Lets Recap...
20 October 2008
Last week turned out to be a hugely busy week for us Semantians. We put three major projects live.
• Foxhills healthspa went live on Wednesday.
• Merlin Annual Pass went live on Thursday.
• DeepSeaWorld went live on Friday.
But don't worry, we still got home in time for tea :-)
Posted by Nick Warren at 3:15 PM
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The great rubber-band ball challenge!
16 October 2008
UPDATE: See our progress on the Semantic BallCam page!Nearly every morning, with the morning post, we usually find a free gift from the postman in the shape of a rubber-band. The accustomed ritual (until recently) has been to flick them at each other or use them for target practice on the toys that line the top shelf of our book cabinet.
I have since decided to use them for a much more challenging task: creating a huge rubber-band ball! I searched the office high and low for all the stray bands I could find and have starting putting the ball together...
As you can see, the ball is only tiny at the moment (currently about an eighth the size of my mug of tea). The challenge of making the ball much larger could take some time, so I think we need your help!
Are there any stray, lonely, despondent, jaded rubber-bands laying around your office or home? Do you think they would enjoy taking part in our Semantic challenge? If so, why not pop them in an envelope and send them to us:
The Great Rubber-band Ball Challenge
Semantic Ltd.
2 Venture Road
Southampton Science Park
Southampton
Hampshire
SO16 7NP
Thanks in advance everyone :-)
Posted by The Mossolator at 9:24 AM
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The Magnificent Four-And-A-Half!
10 October 2008
Great news... Semantic is growing again. We are really happy to welcome David O'Hara as the fifth member of the team. Well almost.
Some of you may remember David (right), an impressive fellow whose been on our case for a couple of years now, and came in to do work experience earlier in the year.
Thankfully David is still pursuing his education (which means he won't be putting us out of business quite yet), but outside of that he's continued to look at, test, and occasionally break our sites.
(A problem spotted is a problem solved).
Anyway, we've decided it's about time we officially recognise his contribution, bring him onto the payroll in a small way, and generally make him part of the team.
Right now David is focusing on testing our work, but it wouldn't surprise us at all if he gets involved in building things as time goes by.
So if you happen to see David (david@semantic.co.uk) copied into emails from time to time do not be alarmed. He's one of us.
Posted by Nick Warren at 10:00 AM
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Happy Birthday Neil!
06 October 2008
Just a quick note to wish Neil a happy twenty-third birthday today. Happy Birthday mate! Roll on lunchtime.
Posted by Nick Warren at 8:00 AM
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Travel Back in Time
01 October 2008
Seven years is a long time in the history of the web, do you remember when Yahoo reined supreme... and Google were barely a blip on the map.Google do, which is why to celebrate their tenth anniversary they have brought their oldest available index back to life. You can see it here... but only for a limited period.
http://www.google.com/search2001.html
Of course you won't find YouTube, Facebook or MySpace in this index... but blow me down... you will find us. Bless. We are number eight (on a search for "Semantic") out of only 426,000 matches.
Today, seven years later, we are still there, at about the same position in Google's latest index... on a search of 23,400,000 matches!
Posted by Nick Warren at 6:51 AM
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