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Why is it so hard to give blood?

3 out of 3 times, I have sucessfully failed in giving a pint of my blood to the blood donation service.

You would think it should be easy, but it seems that they don’t quite get that in a college have lessons up and till lunch and get lunch off for an hour. Yet they stop taking donations for their lunch at the same time???

Why???

I want to save somebody’s life with my blood, lets face it I have ample. Here’s to donating blood outside of college.

www.blood.co.uk

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What’s wrong with writing a book about AdWords?

Lately, I have been optimising one of the sites I manage for AdWords. As part of that I have looked into the many Self-Help guids to AdWords.

What really narks me is that they are all full of common sense and endorsements. For instance the last book I read about AdWords, tried to get you to use 1shoppingcart every other line, because its a ‘superior’ platform each man to his own but I have to say having used and hacked away a good couple e-commerce programs (OsCommerce and Zen Cart) there are a lot better out there (Trading-Eye my current platform of choice).

You can really boil them down to the following points

  • Test different ideas and use the one that produces the best results
  • Reduce links to other parts of you site on landing pages be direct
  • Use PayPal
  • Have a good design
Thats it folks, all very simple and all based on good common sense. Sometimes I think that you need to read something that is blindingly obvious before you see it yourself but I think the costs associated with these so called AdWords Professionals is bordering on the obscene.
— Rant Over —
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Google Links for 04/16/08

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Review in 20 Seconds: Never Back Down

Never Back Down PosterIt does what it says on the tin, a testerone packed 1hr and abit. Where it fails is it tries to justify the events in the film with a limp and melow dramatic reference to Achilles shield. If your willing to overlook that, which you probably are if you are even remotely intrested in the film. Go see it you wont end up being bored at all.

Verdict

3 Stars
Go See, its not the best film you’ll ever see but it is enjoyable non the less.

Links
IMDB