Josh (the blog)

I’ve delivered simple, clear and easy-to-use services for 20 years, for startups, scaleups and government. I write about the nerdy bits here.


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Modern History notes, Germany post-World War 1, points 1 and 2

Notes as per the title of this post, for the first two bullet points of the Board of Studies (NSW, Australia) syllabus covering Germany post-World War 1.

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A screenshot of Google's results for DashLiteJust to continue the SEO train of thought, it seems I should have checked the name “DashLite” before launching a product with that name — someone else has already taken DashLite.com, for a company which sells torches under the brand (a registered trademark, no less!) of “DASHLITE”.

A few days back, my original DashLite post was ranked first for that term… fortunately, it looks as though Google have either noticed, or Dashlite complained (but haven’t said anything to me… If anyone from Dashlite is reading this, please feel free to get in touch) and the index was resolved. Go figure!

Apologies to Conwave, Inc. for the error — to everyone else (and perhaps including them), here’s a demonstration of what accessible, semantic, keyword-driven design and content can do for you!

A quick note on accessibility and SEO

Just thought I’d brag for a moment about how, with only one incoming link in the entire world, and no visible text on the webpage, a site achieved the number 1 Google match globally in under 24 hours after adding the first link.

Simon Breakspar

Make that two links. The point stands, there’s not even any visible text on that page, and, had it been created with Fireworks or Photoshop or something that autosplices and makes a table, search engines still wouldn’t know about it.

Full disclosure: www.simonbreakspear.com.au is a website developed by base10solutions, for whom I work. The holder page located there at present should only persist a while longer, until the full website launches.

Our new nightmare: the United States of America – National – www.smh.com.au

Our new nightmare: the United States of America – SMH

Reg. required.

Crazy roof shutter things

We got motorised roller shutters installed today from… some company that does that thing. Basically our back area is a greenhouse (effectively), and gets stupidly hot… and we’re not quite in winter yet, but predictions run that it’ll also get stupidly cold at night with heat escaping through the glass.

So… it was an excuse for some pictures.

The area to be covered
Looking up, one shutter halfway
Looking up, one shutter halfway, other closed
View from outside, one open, one closed
One shutter closing
Both closed

It also has a fun switch to play with…