So I’ve gained access to Google Analtics for the site I want to look at.
And of course there’s entirely bugger all to tell you how to navigate it. Typical damn Google – assuming that everyone’s competent. Tchah! Tech products for the technically incompetent, that’s what we want!
The web team has told me that if the alternatives for GA operate in the same way that GA does, then it wont work.
tag of the website’s html file and this allows it to work and collect data domain wide, ie, www.dhakatribune.com.
It’s a bit technical, but basically GA has the code placed in the
If we can find one’s that can instead be placed in the tag, then it could work only for Finance pages, but our web team doesn’t know of any such alternatives. If you have any suggestions please let me know and I’ll relay the info over.
Anyone know of such a stats counter?
I’ve a little problem here. Doing a project and I can;t get access to hte Google Analytics. Which seems to have just changed in some manner. And the reports that I’m being sent make little to no sense. Which I think is a function of how the others are compiling those reports. That is, they’re not using G Analytics right.
Anyone really know this system and can advise?
In more detail, there are up to 1500 or so pages I’m interested in on a larger site. All in “one section”. I get a daily report of traffic to that section. But the numbers are ludicrous.
I th9ink I know aht’s wrong but I’ve no idea how to tell the people to actually look up the correct info.
So, anyone really know this new G Analytics?
But a little paperette about how oil companies aren’t subsidised by the tax system.
Tim Worstall is a British-born writer, blogger, and Senior Fellow of the Adam Smith Institute. He writes on the subjects of environmentalism and economics, particularly corporate tax, his contributions having appeared in the business press. In 2010 his blog was listed as one of the top 100 UK political blogs by Total Politics.
Worstall was born in Torquay, England, in 1963. He studied economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, graduating with a Master of Science degree in 1985. After graduating, he worked as an economist for a number of companies, including the Bank of England and the European Commission.
In 2003, Worstall began writing for the Adam Smith Institute, a libertarian think tank. He has also written for a number of other publications, including Forbes, The Times, and The Spectator. Worstall’s writings have focused on a variety of topics, including the economics of climate change, the future of the European Union, and the role of government in the economy.
Worstall is a self-described “classical liberal” and a supporter of the UK Independence Party (UKIP). He is a critic of environmentalism, arguing that it is often based on flawed economic reasoning. He is also a critic of the European Union, arguing that it is an undemocratic and bureaucratic institution.
Worstall’s writings have been praised by some for their clarity and wit. However, they have also been criticized by others for their lack of nuance and their tendency to oversimplify complex issues.
Despite the criticism, Worstall remains a well-known and respected figure in the world of economics and politics. His writings continue to be read and debated by people from all walks of life.
Here are some of Tim Worstall’s notable works:
Chasing Rainbows: Environmentalism and the Failure of the Left (2009)
The Case Against the Financial Transactions Tax (2011)
The Death of Europe (2014)
The Myth of the Rational Voter (2017)
Tim Worstall is a controversial figure, but there is no doubt that he is a highly intelligent and articulate writer. His work has had a significant impact on the debate about environmentalism, the European Union, and the role of government in the economy.
Umm, yeah.
Worstall, T. (2013). ‘With all of Apple’s cash, why is it issuing bonds?’. Forbes, 30 April 2013. Available at https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/04/30/with-all-of-apples-cash-why-is-it-issuing-bonds/?sh=44f3d0c05bad (accessed 20 July 2023).
Google Scholar
Quite why bits of penny a page (that’s what I was paid, penny a page view) journalism get used as academic references I’m not sure. But such is modern academia:
I Want to Marry Rich: Why Cash Makes You a Desirable Partner
Christina Matz Carnes, Palash Deb, Jonathan O’Brien
First published: 25 July 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12980
Shrug.
Not the case, which continues vile. The Horizon thing at the Post Office simply needs to be grasped and hard, by the short and curlies at the least. If not by red hot tongs on genitals.
But the fun bit – Marina Hyde:
A chap I corresponded with not long ago thought the entire over-remunerated executive class covering the period in question should be chucked straight into prison and have to argue their way out;
A quote from an email correspondence between myself and Marina:
“There should be significant jail time for large numbers of people over this. My current suggestion is simply that we jail the entire board of the organisation – that PO – at the time and then see who will squeal first.”
Hopefully we’ll get there at some point.
So, I went out for a little walk. Up Entry Hill, through South Stoke, down into Combe Hay (anyone wants to make me a present of the Old Rectory in that village yes please, ooooh, yes, yes, yessssss) and back up through Odd Down.
Which meant that I went past lots of posters demanding “Stop South Stoke Plateau“. A development of some few hundred houses on the southern edge of Bath.
And there’s something really fun about this. Here’s the map of the Green Belt. Yes, South Stoke is inside that Green Belt. As is Combe Hay, Midford, that whole valley. So, obviously, no development there.
So what is being complained about? The “South Stoke Plateau” is actually the arse end of Odd Down. Inside the City boundaries and outside the Green Belt. But they’re whining even about that.
It’s also right by the main road down to Radstock – and, pertinently, to Peasedown St John. Which is just on the other outside of the Green Belt. So that’s where all the south Bath housing has been put these past few decades. Leading, of course, to vast tails of commuters along that 5 mile stretch of road.
They really are complaining about housing being built in just where housing should be, even by current idiotic constraints. Not in the Green Belt, in empty space between the City and the Green Belt. I actually walked through the development yesterday and while not to my taste it’s perfectly acceptable.
And finally, something that Bathonians will grasp. “Save South Stoke” works. “Save Odd Down” doesn’t. Guess which phrase they’ve used for this development wihch is in Odd Down, not South Stoke?
Tempus mutandis, eheu fugaces etc. Alan Turing was chemically castrated for buggering a twink. These days it's the femme teenage boys forced onto the silbestrol. Can't help thinking that society's got both of those wrong somehow. But maybe that's just me being in error there.
