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[19 Jul 2010 | 2 Comments | 607 views]
Paul the Psychic Octopus Predicts the Future of the Internet

If you are not sure who Paul the psychic Octopus is, you must be living under a rock, and this rock must not be located in a small aquarium in Germany. In which case I will treat you with compassion for your unbelievable levels of ignorance and post a link to a video of Paul in action below.

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[30 Mar 2010 | One Comment | 855 views]
ScribbleScratch.com is For Sale!

Unfortunately its true. In the need to get a deposit together to buy a house (thanks to the GFC) I have made the decision to sell Scribblescratch. Hopefully the new owner will keep me on as a writer.

You can view the auction on Flippa here.

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[26 Mar 2010 | No Comment | 637 views]

Buying expired (or more accurately soon to be expired) domains can be extremely beneficial to a new websites ranking, pagerank and number of inlinks. Buying a domain with 1000 inlinks saves you money and time trying to achieve the same result with a new website. Also its fairly common knowledge that the age of a domain is an important rankng factor with the search engines. Anyway why you buy an expired domain is beside the point, heres a nice simple tip to help you find expired and related domains.

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[1 Mar 2010 | No Comment | 616 views]

March 2010 not only marks the start of a new season it is also the 4th anniversary since the first tweet was sent. Its amazing to think that Twitter, the global social phenomenon has only been around for 4 short years and grown into one of the top 50 most popular websites according to alexa.com. Personally I was an early adopter signing up for my twitter account in late 2006 after hearing positive reviews about it being the next big thing on other websites similar to this one. Despite my almost non-existent participation with twitter since, I am still going to make a claim that may demonstrate my ignorance and marginalise me from every social user in the world.

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[10 Feb 2010 | No Comment | 278 views]

I am soon to implement a small change to my posting style. As you (hopefully) know I spend a good portion of this blog experimenting with products, ideas and services. After all the only way to know if something works (or does not work) for sure, is by testing it out. However in my haste to answer so many questions at once I have ended up with a lot of open articles without conclusions. The problems include:

New articles with only half the content look unfinished and unprofessional
By the time I …

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[20 Jan 2010 | 4 Comments | 987 views]

As any professional athlete, businessman, investor or coach will attest, learning from your mistakes or failures is a critical component of ensuring future success. I have been online close to 6 years now and thought, a public display of the mistakes I have made as I endeavour to become a web entrepreneur will not only help me to grow, but such public humiliation may also help new webmasters avoid many of the mistakes that I have made in the past.

Reflecting on this list and publishing it, is highly embarrassing now that I view them from a different understanding.

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[14 Jan 2010 | One Comment | 423 views]

A simple guide to remove the tag “META NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW” from your wordpress blog and a lesson in logical troubleshooting that will save you plenty of time in the future.

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[26 Dec 2009 | 3 Comments | 1,616 views]
Top 20 Dumbest Questions on Yahoo Questions

God bless the Internet. Where else can you assume a fake identity, pose the most inane question imaginable–like “Why can’t I see my reflection in the mirror on a television?”–and then sit back and watch the answers pour in?

Crowd-source advice sites like Yahoo Answers have become a bit of a magnet for the maladjusted. Sure, there are plenty of average Joes just looking for ordinary information. But among the sites’ many mundane queries, there’s a sea of jaw-droppingly dumb discussions guaranteed to amaze and entertain.