Monthly Archives: May 2007

Mac OS X – Hidden Files in Finder

I’ve linked to this from Brooks Andrus blog so I can store it here for reference…

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Jet bike…

Madness, Jay Leno’s jet bike, cool sound.

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Targeted trojans

I went to an interesting presentation by Mark Sunner from MessageLabs today. According to MessageLabs the number of trojans created to target specific organisations and delivered via http is rising fast. Luckily they have a web filtering service now to … Continue reading

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Google Analytics goal tracking

One of my clients is trying to get Google Analytics goal tracking working with his new Joomla! site. I’m not up to speed with this, if anyone is please contact Michael or myself.

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Dell, Ubuntu Linux and FreeDOS

Well, it’s been rumoured for a while but now it’s official, you can get a Dell PC with Ubunutu pre-installed.

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Importing from TextPattern

Well, I finally managed to import my TextPattern 4 to WordPress 2.2 thanks to a local install of both and the instructions here on Alex Brie’s blog. I then did a normal WordPress export from my local installation to the … Continue reading

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Twitter & Flickr for phishers…

I’ve always avoided social networking on the web (except LinkedIn) as these sites are a great resource for phishers.

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Canberra trip

Well, I did a day trip to Canberra yesterday, 5:30am start and got back at 10:45pm. Spent most of the day working on a Second Life build with a client.

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People with blogs

I’ve never had a Blogroll before so I’ve set one up here, trouble is who do I know with a blog!

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Marshal’s Content Security

The managed email security space continues to hot up with Marshall releasing a service providers edition. As vendors bring products to market I’m seeing the inevitable maturing of the platforms. Just 3 years ago virus and spam detection would have … Continue reading

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Sunday

Great weather, clear blue sky’s and a nice breeze. I’ve got lot’s to do and don’t feel inclined to do any of it. Maybe I’ll just stuff around with WordPress.

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Day two

Well it’s my second day with WordPress and so far I’ve found two things that are broken… 1) Textpattern import 2) Posting by email I’ll push on, it amazes me how ‘mature’ systems have key functionality that’s buggy.

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The story of my blog…

I started with hand crafted flat html files, but needed something easier to manage. I moved to Textpattern, which was great but I got bored when upgrades didn’t work well. So I switched to Zomplog which was really good until … Continue reading

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PolicyMatter

Over the last couple of years we’ve put 100′s of hours, maybe 1000′s into promoting PolicyMatter which is Software for Policy Management and Compliance.

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15 minutes…

We’re featured in the Sydney Morning Herald today, along with Craig from Metaverse Enterprises. Check out the Budget special insert on page 7.

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Joomla! CMS

It was good top see Joomla! represented at CeBit yesterday and other open source solutions like SugarCRM. Events like CeBit will really help to pull quality Open Source solutions into the main stream.

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