We're looking into the possibilities around running a global affiliate program for all our ecom sites. Ideally a one-stop-shop which can handle 10-15 local language sites from Danish to Japanese including English and a lot of Euro languages as well.

Anyone know anyone, ideas etc?

Highly appreciated!

https://www.insider.com/north-carolina-lawmakers-want-to-ban-participation-trophies-for-kids-2023-4

Texas, of course:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMMjfGMj4yU&t=1s

It's a goddamn shit show. Haven't met any colleagues for 1,5 years and now it seems 2 weeks safari in Africa this summer is down the drain too:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-59427770

This one caught my eye and reminded me of RC's Bear Story. I like that story:

We have had somewhat mixed experience in the family historically. Primarily with host families that were not really up to the job and left the exchange student on her own etc.

Heard a lot of good stuff about https://asse.com/become_an_asse_exchange_student/student_exchange_program/
but would like to have my daughter stay with folks we know or have a good reference about. Preferably in NC or SC.

So anybody know anyone, anywhere or have past experiences with Danish exchange students? Her English is on par and pretty good and 2020 she would be 15 turning 16.

That time again. Even though I kind of had it with Vegas the last time, I just registered again for 2018.

So anyone else in town in October?

off twitter..

That is brilliant and border line ethical

https://dejanseo.com.au/competitor-hack/

https://twitter.com/DailyMirror/status/1028962344997740549

What?! I went to Mallorca for a week this summer and what a freaking hell hole of British tourists attacking the all-inclusive bar from 9 in the morning to 4 in the night. We saw litterally NO spanish people. ONLY brits in all the bars, restaurants, shops - everywhere no spanish employed. Yikes, thought I was in Nottingham.

From Ove, our old swedish pal.

We just hired a young kid with a degree in AI and prediction modelling. We use him to build predition churn models for customers in a huge ecommerce shop. Fascinating!

He's writing a paper on Cryto and pointed me to this stuff:
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3zw3p/the-creator-of-javascript-just-launched-a-cryptocurrency-for-online-ads

Not sure I get it though - it's a browser:
https://basicattentiontoken.org/

Sorry NFFC, but it seems we got there first.

QuoteThe wood is the home of the famous Major Oak tree which, according to local folklore, was used by Robin Hood and his merry men for shelter.

QuoteAndy Gaunt, of Mercian Archaeological Services, which led the study, said: "It's where they [Vikings] signed laws, settled disputes and all sorts of things like that."

https://nottstv.com/ancient-viking-meeting-point-sherwood-forest-discovered-archaeologists/

I am doing some research for a client who wants to know the search volume BOTH on Google and Youtube. Eg. does anyone have any idea of how to pull some search numbers exclusively on youtube searches?

I tried https://keywordtool.io/youtube but the data seem borked and totally random?

Got my flight confirmed and snagged a ticket from Jim.

I'll be there Monday night -> Friday morning.

Got a Mods dinner on Wednesday night on the 8th otherwise got a clean dance card.

Anyone else?

Well, because ginger is awesome.

I have experimented with ginger in a lot of ways as I can't get enough of it.

I've done a nice combo of fresh ginger and lots of lime juice in the blender and then through a sieve. In the fridge and you have a nice fresh drink.

The other day I found a ginger beer recipe:

1. Ground fresh ginger in a jar with equal amount of sugar.
2. Let is rest for 3-4 days until it ferments and starts producing gas.
3. Boil a nice huge chunk of ginger with 1L of water for 30 mins.
4. Put it through a sieve and mix in some sugar for taste and further fermentation.
5. Add another liter of water.
6. Let it sit on the kitchen counter for a few days to buble a bit more.
7. Pour in a bottle and keep in the fridge.

8. Mix ginger beer, dark rum and lime and knock yourself out on Dark & Stormy.

I've also done the sushi type ginger, but getting the taste and texture right is hard. Needs some work.

I'm looking a lot into Schema mark-up and especially for clients. However my brain is not good at doing structure and I'm a bit confused as to what actually implement.

Anyone here sharp on Schema or know anyone or any tools/sites?

I often need to check a current sitemap against actual indexed pages on that domain. Eg. I need to ensure that all pages from the (xml) sitemap have crawled and indexed.
Could be done manually, but I got too many to check.

Any ideas, tools or services which - safely - can check a couple of thousand URLs?

Wilmington, NC:

QuoteThe serpentarium's website says 60-year-old Dean Ripa had survived 12 venomous snake bites. He founded the serpentarium in 2001

http://www.wral.com/police-wife-charged-in-death-of-nc-serpentarium-owner/16701425/

I remember RC using some nice program to do bulk search/replace in a bunch of html files without opening them etc.

I don't remember which one though? ..and doing searches yields nothing but hacked malware sites..

Been researching a new tv for the living room and more confused than ever..
Thought just pickung 50" and getting it done was easy. Not so much as there are so many options..

Can anyone recommend something, anything.. not so keen on a projector, but if that is the best option so be it..

Got recommendations for something in the 50 inch range?