10 days of perpetual issues with hackers. 10 DAYS. 100+ sites bombed randomly between every 5 minutes and 5 hours and that’s only after proper detection, who knows how far it had gone before. But from the relentless irritation some positives developed, if you are in the (precarious) position of hosting LOTS of websites on [...]
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Also posted in ASP.Net, C#, Ideas, PHP, Search Engine Optimisation, Software, Technology, Web Development, Web Technology, Wordpress
Writing a book. Yeah its a novel, Science fiction…1 year later
It’s now about a year since I started writing my first book, a novel, a science fiction novel and I am still writing. It’s been an experience which has travelled the world with me and let me travel the world through it. Started on a bit of a whim it has become an all encompassing [...]
Also posted in Social Media, Travel, Writing
ODesk and outsourcing
Back to it again, the portfolio needs a bit of a push so I am adding a few new sites into the mix this time in niche’s discovered with a new formula pulling from several new data sets. Ah the wonders of purchasable and scrapeable data online / via api – the formula was refined [...]
Also posted in Business, C#, Web Development
Small update for Reddit Wallpaper Grabber
Just a quick update for the reddit wallpaper grabber which some of you reported issues with. In fact it was more just that reddit was under heavy load and lazily I had no pretty error handling in there. So I quickly added a notification so as to clear up the times when reddit is inaccessible. [...]
Also posted in Software
Forget Inertia – A new era.
There is by far enough written words about the freedom and positives of leaving ones established job, for better or for worse I think it is the right way forward for me, now. I have had a long list of things to post about, technology thoughts and projects completed; now thankfully I have the control [...]
Also posted in Business, C#, Ideas, Looking Back, Looking Forward, Music, PHP, SQL Server, Technology, Web Development, Web Technology, WoodyLabs
Reddit Wallpaper Grabber V0.1
As I said last post if I couldn’t find a reddit wallpaper downloading program I would make one. Well I found upboat (which is good) but with windows 7 (or display fusion) offering cycling desktop backgrounds every x minutes I thought I might write a more brute force downloader. So I did. Reddit Wallpaper Grabber [...]
Also posted in Social Media, Software, WoodyLabs
Silent City Collective
The Silent City Collective is “a symposium on the effects of climate change in the global south and post industrial nations” – its well worth a watch – if you haven’t already then check out the Silent City Collective site and make sure you make it to the Exhibition just off Brick lane this May. [...]
Also posted in Looking Forward
Thailand Express – 2010
Next Friday I fly out to Bangkok, Thailand for a month of sun. Just wanted to shout out thank you to all the people that have given advice, helped me prepare and the few that are coming with me – I will update the blog a few times while out there – stick a few [...]
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