Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category

Think before you write

Posted: 8th February 2006 by David in Internet

Was browsing the vast nothingness of the internet and came accross a news story about a teenager confessing to manslaughter on his blog. Typically the story is about an american person, but nonetheless, it really makes you think more carefully about what you write on your blog. Story  URL:  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/22/manslaughter_teen_blog_confession/

eBay Warning

Posted: 15th January 2006 by David in Internet

I’m sure that many of you, like me, use eBay. Well If you do, I would just like to warn you about a e-mail I just recieved claiming to be from eBay. The e-mail read: Dear eBay, During our regularly schedule account maintenance and verification we have detected a slight error in your billing information [...]

Search Strings

Posted: 21st June 2005 by David in Internet

On yet another of my amazing adventures into my usage statistics, I have been looking at what searches are bringing people to my site, and the results are pretty amazing! For this month so far, I’ve recieved some pretty weird visitors who, I’m sure, weren’t expecting to find my website at the end of their [...]

Where have YOU come from?

Posted: 12th May 2005 by David in Internet

Being in a state of boredom, I decided to, once again, check my visitor statistics for The World We Blog. After following a few of the links, I decided I would do a search for this site in the major search engines and see what came up. The results were rather surprising! I performed the [...]

The wonders of the web

Posted: 28th April 2005 by David in Education, Internet

I decided to take a peek at my website statistics today, to see how many people have been visiting and where from. I was pleasantly shocked to find I am somehow getting, on average, over 200 visitors a day, and thats from individual people, not every time someone reloads a page. 200 people for a [...]