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Meta Tag Madness
What Have You Done To Upset The Googlebot?

I had an old customer vaguely on my case this week about their website, claiming that it had apparently vanished completely from Google. A quick check using site:wwwdomain.co.nz proved that what I was being told was correct. Google returned absolutely no results.

Posted 03/08/10

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Spam, Spam And More Spam
Fending Off Spam With Grey Listing

Anyone who's had an email address for more than a week has most likely started to attract spam. Our hosting platform took on a new domain this week, which seems to be a spam magnet.

Posted 03/08/10

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Internet Explorer 4
Trouble With The Neighbours

One of my neighbours, a rather nice old gent wandered over at the weekend and brought his laptop with him. He was complaining that it was "running a bit slow". He told me proudly he was "on dialup", which of course goes a long, long way to explaining the speed deficiencies.

Posted 28/07/10

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Patently Blue
The Blue Screen of Death

I had occasion this week to have a fiddle with my elderly Compaq laptop. For some rather opaque reason, it refuses to work with an external monitor. So I wandered on to the HP website and attempted to download and install various drivers to make it work. This is where the rot set in.

Posted 21/07/10

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Whois Name Change Trouble
Resistance Is Not Futile

I registered a new domain name for a Tauranga business this afternoon, but soon afterwards I noticed I'd omitted to set the registrant (is that a proper word? It's not in the dictionary..) name correctly.

Posted 06/07/10

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