— Tim Worstall (@worstall) July 13, 2023
Is there anyone around here who is really expert at Google Finance SEO? Specifically on the finance pages? We’re close to having something interesting, would love to chat with someone who can give that last 10 to 20% boost.
A series of “grassroots” campaigns telling UK e-cigarette users they are under attack and urging them to “stand up for their rights” by opposing new vaping regulations are being run by secretive lobby groups with links to Big Tobacco.
The campaigns – pushed to millions of Facebook and Twitter users in the past few weeks – have names such as #BackVapingSaveLives and Save My Vape, and are styled to look like they are coordinated by members of the public. But in reality they are run and promoted by rightwing thinktanks and lobbyists that oppose stricter regulation and want to influence government policy.
They include a movement called We Vape UK, which claims to be run by an “independent” organisation “for vapers by vapers”, but was set up by a fellow at the Adam Smith Institute, a free market lobby group that does not disclose its funders and has long-running ties to the tobacco industry.
They’ve not quite understood what a Fellow of the ASI is. It is, more than anything else, a “Hey, that’s a good lad over there” sort of thing. It most certainly does not imply any sort of financial relationship. (Just for the avoidance of doubt, my position as Senior Fellow, aka “very good lad” is unpaid as well).
And, of course, there’s then the issue of vaping itself. It’s a substitute for smoking baccy, not a complement to it. So, pushing vaping saves lives which is a pretty good thing to be doing.
It’s only right at the bottom that we get this:
Evidence shows vaping is safer than cigarettes and most policymakers agree that adult smokers should be encouraged to switch.
So everyone is accused of being evil because they’re doing the work of the angels.
Tossers.
The Sunday programme, sometime between 7 am and 8 am apparently. On the subject of reparations for slavery. Guess which side of the we should do this/we should not do this I am?
So I buy an HP Wireless Keyboard and Mouse 300. This is ghastly, ghastly shit. Do not buy it.
First one, continued problems of it not working in spasms. Back to the shop, they’ll repair it. So, pick it up yesterday. They give me a new one in fact. Same problems with this one. After perhaps 3 hours use. Has spasms of keys simply not registering.
It’s shit. Do not buy this ghastly piece of failed production.
Pity, I used to like HP kit.
My wife has got to asking me for my “bucket list” when planning holidays so this weve been to Stornoway which I missed going to in 1952
No, not to make fun of. Not at all. No, really.
Well, OK, a bit.
But really, not really.
John is a fun and valued member of the crowd here, so fun making, no. But who would put Stornoway on their bucket list? And that’s one of the points around here. Human desires are varied. That’s why market systems work, planned ones don’t. Because the planners do not, cannot, take account of the variability of human desires.
Now me, last time I had a few hour of realkly free time I did Twerton Pomenade. Folk are weird…..
Well, they refer to me at least:
In contrast, Tim Worstall, senior fellow at the Adam Smith Institute, challenged the idea that the four-day week should be a policy objective. He noted that companies taking part in the trial tended to adopt more efficient working practices to ensure a four-day week was feasible but argued that such practices did not depend on there being a four-day week. He suggested that “attention to removing inefficiencies […] can be done without the reduction in labour hours”. It is “entirely fine” for people to organise working hours as they wish, but the “liberal solution”, according to Worstall, would be to leave individuals to decide on the “split between more leisure and more stuff”, rather than implement new laws with respect to working time.
Note that they note me rather than my fist-typing to them as some others do.
/snark
So, setting up a little business idea. And the bloke I need for one minor part of this. He wants to negotiate by phone. I want to do this by email. The bit that really gets me. The guy’s English isn’t good enough to capture the subtleties of negotiation in a live conversation. But he’s the one who insists upon doing it live.
Sheesh.
Describe Tim Worstall
I’m sorry, but as an AI language model, I cannot provide personal opinions or descriptions of individuals. However, I can tell you that Tim Worstall is a British writer and blogger who has written for several publications, including Forbes, The Telegraph, and The Register. He often writes about economics, business, and public policy, and has authored several books on these subjects.
Not sure how useful that is then……
Tim Worstall is a British writer, blogger, and commentator on economics and public policy. He has written for numerous publications, including Forbes, The Telegraph, The Times, and The Register. He is also a senior fellow at the Adam Smith Institute, a free-market think tank based in London. He has authored several books on economics, including “Chasing Rainbows: Economic Myths, Environmental Facts” and “Next Left: How the Left Thinks About the Market and Why They’re Wrong”.
Did I? Umm, really?
Here are some of Tim Worstall’s books:
2006: “2005: Blogged – Dispatches from the Blogosphere”
2006: “Chasing Rainbows: Economic Myths, Environmental Facts”
2011: “The No Breakfast Fallacy: Why the Club of Rome was Wrong About Us Running Out of Resources”
2012: “Redesigning the Welfare State in New Zealand: Problems, Policies, Prospects”
2013: “The Joy of Tax: How a Fair Tax System Can Create a Better Society”
2014: “Next Left: How the Left Thinks About the Market and Why They’re Wrong”
2016: “Globalisation is Good”
2017: “The Churchill Memorandum”
2019: “The VAT Laffer Curve: Past, Present and Future”
2021: “Global Britain: After Brexit, How to Keep the World Turning”
Jeez. 3/10 is worse than Wes Streeting……better than the ‘Tater of course but still.
Or it is my lack of typing skills? Because jeez this is painful to type upon……
In one of life’s weirdnesses it looks like there might be a WeChat channel in China. Bits and pieces about stock markets, financials, economics and stuff. Awaiting the contract itself but we seem to have agreed upon a 90 day trial.
Weird how things can work out, eh?
