Posted by robbiebow on 4 November, 2009 under cambridge, geek, stuff | 
If you are looking for private French lessons in Cambridge, you should contact Audrey via her web site
Following on from my earlier log about the micro-site I made for a friend, I made another one for her; this time focused on French Lessons in Cambridge as the keywords of choice.
Google and Yahoo! were happy with the sites, but Bing was not. They appear to have disappeared off Bing’s indexes completely, but this blog gets ranked highly on Bing for some reason. Let’s see if that continues.
Posted by robbiebow on 6 October, 2009 under cambridge, eating out |
Ahar
I’m sad to say that Ahar has gone downhill in recent months. There was a change of chef and the result has been that the curries have lost their levity, subtlety and distinction. It’s a shame, but after 3 bad meals from there over a couple of months, I have to say it’ s gone the way of many curry houses on Mill Road and I won’t be eating from there in the future.
Cocum
As one door closes another opens. Cocum is a Keralan-oriented curry house that replaced a nice but underused restaurant whose name I can’t remember. Unlike its predecessor, it caters for people with a desire for hotter dishes and red meat, whilst providing a range of drier dishes that don’t swim in turmeric-laden ghee. The Keralan dishes are great as well, meaning there’s a genuine choice for the curry fan. They also deliver (although I haven’t ordered delivery yet.) A good choice.
Posted by robbiebow on 29 September, 2009 under cambridge, geek, stuff |
I offered to make a tiny web site for a friend who is a French Tutor in Cambridge and it brought back to me the joy of doing something simple, clear and honest. Not that my day job is dishonest, but it is complex and sometimes unclear what I actually add to the world. And it’s often not much to do with the web and all to do with the engines behind the web interface.
Which is good – don’t get me wrong – but playing around with CSS, and images, and optimizing a site for search engines is, well, *fun*. Stripped of collaboration, scrums, staging, peer reviews, release processes, rollback processes, credentials, Agile, XP, SDLC, UAT, OAT, QAT, AJAX, MRDs and down to a budget of £6 a year, I’ve made something useful, something that ranks well for specific keywords (think “French Tutor in Cambridge” – and hell, you know this post is all part of that optimization process), something that is *already* making a tangible difference to the world I know.
Putting the punk rock back into web development 
