I may have started writing on this blog back in June 2010, but it was not my first foray into publishing my thoughts online – for that we need to go back to 2005. I was just starting university, and it was a time when Facebook didn’t exist and MSN Messenger was the way you [...]
Posts Tagged ‘blogging’
My 15 minutes of fame
November 16th, 2012
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In case you didn’t notice it, yesterday I found my 15 minutes of fame when Tuesday’s blog post on the speed of Myki gates was picked by Melbourne newspaper The Age, and I did an short interview during the Drive show on ABC Radio 774. So how did it come about?
Backup your WordPress database with a cron job
September 25th, 2012
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I run this blog with WordPress on a shared hosting account so I have total control, but it also means I need to make sure everything gets backed up regularly so if my hosting provider derails it, I can quickly get things… back on track. So how do you go about doing it?
Hitting the front page of Reddit
August 15th, 2012
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Yesterday I was looking through the statistics for my blog, when I noticed a rather large spike in traffic to my site. So what caused it?
Who’s behind WordPress comment spam?
September 5th, 2011
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I’ve discussed comment spamming previously – automatically generated comments that are posted to blogs in an attempt to game the Google search rankings. Now meet the person responsible for it.
