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  • Guv’s Book: ‘WordPress 3 Ultimate Security’ – Press Release

    Thursday, June 23rd, 2011

    Guv’s Book: ‘WordPress 3 Ultimate Security’ – Press Release

    This doesn’t just cover a handful of ‘Top 10′ tips. It addresses weakest links from local machine to web to site & server … before some hacker does!

  • PayPal Support? You Must be Joking

    Saturday, November 20th, 2010

    PayPal Support? You Must be Joking

    PayPal brands itself as “The faster and safer way to get paid”. 17 emails to their “support” department later, they haven’t answered a single question.

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  • PayPal: Can I Trust You With My Business?

    Tuesday, November 9th, 2010

    PayPal: Can I Trust You With My Business?

    PayPal brands itself as “The faster and safer way to get paid”. Really? It seems to depend on whether they want to play God with your business today.

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  • Community Chest: The Sunny Side of the E-lance Coin

    Sunday, July 25th, 2010

    Community Chest: The Sunny Side of the E-lance Coin

    It’s no easy deal quitting the corporates to go e-lance, swapping the fast for the slow lane that is online blogjam. Sometimes tho’, something happens.

  • Slightly Rude Preview: Lucid Lynx Bible Starts Monday

    Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

    Slightly Rude Preview: Lucid Lynx Bible Starts Monday

    Sorry, I’ve been tut’ing up a forthcoming how-to series about this new OS and I have to say, it’s very hard not to sound like some kind of pervert.

  • Lucid Lynx Review: Sweet! Get Ready for LTS

    Monday, April 19th, 2010

    Lucid Lynx Review: Sweet! Get Ready for LTS

    In advance of the Lucid Lynx Bible here are my initial thoughts about installing Ubuntu’s latest Long Term Support edition and a new features summary.

  • Alinghi, Way More Than Just a Boat

    Monday, February 15th, 2010

    Alinghi, Way More Than Just a Boat

    The sailing community is packing its bags and heading off to far-flung horizons. I wonder how many of these transient types we’ll ever see again.

  • VPS Bible: Do I Really Have to Charge?

    Saturday, February 13th, 2010

    VPS Bible:  Do I Really Have to Charge?

    What I do want is to nurture a friendly, mutually beneficial, cooperative community with a first rate knowledge base. How I do that, I don’t really care.

  • vpsBible.com – b. 9th Feb 2010, Fair Weight.

    Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

    vpsBible.com – b. 9th Feb 2010, Fair Weight.

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  • vpsBible.com – What, Why & Other Q&A’s

    Monday, February 1st, 2010

    vpsBible.com – What, Why & Other Q&A’s

    By way of a vpsBible.com intro, the whys & therefores, I figured it’d be nice to give my intrepid Guvnr community the inside track, so here’s the FAQ!