http://www.baronturner.com The World according to Baron Turner Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:22:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.baronturner.com/2008-06-30/this-american-life/ Chess software was always at the forefront of chess computing prowess. With Fritz 11 along with other favourites such as Shredder, the software continues to progress along with our computers. Fritz has ironed out some of the quirks of earlier versions and is superb for chess improvement and ease of use. For such incredible power and [...]]]> http://www.baronturner.com/2008-06-09/chess-software/ business finance, or this chess blog. But still - if we were to stop people in the shopping centre and ask if they have a blog or know what a blog is- amazingly [...]]]> http://www.baronturner.com/2008-04-29/blogs-for-blogs-sake/

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This fellah is soooo clever - his skill as a freelance illustrator is obvious from the site - but I used him for a clients cartoon illustration and they really came through with illustrations that added hugely to the effectiveness of their marketing. Checkout the portfolio of illustrations where the complexity of this [...]]]> http://www.baronturner.com/2008-02-11/29/
A beneficiary of the great progress of computing power, and a poster child of the capabilities, chess computers have come a long way in the last decade. Chess would always be an application of programming prowess with it's infinite move possibility, it's immense capacity for PCU power and the challenge that lay waiting to beat [...]]]> http://www.baronturner.com/2007-08-28/chess-computers/ RSS is changing the web - see example such as company rescue and turnaround finance feeds that link back to the pages desired. RSS sites take the feeds and provide the pointers. As an SEO in the field of UK [...]]]> http://www.baronturner.com/2007-06-03/rss-feed-examples/ Like this chess set example, popping products into Google Base/Froogle or GPS - or whatever they decide to call it when you're reading this - carries the difficulty of constructing an XML feed that needs to be optimised for good exposure [...]]]> http://www.baronturner.com/2007-05-23/optimising-your-google-product-feed/ Here's an example of a list of chess computers from a retailer in the UK. The same chess list has been placed on another web 2.0 site, this chess retailer too. One of the foremost sites in the new mould is Del.icio.us, but other [...]]]> http://www.baronturner.com/2007-05-12/web-20-sales-examples/ Trying to utilise the promising factors of Web 2.0, SEO Baron Turner has a page on eSnips (this is the author page) and an SEO home page on LinkedIn. eSnips seems terrific for storing data and showing selected files to the public. They offer 5GB of space. We use [...]]]> http://www.baronturner.com/2007-05-12/baron-turner-on-esnips/ Though the last decade has shown some improvement - rather than refer clients to a company rescue broker, bank managers prefer to go towards a liquidation route when companies start to struggle through cash flow issues, economy downturns, poor management or other problems. They prefer this because it gets them what they most [...]]]> http://www.baronturner.com/2007-05-12/company-rescue-through-turnaround-finance/ Examples of the use of RSS are this feed of search engine optimisation steps, or this RSS feed on case studies for the Company Rescue industry, or this feed of chess products from a US retailer. A frequent sight on many sites, what [...]]]> http://www.baronturner.com/2007-05-12/whats-all-this-rss/ The Kasparov Expert chess computer is the strongest engine Saitek have with software that can beat everyone but it's namesake on it's strongest setting. Of course, lower settings will be required by us mere mortals. The machine has a range of settings (64 of them) that will train and stretch every player with a library [...]]]> http://www.baronturner.com/2007-05-12/chess-computers-the-kasparov-expert/ If a company has problems that suggest it may not survive - what's the course of action? An insolvency procedure is often the first thought, but having a business angel can be an optimal solution that has the added effect of providing an experienced resource on the board along with [...]]]> http://www.baronturner.com/2007-05-11/business-angels-for-company-rescue/ An agonising search for Madeleine has every decent person in the UK and many other countries (including family loving Portugal) waiting for good news. It's brought us all to the point where we have to ask what kind of world we live in - a world that produces people that sink [...]]]> http://www.baronturner.com/2007-05-11/madeleine-mccann-why/