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Why General Motors went bust

July 1, 2009 Blog

My car is made by Vauxhall, a GM owned company. And it speaks to me. When my lights are on, when my handbrake is up, when the car needs a service, when I forget to put my seatbelt on, I get told in no uncertain terms – PING – to rectify the situation. All these [...]

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The Elbonian guide to PSD slicing

June 15, 2009 Blog

If you’re considering breaking into the PSD slicing market, I highly recommend you don’t offer the world’s best and WordPress Development services (this is the mistake I made). Instead, learn to code like an Elbonian. How to code like an Elbonian Don’t work to W3C standards. They only exist to make corporate types believe the Web [...]

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Great with WordPress. Good Parent. Lousy Cook

June 2, 2009 Blog

A few weeks ago I redesigned my blog and re-wrote my tagline to reflect my 3 key areas of expertise, namely: Great with WordPress Good parent Lousy cook Well, earlier today Website maintenance guy and fellow South African Tertius actually noticed the new tagline and suggested to the nice folks on Twitter than I CAN [...]

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10 Bookmarkable PSD to HTML Tutorials

May 24, 2009 Blog

Over the past few weeks I’ve had some really nice PSD to HTML and PSD to WordPress projects on the go, and it’s got me thinking that I’d be perfectly comfortable doing this type of project more often. This may not be the most original post in the world but it’s here more as a [...]

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Chasing the almighty Dollar

May 13, 2009 Blog

I need your help. I’ve been toying with signing up to 3 or 4 affiliate programs but I can’t decide if this is the right thing to do. So I’ll make my case and would appreciate any feedback you can give me. Why I think affiliate programs might be a bad idea Affiliate programs are [...]

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Thesis revisited

April 29, 2009 Blog

If you’ve ever taken a look at Chris Pearson’s Thesis theme (aff) for WordPress, you’d be forgiven for not being blown away by its supposed awesomeness. Out of the box Thesis looks kind of boring. Yes, it has pretty typography and a cool multimedia display box thingy, but it needs something. Like colour. So this [...]

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How to survive marriage

April 27, 2009 Blog

I promised myself I’d only post personal stuff on think dave! occasionally. Today is an occasion so please bear with me. 7 years ago today Karin and I were joined in (sort of) holy matrimony. We’ve been together for almost 12 years so I’m qualified to talk about this stuff. Here are 2 quick tips [...]

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Chopped Liver

April 22, 2009 Blog

“Dad, I don’t want to go riding with you today, I want to play with Emma instead.” What? Since when does he ditch me to go and play with some kid down the street? And to make it worse, she’s a girl! He’s only 5. Surely he should still hate girls until he’s at least [...]

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Become a successful blogger in 3 steps

April 19, 2009 Blog

I read a lot of blogs about blogging and on the whole they’re a complete waste of time. In the time I’ve spent reading about being a better blogger I could have launched 5 niche websites and be making $1000 a month in passive income. So if you must start a blog, I’ve devised a [...]

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The Linkys – 17 April 2009 edition

April 17, 2009 Blog

Friday again! The perfect day to introduce THE LINKY AWARDS, a showcase of the most helpful, inspiring and all-round amusing Websites I’ve visitied in the past week. This week we’re focusing on Mac applications, WordPress, Daddy-blogging and good business advice. The ‘Information Overlord Award‘. This week’s award for the site that is ridiculously chocked full [...]

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