If you are going to run a mailing list you need to be very conscious of the problems you face. At the technical/design level you need to send emails that people will be able to read.Plain text emails are obviously going to be legible in all email clients, but are not as attractive as HTML ones. Unfortunately no two email clients are going to render your emails in exactly the … [Read more...] about Sending bulk email without spamming
Tired of simple URLs and email addresses?
If you are bored with people being able to actually remember your web address and your email then do not despair! HugeURL as the name suggests is the complete opposite of tinyurl (et al). For example: https://michele.blog/blog is transformed … [Read more...] about Tired of simple URLs and email addresses?
Geo specific scoring
For the last couple of months we have been tracking our logs using Vispan with the GeoIP. We can easily see where viruses and spam are coming from and thus draw up a top list of countries. For example, so far this month the top sources of spam have been: United States Korea, Republic of China Ireland United Kingdom NB A percentage of these emails would have been tagged as … [Read more...] about Geo specific scoring
Resident Evil
I've been listening to the Resident Evil soundtrack whilst working. I must get my hands on the soundtrack to the sequel. … [Read more...] about Resident Evil
Google PR updated
Google seems to have made some significant updates to page rank for a lot of sites in the last few days. SEO experts were expecting updates to the search index, but nothing seems to have changes as yet. This site now has a PR of 4, which is quite respectable for a personal blog site. The company site has now got a PR of 6 on the main page, which is nice, but not as impressive … [Read more...] about Google PR updated