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Earning money from your fuel bill?

On April 6th, in the UK, the Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Act 2006 becomes active.

This act required the Government to review the system of permitted development with a view to sustainable energy generation in homes and reduces the red tape to implement power saving concepts like “microgeneration”, where households can produce their own power.

Householders can deploy “microgeneration” (within “sensible limits”) without the need to apply for planning permission. So Read the rest of this entry »

It’s not every day that a new social platform comes on-line that fills you with confidence, rather than dread…

But enter Qassia (no U).

Sign up to Qassia for free and join a social community worth something

For reasons you’ll discover when you join up, Qassia has a high viral feel to it.

It’s amazing because it is free and it is amazing because you can have FOLLOW backlinks, which are not reciprocal. No doubt at some point Google will get the hump and SLAP it, but that should only last temporarily because it would be un-just, because of amazing reason number 3.

The amazing third reason:

Qassia encourage you to Read the rest of this entry »

OFFER ENDED

YOU ARE TOO LATE

This was back in Jan 2008

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It’s been a difficult week for mere mortals!

The Stomper girls have rallied up their golf club chums to affiliate promote their web 2.0 course to death. One affiliate even tried to sucker me in by offering me a job IF I had taken the course. Of course that is the exact same offer he made his other 1.28 million spam list, so I have a 1 in 1.28 million chance of working mainly for free. Erm whoopee! (I can do that now, without your blessing, so no thanks)

Certainly the budget Hollywood video production (complete with bad audio edits that an 8 year old could do better) was certainly erm. erm. “interesting” and “entertaining“.
(You do know Hollywood films are mainly fiction, right?)

The course may well be “ok”. And if you need a video to show you how to use StumbleUpon then maybe it is for you. But for $15 bucks there’s a video on that at NicheDragon.com. Hell I may even make that “FREE” now!

But there’s a fundamental problem with delivering a course on the strength that it will benefit your business or make you money. It has to be true!

Certainly web 2 is highly significant “at this moment” as part of your web presence. And it’s even fair to say that “something like” web 2.0, will continue to be part of that business cycle in the forseeable future.

The only problem is that Read the rest of this entry »

I’m not sure how I am supposed to avoid sounding like a moaning mini or panic munger, but when something is WRONG, something IS wrong, right?

Now don’t get me wrong. We ALL make mistake and with Internet security there is always some bored mafia kid who wants to break what we work for incredibly long hours to create.

So my issue is not that a mistake was made, but that no remedy has been taken to fix it. AFAIK anyway. And not telling me seems equally bad if it has.

I bought a software product from a renowned Internet marketing development company.

It basically worked, which is always a great start, but then I noticed something. The configuration file, which housed all the database connections including the database password, was PLAIN TEXT.

You don’t have to be technical to know that a plain text file can be read by anybody.

So all someone needed to do was type in Read the rest of this entry »

Fran Tarkenton NFL Quarterback:

Fran Tarkenton is an NFL Quarterback with a place in the NFL Hall of Fame

Here is a small video tribute site to some of his incredible achievements…

http://reachfor.us/frantarkenton.htm

Of course, Fran has one of the hardest last names in the world to remember to spell…
With many NFL fans also calling him Tarkington, thus occupying Google search positions 1 and 8 simultaneously. I guess just “Fran the Tank” was too much to ask for