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Whether you write your own little blog your family reads or run a business online, everything is on the internet and you just don’t know who is reading it, or what they’re doing with it. Even having a MySpace, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook account can be rather detrimental to someone’s profile.
More and more businesses are Google’ing [...]

I was just writing my last post, and looked through my source code on my website.. and I looked at the footer… and what did I find??? SPAM!!!
Outbound links to http://www.loyno.edu/~voigt/n1/………
Hundreds of them.. straight into the wordpress admin, and in the footer.php file, there we have it all.
Wow, that is an odd one…
How it got [...]

I own a large number of domains… one of them is a fan site for Rove (Rovefeed.com)
I got an email (as the registrant) from the almighty G. Stating the following,
Dear site owner or webmaster of rovefeed.com,
While we were indexing your webpages, we detected that some of your pages were using techniques that are outside [...]

I love seeing people who claim to be “all that and a bag of potato chips” be it in any field.

In SME (Small to Medium Enterprises / Businesses)  you have one option if you want to fully utilise the power of Microsoft Office.  Shared contacts and calendars are incredibly useful when you have more than 1 computer that needs to be able to access global contacts (such as company clients) or shared calendars, allowing you [...]

Well, we all knew it had to happen! I read early this morning about the demise of Strewth! Strewth.wordpress.com has been publishing post after post of political land mines. Focusing of the Hervey Bay City Council, Wide Bay Water and and the surrounding areas.
Strewth has been pushing it lately with the release of a internal [...]

With any new invention or piece of technology, there are those who can use and operate it, and there are those who are incompetent and ruin the experience for anyone else who may be close or associated.
When email was a new thing for the home user, we’d receive large amounts of “chain-email”. This annoying emails, [...]

I was looking over comments on someone’s facebook account - this comment and picture stood out to me… it had the caption,
“I don’t know why people don’t live in Ipswich”
To me, it looks like a real scan of there paper - so no photoshopping involved!

Technorati Tags: Ipswich

I recently watched the Sky News/ ZDNet debate between communication ministers which is available here. Stephen Conroy, the Labor minister didn’t seem to be very well spoken, often tripping over his words and seeming confused at a lot of times. Helen Coonan, who is the current Minister, and part of the Liberal party [...]

Yes, I think I am the best blogger in the world. Thanks Everyone…….. </crap>
Smashing Magazine, an essential for any web designer who likes to produce good work, has been nominated for a “Best Technology Blog” award. They’re up against other blogs like Gizmodo, and other huge commercialized bogs. It would be good to see [...]