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Hey, why is my PageRank minus 3?

August 31, 2010 By 7 Comments

I just went to check the PageRank of my homepage. Look what I found. Yes, underneath the rank it does say “the page rank value is 3″ but the little hyphen did worry me a bit. Tweet

Filed Under: Margin Notes

Let’s see how many people we can get… spammed, that is

August 30, 2010 By 3 Comments

How many times have you come across one of those silly Facebook groups: “Come on guys, let’s see if we can make this stale bit of cheese look more popular than this random celebrity whose music I don’t like anymore.” Isn’t that a fun idea? Well, until you see how many other people have jumped [...]

Filed Under: Social Media

How CMF Ads is changing blog advertising

August 22, 2010 By 11 Comments

Way back in 2008, when the world was young(er) and so was I, a few advertising services were available for bloggers. At the time, Entrecard was the main place where I advertised my blog. Sure, you shouldn’t rely too heavily on one traffic source, but it worked wonders for me. Exactly one year after I [...]

Filed Under: Projects

The non-announcement post: A preview without substance

August 21, 2010 By 9 Comments

For the last few weeks, I’ve been sitting on some news that I really want to announce, but it’s not quite ready to be shared yet. Mind you, I’ve still told a few friends and family. I just haven’t formally announced it yet. And then, a second bit of news came along. Guess what – [...]

Filed Under: Life

One of my blogs has had a 900% increase in stats

August 17, 2010 By 1 Comment

Pretty good! What that really means, though, is that it jumped from zero to nine pageviews in a 30 day period. It’s not the busiest of blogs. It probably didn’t help that I forgot to add the stats code to the blog. Still, it’s not like I’ve been actively promoting it… it’s one of the [...]

Filed Under: Margin Notes

A suggestion for Twitter: Favourite groups

August 11, 2010 By 3 Comments

At the moment, I don’t really use Twitter’s “favourite” feature, because a long list of favourites with no filtering is not much help really. When I bookmark sites in my browser, I put them into folders. Email gets organised with labels. And blog posts have categories to aid navigation. It makes a lot of sense [...]

Filed Under: Social Media

It’s my birthday. And I have something to declare

August 9, 2010 By 7 Comments

I have long stated that I never do much for my birthday. Well, I had a great day on Saturday with the family. Much food, drink and merriment was had by all. Saturday wasn’t actually my birthday, though. Also, while I haven’t had a lot of people tell me that I’m getting on a bit, [...]

Filed Under: Life

Software testing: between edge cases and the critical path

August 3, 2010 By 8 Comments

Once you’ve been working for more than a few years, it becomes more and more difficult to avoid screwing up. Of course, we all screw up, but I mean the kind of thing that can do a lot of damage to your standing with current and future employers. Here’s the dilemma: stay in a job [...]

Filed Under: Web Development