After nearly 3 years as a Web Designer, Developer and SEO Technician at one of Newcastle's most prominent rising small businesses, Cheetah Web, we have sadly parted ways. The split has been very amicable and I wish Alkaline Creative (who recently acquired Cheetah Web) all the best in the future.
My current situtation as is stand's has left me with some time to kill and with this I shall be carrying out freelance work. If you require a web developer that is compotent in W3C compliant XHTML and CSS and is proficient in PHP & SEO then drop me a line.
Running parralel with this I will be looking for a new position in the myriad of North-East agencies and development companies.
>> Read more about Available for freelance opportunities
Since I decided to set up my own blog over 2 years ago I have put this site through many changes, factors & designs. During its first incarnation as www.goosh.co.uk the site was used as more of a personal blog just detailing the odds & sods of my life. As of the 15th November 2006 I literally dumped the content on www.goosh.co.uk and moved the site over to its current incarnation, www.kevstrong.com , with a 301 http status code redirect on just the domain and here we are today.
I can safely say that I have not aggressively targeted any keywords or keyphrases (short or long) but it’s coming up to a year since the inception of www.kevstrong.com and I got a little curious as to how the site has performed in the SERP’s. I was a little surprised at the actual results and even more surprised at how slack some of the actual Search Engine’s are with their results.
>> Read more about My own long tail keyword rank review
I have temporarily removed commenting on the site as I was attacked whilst away on holiday by a variety of spammers. This is most certainly making me move to WordPress.com in the next couple of weeks.
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Just a personal update. Having been put on the sidelines for the past week with a viral stomach bug I have got nothing done this week. I had a few projects I wanted to get sorted at my full-time employer and also on my freelance side. The workload completion this week: Nada!
Oh well, hoping I am going to be better next week.
>> Read more about Stomach bugs are just plain annoying
As an online pc gamer for over 10 years I am no stranger to voice-communications (VoiP) programs such as Roger Wilco (showing my age), TeamSpeak and, in my opinion, the daddy of them all: Ventrilo. I am also aware of how annoying users can be on these programs, more so nowaday's, since I now realise how annoying a 14 year-old's squeaky voice can be to an old man like me (I'm 27, so I am a dinosaur in most gamer's eyes - lol ).
The beauty of such voice communication's programs is that you can not only use it to talk with other users in a tactical manner, you can also have alot of fun using them. It's been known for users to play music down their microphones so other users can hear it - the equivalent of playing your Hi-Fi down the phone to your friend. However, one particular site has actually gone to the effort of finding random unsecured (not passworded) Ventrilo servers and abusing the users on there with a variety of SoundBoard's, recording the users reactions and then creating videos and releasing them through YouTube and their own website VentriloHarassment.org.
NB: The video's contain an insane amount of expletives and are not censored. Do not visit if easily offended
>> Read more about Ventrilo Harassment gains a huge following
