http://blog.robferrer.co.uk I thought it was about time I started a blog! Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:22:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I read a few days ago that the wedding list service Wrapit has gone into administration. This is bad news for couples who have their wedding lists with them, and the guests who've purchased gifts. I believe any gifts already in the warehouse should get to the happy couples, and guests ... http://blog.robferrer.co.uk/2008/08/05/wrapit-goes-into-administration-time-to-anounce-my-new-project Just a quick post to announce that My Homepages Friends which I've blogged about in the past (previously known as Mysearchfunds) really does pay. I got a payment for £31.53 into my account today. That's for 3 months of searches. I assume it includes some income from people I've referred, because ... http://blog.robferrer.co.uk/2008/07/28/homepages-friend-pays I bought a couple of items on eBay this morning, and despite having just cleared my inbox, I suddenly found it full again! I normally ignore most eBay emails, or at the most glance at them, but I thought I'd analise exactly why so many need to be sent. The item ... http://blog.robferrer.co.uk/2008/07/24/ebay-emails I've recently noticed in my logs lots of visits to my posts from a Microsoft IP block (the last one was 65.55.109.226), supposedly with a referrer of http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=[random keyword]&form=QBHP . My posts never appear on the search results page, in fact some keywords are completely irrelevant. The visits even show up in ... http://blog.robferrer.co.uk/2008/06/17/searchlivecom-referral-spam Please Note: [update 2008-08-20]: This has now been fixed as of Freshy 2.0.8, so you shouldn't need to make any changes other than updating to the latest version. I am leaving this post for the sake of archive. Any regular readers (although I don't think I actually have any!) of this ... http://blog.robferrer.co.uk/2008/06/16/freshy-2-gravatar-bugfix I wrote last Tuesday that My Search Funds (the site that pays you for your web searches) was to become Homepages Friends. This change took place yesterday. The biggest change is that Yahoo is now used for the searches. I haven't done enough searches to be able to judge the quality ... http://blog.robferrer.co.uk/2008/06/09/my-search-funds-has-become-homepages-friends Why is it that delivery people find it so hard to use doorbells? You'd have thought they would be more experienced than most, but they seem incapable of pressing that little button. Maybe it's something missing from their basic training. I suppose they are too used to doorbells not working, but ... http://blog.robferrer.co.uk/2008/06/04/doorbells My Search Funds announced today in an email to their users (or at least me) that they are to become Homepages Friends. It seems they are moving away from just paid searches, to add more cashback services (like their existing eBay cashback). One downside is that they are moving away from ... http://blog.robferrer.co.uk/2008/06/03/my-search-funds-to-become-homepages-friends I was enjoying my lie in on Saturday morning when I was rudely awaken at 07:30 by the sound of a lawn mower coming from the front of our house. The strange thing is we don't have any neighbours with a front lawn. I looked out of the window to see ... http://blog.robferrer.co.uk/2008/06/02/the-right-tool-for-the-job Disclaimer: I went to university with Natalie who owns Photolate.com, and had a sneak preview, but this is still an honest review. Photolate.com (short for Photo Manipulation) is a new service that offers professional photo retouching for your own photos. The homepage is bright and cheerful and clearly shows what they ... http://blog.robferrer.co.uk/2008/05/30/photolatecom-image-retouching-review