It seems strange in this day and age that there is a still a need to ‘stake a claim’ for a piece of digital landscape. We have often be warned about identity theft but it’s often just other people with the same identity (i.e. name) as you that you need to defend against theft of your name or infact the name you might want with a new service. I have no interest in being mtoon768562@hotmail.com or www.facebook.com/mattatoon/ and fortunately I’ve been using the internet longer than most other ‘Matt Toons’ which means I’ve got many of the important sites in the bag so to speak. Mr Toon I...

As you can see I had this idea of hosting my own blog. In case you wondered your here reading it. Now I thought that would be a simple thing to do just put a site onto the internet and eventually the magic that is the Google-bot or the Bing-bot (do we call it that?) would one day swoop down and make me part of the internet (I firmly believe, albeit slightly misguided that if your on a public site and not in the index then your not actually on the internet). Now I suppose before I go into my failings as a web developer I feel  that I need to justify myself. An explanation. I’m a fairly seasoned web...