Why did the BNP do well at recent local and European elections? (From the recently published YouGov study into voting habits) BNP voters tend to be totally turned off by politics and think that politicians are corrupt, for example 81% think their MP is corrupt compared to 48% of Labour voters. They have very specific [...]

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Where do you position your product or service in the marketplace? What value do you attribute to it? What business model to adopt? Sell it cheaply at high volume or sell it at a high price with a high brand value but at a lower volume. Conversations like this usually go on a stuffy Business [...]

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Monitoring your website is a very productive way to see where traffic is coming from. To allow you to see popular search web search terms from Google / Yahoo / Bing etc and see how your posts are being indexed. WebStats Monitoring tools At the moment the following trackers are enabled on my site and [...]

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I’ve recently been evaluting the use of various Twitter applications. Yes you can update your twitter in the UK via an SMS from your mobile but to review your timeline you need an application. Twikini is a lightweight very functional programme for Windows Mobile devices. Coming in at just 110k it still provides everything you [...]

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Recently I used archive.org to copy blog post from back in 2007 when I started blogging (although RickSeymour.com dates back much further when it functioned as a place to store, my then, 3000 photos). Being Transparent If you have to hold back saying what you think you are not being honest with yourself, yes there [...]

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You may like to read my Review of Taxi Booking Despatch systems Following a request I’ve put together a list of radios that work with Cabmaster’s now aging radio dataheads. I’ve used two types of dataheads, Cabmaster’s own brand Multicom and Datex from Diplomat. They communicate with the HOST application via a radio repeater linked [...]

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Recently I had the opportunity to view the range of taxi despatch (or dispatch if you prefer) & booking software that taxi companies use to book in jobs from the telephone and send the job out to the driver. Which software products being reviewed Cabmaster by Command Systems cPaq by Cordic Autocab by GPC Mercury [...]

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Ok this whole situation is rather annoying. I’m in a state of perpetual suppressed silence due to issues going on at Millers. It’s now the 4th of May and I’m still nonthewiser as to what is happening, waiting for Aprils pay and a P45 so that I can move on with my life and do [...]

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How bizarre! Was in Booths last night and bumped into the Jim Walsh, Sales Director for Autocab. Who’d have thought it!? Bread, delicatessen and taxi booking software. He asked where I’d been and how things were coming along with Cabmaster etc but obviously I had to be as tactful as possible (grr), and just say [...]

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It’s not very often that I have the chance just to sit in the sun and watch the world go by. Yes there are stresses in the world but I’ve said to myself that today I’m not feeling them and it’s totally working. One of the things I’m loving at the moment is the fact [...]

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