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This experiment is fascinating. I now have CA's version of CallingID toolbar in FF/IE and it is really interesting to watch. The big names are obviously all green, but some very well known sites are yellow. Most small sites are yellow, but some are red. Red causes all sorts of traffic to leave immediately I'd imagine. Or not even go there ...

Last night my CA Security Suite did its automatic renewal of my annual license. I still think $50 for 3 licenses is very good value for continuous a/v, but now there is another very interesting feature: CA Web Inspector, a.k.a. CallingID It's a toolbar that installs into Firefox and IE, and warns you about every link you are about to click ...

I was offered a free year of credit monitoring a.k.a Identity Theft Protection with Equifax, so I signed up today. If you're ever going to use a super-strong password I suggest Equifax is the place. So I made up a nice strong one; mixtures of upper and lower case, numbers, punctuation. Nice. Except Equifax, the people that "serve our ...

A good few years ago I started another company to run some local city websites. At one point I had created a few thousand city sites and was making some decent coin from selling ads to local businesses. The idea didn't scale unfortunately - although I could easily sell enough ads to make a good living none of the people that signed up for ...

This is dumb. You're *supposed* to change your password frequently, right? I changed my login password on my desktop from very weak to super strong when I went to Telligent HQ last time because I wanted to use RDC to get onto my home machine from my laptop. It worked great! But today I noticed that none of my backups have run for over 2 ...

Wow, I just LOVE this idea. Ordered. [include:blogad]

Quick tip: this works very nicely if you want to make sure your web app has no broken internal/external links:  http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html [include:blogad]

I was in the middle of debugging when *POOF* my screens all went black. iTunes was still playing so I knew the computer was ok. Perhaps Explorer had taken a dump? I wiggled the mouse and it was like I was trying to wake it up - I caught a glimpse of my background before it all went black again. More frantic wiggling. This time I got a login ...

Here's a tip for when you need to read a spreadsheet from ASP.NET (well, .NET really). Thinking about it now I'm surprised that I haven't needed to do this before. The second or third article I found was John Kilgo's Reading Excel (.xls) Files with ADO.NET... and I admit I was sceptical when I read the method outlined there..but ...

At last we can talk about Telligent's new soon-to-be-released-but-noone's-promising-anything CMS!! Adonis just posted a sneak peek video [include:blogad]