Sam Hamilton

Earth hour hit China but not particularly hard, have a look at these photos and you will understand why

Here are my top free plugins for Magento Commerce

• Canonical URL’s for Magento - This extension adds the new canonical links to the head of your Magento pages.
• Yoast MetaRobots - There’s no easy way to add meta robots tags to Magento pages, unless of course, when you install this plugin.
• Yoast Blank SEO Theme - This is a clean simplistic SEO optimized Theme based on the core Magento Blank Theme. This theme can be easily customized by professional designers.
• MailChimp ECommerce360 Reporting - The MailChimp Ecommerce Tracking Plugin helps you measure the ROI of your email campaigns. We’ll track when people click from your email campaigns, visit your website, all the way to purchase. Then we’ll aggregate the information and display it on your MailChimp campaign report.
• Dataflow Extension - This module extends the dataflow module, so categories can be added to the product export.
• Auto CrossSell Products - This small extension attempts to automate the product cross sell maintenance. Every time a customer checks out, all products that are in the shopping cart are linked as cross sell products.
• Lazzymonks Twitter - Displays Twitter updates in the menu and allows updates from within the admin panel
• Product Gallery Importer - Product Gallery Importer lets you import products with multiple product images from a CSV file.
• Lazzymonks Google Ads - Adds Google Ads Blocks to the bottom of either the menu
• Fooman Speedster - Speed up your store by combining, compressing and caching JS and CSS.

I thought someone was pulling my leg when they told me this but then the BBC did its job and blogged about it soon after, not sure if I agree or disagree but sometimes there can be too many changes and you are not sure what really broke the system. Anyway this time they have changed the rules so that the driver with the most wins in the season NOT points wins the championship, which would have meant that Lewis Hamilton would not have won last year.

I am looking forward to the other changes they have made this season but was this one just a step too far?

I have had a iPhone for a week now and just starting to get into the whole experience and culture but reading about the new features coming soon I think Apple will be onto something here.

The only feature I have not read that they will be fixing is meeting invites - something I assumed was so basic when I was sitting in a meeting the other day and tried to create a follow up meeting and add people to it.

Have a read and see the nice screenshots here

I really like the idea of these two getting it together, IBM is moving the right way when it comes to open source and the combination of the two could be really powerful.

This article is a good read.

Well if you have a stupid amount of cash anything is possible, but this just probably what I would do if I was a millionaire just for kicks.

Google have just announced that you can build your own custom news widget for your site. You are able to select the size, the topics, and the number of articles you want to show - they then generate the code and you copy and paste it onto your site for updated news feeds direct from Google.

Click here for more details

OK I have just watched this and its brilliant, but what it spanks of is the fact that British commercials are just so original! Don’t know why but here in China most commercials are like something from a late night  bad cable channel and somehow if you tried this in America I get the feeling someone would call 911 and that would be the end of it.

Any way check it out.

The T-Mobile Dance

and

T-Mobile Dance Rehearsal

Had a very pleasant dinner last night at Osteria last night, the place was full the the brim so we had to wait for a table. Food was good but the service was hit or miss. For example we got asked if we wanted the desert menu which arrived quickly but then no-one followed up and we totally forgot to order desert and ended up just getting the bill and leaving. So I suppose its their loss, and it kept the rather tempting warm pear tart from my growing waist line. Total bill for two including a bottle of wine 630RMB.

OK so perhaps I am the last person in the world to find the USB slot in my DVD player useful but that thing is wicked. Stick in a USB stick filled with what ever you want and the DVD player reads and plays it - loving it!