Live from Miami

Made it to Miami no problems and bought my new laptop on Wednesday, it’s a Toshiba 1.73 Centrino with 1meg RAM and 100 Gig HDD. Got a good deal on it but there seems to be a problem with the battery not charging up so we’ll be taking it back to the shop today.

Miami, is not really how I expected it. It has a lot more Latin influence than I thought, with Spanish seemingly spoken moreso than English. Lots of coconut palms everywhere make it feel very much like Cancun, and the weather is not much different, although it is a little cooler today.
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Off to Miami

Tomorrow I’m off to Miami for a few days to buy my new laptop. Staying with a friend and think there may well be some parties too. Back on Friday but should be able to post to the blog from there too, that’s a great thing about this software you can post from anywhere.

Spirit Air 10% Off

While researching flights to buy a new computer I came across Spirit Air, they fly to Cancun from several destinations in the States and also have a ton of internal flights all at good prices. At the moment they have an offer on of 10% off. The promotion code is FS7854 you will get 10% off flights from now till November 15 and 5% off prices November 16 to January 31. Tickets must be booked by July 30th. Here’s spirits website.

Computer Mishaps

Just before I left for my vacation to England my desktop computer stopped working. I took it in to be looked at and it seems like the chip had blown. I took it over to a friend of a friend and left it with him while we were away. It now seems like the whole motherboard is dead and it’s almost certainly beyond repair.

The loss of the desktop PC was not that big a deal as I always used my laptop for most of my webstuff. I’d just buy a new desktop as and when I could. Then I wake up yesterday and Jannet tells me the laptop suddenly shut down on her while she was checking her email and is not rebooting.

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Latest Cancuncare Google Rankings

I was checking Google tonight as I do quite frequently to find out my latest search engine rankings. On a Friday night, I probably should have been at Corona Bar, La Taberna or some other bar in cancun, but I’ve hardly left the house since we got back from vacation.

Google is reponsible for 66% of the visitors to the main website, and is the foremost search engine you should optimise for.

For the term ‘Cancun Vacation’ we get the #1 spot out of 17.8 million results returned, we also get #1 for the plural ‘Cancun Vacations’ out of 14.9 million results. In both cases we beat Trip Advisor into second place. I really can’t complain at that, can I?

For the message board, there are two main terms that are important,

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Our Secret Bank

Today, we went to pay our rent. Here in Cancun there are no automatic or online payments, at least if there is we haven’t managed to figure it out yet. You have to physically go to the bank and ask them to transfer money from one account to another.

At the main banks you take a ticket and sit in the rows upon rows of chairs and wait until your number is shown, and only then can you proceed to the counter. Sometimes, you’ll receive a ticket showing #643 when the current ticket is #487. Now you can either sit tight and wait for a couple of hours or you can go off and do something else and hope you get back in time for your ticket. Many is the time we’ve returned back to have just missed our number, so you have to start over or give up.

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