Thank you Akismet, the blogger’s Saviour!

I reached another blogging milestone of sorts overnight. The Akismet plug-in has now blocked it’s first 1,000 spam comments. Thanks Akismet, and all the folks at WordPress for having the vision and good sense to include it in your offering. The accuracy is incredible and it has never failed me even as my traffic and [...]

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One to watch – KPILibrary.com

It’s been quite a while since I did a “One to Watch” post mentioning a site you might want to check out, and since most of my recent work life has been centered around data visualisation, I thought it time I mentioned KPILibrary.
If you are what you measure, how do you know where to start [...]

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Do you PopFly?

SilverLight RC1.0 was released today and with it this weekend came my invite to join the PopFly beta. I signed up to the wait list mid week so it only took a couple of days, and what a pretty invite it is!

After accepting, creating a short profile as a first time user and a quick [...]

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Make your startup Web 2.0 sexy in a Weekend

Every now and then you stumble on a real gem of a site and 9Tutorials is just such a treasure. I came across it a few months ago and thought it time I shared!Armed with a copy of Photoshop, a good eye for colour and the guides from this site alone, you can create a [...]

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Watch out, there’s Paypal Spam About..or..How to Spot a Fake

I’ve decided to post this for 2 reasons:

Despite all the scaremongering that the security and anti-virus companies in our industry engage in, I dont get all that much spam, especially phishing emails
I hope this will help educate others to spot a fake and avoid the thievery of phishing artists

I received this email at the weekend. [...]

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