July 6th, 2008
As I move my professional focus from picking up all manner of bits and pieces when there’s no-one else to do it, and into the highly focused and targeted tasks involved in SEO (Search Engine Optimisation), one of the most frequently raised questions seems to be: Why do SEO?
In some circles, SEO has something of [...]
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June 2nd, 2008
Long the domain of spammers, scrapers and splogs, the .info domain has suffered at the hands of less reputable websites. But is that on the change?
Surfers take the domain less seriously, and there has been much talk about the search engines thinking similarly, de-ranking .info domains when returning search results on the premise that [...]
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January 15th, 2008
In my email inbox this morning was a lovely message from ebay letting me know my account had been locked down due to it having been hacked. Great. So, not knowing exactly what, where, or when, the best policy was to spend some time locking down any other accounts by updating passwords.
I was pretty impressed [...]
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November 24th, 2007
Recover/repair a corrupt aes-encrypted sparse image (or File Vault) on Mac OS X
(tags: osx encryption security diskimage repair recover damage)
Incutio PHP Amazon Search
(tags: amazon php api xml webservices script)
SimplePie Documentation: Create a sample SimplePie-enabled page
(tags: rss simplepie documentation)
kirupa.com - PHP and XML
(tags: php xml flash tutorial programming)
WordPress How To - Exclude Categories from a Feed [...]
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August 13th, 2007
One island, one geek, and just five of their cannot live without geek items. Paul Parkinson turns up at the island’s customs office with an unusual request: to trade his choice of website for an additional gadget. Will he manage to persuade our customs officer to approve his request?Main Site www.desertislandgeek.com
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