Pages tagged “owlstone”

29 Nov 2016

On wiggly lines and being normal

Not too long ago I found myself concentrating on breathing normally. Sitting at the end of a wire, a mask strapped to my face, listening to the hiss of the machine that was keeping me supplied with air, and trying not to be flummoxed by the two life-size glass heads that seemed to be staring at me, all I could think was “how do I breathe, normally?” If someone asks you to “walk normally” or “hold a smile” - or even enquires what you do with your thumbs when you’re running - a sort of macroscopic Heisenberg Principle comes into play.

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08 Oct 2012

URL shuffling and Google juice

I thought I’d write up something I did at work today, in case it’s useful to other “webmasters”. We have a site which, through evolution, history and multiple editors, has ended up with a cluttered URL space. It happens. This is a worthwhile thing to do for tidiness, to enable future redesigns, and to ensure good navigation (and hence Googlability). I was keen to do it in a way that maintained existing links, and in a way which would preserve search engines' knowledge of our pages.

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