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This article aims to cover some basics on how to improve the security of your email address. Inside, I will try to cover some good ways with which to protect the most important part of your online presence, ie. your email address; following that will be some good password suggestions, advice on how to prepare for a disaster beforehand, and dealing with it after it has happened.

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Time management is a pain - simple as that. I speak from experience! Whether you’re a freelancer working by the hour or just a geek trying to analyse your computer usage trends, RescueTime is a great software+service that can help you manage your time without any data entry.
I’ve been using the program for quite a [...]

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So I wrote a few articles some time ago for DAWN SciTech World and Spider Magazine and because I didn’t have a site when they were published, they sort of got lost on the Web. In loving memory, here they are in reverse order of publication:

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Lists. We see them everywhere these days, and there’s no denying the fact that we all love them. Everybody from Moses (a la Ten Commandments) to MTV (Top 10 countdowns) did lists, and they’re still around. Just take a look at sites like Digg or del.icio.us and there’s bound to be at least a couple lists featured on the front page.

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It’s often an uphill battle when it comes to explaining the importance of web standards to our clients. Web designers and developers tend to rant on about accessible design and valid HTML while forgetting the fact that many of our clients just don’t care. In fact, many developers don’t bother with it either, and that may be part of the problem why Web standards are given far less emphasis than they deserve.

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