Practical Notes on Product, Data & Systems

I've just acquired the domain name vbnetcms.com Which is timely because I'm about to start writing one. I've got several sites that need basic CMS functionality. If you want to be kept informed then leave a comment below and tick the "notify me" checkbox. What site you want to put the CMS onto? What flavour of VB.net you use? Anything interesting!

Good Question. Over on http://www.bedandbreakfasts.co.uk we get about 6K visitors a day, and revenues approximately 1,000 GBP: Giving a value to each visitor at GBP 0.1667 – visitors on this site have a high commercial value because they are looking for Bed and Breakfast, and likely have their credit-cards out, and ready for action.  Lower values are likely on “information only” sites that rely on adsense and other click-based revenue.  http://mdtravelhealth.com used to get about 30K visitors a month and make 100 USD.  This gives a per/user value of 0.0033 – many multiples lower than the high-value site.  If you want to look for your site’s value: I’d reckon it’s somewhere between these two – depending on why the visitor came to your site.

Been thinking about taking out a subscription again recently to Private Eye, however it will have to wait.    In the meantime I noticed a look-a-like worthy of the http://www.private-eye.co.uk/lookalikes page   Sigrid Neil Hippy    

I'm a Brit. so I love fish & chips. I've lived in Iberia for 12 years. so I love seafood. I misspent my youth in pubs. so I love crisps. so I had really high hopes for this el called 'fish & chips' fish snack. ....sadly it is revolting.  if you can imagine the fish Top cat used to get out of the bins... well it's that taste. barf... Get Outlook for Android

My wife has a friend who, together with her husband, are hard working medical professionals here in Spain. She often writes articles for conferences and makes speeches concerning medical research. Sadly, people like her and her husband are the target of unscrupulous scammers who use social-engineering to entice them to help them "publish" their articles and then surprise them with previously-hidden fees. To have published papers is considered a virtue in the academic world; the medical profession is no different.  So when a prestigious looking website contacts you and asks you to write a paper, doctors will naturally want to participate. You need to be careful!  I've written this blog post to highlight this particular company " Scientific Literature LLC"   Who are clearly scammers of the highest order. Here are some quick and easy tips to help you determine if the website is a scam or not. Study the site carefully Most sites will look very profess...

The VSO/VTFS website control panel is so damn confusing! We only get 5 seats with the free version, and subscriptions are waaay too expensive. So I have to swap my occasional guys in and swap someone else out. This is how you do it. Step 1 Click the VSO symbol in the corner Step 2 If necessary press the ... menu and select Users. Step 3 Press the next ... menu by the user you want to change from Stakeholder to Basic Member. Boy that's hard to find each time!

For 8 years we've had this house and it has been so tranquil. I'm a programmer so it was ideal as I can concentrate on my work without any disruption. This changed last September when the new neighbour moved in. She has 2 very noisy dogs that now roam her yard. This yard is much closer to me than her "home office", which is on the other side of her house.  So they bark all day. Even more frustrating is that she has a full-time job, so just clears-off in the morning letting the hounds charge about her plot barking madly at anything that takes their fancy; birds, cats, or people in the street. I cannot describe how irritating this is.