Every week or so I take a look at the search terms that have brought people to my blog. It's often interesting and sometimes disappointing that so many come looking for something that my site so obviously doesn't provide.
Therefore I've decided to take a look at some of the search terms and answer all the questions that visitors have inadvertently asked through Google which the blog doesn't answer.
These are the top 20 Searches this month:
1. martin beeby
2. thoughtful gifts
3. millers hag
4. silverlight vs flex
5. flex alternatives
6. silverlight flex
7. diggsample.zip
8. flex silverlight
9. mcad .net blog
10. seadragon zoom
11. white men cant rap
12. "silverlight 2" ribbon 2008 controls
13. acid 3
14. cant read
15. compare flex silverlight
16. flex silverlight comparison
17. funny letters
18. integrate windows live messenger
19. otex
20. regex helper
Now some of the search terms are dull and already answered somewhere on the blog, but below are a few that aren't and deserve a little more explanation.
2. thoughtful gifts
A thoughtful gift can't really be searched for? The whole idea is that you should put some thought into it! If your really struggling I always find tickets to a show are a good bet, rack your brain and try and remember something that she said she wanted to see. If you have more cash to splash stick with jewellery.
3. millers Hag
Millers hag are 4 piece band who I have no affiliation with but mentioned in one of my blogs you can find out more about them on the millers hag myspace page
5. flex alternatives
Silverlight is a great flex alternative this is a great place to start
7. diggsample.zip
You'll be looking for Scott gu's Digg sample which is on Scott's Blog
10. seadragon zoom
You should take a look at the brilliant video to see seadragon in action http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129
12. "silverlight 2" ribbon 2008 controls
As far as I can tell no one has yet released a good silverlight Ribbon Demo however Telerik have a good tab strip that could probably be extended: http://www.telerik.com/demos/silverlight/QSFEngine/index.html#Examples/TabStrip/FirstLook
13. funny letters
Hmmm how the hell did you get to my site? perhaps you should try: http://www.nwlink.com/~mikeblas/letters/index.htm
18. integrate windows live messenger
You need to check out http://msstudios.vo.llnwd.net/o21/mix08/08_WMVs/T03.wmv for a demo on integrating live messenger into anysite.
19. otex
It's pretty good stuff. You can find out more at http://www.otexear.com or buy on boots http://www.boots.com/guidedsearch/newsearch.jsp?searchArea=1&searchTerm=otex&uri=%2Fguidedsearch%2Fnewsearch.jsp&classificationId=&contentId=&articleId=&N=0&Ntk=all&Nty=1
20. regex helper
I use the regex workbench which can be downloaded here and is totally brilliant http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/RegexWorkbench/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=406