Last Friday was a pretty miserable day, and it was raining yet again. Then the hail started, then shortly after the neighbours started throwing rocks at my house. I stick my head out the window to see what's going on, and it's raining gigantic hailstones (not the neighbours after all). This may be a normal sized hailstone in many parts of the world, but it's by far the biggest on I have...

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People have been suggesting that bloggers take a day of silence in respect of the shootings at Virginia recently. Well, my deeply respectful blog has taken many weeks of silence, but somehow this is not the reason. So I'm going to share my thoughts on the whole issue. Gun control Over here in New Zealand, where we have actual gun control laws, it's somewhat difficult for the average joe to...

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I managed to break a website yesterday without realising it. This sounds really bad, but in this case breaking things is the first step on the road to fixing things. Let me explain. What was unusual about this particular incident was that I didn't actually break the site - I just turned on the...

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PHP Tutor is a collection of PHP tutorials and articles, covering topics such as security, how-to guides and the like. The homepage states the site is a place to get started with PHP, and the site offers PHP tutorials, links to PHP discussion forums and information on PHP security. PHP...

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Today's post takes a look at Local Moa - a fairly new local search service for finding stuff near you. Local Moa is a New Zealand search facility that brings up the results on a map. Above: Local Moa - a local search engine with map-based results. And lots of lime green. Potentially this...

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I launched a new website for Environmental NZ yesterday. This site serves as a forum for New Zealand environmental engineers, and is owned and operated by a mate of mine. Yes, I will sometimes design a website for a couple of bottles of wine if you push me long and hard enough :) It's...

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I launched the re-designed Sirius Sports site on the weekend. The new site takes some great existing content and packages it into a CMS (content management system) with a new design. This removes the frames and javascript from the old site, and makes managing the content very straightforward....

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I have been working on a redesign of an existing site for Wine Photo Shop, a small image library site for Kerr Fram Vineyard in Kumeu. The site serves as a place to display local photography for Kerr Farm owner, Jaison Kerr. The new Wine Photo Shop design is simple, clean and functional. All...

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Stolen content is probably more prevalent on the internet than most people think. It's so easy to steal content by right clicking and "view source" compared with the task of creating your own... Except when someone steals your content.... With the internet being the vast place that...

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I have been riding the bike into work the past few weeks for a bit of exercise and it's all going well so far. I have borrowed a mountain bike, and are using that until I can get my road bike operational again - this may never happen as it needs 2 new wheels which may well cost more than a new...

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Right at the top of the list of things you don't want to get has to be Kidney Stones. I managed to get one of these little pirates on Monday. It all started with a bike ride. All going well...

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As mentioned in this article, I'm now telling all telemarketers to "please hold" whenever they phone me at home. Then leave them hanging on indefinitely while they decide how long they...

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Whilst taking a look through the visitor logs today, I noticed some odd keywords showing up. In particular, I seem to be getting more visitors for the phrase "big schlong" than I do for...

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A content management system, or cms is a web application for managing websites. The content management system will provide you with a login which you can use to change part of the content on the...

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Search engine optimisation is the process of engineering your site to achieve better search engine positions. Search engine optimisation can be done in many different ways, this article covers the...

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After a particularly busy day of answering cellphone calls, playing phone message hockey with people etc, I wasn't really in the mood for Telemarketers. I just happened to get 2 calls from them...

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Duplicate content is a problem with many websites, and most webmasters don't realise they are doing anything wrong. Most search engines want to provide relevant results for their users, it's how...

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Quite often after you SEO a client's website, they will right-click their new site and have a gander at the META keywords to see if you have done a good job or not. Because SEO is all about META...

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So here I am at 8:00 at night coding away, adding some Javascript to an existing page to save on those frustrating page reloads. The purpose of this script is to preload the values of a form with a...

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I love getting these emails. This one was so good I thought I should share it. I like looking through the list of emails to see who has been fool enough to forward it on to all their friends....

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