Think Before You Voicemail

Voicemail is dead. Please tell everyone so they’ll stop using it.
When I first started out in the real world in the mid-nineties voicemail was an important productivity tool. I remember people talking about the pros and cons of various enterprise voicemail systems – which had the best forwarding and group messaging, which allowed for archiving, [...]

I’m looking for writers!! Can you help out? probably….

Well for many years now I’ve enjoyed writing, be it for myself, publicly on my personal blog, business blog, technically or even on those scraps of paper that end up laying around everywhere.
I am sure there are many of you out there that have a keen interest in writing, and so it got me thinking [...]

How to make Facebook “business Useful” – Business 2.0

Alas where the rest of you spend your time enjoying the tiny pleasures of life my mind drifts away to the thoughts of how to make better what is already great!
It got me thinking of what facebook is missing if it would want to become a more business orientated tool and take away the stigma [...]

Beating Google?

Is there anything more fun than sitting around, growing your hair, drinking a cool beer while listening to Frank Sinatra and pondering how to change the balance of power in the search world and unseat Google ?
Better search ? Too subjective. Better monetization ? After the fact. Better User Interface ? Will we know it [...]

The glass of water issue [aka my stupidity]

An issue that seriously frustrates me, that i keep forgetting to deal with has become such an annoyance to myself that I’ve decided to write about it, to hopefully remind me next time to cut out the stupidity and deal with it in the a logical and smart way!
I tend to love drinking water, and [...]

Wordpress 2.5 Released [Reflection on upgrade and SVN]

So on Saturday the latest version of wordpress (2.5) has been released, which has been in the making for the past 6months.
I have always been an extremely fond user of wordpress, and the system never fails to impress me, as a blogging interface, a CMS, site management, it is incredibly clean, intuitive and simply “beautiful”. [...]

MySQL equivalent of str_replace | Search and Replace

A great little time saving tip when doing database management, or any sort of migrations within domains that might require you to modify a certain part of a string in a MySQL column.
The issue:
You have an online store that stores all the products in a MySQL table called ‘products’, your images are hard coded links [...]

Remote Mail Delivery for Google Apps and Postfix Mail Server

After stumbling upon this issue various times I’ve decided to finally resolve it.
The Issue:
If you have a domain hosted on a server, but you have setup Google Apps for your domain to use the Gmail style email system for your domain, then you might notice a problem with sending mail to your own domain.
The problem [...]

Collection of Red Dwarf Quotes

KRYTEN: My goodness, I do believe I am drunk. I suddenly feel the need to strut my funky stuff.
CAMILLE: Please! I can’t meet your shipmates. Trust me.
KRYTEN: But you don’t know them! You’ll like them! Well, some of them. Well, one of them. Maybe.
RIMMER: You are a total, total… a word has yet to be [...]

Facebook Phishing Alert: 371233 cn

There has been a phishing attack currently going on in facebook where the site: http://www.facebook.com.profile.php.id.371233.cn/ has been posted on peoples wall by ones that have fallen victim.

from wikipedia [link]:
In computing, phishing is an attempt to criminally and fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity [...]