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The Trades Person Email Hack scam

19th August 2017 M Smith1 Comment

An outline of an online scam worth potentially thousands of dollars. This scam shows the importance of having strong unique passwords and two factor authentication on email accounts. I heard …

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Data Analysis

Loading files to Google Drive using python

8th August 201710th August 2017 M Smith8 Comments

This guide will walkthrough the set up for being able to load csv and excel files to Google Drive with python. Uploading files to Google Drive is a useful to …

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Masking emails

29th July 201729th July 2017 M Smith2 Comments

Email masking is a good strategy to employ online if you want to avoid spam and also for overall digital security and privacy. Masking emails is the process by which …

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Loading data into Google Sheets Using python

20th July 201722nd July 2017 M SmithLeave a comment

This is a guide to programatically load a python pandas DataFrame (python 3) into a Google Sheets spreadsheet. Google Sheets is a useful tool to use in the daily tasks …

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Business Culture at Netflix

8th July 2017 M SmithLeave a comment

I stumbled across this presentation while listening to an excellent episode of the Tim Ferris podcast. The presentation is almost 10 years old at this stage but I think there …

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Data Analysis

Automating Google Analytics reports in Google Sheets

24th June 201724th June 2017 M SmithLeave a comment

This guide will walkthrough how to create automatically updating Google Analytics reports. This is for those who need to report on Google Analytics data regularly, and need to get access …

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The Dark Side of Free Android VPNs

3rd June 2017 M SmithLeave a comment

There was a ruling that came into effect in Australia recently which is concerning to those who care about privacy. The ruling requires telecommunication service providers to keep meta data …

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Earl Nightingale

9th May 2017 M SmithLeave a comment

A lot of food for thought in this 20 minutes extract from one of Earl Nightingales audio tapes.

  1. What are you doing at the present time to increase your income?

  2. How much money do you plan on being worth at age 65?

Continue reading “Earl Nightingale” →

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pa55words

23rd April 201729th July 2017 M SmithLeave a comment

This video really opened my eyes in how I view passwords and password security.

Most people on the internet don’t know what a random password is or how to keep it secure. They are also about a decade behind what enterprises are doing in regards to password complexity.

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Debugging Adobe Analytics Tagging – Google AMP

10th April 201710th April 2017 M SmithLeave a comment

A quick addition to my previous post “Debugging Adobe Analytics“, this is a quick guide to detecting Adobe Analytics calls on Google AMP pages.   Chrome In Google Chrome it …

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