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thank you by milly

The Power of Please and Thank You

January 8, 2016 · by Sam Michel · in Miscellany, Social

<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 this whole parenting thing. Another parenting triumph #dadfail… [read more]

Compuserve CD circa 2000 Front & Bank

Do You Remember the First Time You Saw the Web?

January 7, 2016 · by Sam Michel · in Geekery

<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 of rfree Internet. It got me… [read more]

278365.numbers by Dang Nguyen

Social Proof of Twitter Buttons Is Out For The Count

January 6, 2016 · by Sam Michel · in Marketing, Social

<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 stopped displaying the numbers of… [read more]

Books by Glenn Noble on Unsplash

I Write a Book Each Month, You Probably Do Too.

January 5, 2016 · by Sam Michel · in Miscellany

<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 conclusion that all those emails, documents, reports, proposals, instant… [read more]

Mute by ~dgies

Keyboard Shortcuts for Mute: Skype & Google Hangouts

September 21, 2015 · by Sam Michel · in Geekery, Social

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;dr> Here’s the keyboard shortcuts… [read more]

How to enable Gmail's 'Send mail as'

How to enable Gmail’s ‘Send mail as’

March 18, 2015 · by Sam Michel · in Geekery

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 on behalf of… [read more]

HMRC Tax Form

13 Tech Startup and SME Friendly Accountants

February 23, 2015 · by Sam Michel · in Miscellany

Unless you have a penchant for number crunching and government-related form-filling, tax returns, VAT returns, cashflow forecasts, balance sheets are probably tasks that you’d like to delegate. Let us not forget the UK’s record-breaking 17,000 page tax code. To run a… [read more]

Precision Engineering by Jacob Ehnmark

Installing Mongo and Mongo-PHP on Mac OSX Mavericks with MAMP

June 6, 2014 · by Sam Michel · in Geekery

<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 NoSQL database Mongo and you’re running MAMP on your… [read more]

Card Clash Email from Transport for London

Why London Underground’s ‘Card Clash’ Will Confuse Your Finances

February 4, 2014 · by Sam Michel · in Cantankerism, Marketing

In a delightful combination of user experience fails, Transport for London troubled my inbox this morning with an email alert about ‘card clash’.

Pouring Iron by zman z28

Migrating from Drupal 6 to WordPress: Part 2 – Content, Tags, Links and Images

January 13, 2014 · by Sam Michel · in Geekery

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 out of Drupal 6 into Wordpress version 3.7. It should also work with the latest version (at time of writing Wordpress 3.8 Parker).

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toodlepip is Sam Michel‘s personal blog covering digital, social, business, technology, society, psychology, startups & scaleups. Sometimes BBQ, food stuff, geekery and other miscellany.

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