So the hackers are persistent. Or just automated. Decided to delete my entire site and start again. Momentary pause in activities while I rebuild some layouts and content…

So I checked my site earlier today to find I had been hacked. Odd since I’m pretty good with passwords, patching and scanning. Turns out not so good with the regular backups so that’s a lesson learned. The hack was via the rather vulnerable timthumb.php that handles image resizing in a lot of themes. Fortunately,  Read more »

So we have a great blogging property; it’s probably the best blog in the UK asset management space. It’s good because it’s well written, timely and focuses on market opinion – and doesn’t try to sell the firm or the product set. It’s been attracting good email subscription rates, good traffic and moderate RSS subscribers.  Read more »

There’s a perception (OK a reality) that the majority of web startups are US-based. Hard to argue when you see the pure volume of new apps and services being created every day. But London (and the rest of the UK!) is slowly building a credible presence alongside Europe. There’s a couple of services that I’ve  Read more »

www.ifttt.com Fantastic service – you’ll sit and ponder for some time.

loads.in is a free service that allows you to enter the URL of any site (more sensibly your own site) and analyse how quickly it loads. But for a free service it offers pretty good tools – choose the location and browser and it stacks the tests for comparison. Each test also allows you to  Read more »

This has been out for a while but I just received a ‘it’s nearly here’ email that reminded me about the service. I like plug-in CRM tools – I don’t need a stand-alone service but it’s nice to have a tool that tells you more about your contacts and in my case remind me that  Read more »

Google has tweaked the design for the Apps toolbar. It’s minor but it tidies up the look and feel of the Apps interface and moves aways lightly from their simple text/links approach.

I love Dropbox. It’s one of those apps you just install and forget (well, actually if you run it on a laptop with Windows 7 64 bit OS it has a wee issue with not letting your laptop sleep properly but I’m sure they’ll get that fixed). There are other perfectly good sync options like  Read more »