T(w)itter ye not (NOTE: This post was moved from milliontwits.com, posted on June 1st, 2009. For all it’s dated, it’s still valid!) Hypocritical I know, but seriously, go for quality, not quantity. A thousand genuine followers beats a million automated bot scraped followers hands down! Here’s my take on it: if they don’t RT …
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Get paid to complete surveys? I plan on doing a separate blog site just for this (when I can think of a good name) but I figured I’d better start here or I’ll never get moving on it :S It won’t just be surveys, of course, it will look at related options, like draw, competitions,
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Data backup Last year I had a hard drive fail on me. A Seagate. I know some people don’t like Seagate, but I’ve used them for nearly 30 years, or at least as far back as I can remember, and before this I’ve never seen one fail before. I remember the breeze block sized 10Mb
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Brief comparison and contrast of the Debugging features of MS Visual Basic and C Nota bene: Again, this is an old assignment I did about a decade ago for a HNC Software Engineering course I did. Useful if only for historic reason, but much of it still holds true. Overview of C debugging C allows
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Systems Analysis: Systems Life Cycles I actually wrote this back in 2002 as part of a HNC in Software Engineering and Computing, and though dated, it’s still useful, so I’ve added it here :) CONTENTS Systems Life Cycles Key elements in the prototyping approach Critical appraisal of Systems Analysis Techniques Bibliography Systems Life Cycles Using
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WordPress basics : adding your first page Writing this guide for a doctor friend whose sites I maintain, but that wants to make some of his own posts. This is aimed at a complete novice adding their very first entries to a WordPress blog. (Note: This was done using WordPress 3.1, so there may be
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$64,000 question: How do you get rich fishing in WoW? I’ll probably insert the screengrabs tomorrow, but suffice to say I am making up to 2,500g an hour simply levelling fishing from 450 to 525 on alts. Today, on my druid, I made over 9,000g – just fishing – while reading email, tweeting and catching
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Library things Librarything I used to gave a widget for this (js based, not WordPress), but it’s long since broke. I’d refresh it but I don’t want ony more j.js on this site than necessary. Still, Librarything is still worth a look over. Goodreads : Goodreads This looks promising and has an extended api, but
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