Richard Bexon Ramblings of a mad man in Costa Rica

This interesting name is a patronymic (son of) of Beck, which itself is either of Anglo-Saxon, Old Norse of early medieval English origin, and has three possible sources. Firstly, it could be from a topographical name for someone who lived beside a stream, from the northern Middle English “bekke”, stream. Topographical surnames were among the earliest created, since both natural and man-made features in the landscape provided easily recognisable distinguishing names in the small communities of the Middle Ages. Secondly, it could be derived from a habitational name from any of the places so called in northern France, for example Bec Hellowing in Eure, Normandy, having its origins in the Olde Norse “bekkr”, a stream. Lastly, it could be derived from a metonymic occupational name for a maker, seller, or user of a mattock or pickaxe, from the Olde English pre 7th Century “becca”, mattock or pickaxe. Job-descriptive surname originally denoted the actual occupation of the namebearer, and later became hereditary. Recordings from London Church Registers include the christening of Miriam, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Bexon, in 1883. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Walter Bec, which was dated 1086, in the Domesday Book of Buckinghamshire, during the reign of King William 1, known as “The Conqueror”, 1066 – 1087. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to “develop” often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

Some other interesting Bexon’s

- Town in Kent England

- Town in saint Lucia

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Currently there are giving 15% discount, you just need to enter ‘FIFTY’ into the coupn code when you check out.

I would like however to make some website complaints, just in case anyone from teh company is reading, which i highly doubt:

1) Very confusing homepage, confused at what you are selling, especially as the right sidebar is asking me to vote on what sports I watch.  Are you selling anything?

2) Load time of the site is pretty terrible.

3) menu bar is not highlighted enough and also only has 3 options, where is the specials page or top 10 shoes, people click this stuff.

Shoebacca if you want some help please let me know!!

So I have numerous websites and blogs working on wordpress and one of the biggest frustrations is that once you have numerous plugins working on a template the speed of the site dramatically reduces.  I first tried playing around with images and trying to compress them but only so much you can do.  So I used Yslow (Firefox plugin from yahoo) to analyse what I could do (use the performance analysis).  It mentioned GZIP’s, ETAGS, CDN’s etc.  Personally I am not that technical so I did a plugin search and installed 2 plugins, which dropped the sites load time by 50%, it was 8 seconds, now it is 4 seconds.

First one I used was to GZIP the page and also to compress the CSS – even for complete dummies like myself, all you do is install the plugin.  The plugin is called wp-css and can be downloaded here.

The second one is called wp-super cache minify, and this compresses the Javascript on the pages which can be one of the heaviest elements.  If you have wp-super cache, delete the copy on your server and re-upload this one, download here.  Then just activate, however DO NOT upgrade the plugin otherwise it will over write the edits of this plugin.

I use the wp super cache minify with half on as it seems to work better.  I hope this helps.