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AdWords Editor Error Message

It looks like AdWords Editor was doing that ‘pretending to touch type fast’ thing they do in the movies when they created this crash report for me.

Cursor Moves To A Different Line While Typing – Disable Touchpad on Dell Latitude

After about three years of a slightly irritating habit my laptop appears to have, I have finally been bothered enough about it to find a solution. When I’m typing, occasionally my cursor will skip to a different line of text. So I’m happily writing away, only to realise that half of my paragraph has been added [...]

Problem Upgrading To Wordpress 2.9

Just in case anyone else had this problem - I upgraded to latest Wordpress version 2.9 – and found a bit of a bug when I viewed the website. The homepage showed no posts, and I was unable to change the themes. This was mainly due to a pretty lazy upgrade process on my behalf – the [...]

Some Statistics About Your Facebook Status

Inside Facebook Blog has put together some statistics on Facebook Status updates; some of which is more relevant to America, but there were some global insights which I found quite interesting. Whilst competing for users, Facebook integrates well with Twitter. You can see the effect of the conversation about Twitter versus the integration with the following [...]

Preconceptions and the best data commentary

Hans Rosling, he’s a genius. The way he breaks the data down into smaller chunks to completely change the story here is amazing. This is data visualization at it’s best, and guess who’s bought the software he used to create these charts? If you’re thinking the charts look a bit like the new motion charts in Google Analytics, [...]

Analytics / AdWords Goal & Transaction Integration

It’s been a long time coming, but Google have now stepped a little further towards integrating the stats from Google Analytics into Google AdWords. We’ve been able to see how much we spend on PPC, and what campaigns, ad groups, and keywords provide traffic which converts for a while now. This is great, but it would [...]