http://www.michael-baker.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:35:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A few months ago I installed Office 2007 and became totally unproductive. After a short while I started looking for anyway to setup Office 2007 with the classic User Interface that Office had had up until Office 2003. My prayers were answered when I found pschmid.net's Ribbon Customizer which comes in two ... http://www.michael-baker.com/blog/2009/01/18/taming-office-2007/ This is the first in a number of posts on how to tame Vista. Since being inflicted with Vista I've found several ways of making it behave in a sensible manner, but have forgotten what they were and how they were done. This series of posts on taming vista is ... http://www.michael-baker.com/blog/2009/01/18/taming-vista-default-folder-views/ According to the calculator at http://www.onlineidcalculator.com/ I'm digitally distinct. My score was 8/10 on Volume and 10/10 on relevance. As a result I'm permitted to show the rather hideous image on the right: While I don't like the image, and won't be putting it on my front page, it is ... http://www.michael-baker.com/blog/2009/01/07/digitally-distinct/ If you have any comments or questions about Simple Shortcodes, please leave a comment on this post. http://www.michael-baker.com/blog/2008/12/28/simple-shortcodes-support/ This post was inspired by an email from Kirt Christensen forwarded by Ray Edwards on the power of Mastermind Groups, and advertising $1 21 day trial of internetmarketingmastermind.com. My immediate question was, how can I get into a mastermind group? A quick search on google for Mastermind Group threw up: How ... http://www.michael-baker.com/blog/2008/11/23/mastermind-groups/ While searching on Google for advice on maximum lenght for the description meta tag, it occured to me to actully measure the descriptions that Google was showing. Here are the results: ... http://www.michael-baker.com/blog/2008/11/19/description-meta-tag-maximum-length/ I was looking for an essential wordpress plugins list and found that there are many such lists. Rather than relying on one list I decided to create a composite list of my own. Why would I want to do this? I have recently started to actively administer four WordPress Blogs, ... http://www.michael-baker.com/blog/2008/10/22/top-twenty-essential-wordpress-plugins/ A friend has evidence that people are sending him emails that he never receives.  He has asked me what he can do about it. This is not a new problem.  Email never has been a secure or certain method of delivering messages.  For example in an article "Too Many Lost Emails ... http://www.michael-baker.com/blog/2008/10/17/secure-email/ Over the years I've use the fact that spambots don't know who I am to help immediately identify spam. Any message that includes by email username (usually mbaker) in the subject is almost certainly spam. However today I received an email with the subject: Hi Michael Please read ... http://www.michael-baker.com/blog/2008/10/16/on-the-dangers-of-personalising-email-subject-lines/ What is "standard" when it comes to a web page footer? I recently wrote: It is my contention that virtually no one will read anything at the foot of the page, but they will look for things there (but only things that they would expect to find, things like: But then wondered, well ... http://www.michael-baker.com/blog/2008/10/16/standard-footer-items/