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I've been hosting blogs since 2000, and run the software behind the Government Office for the West Midlands' intranet, based on this blogging and content management system. One day I'll get them to understand RSS. Other clients are mainly businesses and non profits.
I live in Dawley, Telford, UK and if you've a blog here, you can call me on 0800 849 6413 if in the UK or + 44 1952 271 671 if outside. Or, my mobile number is 07903 940 427 if you want to call or text. Or email me.
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I've been hosting blogs since 2000, and run the software behind the Government Office for the West Midlands' intranet, based on this blogging and content management system. One day I'll get them to understand RSS. Other clients are mainly businesses and non profits.
I live in Dawley, Telford, UK and if you've a blog here, you can call me on 0800 849 6413 if in the UK or + 44 1952 271 671 if outside. Or, my mobile number is 07903 940 427 if you want to call or text. Or email me.
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Mo, Dec 3, 2007Switching on the Christmas lights at Dawley
We've gone to this a few times in the past. Normally, it's a quiet
affair, the mayor of Telford says something, the MP too. Maybe a hundred
people, if that. Usually it rains. It's not a big event! Though, last
year they had a play bus and a bouncy castle and someone selling hot dogs.
THIS YEAR! WoW! Many hundreds! Many, many hundreds. A long, long procession of lanterns, from girl guides, schools, all sorts; the church hall was opened up. There was a male voice choir too.
It was fantastic. The lights now look like they could do with a bit more umph!
THIS YEAR! WoW! Many hundreds! Many, many hundreds. A long, long procession of lanterns, from girl guides, schools, all sorts; the church hall was opened up. There was a male voice choir too.
It was fantastic. The lights now look like they could do with a bit more umph!
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Ladygrove choir
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Massive turn out
Video: The start of the procession, with a pipe player and me chuckling and telling Gwendda to stop barking.
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A bull
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Crowds and crowds
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Lanterns
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The procession stretched from the top of the High street, to the bottom.
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The lantern procession going into the church hall
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Loads and loads of people near the bandstand
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Singing and dancing in the rain
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The stage school with an audience
Robots text
Just a quickie to help out some dude on the Manila mailing list.
Though he asks about Google's image crawler, we don't store any images at all on out frontier box, they are all FTP'd to the static server. I use meta=noindex in page headers for message views too (and some other types of pages). Though, as Googlebot's banned from those I'm still seeing old messages in Google's index (when I search, I want to find just story versions of pages, or just news item versions, not the message type too.) I guess it'll get better over time.
Occasionally, I add bad robots to this robots text, even though they may ignore the robots.txt. (I ban them elsewhere, too—in fact I have a list of nearly 400 bad robots).
Adding sitemaps has dramatically decreased Google's crawler, though it took several weeks to have a great effect, and occasionally I see Googlebot coming in to a site an indexing everything, even though it need not—it's supposed to work that way.
Though he asks about Google's image crawler, we don't store any images at all on out frontier box, they are all FTP'd to the static server. I use meta=noindex in page headers for message views too (and some other types of pages). Though, as Googlebot's banned from those I'm still seeing old messages in Google's index (when I search, I want to find just story versions of pages, or just news item versions, not the message type too.) I guess it'll get better over time.
Occasionally, I add bad robots to this robots text, even though they may ignore the robots.txt. (I ban them elsewhere, too—in fact I have a list of nearly 400 bad robots).
Adding sitemaps has dramatically decreased Google's crawler, though it took several weeks to have a great effect, and occasionally I see Googlebot coming in to a site an indexing everything, even though it need not—it's supposed to work that way.
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My robots text script
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A list of checked against user agents of bad bots
