Suzanne Partridge is an artist who resides in the UK. You can view her work at her website (Suzanne Partridge), but the following exposè from her website details her style of painting in her own words:

My work is abstract and expressionistic, each painting is a response to the way I feel, both physically and emotionally.

Colour is a major inspiration for the work. Colour stops me in the street, invites me to breathe it in and take it with me.

Colours resurfaces as I pain, as do past and present experiences. I am able to manipulate colour and present moods, from initial automatic gestural marks into a balanced composition.

Although I draw from life I am not content with recognisable imagery. I prefer a more ambiguous picture plane, a surface which the viewer can project their own experience, enabling them to come into a personal conclusion about what my work represents to them.

You can visit her website to see some examples of her work…

The California Democrat announced today that Doug Partridge lost his attempt to gain a seat on the Eldon R-1 School District Property Board, at Eldon, Missouri.

1. Larry Henderson 1
2. Larry LaDuke 3 
3. Chris Mertens 3
4. Doug Partridge 1
5. Walter Simpson 0

With a total of only 8 votes cast, the R-1 school district in Eldon must be extremely small for that small turnout…. there were almost as many candidates as there were votes!

Professor Robert Partridge, head of Nanomaterials Research Centre at Massey University in New Zealand announced today that the research lab at the University has developed a major breakthrough in solar power technology. Utilizing a synthetic dye called porphyrin, the lab has developed a “proof of concept” cell, showing that the technology will work. The trick they said, is efficiently passing on the energy they receive from the sun. At this time, the proof of concept cell developed by the University is the most efficient in the world. It is also much cheaper then silicon based technologies, as the cell uses titanium dioxide, a relatively cheap mineral found throughout the world.

Soon you may be able to power your Ipod with the shirt you wear… What once was pure science fiction, may soon come to pass. Read more about this breakthrough at the online article site Stuff.co.nz.

Rob Partridge was the 2006 National Youth Champion in the 29er fleet, a category of yachts raced. As part of the P&B Musto Race Team, he was recently interviewed on the Yachts and Yachting website. Here are some of Rob’s accomplishments in his young life so far:

2007 29er Worlds - World Youth Male Champions , 11th Overall
2006 29er Worlds - World Youth Champions and 2nd Overall
2006 29er Nationals 1st Youth, 2nd Overall
2006 29er Europeans 2nd Overall
2006 Youth Nationals 1st Overall & Trials
2005 Ovington Memorial 1st Medium Handicap Fleet
2005 29er Grand Prix 1st Overall and South Series
2005 29er Eurocup UK Leg 1st
2005 Holt Tide Ride – 29er 1st
2005 UK 29er Inland Champion
2004 Topper Nationwide series 2nd Overall
2004 Topper Worlds6th Overall
2004 Topper National Champion
2003 Topper Nationals 8th Overall, 1st U14
2003 Eric Twiname 1st Topper Class

Kevin Partridge is a DJ associated with the GOMP. The GOMP (or, Grumpy Old Men & Some Sexy Chiquitas Productions) is an organization of individuals dedicated to the promotion and development of electronic music and the arts in Alberta, Canada. You can download a couple of media mixes for free from Kevin online, or from any of the other DJ’s associated with the GOMP.

Kevin will be performing on the Main State at the Motion Notion 2007 at The Bent River Ranch, Drayton Valley, Alberta, Canada from July 12-15, 2007… catch him live if you can…

One of the things I like to do is to follow the lives and interests of the various people named Partridge. For some, we were born with the name, others married into it, some were adopted into it… others just pen the name. This category is about any Partridge and their contribution… or in some cases, non-contribution to society. That’s right, you’ll not only see the good, but the bad and the ugly here.

One of the advantages of using WordPress as your CMS is the ability to easily add themes and completely change the design of your website. And if you’re as incapable as I am in creating a wonderful design for your website, there are plenty of talented indivuals who can assist you. I owe my thanks to for this theme to Tammy Hart. If you’re looking for a uniquely designed WordPress theme, then visit her design site.

It’s that time of the year to reflect on what was accomplished in the past year… I always set goals for the business in January, and ask my associates to do the same for their end of the business. Goals however, shouldn’t merely be written or spoken, they should be designed. Well thought out goals enable me to take calculated risks I otherwise might shoot from the hip trying to achieve… I’ve found over the years that if I am at point A now, and wish to reach point D at the end of the year, I need to achieve point B and then point C before I can get to point D.

In 2006 I also found that goals are not set in stone… even a well thought out goal may change as expectations are lowered or raised by the various factors interwoven with the its’ achievement. We encountered this in the past year… our main goal for the business was to add an additional 100 websites in 2006… and we did quite well through June (see the mid year update) while we failed to reach this goal by the end of 2006, it was due to the realization after looking at the results during August-September that the numbers weren’t being returned on certain low cost websites, as I had anticipated at the beginning of the year. And to compound that, our costs would be recurring for those websites (hosting/domain)… hence our loss would only increase into 2007. I slowly woke up as the year dragged through, that enabling these smaller sites would take a lot of our time up, and while we worked to accomplish that, we were merely spinning our wheels on our core group of websites.

