‘news’

Penny Sharpe MLC has summarised the issues with Conroy's Family Filter on her blog: http://www.hurl.ws/9yph #
Fun times for the ATO, copying from Wikipedia! http://www.hurl.ws/9xz3 #
MS versus Plurk – could be someone is going to get something good out of this mistake! http://www.hurl.ws/9wih #
online sales booming… wonder if it's here to stay or just the Latest [...]

Spam seems to be on the rise, if my spam folder is anything to talk about!
There’s a number of court cases worldwide, finally catching-up with those that send spam, but it’s going to be an uphill battle to stop it, even if we can.
Take for example, the current Queensland case against “The worlds biggest spammer” [...]

Hilarious – Amazon has grabbed an ebay typo – ebat.com – to redirect to amazon.com! #
Its the end of the week, but that doesn't mean i'm happy with rubbish reception from VodaFone interweb! #
If you have a facebook account, you NEED to change your security settings – FB has changed things again – http://www.hurl.ws/9t47 #
Whoosh! [...]

This week has been a long one. But it’s also been very productive.
The Fruit Pedallers job is nearly complete — to refresh your memories, this was a pure print and layout job — the posters are printed (we used Officeworks to print two A2 posters for a grand total of $30 – plus $2 odd [...]

Today in The Guardian online there is a report on their top 100 websites, with some analysis of the winners and losers this year:
100 essential websites
It makes for interesting reading, especially the part how Twitter has effectively steamrolled the opposition and now has become, in my opinion, the tool of choice for citizen-journalists (remember the [...]

It’s Finally Ready!

Google releases Chrome for Mac and Linux

Chrome has been out at least a year for the PC, but unfortunately for us on the Mac (and Linux by default) there hasn’t been anything to use but the rather good Safari or the (in my opinion) slightly disappointing Firefox.

I say disappointing with regard to Firefox [...]

If you’ve chosen to have your website hosted with Tall Poppy Digital, you can now check if there are any problems just by visiting here and looking in the sidebar.
I’ve added a widget there for the Dreamhost Status feed, through Twitter, which gives updates on any issues that may be occurring.
As annoying as website and [...]

Sometimes a wordpress theme displays the full post. Sometimes this is too much and it would be nice to give your visitors a chance to see more posts and pick to read more if they’d like.
Enter Auto Excerpt, which fixes this up automatically. Just install it and it will automatically shorten, to a reasonable length, [...]

In the news today is a report about the Australian government and social networking, particularly Twitter:
Yes, Minister: tweeting could be the new way of working
Compare this to this time last week, when Liberal leadership contender Joe Hockey was humorously criticised by acting PM Julia Gillard for Tweeting colleagues for opinions on Climate Change.
You can get [...]

Google Analytics (as discussed in this post a few days ago) is an astonishingly useful free tool for measuring your site visitor stats (where, when, how. etc) all with pretty graphs.
Google Analyticator by Spiral Web Consulting links your wordpress site directly to Google Analytics without having to go into the back-end code and add the [...]