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Current Geek Reading List

February 3, 2010

I got an Amazon delivery today of some new books to add to my pile I’m working my way through. I am currently reading:
Extreme Programming Explained – I’m project managing a group of 2nd year computer scientists and am using some of the principles from XP in my approach. Mostly just the iterative [...]

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Name servers updated, 301 redirects in place…

August 17, 2009

Just a quick update to say that the conversion-matters.co.uk name servers have been updated to point here and 301 redirects are in place to hopefully redirect content from the old blog to here.
Any wonkyness, leave a comment.
Also, I’ve redirect /feed to the new feedburner feed http://feeds.feedburner.com/adamjctaylor/asdf, so if you subscribed in the last couple of [...]

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The Terrible Tale of Tiscali Trauma

February 3, 2009

My girlfriend is at her wits end with Tiscali.  They over charged her when she first set up her account with her and have been completely useless in sorting it out.  Multiple people have said they would refund her, or she would be credited and she hasn’t been at all.  It is completely unacceptable behaviour.
How [...]

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Who Is Justine Ezarek?

September 18, 2008

Disclaimer: Regular readers (do I have any?) may ignore this; I think you know what I’m doing..
Actually she’s no one.. Sorry to dissapoint.
You have just misspelt Justine Ezarik.
Who is Justine Ezarik?
She is often known as iJustine I believe?  She is a life blogger/vlogger or something..
I don’t really know.. She’s someone for geeks to drool over [...]

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Stop Fucking Comment Spamming Me!

August 26, 2008

Please.  I’m trying to travel around Europe not moderate comments!

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Do not try and edit a post as Google Bot..

July 17, 2008

It really fucks up the writing editor.  I wondered what was going on just now…

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500 Ways To Find Adam Taylor

July 15, 2008

Inspired by a post over here I present 500 keywords people have used to find this site for your general amusement and amazement!
adam taylor
setting up a blog
conversation matters
harry potter porn
adding google analytics tracking to 1shoppingcart
the big social media marketing myth
1shoppingcart google analytics
google analytics tutorial
conversion matters
google ecommerce

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Pimping Myself Out

April 4, 2008

Sorry I haven’t posted in a while, feel like saving myself until I have something unique to say, anyway I need a job in July so I thought I’d pimp myself out on my blog for a start.
So briefly:
I spent a year as a ‘Junior Web Developer’ at a UK search conversion agency in London, [...]

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Plugins, Addons, Applications, Toolbars That I Couldn’t Live Without!

February 13, 2008

Photo Credit.
Every other day there is a post about the top 10 webmaster/SEO/webdeveloper [insert person here] toolbars/addons etc. that people use and it does, admittedly, get a bit boring. However, I thought I’d quickly share with you what I have and why because I actually find them rather useful.
Firefox Addons I couldn’t live without!
I [...]

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Dear Facebook, please tell me what kind of lingerie I am!

January 28, 2008

So anyone who uses Facebook must be aware of the multitude of applications that you get ‘invited’ to try and most people find it a bit annoying.
One of the reasons a lot of people don’t like them is because by default they completely clutter up your profile page. However, often the applications are intriguing. [...]

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