This week I have a few posts coming up on security, and this is Part 1. This one is sponsored, but all thoughts and experiences are my own. Today marks Day 2 of being attack-free. Don’t know what I’m talking about? Well, six months ago I wrote about a brute force attack on my blog,…
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2016, here’s the obligatory goodbye post
Before you ask; yes, this is going to be one of those posts that every blogger writes. And I’m not even ashamed. 2016 was a bit of a “nothing” year for me personally. Ignoring all the masses of celebrity deaths and all the political upheaval of the year, we’re left with the bits that really…
Instagram and the Follow/Unfollow strategy; my 2c
Instagram is the powerhouse of social media advertising. Nearly on a daily basis you see/hear stories of millennials making megabucks for posting pictures of their lives on the app. What started as a way to share snippets of your life, now has become a legitimate advertising stream, with the photos no longer just filtered but…
How to prevent/mitigate a brute force attack on your blog
If you follow me on Twitter of Instagram (and if you don’t, why not?!), you would have to be pretty much blind to not have seen me banging on about the events in the last two or so days. I had all these grandiose plans for this week. I was going to schedule things, take…
Bloggers and Tax – record keeping
I often get asked how one should keep records, how to record expenses and income, how to show HMRC what you’ve earned and spent… So here’s my view on it. HMRC doesn’t actually require you to keep any particular type of accounting. All it cares about is that you can provide them with figures. You…