So in September (Block C) I “decreed” that our efforts needed to focus back on the core websites which brought in the income, and we did that to a resounding success. I also decreed, that any website purchased would be of a certain cost and profit, bringing with it natural/SEO traffic that would justify its purchase and addition to our holdings. Since September we have added several new websites, which I’ll speak about in other posts, but not near in number to help us reach our goal of 100 new websites in 2006.

One might wonder why set a goal on a number of websites, instead of an income earned from those websites? At the end of 2005 and into the start of 2006 I was of the opinion that almost any website, if it received traffic, could make money online. I was also quite secure in my belief that if I worked on that website, I could increase the money it made. Hence, the money would follow the increase in websites… while this did occur, what also occurred was a rapid loss of time for my partner and me to focus on our core group of websites. So while we were succeeding with this one part of the goal, it was causing us to fail on other goals. Hence, an attitude adjustment was made.

Looking back over 2006, I can think of it as the beginning… setting the stone blocks for the foundation of the road that will eventually be paved in gold… ok… at least paved in silver…

Happy New Years!

Just like me to simply neglect making at least a simple post to this blog during the past several months. Hard to believe my last post was way back on July 1… so time to start posting again.

The past 3 months finds my network of sites growing, but not nearly enough to achieve the goal of 100 sites by years end. Mainly because, my partner and I have worked extremely hard at improving some of our larger existing websites, instead of acquiring a bunch of smaller websites as we had done for the first half of the year. Just adding 1 section of content can take posting up to 50 new pages online or more. Easy enough to account for a couple smaller sites. But my goal for us was 100 sites, irregardless of content amount, and while that is still possible, I do believe its slipping away.

Perhaps next year I should set a goal for the number of ORIGINAL CONTENT pages I’ll build/buy, instead of requiring 100 new sites.

Since we’ve had some new sites for more then 6 months I’m starting to get an idea of where I would like to take our company in the future. Always changing, always adapting… that’s the way to win online…

Anyone who uses goals as a barometer of their success, are often dissappointed in their results… thereby taking the negative attitude of exactly what was accomplished. A mid year update is often looked at with trepidation of the results being put to paper. Did I meet my goal?

We’re now half way through 2006 and as I look at it on paper, I am quite pleased. The goal to buy or build 100 new sites by the end of the year is exactly on target. We presently have acquired or built 50 new websites. Our list of websites is getting quite extensive!

My main concern with it though, is that most sites were purchased, and not built. I find that a site built by us has a better chance of success, then a site purchased, for the most part. There have been a few exceptions to that, and a couple of those 50 new sites, are already cash flow positive.

Some of the better cash flow websites built or purchased this year include:

Genealogy Books
First announced in this post, this was a no-brainer for Judy and I. Built using an Amazon AWS script, we were quickly able to build a book site devoted to genealogy using Amazon. While this has already proven to be a profitable move on our part, I want to continue adding deep links to the content of the site, to make it even more profitable. The monies made from this particular website, are going directly into Access Genealogy to aquire additional content. This site has now obtained a PR of 4 in the latest Google update.

Native American Gifts
Native American Gifts was another no-brainer for Judy and I. An extremely large portion of the audience for Access Genealogy are Native Americans, or Native American Wannebee’s (those who are trying to prove their Native American Ancestry.) We call this the Wannabe Tribe. Built also using an Amazon AWS script (a different one this time), this website has produced sales for us, albeit, at a dissappointing rate.

Diet Help Files
I’ve mentioned this website many times here, as it has been a great success for us. While still not profitable, due to a higher then normal cost, it has proven to be a great jumping off point for deep linking into Track Your Diet’s, Diet Book Section. More then just diet books though, also featuring health books on various subject matters, I can utilize other websites for further deep linking. The content of this site is original, and is its strong point. Almost all traffic to it, is natural SERP traffic. My goal in the next six months for this website is to continue building credible back links to it, and adding additional original content.

Track Your Diet
Our largest expense so far this year, Track Your Diet has been a great success. I don’t expect to break even on this site for some time to come, but I’ve taken major steps in reducing costs, while still building the user base, and ad revenue. My projection is at the rate we’re going we’ll begin making money on the purchase of this website in early 2007. Part of the success in this website, has been my ability to get free traffic from search engines, where in previous times the traffic was almost all paid. The greatest expense for the website, was the paid search listings. Removing that obstacle to profitability, has made this site a great income producer.

Depression Help Files
An article site providing basic knowledge of Depression, and how to cure or cope with it. Depression is not an active search online, and I never expected this site to be a raving success. But I am finding that it manages to eek out a profitable amount each month, even while we contine to use MSN’s Ad Network with it.

StatsCode
A website counter site can be an easy method for a webmaster to establish a tool that naturally gains PR. This is what the PR ranking of Google is suppose to be about. The quality and quantity of links to a particular website are suppose to reflect the strengths of that websites content. A free counter site, by its very nature, builds quantity in linking, because every counter, whether visible or invisible, produces a link back to the website. The ability for StatsCode to provide an invisible counter script with a whole host of features, has allowed this website to produce numerous sales this year.