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PageRank Explained
A layman’s guide to Google’s PageRank and why a high PageRank is crucial to the success of a dynamic content website. The Google PageRank is a system that was deployed by Google to rank web pages by an importance factor, called PageRank. This is a rank that is given to a page and not the Continue reading →
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WordPress vs Habari
Since Google announced the developer release of its CMS blogging platform Habari (Swahili for ‘what’s in the news?’) I expected there to be a huge exodus of people over to Habari, but funny enough, the reception I expected was not to be. The release started out as being a well publicised event but then seemed Continue reading →
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Hoochie’s goof – From a florida newspaper
When Nathan Radlich’s house was burgled, thieves left his TV, his VCR, and even left his watch. What they did take was “generic white cardboard box filled with greyish-white powder.” (That at least is the way the police described it.) A spokesman for the Fort Lauderdale police said, “that it looked similar to cocaine and Continue reading →
2,248 views | 7 commentsOct 5th, 2006 | Filed under General -
Vargins Virgins and Virgnias
These letters came in response to an advert in a South African woman’s magazine called Femina. All of the extracts are from people whose first (or second) language is NOT English and who live a very rural existence. Back in 1985, SA Femina Magazine ran an advertisement for Nelex, a medicine for the treatment of Continue reading →
1,766 views | 2 commentsAug 22nd, 2005 | Filed under General