Spam in the way of your Lord?

By Timothy Bowes

We are all used to receiving spam messages, but its use in promoting online Qur’an tuition must be quite an innovation. When I recived this comment overnight, I must say I was momentarily touched… I have seen many blogs and have don research on many but most of them lack of good substance but I [...]

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This article was posted on Friday, 12th March , 2010 at 7:39 am and is filed under Commentary. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can also add a note to this post, or trackback from your own website.

Secure your website

By Timothy Bowes with 2 reader notes

What follows is aimed specifically at webmasters and bloggers running self-hosted websites using the open-source CMS, WordPress, but I am sure there are general principles here that can benefit others. If you have a self-hosted weblog or website, there are two things that really should be your priority: beefing up your security and having some sort of backup process in place. All in all, this is a modest plea to my respected writers: before disaster strikes, take a few steps to protect your website so I can carry on reading what you have to say to my heart’s content.

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This article was posted on Monday, 1st December , 2008 at 9:30 pm and is filed under Commentary. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can also add a note to this post, or trackback from your own website.

Stupid Conmen

By Timothy Bowes

What must Frank Abagnale Jr. — the conman made famous by the film ‘Catch Me If You Can’ — think of the wannabe email fraudsters who fill up my mail box with spam day after day? With cunning, Mr Abagnale managed to con millions of dollars worth of checks by posing as a pilot, doctor [...]

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This article was posted on Tuesday, 5th September , 2006 at 8:51 am and is filed under Commentary. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can also add a note to this post, or trackback from your own website.
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