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Ransomware: how to protect your PC, and why bloggers must

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I've been away for a while. A big part of the reason was that, for the first time in my 20 years online, I got a computer virus. This nasty bit of malware, Cryptowall 2.0, strolled right past ESET, my highly-rated antivirus and firewall and beganencrypting all my data files. (Crypto has also been known to beat Norton, Kapersky and most of the others.) So I have spent the last ... [Read More]

Why working for free doesn’t work

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If you're a blogger, you'll be asked to work for free. Companies will ask you to review sample products. You'll be invited to run press releases. Here's why you should turn almost all of it down. Working for exposure Once upon a time, a professional hula hoop performer told the story of being asked to perform at a $1000/plate event for Oprah Winfrey for free. The ... [Read More]

Being a full-time blogger

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Things have changed around here - again. I started this site about nine years ago (actually under a different domain name) as a journal of my struggles to learn everything I could about running websites. Then for the past few years I stopped maintaining this site for the most part because I was too busy actually doing the work to journal it. Now, finally, I'm a full-time ... [Read More]

Coming up with new blog posts

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Coming up with ideas for blog posts is one of the toughest challenges a blogger faces. We've talked before about using a feedreader to speed up your blog writing. That may be all you need if most of your posts involve linking to someone else's and then offering insights of your own. It can also give you brand new ideas as your mind goes off on tangents from what you've ... [Read More]

Redirect a subdomain to totally different URL

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Htaccess redirecting is a powerful and somewhat frightening tool. After all, one typo and your domain is pointing nowhere in an infinite loop. It's okay, though, because you can always get back in through FTP or Cpanel to fix it. As long as you kept a backup copy before making your changes. And that's exactly what you need to do before following any of the instructions in this ... [Read More]

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