http://weirfire.co.uk/blog The Weirfire Blog, full of news, humour and interesting facts. Thu, 05 Jul 2007 11:45:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just having a chat with a translator today about the deadline for a project. He is based in Eastern Europe and we had the following conversation;   Weirfire: So the deadline would be 9 1/2 hours from now Translator: My time? Weirfire: 9 and a half hours from now means that it doesn't matter whether ... http://weirfire.co.uk/blog/2007/07/05/lost-in-translation/ I've just sold my signature link to Chris who runs Big Web Links Directory and after I'd had a look at the site I decided it might be an interesting resource to those who read my blog.  Some of the keypoints include; - All links are permanent - The site is being very ... http://weirfire.co.uk/blog/2007/03/23/big-web-links-directory/ For those living in the UK, many of you will have noticed that a new £20 note is being released shortly and the man to figure on the note is none other than the brilliant economist Adam Smith. Born in my hometown of Kirkcaldy in 1723, Adam Smith built up a ... http://weirfire.co.uk/blog/2007/03/14/who-is-adam-smith/ After the 1-0 defeat to Manchester United where the goal scored by John O'Shea was scored in the last minute of the game, Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez was quoted as saying "I would have trouble explaining how we lost that in Spanish; in English I find it almost impossible." http://weirfire.co.uk/blog/2007/03/05/quote-of-the-month-goes-to-rafael-benitez/ I found this story pretty interesting yesterday and until I worked out the figures I thought it was just another big money deal for another football player. So Beckham is now 34 and where most players are retiring at this age and looking forward to possible coaching positions or for the ... http://weirfire.co.uk/blog/2007/01/12/beckham-earns-1-million-a-week/ I would just like to take this opportunity to wish yfs happy birthday today. He hasn't been posting much on forums recently so please feel free to wish him happy birthday here and perhaps we'll lure him out to at least leave a post on a blog! ;) http://weirfire.co.uk/blog/2007/01/11/yfs1-is-35-today/ Marketing my own business website is something I've never really spent a lot of time with but since I wrote a blog post a few months back about nuisance phone calls I've been monitoring the stats and watching the number of hits for phone numbers escalate as we near Christmas. It ... http://weirfire.co.uk/blog/2006/12/19/top-5-keywords-are-phone-numbers/ After 4 years of coding commercially, recently I had a look at the services Weirfire offer now and compared them with what we knew when the business first began. The services we now offer range from complex ecommerce content management systems to flashy AJAX tabs and again to SEO and ... http://weirfire.co.uk/blog/2006/12/15/a-developers-journey/ If you own either a phone or a computer, the chances are you have heard of VoIP. I have personally become quite a fan of this new technology; not for geeky reasons, but simply because it has saved me a great deal of money.   VoIP, or Voice over Internet Protocol, is ... http://weirfire.co.uk/blog/2006/10/06/voip-at-its-best/ I still see so many people getting confused between the historic term copyrighting and the more recent commonly used term copywriting so I thought I would take it upon myself to explain what the difference is for those that are still learning the terms. Copyrighting: Claiming non-perpetual exclusive rights to use a ... http://weirfire.co.uk/blog/2006/09/25/copyrighting-or-copywriting/