This Week with Taylor & Gordon

News – Elon Musk has purchased Twitter for $44 Billion – https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/04/25/business/elon-musk-twitter Trix in the Stik children’s entertainers magic convention is coming up Gordon is speaking at this convention on the topic of Software Tools for Children’s Entertainers Speaking at an event helps to make you an authority in this field This could eventually turn ... Read more

Gordon is rushing off to a show as soon as the broadcast is complete Secret Cinema – Bridgerton Dance Show editing finished Distance Calculator – using an API you can find out the distance between two or more places Useful for many different industries, can get results for walking, car, public transport Cost for API ... Read more

New Angle – we changed the position of the camera Optimising our workflow. New gadgets – Taylor bought a new Magic Mouse, and then found the lost one when he returned home New watch strap – loop style – fits much better MagSafe case for iPhone 13 Non-powered, rotating arm which attaches to the lid ... Read more

Busy Week (as always) Editing of the Dance School Show is in full swing Launched nearly three websites this week Hidden Costs for your business Not hidden to the customer, but for the supplier or business Customer support can be the biggest one Do you include some or all of these hidden costs in your ... Read more

Rishi Sunak announced some changes to NI and tax this week. Apple announced the Mac Studio – https://www.apple.com Apple’s websites went down for a short time 80/20 rule – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle 80% of your work comes from 20% of your customers, both in work, time, effort and income. The downturn of DVD DVD players are becoming ... Read more

We’re Back Our last episode was five weeks ago Missed the flight out due to the storms Then shortly afterwards I tested positive Flight delays on the way back which would have meant Gordon would have missed a full day of shows Creating systems as  a backup plan Positive results for nearly two weeks Support ... Read more

One week till we go away Software bug found by Taylor We always assume it’s us at fault and not the developers Marty wanted to help describe the issue Bugs are always time consuming – finding, reporting and waiting for the fix Bugs can only happen in a certain environment and situation which makes some ... Read more

Update – Flow, Pomodora app – going well and keeping Taylor focussed Pro’s and Con’s to To-Do-Lists Help with Motivations and remembering to do tasks Non Time Sensitive todos never get done Top Tip – create your to-do-list the night before a busy day App on multiple platforms – Todoist – https://todoist.com Creating a Will ... Read more

News – Google’s free G-Suite tier coming to an end – you will need a paid plan to continue – https://9to5google.com/2022/01/19/g-suite-legacy-free-edition/ Email with a custom domain may be affected Big News – We are heading to America in February Helping Marc P. Summers with an exhibition in Las Vegas Working on Marcs websites the following ... Read more

Pomodoro Technique – help with productivity – https://francescocirillo.com/pages/pomodoro-technique 25 minutes working , then a brief break before getting back to work Great for people who struggle with focusing on a task Using an app that will block access to certain apps like Facebook and Discord etc. Taking away distractions, whatever that may be for you ... Read more

Happy New Year. New Season, New Colour Scheme – Green. News – Wordcamp in Portugal – https://europe.wordcamp.org/2022/ Right in the middle of Pantomime, Goldilocks and The Three Bears. Gordon wrote it, directed it, and is in it. Last weeks This Week With show didn’t happen as we were at the theatre preparing. A few tickets ... Read more

Merry Christmas to all our viewers and listerners. We are back in January with Season 3   Visit the website: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk Drayson Design Website – https://www.draysondesign.com The Creative Tinker Website – https://www.thecreativetinker.com Facebook: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/facebook Youtube: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/youtube * Full transcript will be available on the...

Broadcasting from different locations Nearly Christmas, Season 3 starts in January News: AWS went down TWICE this week Lesson to learn from this is to have backup processes Working on a new website: https://www.oxychangelog.com A website that will keep track of changes with the WordPress Builder Oxygen REST API to be added to the site ... Read more

Testing Email Templates Testing Outlook and Gmail to see how your emails look Images can be hidden by default Newsletters have the same problem Built in templates have normally been tested on all the platforms Email on Acid – https://www.emailonacid.com Testing on many different platforms and devices Periodically check your email designs as technology changes ... Read more

Goldilocks Hoodies arrived from Custom Shirts and More GoDaddy had a data breach – 1.2 million users details stolen Same issue with 123-reg, TSO host, and other subsidiary companies – https://winbuzzer.com/2021/11/26/godaddy-data-breach-is-worse-than-first-thought-xcxwbn/ If you host with any of these companies then you should check your site for backdoors or malicious code Contact Form Mistakes A...

Still very cold Finishing off Random Website Generator – https://random.oxybuildchallenge.com Creating ideas for practise websites Visitors can submit their own suggestions that get added to the list of option The colour is generated randomly New feature allows locking a part of the suggestion Could be useful for Improv Website Maintenance and Updates HTML and Perl ... Read more

The weather has turned cold, and Gordon has one due to that Lots of illness going around Update Mac to Monterey – https://www.apple.com/uk/macos/monterey/ Make sure your apps are compatible with the new OS before updating Moving customers to a new software from Airtable to Zoho Subscriptions – https://www.zoho.com/uk/subscriptions/ This move automates everything Setting up good ... Read more

First week of Pantomime rehearsals Second rehearsal was with Juggling John, who did a Circus workshop for the cast – https://www.jugglingjohn.com Good chance to have a team building event Apple Event this week where they announced new MacBook Pro’s with the M1 Pro and M1 Max chips – https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/ Google Ads (new name for Adwords) ... Read more

The episodes graphics were successfully created What colour is the next season going to be? Leave a comment Automating Customers Email Broadcasts Archive broadcasts on the customers website as a post using Integromat – https://www.integromat.com/ Watching for trigger words in an email to create the new post. Setup a dedicated IMAP email and subscribe to ... Read more

News: Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Whats App all went down on Monday for five hours. This had a knock on effect with anything that used Facebook login. They lost access to their servers, which made bringing them back online very difficult. Twitch had a data breach. Username, passwords and earnings were released. Taylor started building a ... Read more

Back to the previous camera Epic vs Apple lawsuit – S1E18 we first discussed this Community Day was very busy, no rain and lots of people Gordon managed to lose my voice Three way “tug of war” – http://www.partygamespond.com/three-way-tug-o-war/ Used my microphone during my show the next day to save my voice Catchup on Taylor’s ... Read more

Bit of a cough Manual leafleting is hard work Marty found all the back gates… Sanderstead Community Day HDMI Converter to use a mirrorless camera as a webcam Trying it out for this episode Sitemaps – what they are and why they are important Visual Sitemaps – https://visualsitemaps.com A family tree view for your websites ... Read more

Marty joins us Suffering from Crohns Disease Bowel Inflammation, constant tiredness Wipes you out for periods of time Lots of people have it, hidden disease SCD & SDC Sanderstead Community Day, 25th September 2021 Gordon organises all the entertainment Bands, Magic show, Tug of War competition Sanderstead Dramatic Club – Goldilocks and the Three Bears ... Read more

Questions and Answers Episode Gordon, what is your favourite trick to perform and why? Taylor, what is the most difficult coding challenge you faced, and did you find a solution? Which one of you works more hours a week? Gordon, what do you prefer doing, magic, graphics or web design? How many websites have you ... Read more

News – Discord Music Bot Adapting The Way You Work Performing outside has many challenges, like flying insects, external noises like aeroplanes, wind, rain and so on Making changes to suit your customers I have put a system in place to make sure there is cover and a plug socket (where available) It can be ... Read more