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…especially for small businesses I read an article in Inc. magazine which showed that business blogging is on the decline, and it was brought back to the front of my mind when I looked at the analytics for my website.  Sure, I don’t get a lot of visitors, but I’ve been somewhat lax lately at adding posts...
The colour of magic is the first of the Discworld series and introduces us to some of the main characters throughout the series, Rincewind and Death.  This novel is a break from my usual action/adventure books that I like to read, but after having heard so much about the series, I thought it would be crazy not to have...
I’m a firm believer in giving credit where it is due, and that will come in just a short while.  Firstly though, I would like to apologise to anyone who tried to access my site yesterday afternoon and found themselves unable to do so.  There was a problem with a plug-in which the site uses, which caused the whole...
For those who read my post on Apple riding high against slow moving Android, you might be thinking that the next logical step for me would be to replace the LG Optimus 2x I currently have with either the iPhone 4S, or wait until the iPhone 5 is out an get  new phone then.  You would, however, be wrong.  It’s true...
Apple have announced their second quarter financial results and shown a massive 94% profit increase, year-on-year.  Whichever way you look at it, that’s impressive.  Revenues of $34.2 billion and a net profit margin of $11.6 billion are impressive numbers for any business.  Most would be happy with revenues of...
Okay, so I am a little late to this party, with the Windows 8 community preview having been around for a while now, but as a techie I think I should at least have a go and see what it is like.  After all I do like games and might need to install Windows again at some point. As a Linux user (currently running Ubuntu 12.04...
So it’s lunchtime here, and the countdown has ended.  What was it for you ask, well I am happy to be able to tell you. Once the clocks here hit mid-day and the countdown clock Samsung had got to 00:00:00 the page refreshed as if by magic, and took an age to do so at that.  I’m willing to bet that Samsung thought...
According to some reports out there, there is under 1 hour to go until the new Samsung Galaxy S3 is announced. The site that Samsung have up at the moment is http://www.tgeltaayehxnx.com/ Let’s see what comes of that at lunch time?!
For those who read occasionally, I’m a big fan of Andy McNab, and am working my way through the Nick Stone thrillers.  I’m spacing them with other books, just to give me a change every now and then, but there’s still at least 70 books I want to get through.  I’ve recently finished this book and...
Working in web development I often wonder what the best doctype to code a website in is.  At University I was taught to use XHTML, other articles suggest using HTML, and then there’s the need to figure out whether to go with transitional or strict.  So many options, and when you are close to making a decision, HTML...