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ICANN Domain Abuse Email Scam (also Domaincop, others)

I got an email today for one of my sites. I've unlinked the links for your protection. Also, when I copied and pasted it from my email client, I discovered an exciting little invisible iframe at the bottom that was, I'm sure, designed to infect my computer. I'm calling this one the ICANN Domain Abuse Email Scam. Dear Domain Owner, Our system has detected that your ... [Read More]

Why You Might Want to Blog Anonymously

Many moons ago when I started out, no one ever would have considered blogging under their real names. We all chose to blog anonymously. Who knew what sort of criminals and weirdos might be reading, after all? So you blogged anonymously - unless you were already famous under your real name - and your only real source of traffic was Google. And Google was more ... [Read More]

How to Secure a WordPress Site

One of the most important things you need to know as a blogger is how to secure a Wordpress site. Sure, you can pay someone to harden your site, but not everyone offering this service knows what they're doing - or can be trusted. You may want to bookmark this post, because I'm going to come back to it every few months and update anything that's changed. In it, I'm going ... [Read More]

How I became a full-time blogger

One of the most common questions I get asked is "How did you become a full-time blogger?". So I thought I'd write an article to answer it. And then I thought, why not back up, tell the whole story, and probably give you more background info on me than you ever wanted? How I first became a part-time blogger I actually didn't start out blogging. In 1996, I started teaching ... [Read More]

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