Liea’s Video To Tathia

Happy Birthday Tathia!!

Business Junction is a great network and one of the leading in London. I am happy to be a member and here is me being featured on their website at http://www.businessjunction.net/. It was taken at the launch of the 2012 London Business Directory event hosted at the Merchant Taylors’ Hall in London.

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Most of us carry our music on some sort of iDevice, which is definitely handy. My iPod is portable, sleek and sturdy, allowing me to hear any music that I desire in any time and place. It is light and fits neatly in a pocket, which is why I take it virtually everywhere. However, one of the key drawbacks to this is that the earbuds that go with an iPod or other portable media devices tend to have really horrible sound quality. I don’t mind having less than ideal sound while I am at the gym, but sometimes I want to hear my music in its intended high quality.

To deal with this problem, I have begun having a nicer set of headphones at home and a standard set of earbuds for times when I am on the go. It can be difficult to find fitting headphones for when I am at home because there are many brands on the market that claim to be premium while offering earbud quality and clarity. In fact, most of the brands seem to fall into this category. Sennheiser is the exception to the rule.

Sennheiser already is one of my favorite audio brands, but they have really outdone themselves with the Sennheiser RS 220. These wireless headphones actually offer better quality than most wired headphones thanks a new proprietary technology known as DSSS, which stands for Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum. I don’t really understand how the technology works, but I can assure you that it does, indeed, really work. It involves splitting the sound between several different frequencies, which actually improves its quality.

The Sennheiser RS 220 can flood your eardrums with up to 106 decibels of sound as long as you stay in the generous 100 meter price range. They come with a rechargeable battery pack that will keep you in music for up to eight hours at a time. In addition, there are controls actually on the headphones that allow you to change volume, move through tracks and more. They are the perfect solution for listening to music at home. You can get up and walk around, pause tracks when the phone rings, and generally live your life—doing so with high quality music.

I spend so much on music and music storage that buying a nice pair of headphones seems like a no-brainer. My music collection is worth very little if I can never hear it in its full glory. Further, I am a lover of convenience. The Sennheiser RS 220 headphones seem to have been designed with people like me in mind. All I can say is: it’s about time!

If you are dying for a pair of your own, you may have to wait a few weeks, until the headphones have been released in all American markets. A few pair are trickling out into the internet and brick and mortar specialty shops, so you may be able to enjoy your music in peace tonight if you make a few inquiries.

With the latest Google Panda update 3.2 that was released in the last week of February 2012, a lot of sites were effected and lost rankings for their major “money” keywords. All over the net you can read about the sad stories of web masters in panic mode asking the same questions: why? and how do I get my rankings back?

One of my websites was also effected by Google Pandate update 3.2. This is a very old site (almost 10 years old) and is quite strong in terms of quality content and link profile. However, because it is such an old site, a lot of clutter accumulated over the years. It had seen more than 3 design update. 4 server changes and a slew of web masters to manage it. All this added a lot of junk – orphaned pages, pages with different design, crappy internal linking, keyword cannibalisation and more. My team spent the best part of a couple weeks cleaning up the website. Read my recent article on 7 mistakes that website owners make.

I noticed that websites that fell below the Google quality threshold were effected the most. This included low content density on page compared to the rest of the template code, orphaned pages, domain cross linking, duplicate content, keyword cannibalisation, crappy internal linking, image ALT attribute not properly optimized, slow loading pages and more.

What are your experiences and what are you doing to get your rankings back up?

I am a big fan of the hit TV show Spartacus. I actually saw Spartacus Gods of The Arena fist. I was not aware of this TV series before then and when I saw the first episode of Gods Of The Arena, I was blown away – like countless others I suppose. The cinematography, the story line, the awesome actors and their action, the sex and the gory yet stylistic violence all drew me in. It was awe inspiring.

After watching the mini season I got hold of the first season Spartacus Blood and Sand was had a wonderful time watching it. Thought the actors looked younger than in Gods of the Arena which was a little a disorienting to start with, I quickly got used to it. Andy Whitfield as Spartacus took a little while to get warmed to but the more I saw his action, the more I liked him. I felt that he carried so much of the character with just his facial expressions.

I was saddened when Andy passed away in September 2011, due to terminal illness and felt that the series would be no more. But then they announced the return of the series with Season 2 (technically 3) with a new lead actor – Liam McIntyre.

When the show finally aired for season 2, Spartacus - Vengeance, I decided that I would keep an open mind and would not be too critical of Liam. There would be obvious differences and since Andy was so good in Season 1, Liam would have a tough time filling his shoes.

But when I watched the premier episode of season 2, I was quite disappointed, not only by Liam but the whole episode. I knew that going into Season 2, the makers of Spartacus had a lot to live up to. But some one, the magic seems to be gone. The look and feel of the film was different. The colors looked washed out and the sets a little too “set” like. For the first time in this series I felt like I was actually watching a set and action setup. The authenticity of the previous seasons was missing. I am not sure what is happening with the colo correction and lighting. The 300 look and feel that was so awesome in the previous season is missing.

The new cast also looked quite amateur and lacked the depth of the previous set. Liam himself lacked the depth and aura of Andy and looked lost. Perhaps that is good in one way since this season is all about Spartacus trying to be a leader and rediscovering himself. Perhaps Liam would get into the groove as we move along.

I will hold my thoughts here and continue to observe the rest of the episodes and see if these issues would be sorted out. What do you think? Let me know your thoughts with your comments below.

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