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Recently I had a problem with one of my special project websites getting attacked, notably the “send to a friend” tool. argh… Likely attempted spammers. I wish spammers a long and slow death.

We noticed some pages getting a lot of traffic that shouldn’t be getting a lot of traffic,…

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Going through my old post drafts, “cleaning my blog house”, and found this post draft from last year (or maybe the year before). Seems semi-relevant, so what the heck, going ahead and publishing it. Even if some of my points then, seem wrong today. enjoy, critique, flame, etc as…

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So I spent yesterday (all day) reading about and upgrading my various blogs to the latest release of WordPress 2.3, my preferred blogging platform, or semantic something something as they call it. I was long overdue to run some updates and 2.3 offers some great features, which I won’t repeat…

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Previously to my career at VNU BME, I helped a friend relaunch his site targeting private lessons in the U.S. It was a great idea that had a lot of trouble getting off the ground. As so many good ideas do. When I went to VNU, it consumed nearly every…

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I was scanning some online jargon/lingo dictionaries for some site marketing purposes, and came across a new term (new to me):

nerd rustler: The person in a corporate personnel department responsible for hiring computer programmers. (found it here on netlingo.com)

Of course there’s the closely related classic, for which I can…

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Yes kids, a milestone has been achieved, this very site you are gazing at has a google pagerank of 1 (ok, and only in 1 of god knows how many GOOG datacenters), but hey Rome wasn’t built overnight. You may be thinking, “ha ha ha ha, you sad little man, my grandmothers…

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