Archive for: June 2007

Things seem to be getting more intuitive and search patterns are delivering tighter and better results - but at the same time it seems to be getting harder to position a website into a search engine where it can be

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It is difficult to sell homes to people because you are trading in dreams and aspirations. The buyer looks for a time in a future which is often impossible - the seller has hopes for a future dependent on impossibilities.

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This email exchange was published in my blog on Coast and Country, but I am posting it here because it raises a lot of important points about sales and leasebacks in France.

Many thousands of people have been sold a …

This tool http://www.rssfwd.com/ looks to me to be the simple answer to the RSS mystery.

If you are not already into RSS, you should be, as it will simplify your subscriptions and newsgathering and is the only practical

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I clipped this from the Google blog

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More info from Google:

One of our goals at Google is to provide access to all the world’s information. A big obstacle for that is the language barrier. If the ideal result page to a

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This post could turn into a three volume Victorian novel, there are so many things you should know about French estate-agents. Luckily I do not have the time or skill to write another million words on the subject here, so

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Every day I am frustrated by the websites of estate agents in France - most will not even tell you the town the property is in, just saying “in the sector of …”, it could be twenty miles away,

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Buying a house in the South of France? - look no further - come to “Honest Tony” your estate-agent in the Languedoc.

Buying a house is a big decision, but a lot of people make the mistake of falling in

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I am not sure how many computers there are in this house, I know there is a large pile of tin boxes in the garage which were once cutting edge computer technology, but are now useless collectors of dust.

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Before Carole and I came to live in France with our young family twenty years ago, I bought a one month roaming rail ticket and just traveled by train, wandering from town to town and staying in small hotels and …