What am I up to now?
Well, I am currently based in Bath, in the Larkhall area. I am working on a freelance basis keeping the actlegal website updated (http://www.actlegal.co.uk/). I will soon be working on a new webite for the Wills and Probate side of the business. We are bringing in around 1550 hits a month with good time on site and unique users.
The website www.fixingenglish.com is in the pipeline and should hopefully be up and running soon. It will provide a language proofreading service for international clients.
Never lend graphic novels grrrrr
I have the interview with Imagine tomorrow at and the whole process has given me an excuse to go through my graphic novel collection and 2000ADs. In doing so I have noticed a few missing and I can't remember who has got them:
Domu
Akira (1+2)
The Invisibles (2 Entropy in the UK I think)
The Filth
The whole Finn sections from my 2000AD stack
Really excited
I have been offered an interview with Imagine and it is hard not to get really excited. Alan has been great and given me the time off. I am happy to have got this far but the problem is now you start thinking about getting the job and it is difficult not to set yourself up for a fall. There will still be loads of candidates left so there is a long way to go yet. I can only do what I can do I guess and keep my fingers crossed.
In other news I have just re-read the whole future shock compendium they do range from silly to stupid but they are absolutely great.
A weird and wonderful weekend of zombies, chupracabras, victorian sideshows and fireworks
What a strange weekend. After a stressful move out of the house Hannah and me made it to the zombie walk. Soaked in fake blood and torn clothes we joined around 150 other zombies on a crawl around the North Laine. We even made the paper:
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/3813346.Zombies_out_in_Brighton_city_cent...
We could not stay right until the end though because I had an early morning start in London for the Fortean Times Unconvention. It was great to be there after so many years of good intentions. They were a friendly bunch and good times were had by all.
Photos edited and other things I be doing with me-self
The photos for the still photography are finally edited and ready to send off. I am really happy with a few of them and the battle to create a workable portfolio is well underway.
I will be adding a photo archive to this site as soon as I figure out how to. In theory it should be easy but there is an error when I try to upload the add on. I am a bit busy at the moment so it will have to wait.
Going to track down some bands and do some promotion photography to build up a better body of work.
No SEO Druid needed
Finally my efforts with the company site SEO are really paying off. We are now top of Google for Wills Brighton, Probate Brighton, Wills and Probate Brighton and Conveyancing Brighton. I think that is pretty good going if I do say so myself.
One mystery is that for solicitors Brighton we are ranked 2 or 3 but for solicitor Brighton we do not appear. Very odd, will get to the bottom of it.
Sudden fiction competition entry
As the little robot vacuum watched crumbs cascade on to the recently processed floor it realised the only logical solution was to eliminate Frank.
Alas
A lass, the cause of and solution to most of life's problems. Well at least decisions have become somewhat easier. Might be time to thank the good folk of Brighton for all the fish and head westward.
Watch this space.
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A light hearted blog on turning 25 that turned into some kind of angry polemic
Well, my Birthday has come and gone. I have reached 25 years of age against the speculations of those aware of my no fruit policy.
As many of my friends pointed out this weekend 25 years of age is still young (In the usual 'oh you wait until you are X years old' kind of way that I am sure 99 year olds get told by centenarians). Landmarks however are landmarks and the months leading up to them call for soul searching and reflection.
I need an SEO druid
Right, my other website (the company one) is not performing as well as it should do in the page rankings. We are being beaten by a small company with little to no content on their site. We have got loads of content so I can only assume it is our linking that is letting us down. Well now it is war, time to become a link whore.
Check out our site at http://www.actlegal.co.uk link to it, love it, help me fight the good fight.