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Just finished a new site for a friend of mine 12.08.2009 | Posted in Design

MPWicks.com. The new website for my friend & Baby Boomer Author Mike Wicks is now online.


Visit his site online at www.mpwicks.com

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My Favourite backup is Mac Friendly again (^_^) 11.17.2009 | Posted in Miscellaneous

Although the guys are Carbonite are great at what they do, they kind of strike me as idot savants of the computer world.  OK, here is my reasoning. They come up with a great easy to use back up program. You install it, config a few settings and then walk away. Their program then churns away in the background copying all of your latest files out into cyberspace somewhere. I was content with the old USB hard drive back up, until last year when I was audited. I was all safe and secure thinking. Yep -- I have everything on file, BRINGITON Taxman! Well, when I got the letter...

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w00t! I Jammed with Trent Reznor 10.06.2009 | Posted in Personal

Yep that's me on the guitar... the rhythm and the lead. Thanks to modern technology I am able to join one of the greats like Trent Reznor in the recording studio & lay down a few tracks. Look out Eddie & Yngwie, I'm after your jobs...

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Things 10.04.2009 | Posted in Miscellaneous A decent Task Management system has become my Holy Grail of programs. Ages ago when I first started in an advertising agency, all of us in the art department had legal size pieces of foam core with a laser printed grids glued on to them. We would then write every job that we had on little Post-its and rearrange them into little columns. Rush jobs would get moved to one side of the board, normal jobs to the middle and proof out jobs to the other side. Our production manager would come by each morning & we could see at an instant where everything was... Read full story

 

My Redesign is complete 10.04.2009 | Posted in News Welcome to the redesign of my website. For the past couple of years I have been using PixelPost (a photo blogging software program). While PixelPost is great & easy to use to post images, it was not really suited to offer downloads, news or blog entries . I have set up numerous sites using ExpressionEngine for a few directory & store sites & I thought it would be a great piece of software to use for my own personal site.... Read full story