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Title Date Comments
Have you protected your Internet digital assets for your heirs?   2011 08 
- If you have web pages, a Facebook or Google+ account or you just throw something up on Twitter now and then, you own digital assets. This very page that you are reading is a digital asset. It has value, both because it adds to my reputation as a writer and because it has the potential to create income. -
Bing Webmaster Tools   2011 03 
- Microsoft Web Master tools lag behind Google's and honestly, Google's isn't all that great anyway. -
mod_perl on Debian   2008 02  2010/12/08 Questorian
- I've ignored mod_perl because I see no point in doing half a job. It could offer many advantages, but I'd need to rewrite many, many scripts to take full advantage. -
using .htaccess files to redirect pages   2005 12 
- Sometimes I make a mistake in a link I have put in a newsgroup posting or sent by email. Other times I might decide that my file name is bad chosen or potentially confusing. An entry in .htaccess can fix that instantly. Let's say, for example, that I originally created /serv.html but now want to rename it /services.html. If I just renamed it, any external links referencing that file will get 404 errors - File Not Found. I could handle that with a custom 404 page script, but it's easier with .htaccess -
Using .htaccess files to restrict access   2005 12 
- Every directory in a Apache website can have an optional .htaccess file. This can be used to require passwords to access the files therein or to redirect requests to other pages. Everything you can do in an .htaccess file can also be done in your web server's configuration file, but that can be a little intimidating and confusing for new web masters. The .htaccess is slightly less efficient, but easy to use. -
Understanding automatic blank pages in Open Office   2009 01  2012/05/24 TonyLawrence
- Confusion about how to get automatic blank pages in open Office Writer -
dashes vs. underscores in filenames   2005 12 
- In the old days of the web, file names usually didn't go out of their way to convey information about their contents. -
Creating simple web pages   2005 01 
- I really don't understand why, but many people seem to think HTML is much more difficult than it actually is. Amazingly, people who have enthusiastically jumped into learning Perl or Python have told me that HTML is "too hard". -
13.2 Reasons I don't like Social Media   2008 02  2012/10/06 StevePringle
- I'm fed up with 'me too' posts, 'Subscribe and get a free..', 'Build anticipation', 'Increase your social media contacts' and all that.. -
WordPress on Mac OS X Leopard   2009 01 
- So far, Wordpress has defeated me. I expected it to be a trivial installation; it definitely was not. -
Using Multiple Submits with Perl CGI   2008 01  2010/11/20 TonyLawrence
- You don't have to limit yourself to one submit, but you do have to be careful -
YUI Grid Builder for custom sites   2009 01  2010/11/05 KyleGadd
- Most bloggers want nothing to do with writing HTML. Most would rather use something simple like Wordpress and concentrate on their blogging. That's fine, but.. -
 
