Freeware of the Week! [ImgBurn]

I can’t believe that while I was going through my movie montage hell that I didn’t mention that I also had a nightmare burning the final clip to disc. Because I didn’t know what kind of video playback was going to be used, I needed a CD with the clip in a variety of formats, [...]

Catching the Content Cheats

Yesterday, Aaron Wall of SEO Book (who you should be reading, by the way) brought my attention to what has to be one of the most flagrant instances of content theft I’ve seen in a while. Hitwise, the online analysis arm of the Experian empire had used a graph from one of SEO Book’s recent [...]

A Short Adventure in Graphic Design

Over the weekend, while playing with one of my projects, it occurred to me that if I launched it as a blog, there would need to be a logo. Logos (decent ones, anyway) mean graphic design. I know nothing about graphic design. In fact, I barely use my graphics applications. They just sit on my [...]

Firefighting: Dealing with Viruses and Malware

I know that I have banged on about this before, but I will continuing doing so until I think the message has gotten through. Prompted by a begging email from Mashada, I checked into the forums and gravitated towards the Computers and Technology folder, where I found this thread. Leaving aside the stupidity of running [...]

So, What Might Foreigners Think About Doing Business in Kenya?

Seeing as I’m not in the land of my birth, I thought it would make little sense for me to continue mouthing off about the state of the business environment in Kenya, especially as I’m not doing anything there right now. What I can do, on the other hand, is try to find out potential [...]