Archive for January, 2010

• Google AdWords: Credit Card Declined

  A common topic over in the AdWords Help Forum is that of a declined Credit Card. I’ve just had some more approaches from people suffering from this problem and looking for a cure. Someone signs up for AdWords, tries to make a payment and Google fails to take the money. The bank says that the [...]

  January 21st, 2010

• Google Help Forums, Customer Service, SEO and Stupidity

  Not quite a Jane Austen title, but “Help Forums and Helplessness” involved far too many terminal sibilants. The recent launch of Google’s Nexus One, the Google branded Android phone, highlights Google’s fledgling incompetence with mass market customer service, already demonstrated in abundance in many of Google’s own help forums. Harsh criticism, you might think, but [...]

  January 14th, 2010

• Creating a Rails 2.3.5 production environment on Debian Etch

  Minimum steps required to upgrade Ruby to 1.8.7p248 on Debian Etch. Includes capistrano scripts to help automate.

  January 10th, 2010