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Tuesday Update

September 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

I have a PAX write-up to complete. I’m doing some major work on my other site, LOb, tonight; hopefully I can say that is live shortly. By shortly I mean probably Friday.
Must stop twittering so much, it takes away from blog time.
Speaking of time, the focus of my time is shifting from tinking around to [...]

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Tags: Apple · CreationRobot · IT · Software

Ping Services for your Blog

August 14th, 2008 · No Comments

Why Ping? Well it promotes your blog, well your blog post, to a wider readership. So it’s worth doing, as I’m assuming that you want people to read what you are writing. So what is a blog Ping? It notifies a service that your blog has been updated, the advantage of the sites below is [...]

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Tags: Blog Tech · CreationRobot · IT

One Step Forward, Vista is so Slow

July 18th, 2008 · No Comments

I have moy old work laptop, a 1.7ghz XP SP2 IBM thinkpad T42. I have a new one as well, a Lenevo thinkpad tablet X61. The tablet’s cool, and I love that functionality. What I hate is the fact the new laptop has no trackpad (ARG!) and worse, much worse, it is Vista.
I really don’t [...]

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Tags: IT · Security

Firefox Download Day 2008

June 17th, 2008 · No Comments

10am PST, 6PM GST, 1PM EST
Spread Firefox | Download Day 2008

That’s in 30 minutes folks. So get ready. Full list of places below, just add 30 minutes to find your start time:

Tags: 2008, firefox, firefox download

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Tags: CreationRobot · Software

The Security Mindset

May 29th, 2008 · No Comments

Security is what I do, it’s how I earn my living - and it is odd. You end up thinking about the world in a completely different way to other people. I’ve walked into meetings before now and asked questions that no-one else has asked during the whole lifecycle of the meeting. It’s caused more [...]

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Tags: CreationRobot · IT · Personal · Security

How Little Do Users Read on an Average Web Page?

May 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

On the average Web page, users have time to read at most 28% of the words during an average visit; 20% is more likely.
The web is mostly visual I guess. My most popular posts on CR are those with a high visual content.
And on those you agree to pages —
In research for the book [...]

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Tags: Blog Tech · CreationRobot

OK What Now

May 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

I go to bed with the website looking just fine, I wake up and the sidebar is at the bottom of the page. What gives?
Oh fark, time to try and fix things …
Update: Fixed. It was the post made from ScribeFire. The image was too large for the width of the page and had bumped [...]

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On using ScribeFire

May 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

This is my first post using ScribeFire. It seems to have slipped under the radar for me, considering I’m one of the blogging ‘old guard’. I’m going to spend a few days trying it out and I’ll let you know how it goes.
I’m going to have to search my blog and see if I’ve ever [...]

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Tags: Blog Tech · CreationRobot