet - those secrets would get me some eyeballs.... some views to my articles. But, I hesitate. I can't share those secrets because then they'd no longer be a secret
Your Gift is in the Post!
Yes, your gift is in the post. Really. I posted it this morning! And - I'll know when it's arrived. Phew. I can relax now. Using Royal Mail and tracking a parcel turned out to be harder than I anticipated. The Royal Mail offe
Don't Watch Google Adsense Stats Daily!
If you're trying to build an income using Google Adsense on your website - and I can thoroughly recommend it - then you are keen to see, daily (hourly even!) how much you're making. The trouble is, you can get confusing information when your income from&n
Pin Money or Income? $2 Reached on PP
Is PersonaPaper an income stream, or pin money? For me, so far, it's definitely a case of being pin money as I've just reached my first $2. Now, as an income $2 doesn't exactly pay the rent does it - and so it's definitely pin money. But,
New Look to the Evernote Online Version
I use Evernote, a free note-taking piece of software that I had installed on my PC - and it'd automatically replicate online and I could view all my notes from any device or on any PC, at the drop of a hat. And I had Evernote installed on my PC and m
Live Below the Line Challenge 2015
The Live Below the Line Challenge is an annual event that's been growing in popularity. When it first came onto my radar 6-7 years ago it was almost an underground movement. The purpose of this global event is to create greater awareness of peo
Not Liking the Wordpress TwentyFifteen Theme!
I've just installed and activated the new Wordpress twentyfifteen theme on my blog - looked at it, then quickly turned it off again. There were two massive and immediate differences between TwentyFifteen and TwentyFourteen that meant that I couldn't
Pinterest Error Message: Oops! Sorry, we were unable to fetch the image.
I've had a Pinterest error message this morning - while trying to pin my last article onto the board. It had a lovely photo, one I'd taken myself - and yet when I tried to pin it, I got the error message of "Oops! Sorry, we were unable to fetch
Victorian Farm TV Programme
Watching Victorian Farm on the TV, the programme is quite interesting as I've been looking into my family history and most of my ancestors on one side were agricultural labourers, so it is interesting to see how they might have lived their lives. However,
Subway Discount Voucher Book
The latest Subway discount voucher book's just dropped through my door. Usually these go straight in the bin, but today I thought I'd look through and see what Subway deals and offers are available. This discount voucher book is valid until 30
How to Remember Things Easily
When it comes to methods of how to to remember things, there's plenty of good advice out there for the big stuff, but I find I want to remember the little things. The annoying little things I forget about. Just the minutae of life - like a new
A Big Ring Around the Moon
Last night there was a big ring around the moon. I noticed it just before midnight when I was standing outside in my garden. I had a clear view of a complete circle around the moon - and the bright star just beside the Moon was also visible, it
How to Make Tuna and Egg Sandwich Filler
Whether you're off to the beach or for a picnic, or simply want to make yourself a packed lunch, a tuna and egg sandwich filling is not only tasty and filling, but also quite frugal if you're looking to save money too. And the beauty of it is it's ve
