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Congrats, I remember now, forgot about the Holbeach bombing range 

Get the annex ship shape and hire it out for us plane spotters 

I'll bet it's a different pace of life where you are now and the stress levels are lower!

The missus wants us heading the opposite direction to Cornwall when it's finally time to hang up the mouse and keyboard. Genuinely surprised how cheap it is, prob because it's full of old farts moving down there to retire so there are no jobs for the youngsters. 

Here it is in all it's glory - JSP101 Defence Writing Guide

There is actually a lot of useful stuff in here.

oh gawd not again! You'll need your own solicitor on the payroll at this rate 

So where about have you ended up and is this retirement/semi-retirement?

M&S meal deal for me and the missus, living on the edge....

Ahhh that's because you've been staring at the sun...

It's just a URL test. When we coded the forum we didn't think about the profile URL. If you choose a two word username and leave a space, this becomes part of your profile URL. Computers don't like spaces so supplement them with % which can make URL's look visually odd.

So we plan (one day) to rewrite a blank space with another character. Realistically it will be a "-" "_" or a "."

I think the dot looks better, others views seem to prefer the underscore.

So just a bit of URL vanity and house keeping, good spot though 

Outstanding sir

The blog Jan is referring to is Proposed MOT changes

After years of hearing Google advising against using SEO consultants and all you had to do was read the Google Webmaster Guidelines, we now have a video from Google on how to hire an SEO!

It's actually pretty good and if you are considering hiring an SEO then definitely watch and absorb this. If nothing else it may save you some money from a rank amateur or overseas spammer.

Any questions or thoughts, shout.

You've not mentioned it... much 

I think this is great news and shows the government and state security services are taking cyber crime seriously.

One of the biggest issues is education, and website owners and internet users can take more responsibility by taking security more seriously.

A lot of ecrime is opportunistic, ie kids running simple scripts from hacking for dummies looking for easy targets. Basically a digital version of leaving valuables on display in a locked car. This can be defeated by using complex and different passwords, two factor authentication where available, along with common sense when it comes to unknown email attachments or social engineering (hello this is Bob from tech support, can I have your password...) 

Hopefully youngsters coming through school and colleges are more cyber crime conscious and savvy than us older farts 

Definitely run away. There are endless opportunities if you are looking to invest in a business, but you can only make an informed decision if you have access to all the facts and information. If an owner is being unhelpful or alarm bells are ringing, move on.