July 2008

Comment moderation

July 21, 2008 General

I have no idea why but Akismet has not been as good at catching comment spam and undesirable trackbacks etc as it usually is on my site. As I am taking a break (this week) but have a couple of posts in the hopper, I’m turning comment moderation on. No-one wants a ton of crap [...]

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My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 17th through July 19th

July 21, 2008 Asides

These are my del.icio.us bookmarks for July 17th through July 19th: Wordle – Accman July 19 – Analysis of words used on my site as at 18th July Flixwagon pay bloggers, non disclosure from bloggers or Flixwagon – Important to know who pays whom. Then you can judge for bias TechCrunchIT » Blog Archive » [...]

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UBS admits fraud but what about controls?

July 21, 2008 General

Last week, UBS America finally confessed that it had perpetrated a series of tax frauds which affects 19,000 US taxpayers. Richard Murphy questions whether this is the tip of the iceberg. He is right to do so. I was more interested in the controls aspect: “Our compliance system had failures, and misconduct appears to have [...]

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SaaS accounting mature?

July 17, 2008 Cloud Computing/SaaS

In his weekly email newsletter I received today, John Stokdyk of AccountingWEB makes the statement: I’ve made a little hay myself with claims about the ‘new wave’ of mid-range software as a service systems that provide more than just online cashbooks, but after reading Nigel’s views on Xero, e-conomic and Liquid Accounts, it’s clear that [...]

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Fair value causing problems in the US

July 17, 2008 General

CFO.com has come out with an article that makes a lot of sense to me. It will take more than a change in rules to make companies comfortable with the move to fair value accounting. It will take a change in “mindset,” predicts Gary Kabureck, the chief accountant and corporate vice president at Xerox Corp. [...]

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ion promo – cool or what?

July 17, 2008 General

This morning I played around with Animoto to create this little promo video for ion/ICAEW. The result is above and runs 1min 20 secs. Cool or what?

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My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 16th

July 17, 2008 Asides

These are my del.icio.us bookmarks for July 16th: IT PRO: Blogs: Benny Har-Even: Why Don’t You Turn Off Your iPhone And Go And Do Something Less Boring Instead. – Battery life? What battery life? There isn't any. Go Big Always – Are you a GNAK? – A new one on me but interesting nonetheless E [...]

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WordPress 2.6: much to like

July 16, 2008 General

Want to know about the new WordPress 2.6 features? Check out the video above (courtesy of Andy Roberts) Andy asserts that WordPress is taking on more of a wiki feel and declares that to be goodness. I agree. But then I could flip the coin and use something like DekiWiki. More about which later Some [...]

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