The Power of Please and Thank You
<tl;dr> Saying please and thank you really works. Actual real-life professors say so. Not only do you get a better response, but it’s good for you, too. I am definitely a novice at… [read more]
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Sam Michel
Do You Remember the First Time You Saw the Web?
<tl;dr> Where were you the first time? What did you think? Did you have an inkling of what would happen? I was cleaning out the loft recently and came across this CD promising 200 hours… [read more]
Social Proof of Twitter Buttons Is Out For The Count
<tl;dr> Twitter buttons stopped showing how many times a page is shared damaging social proof and potentially their own growth. The count is down On 20, November 2015 millions, if not billions, of Twitter buttons… [read more]
I Write a Book Each Month, You Probably Do Too.
<tl;dr> My New Year’s resolution is to try and write a blog post, or something not entirely work-related every day for 30 days. Some simple, and slightly questionable maths1, leads me to the… [read more]
Keyboard Shortcuts for Mute: Skype & Google Hangouts
Do you spend an inordinate amount of time on conference calls? From noisy offices, coffee shops or coworking spaces? Are the children making a racket in the background whilst you’re sharing your words of wisdom? <tl;… [read more]
How to enable Gmail’s ‘Send mail as’
Ah, the price of progress. Sparkly new features appear and sometimes really useful ones disappear. One of Gmail’s lovely features is the ability to handle several email accounts, fetching email and making it easy to send email… [read more]
13 Tech Startup and SME Friendly Accountants
2021 Update: Just published a new list of 25+ tech, startup and SME friendly accountants and bookkeepers. Unless you have a penchant for number crunching and government-related form-filling, tax returns, VAT returns, cashflow forecasts, balance sheets… [read more]
Installing Mongo and Mongo-PHP on Mac OSX Mavericks with MAMP
<tl;dr> A brief and thoroughly geeky blog post. If you’re not tinkering with Mongo on a Mac, best click away now </tl;dr> Are you wanting to tinker with the fancy schmancy… [read more]
Why London Underground’s ‘Card Clash’ Will Confuse Your Finances
In a delightful combination of user experience fails, Transport for London troubled my inbox this morning with an email alert about ‘card clash’. A new term for me. Maybe some variation of curiosity gap involved Twitter cards? Nope.… [read more]
Migrating from Drupal 6 to WordPress: Part 2 – Content, Tags, Links and Images
This is second in a series of posts about migrating from Drupal 6 to WordPress. The first post tackled installing WordPress and some basic security options. This time it’s a gnarly bunch of SQL for converting content… [read more]
My Twitter Got Hacked, What Next? The Obvious, Less Obvious & Forensic
And there goes the morning. If I could describe a deeply annoying start to the day, it would be thus: Wake up to discover that you’re offering your Twitter followers a sweet deal on Jordan’s (whatever… [read more]
Migrating from Drupal 6 to WordPress: Part 1 – Installation & Security
After six years, I finally bit the bullet and decided to make the jump from Drupal to WordPress. The reasons are numerous and I’m planning another blog post to chisel through that particular rock and hard place.… [read more]