Month: October 2008

Picked up a new blog

I was browsing around the web recently and noticed that ProTycoon, a making money online type blog, was for sale. The blog was started by David Shaw in February but due to college commitments he had to sell up. When I bought the blog it had 116 subscribers, an ok …

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Electric Bandits Design Finished

On Thursday Kolby finished up the design of Electric Bandits. He did a great job of skinning his initial design of the forum and I’m very pleased with the outcome. The forum has a top and bottom sponsor area and a place for ads on the right hand side too. …

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Why are UK domain registrars so hard to deal with?

I picked up a blog the other day. The guy who owned it was too busy to run it so wanted to sell. He had blogged for me before on BloggingTips so I was confident that everything would be ok and promptly sent the money. Everything did go ok and …

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Electric Bandits Redesign – First Draft

Electric Bandits is a website which I have put on the backburner for quite a while now but I’m still making moves to get it started. Long term I hope I’m still running in a few years time as it covers a lot of things I’m interested in ie. geek …

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How popular is your surname?

I came across this cool flash tool called World Names. It shows you how popular your surname is across the world. With my Surname, Muldoon, being of Irish descent, it was no surprise to me that the most Muldoons are in Ireland. The rest are in popular colonies of the …

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Plans for the week

Well the weekend in Belfast was a blast, it’s a pretty cool city. Going over via air reminded me how close Ireland is to Scotland. Takeoff to touchdown only took 22 minutes! As always the main purpose of Monday is to get my ass to the gym and shake off …

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Away for another few days

I’m not long back from Valencia but I’m away for the weekend to Belfast to stay with my brother and his wife. Belfast is a lot like Glasgow, only smaller. The flight there is very quick and easy too and it’s only about 35 minutes from Glasgow Prestwick. We did …

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Inland Revenue Support is Non Existent

In the UK the Inland Revenue looks after all the tax and VAT in the UK. They are probably the most understaffed organisation in the world. When I worked in Pensions a few years ago we had to occasionally get information from the Tax Office. It was not uncommon for …

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Dealing with Forum Spammers

After having a well earned holiday of 5 days in the amazingly beautiful Valencia (Spain), I came back to 2 of my forums being attacked by a host of spammer bots. On Electric Bandits, which is a very new forum, they had managed to post about 50 posts advertising drugs, …

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