Month: April 2008

The World Wide Web is 15 today

Although the internet has been around since the 70’s, it was on 30th April 1993 that Cern brought the world wide web to the public domain. I didn’t start using the internet regularly til my first year at uni in 1996. When we first started we were all fascinated by …

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Windows XP SP3 delayed for a few days

Microsoft released XP Service Pack 3 yesterday but it was quickly pulled back and delayed. It seems like you can download XP SP3 from the Windows XP Service Pack 3 Overview page. Apparently it was delayed because of a glitch in the way it works with MS Retail Management Systems …

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Think I’m going to get the HP 2133 Mininote

4 days ago I asked what laptop I should get for travelling. When I wrote the post I had a few laptops in mind however my mind is now pretty much set on the HP 2133 Mini Note. The basic model has a 1.2Ghz Via C7 processor, 120 GB 5400 …

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Joel Comm says sorry for stealing your money

UPDATE: 6th April 2018 It is 10 years since this article was published. I recently spoke to Joel Comm about this issue. Joel explained that the president of his company (at the time) suggested what people were calling a “forced continuity” payment model and Joel agreed to it. He noted …

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An Update on My Ecommerce Site

Ryan from Love Inventions left a comment a few days ago asking how my online shop is coming along. I haven’t spoke about it in a while and Ryan’s comment reminded me that I haven’t updated all you guys. E-Commerce is Flaming Nuts Myself and my friend Eddie started working …

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What laptop should I get for travelling?

I noticed that I hadn’t posted in close to a week so I thought I would clarify my posting frequency just incase someone thought I had decided to stop posting here. I just want to remind new readers and subscribers that posts on this blog may be irregular. I squeeze …

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Should my next project be a blog?

I posted last month that after selling my poker discussion forums I wasn’t sure what to call myself as the websites which I have left are nearly all blogs (apart from a few forums and article sites which still make me a little cash every month). At the moment my …

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Twit vs Twat

A week ago , popular blogger and online market Jim Kukral launching a marketing experiment called TwitterMeThis. Basically, TwitterMeThis is an experiment by Jim to see how the Twitter media can be used. He has asked people to follow the TwitterMeThis account at Twitter and periodically he asks his followers …

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Would you buy a Twitter Account?

TechCrunch today announced that Rocketboom founder Andrew Baron is selling his Twitter account on ebay. As expected, a debate has been sparked around whether this is even allowed and more importantly, what effect will this have on Twitter. Currently the account has reached $510 on ebay and with 9 days …

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