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WordPress owners – are you “admin”?

November 23, 2012
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WordPress owners – are you “admin”?

If you asked me from September 2012 forward, the answer would change dramatically with WordPress Brute Force Attacks now exceeding 50% of all attacks being reported.  Peter Abraham, dynamicnet.net  Viewing my stats recently on one of my websites, I noticed several persistent attempts from one IP address to log into my site with the username ‘admin’. I don’t have a user named ‘admin’ so it caught my eye. It’s recognized best practice on WordPress sites to delete and replace this default user with another administrative username for your site – and here’s why. As I looked deeper into this login attempt I noticed…

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Trouble in the Cloud – Dropping Dropbox

October 20, 2012
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Trouble in the Cloud – Dropping Dropbox

The ability to share files easily using ‘Cloud Services’ like Amazon S3, Dropbox, Box.com etc. has made working remotely and with mobility so much easier. A couple of years back I started using Box.com and I still have an account, I had experimented with Dropbox but couldn’t see any compelling reason to move away from Box.com until Dropbox introduced their…

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Arguments

October 12, 2012
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Arguments

Arguments take two….don’t participate! From the wise words of Dale Carnegie in his book ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People’  ….I have come to the conclusion that there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument – and that is to avoid it . Avoid it as you would avoid rattlesnakes and earthquakes. Nine…

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Anger

October 2, 2012
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Anger

Anger is a wind that blows out the lamp of the mind. …an Arab proverb. Suppressing and controlling anger in a business and personal situation enables you to stay focused. In an argument, those you ‘keep there cool’ invariably come out on top.

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What’s your Social Media Business Marketing tool of choice?

September 28, 2012
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What’s your Social Media Business Marketing tool of choice?

I’ve never been a big Twitter fan, but I perceive that it’s becoming less popular as a marketing tool – It’s just too noisy for me. Facebook feels like it’s lost somewhere between our personal life and our business life and leaning toward the former rather than being a useful…

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Next assignment – Rome

January 26, 2012
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Next assignment – Rome

Well time in New Zealand is coming to a close and we have commenced our packout activities in full swing hence the items for sale in previous posts on here. Casual readers please disregard  We are off to Rome later this year, this will be a massive cultural shift after…

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