Category: Blog
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Twitter hacking warning, again!
It was back in August 2011 when I first posted about having my twitter account hacked. In the last week both my personal and Liverpool Acoustic twitter accounts have been inundated with personal messages from accounts that have been hacked. Most of the time the account owner isn’t aware that they’ve been hacked, and most…
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Backup NOW for tomorrow may be too late
As you probably know, I run the Liverpool Acoustic website at liverpoolacoustic.co.uk. Earlier this year I moved it from a static HTML/CSS-based website to a lovely new WordPress version using a theme called Caulk. I really don’t know why I put the move off for so long (lethargy is a real bind…) but am really…
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Take care of your Apples
I love my iMac. I have a Late 2009 model, and it’s really nice! 27-inch glass screen display with 2560 by 1440 pixels, four USB 2.0 ports, one FireWire 800 port, two internal 17-wall high-efficiency amplifiers, an ATI Radeon HD graphics processor with 256MB of GDDR3 memory, 2.66GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 processor, 4GB of…
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My Podcasting Journey #smcliv
Last month I was invited to speak at Liverpool’s Social Media Cafe, organised by Neil Morrin from Defnetmedia. The focus of the evening was audio and podcasting (it was tagged ‘the sound one’ – very Scouse!) and I gave a talk which I called ‘My Podcasting Journey’. I was originally going to call it ‘Confessions…
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Barcamp Liverpool 2011
I went to Bar Camp Liverpool on Friday 18th November, and for a couple of hours on Saturday morning 19th November. For those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about, a Bar Camp is an un-conference – that is, a conference without a pre-set schedule. The talks are given by the people who…
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O Brother, Where Art The Tracks That Didn’t Make The Movie?
Has it really been 10 years since O Brother, Where Art Thou? was released? Based loosely on Homer’s Odyssey, the Coen Brothers’ film, set in rural Mississippi during the Great Depression and starring George Clooney, became something of a cult hit. The soundtrack, however, took on a life of its own and became a multi-platinum…
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First time for everything – twitter hacking warning
There’s a first time for everything, I suppose. I’ve had one of my social media accounts hacked for the first time ever, and I’m a little annoyed that I got caught out. But with this phishing scam using twitter, it just shows how easy it is for the scammers to set it up and how…
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Blowing my own trumpet
I bought the grahamholland.co.uk domain name as soon as it became available back in 1998. Previously it had been owned by a Ferguson Tractor enthusiast in Norfolk who ended up moving his website to something more appropriate (I think it has the words ‘ferguson’ and ‘tractor’ in the name). After getting my hands on the…