 
Kerio Connect Mailserver
 
 
The importance of good design   2008 01 
- I see a lot of bloggers very worried about their blogs design. Most of them should be far more worried about content.0 -
Domain values   2006 05 
- A few years ago one of my customers forgot to renew their domain name registration. Of course it was poached and when they discovered their website was gone they called me in a panic. I poked around on the internet and found who owned the domain currently and called - $750.00 was the asking price. My customer thought it was an outrage and in a fit of pique we stopped pussy footing around, hyphenated their corporate name, registered a new domain and moved on. -
Review of Tribal Fusion for Publishers   2008 06  2010/05/22 anonymous
- Tribal Fusion did NOT deliver good results for me. That doesn't mean that it wouldn't work for you. -
Google Analytics   2010 09 
- I was happy to find this, if for no other reason than it introduced me to the author's Analytics Talk blog, which I was not previously aware of. -
Other SEO posts   2010 06 
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Buzzkill   2010 02  2010/02/12 ClaudeAlbaek
- Google made another mistake in duplicating Buzz posts to your email. Some people may want that, but most of us probably do not. -
The Buzz about Buzz   2010 02  2010/02/18 NickBarron
- There are already plenty of posts whose authors don't understand that - they think Buzz is a Twitter or Facebook clone. No - it's much more than that, but those people never understood Google Wave either, so they won't grok this. -
Google Custom Search Promotions   2010 01 
- You define keywords, a title and a link. If those keywords are used, your link appears above all the normal results. -
Detecting Comment Spam Part 3   2009 12  2009/12/30 TonyLawrence
- In the previous posts in this series, I've said that spammers habits allow us to detect their attempts to leave inappropriate comments. I use these techniques here and am able to send most spam comments directly to the bit-bucket without ever having to examine them myself. -
Detecting Comment Spam Part 2   2009 12  2010/02/05 TonyLawrence
- Links are much more difficult for spammers to mangle - they can use redirection at the destination site, but the site itself is static. -
Detecting Comment Spam Part 1   2009 12  2009/12/22 TonyLawrence
- Suppose you were writing a commenting system for a website and you wanted to check user input against a list of words that might indicate spam. -
Friends with Benefits   2009 11 
- Excellent book on social media marketing: Aaargh! OK, I'll read the damn thing, I thought. Maybe there's enough fodder here for a scathing review - tear the skin right off the authors and roast them on a spit! That'll teach that publisher not to send me junk when I don't want it. I sat myself down on the couch and started reading. -
New Comment Policy   2009 11  2009/12/18 francois
- We had to switch to partially moderaed comments here because of some really nasty people. Gosh I hated doing that! -
The Art of SEO   2009 11  2010/09/08 TonyLawrence
- I hope this book helps put an end to ridiculously priced SEO courses. It could also help eliminate some of the shadier practitioners of SEO, but I'd be happy if it just helps a few people avoid wasting money on nonsense. -
Misunderstanding Wave   2009 11  2010/05/19 TonyLawrence
- There are people who don't understand Google Wave. -
My first Waves   2009 10 
- Thanks to one of our readers (thanks again, Donal) I got a Google Wave invitation Friday morning. -
I don't WANT the Internet to forget!   2009 10 
- Wouldn't we all be better off if we stopped pretending that we are perfect or even close to it? -
How to Make Money (for me) Blogging   2009 10 
- I kindly offered to spend 10 minutes with him for the same amount, which is an astounding 98.33% savings of his time! -
Misunderstanding Wave   2009 10  2010/02/10 TonyLawrence
- I'd say most of them have failed to see the value of Google Wave and potential uses -
Confirmation of Adsense Theory   2009 10 
- There's only one explanation for that: multiple machines are tracking and reporting in batches. -
A little help with an RSS experiment?   2009 10  2010/05/10 TonyLawrence
- Sure, some people are shy. Some people just don't care. I understand that. But less than 200 from 32,000? That seems very low. -
Analysing Web Logs for Search   2009 10 
- People will often find you and your website through Internet searches. -
Google SideWiki   2009 10 
- Google's SideWiki is part of the latest Google Toolbare (Firefox and IE). It lets you annotate web pages you visit. -
Google Micropayments   2009 09 
- The newspaper and magazine industry is clamoring for Internet micropayments. They've realized that nobody is going to pay even 50 cents to read a news article - what they probably don't realize is that people probably won't even pay 50 cents a year for full access to everything. -
Watching a Spammer   2009 09  2010/05/21 TonyLawrence
- I've had a really stubborn (or really stupid) Russian spammer trying to postcomment spam here most of the morning. -
Why I don't trust RSS subscriber figures   2009 09 
- I'm skeptical about the value of RSS subscribers. Don't misunderstand: I think it is very important to provide RSS feeds; I just don't think counting subscribers means much. -
Eight million pageviews later..   2009 09 
- I signed up for Google Analytics in November of 2005. Eight million pageviews later.. -
Site Work   2009 09 
- It's a good thing Girish Venkatachalam has been posting so much - it has given me time todo some much needed maintenance here. -
Get some rest - be a winner!   2009 09 
- Some people (even some of the people I play with) think poker is mostly luck. It definitely is not. -
Google Book Search has my books   2009 08 
- This morning I found that my books are indexed and searchable at Google Books -
Analyzing Adsense performance with Google Analytics (Part Two)   2009 08 
- Analyzing Adsense performance with Google Analytics Part Two -
Update Publishing FAQ   2009 08 
- guest posting at aplawrence.com I hope that this is a sign of good things to come for our U.S. Basically, the deal is this. If you guest post here, you'll always get a (nofollow) link back to your site. -
Big RSS counts - so what?   2009 08 
- What is the real value of RSS subscribers? Why should I care whether you read here through RSS or visiting? -
Google Book Search wants your e-books   2009 08 
- Helping Google with that task has benefits for you: Most ebooks get little exposure outside of the website that promotes them, but that's all about to change. Google Books wants those e-books. It wants to index them and provide search options within their text. -
Monetize your site with Google?   2009 08 
- Google wants to help you monetize your website with the Google Checkout store gadget. -
Why aren't you doing that?   2009 07 
- why aren't you making oodles of money from the Internet? -
The Helios Project   2009 07 
- Building Linux computers for disadvantaged children -
17,000 Net Illiterates Can't be Wrong!   2009 06 
- This website doesn't give a damn about old browsers. -
 
 
Kerio Control Firewall
 
 
FTC and Affiliate Links   2009 06 
- The FTC recently announced concerns about affilate links -
Voila   2009 06 
- OS X screen capture utility similar to Skitch or Jing. Not only is it not free, it's not cheap. -
Disqus Comments   2009 06 
- I tried Disqus and found it unsutable for my needs. Your needs might be different, of course. -
FairShare content usage   2009 05 
- The ad usage is what FairShare is ultimately after: they want to convince adnetworks like Google et al. to pay some percentage of earnings back to the owner of the content -
Google endorses microformats   2009 05 
- Anything that helps Google understand your pages better has to help you no matter what anyone else is doing. -
Canonical tag for duplicate content   2009 04 
- When you have deliberately created duplicate content, this tag tells the search engine where the -
Learning PERL the Hard Way   2009 04 
- I was interested in the printed version of this book because it is done by a Print On Demand outfit -
Six Million Minutes, give or take   2009 04 
- What is the highest page views ever for a single page? -
Don't trust Web Designers   2009 03 
- My apologies to those of you who are competent. I tend to remember the screwups and of course if things are done right, nobody calls me. But.. -


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