The blog of Steve Root

  • They spoil their site by sending spam

    Granddads Life story is currently hosted on the business website http://www.rootskitchens.co.uk/family/les_root_story.php. There’s also a guestbook for people to leave a message and say hello. Despite it’s relatively low traffic there’s always been a level of spam that gets sent to it. When it happens I remove them. I was surprised today to be spammed by another furniture company. Their website looks pretty good too, I guess they are just trying to hard to be noticed. What defines spam for me? Well, it’s not relevant for a furniture company to be listing:
    Oak furniture,tables,chairs.Bespoke furniture,tables,chairs
    along with the website URL in a guestbook for a life story.
    I guess they thought the guestbook was related to the business site in some way.

  • Memories & Mums

    I remembered today that one year I took all of my Easter Eggs to the local childrens ward and gave them away. The year before I’d fallen over when skiing and broken my arm. I spent the whole of Easter (well, it may have only been a day or two because memories aren’t always accurate) in the Childrens ward. What on earth must Mum have thought? Was that so unusual a thing to do? I remember the nurses being perplexed by my arrival. I wonder if Nicola and James will do unexpected things like that and can only assume they will.

  • New Category – Posts Waiting to happen

    I’ve begun a new category today called “Posts waiting to happen”. If you see anything here its because it may be relevant for some to ready, but I’m not happy to list it as a complete entry. This will also be a category for me to place ‘draft’ and ‘future’ status posts. These types of post doesn’t show on the website but placing them here will let me see easily the things I’ve started and not finished. All told, this is like a scrap book of ideas section, some things you’ll be able to see and some you wont.

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