If I was to consider what I might find useful for this blog it would probably be the folowing:

The help people discover useful tools and applications for everyday use to help them save time and become more effective at what they do, whether it be work or lifestyle applications. It would also be to provide thoughts insights into my fields of work including SEO and Internet Marketing.

It has been a long path to reviewing an entry level, basic financial, budgeting, money monitoring tool for my business & personal finances. (Note: This post is looking at a UK business but all products are available for international countries, in fact most are US based products.)

Having no need for the high products like Quicken, Tas Books, MYOB or SAGE I wanted to find something affordable that allows me to do basic accounts management, budgeting and bank statement reconciliations. Enough that I can give my accountant a summary at the end of the year and monitor my budgets and income in the process.

Drupal can be a server heavy CMS. So there are alot of things you need to optimise to make it run as smoothly and as fast as possible. Load times can be a real traffic killer but there is hope. I have experienced a whole lot of techniques to optimise your Drupal website but this post is all about one  module called SimpleCDN. It is called SimpleCDN, I am guessing, as it was first made to work with the SimpleCDN network.

I just don't understand why when I need things to work they break. Expletives don't describe today well enough.

The checklist of moving a website from one server to another should be copy database, copy files -> upload files, upload database, move NS, check email accounts and your done.

If you are one of those on the presenting circuit you are often looking for little tidbits of information that will wow your audience. Or, if you are someone trying to sell in to technology stubborn companies then this video will provide you plenty of fodder. It's longer than you may have time for (about 4 minutes) but even just watch a minute and you may be impressed by the research done. I found it very interesting.

Who knows how accurate it is but a lot of these statistics I have heard before.

Things like:
- The top ten in-demand jobs in 2008 did not exist in 2004
- The US labour department estimates by age 38 todays learners will have had 10-14 jobs
- If MySpace was a country it would be the 5th largest in the world

Apple are giving a preview of the new iPhone 3 software version on the 17th March. Sadly this is a preview, not a complete version and is Apples way of creating more interest from developers to get it moving along no doubt.

I wonder what new wonders this will bring. Rumours include Universal search which the Palm Pre is scheduled to include. With other rumours of the new iPhone out in June this could be an eventful few months.

I always like my Apples packaged.

I missed the documentary that looked at Pripyat, Ukraine on the BBC but these photos are almost more powerful. If you have ever wondered what a city would look like if it were abandoned, this is it. Deserted with the Chernobyl catastrophe, the city housed alot of the Cernobyl workforce. It has been radio active and left to ruin for around 23 years. Make sure you get to the bottom as there are some amazing shots of a fun park also.

http://community.livejournal.com/abandonedplaces/1651741.html