I run a small business. I don't have a bazillion employees. All of my transactions go through my business bank account. So can anyone tell me why I spend thousands of pounds on fees and go through endless aggravation every VAT quarter and at every business year end to do my accounting? My bank has all [...]

Twitter is aflame with tweets from users warning each other via retweets about a phishing scam that's currently underway. The scammers are sending DMs to Twitter users that read "hey! check out this funny blog about you..." and contain a link to a site that asks you to log in with your Twitter username and [...]

I'm happy to announce that there's quite an important update to Gaebar that brings with it some essential bug fixes and should help shave quite a bit of time off of your restores. I've also created a new project called gaebar-gaed-skeleton on GitHub that gives you an empty Google App Engine Django (Helper) project with Gaebar [...]

Loïc Le Meur feels that Twitter needs to implement search by authority where authority is determined by the number of followers a user has: We're not equal on Twitter, as we're not equal on blogs and on the web . . . Most people use Twitter with a few friends, but when someone who has thousands, [...]

Update: Beta 2 Released! See the Gaebar Beta 2 announcement. Here's my Christmas present for the Google App Engine community: Google App Engine Backup and Restore (or Gaebar, for short). Gaebar is an easy-to-use, standalone Django application that you can plug in to your existing Google App Engine Django or app-engine-patch-based Django applications on Google App Engine [...]