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Category: Automattic

My life at Automattic

  • What’s in my bag?

    What’s in my bag?

    Inspired (no, okay, I ripped it off entirely) by Matt Mullenweg’s post of the same name I thought it would be interested to share what’s in the backpack that I take around with me when travelling for work. It’s early times yet, with only a few such trips but 3 more due this year and I have no current intention to change the contents.

    I’m certainly not the “road warrior” that he is but I certainly think there may some ideas for others – what I liked about seeing Matt’s was that it gave me some further ideas of my own. I particularly liked some of the stationary items that Matt has and I’ve already been looking into them.

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  • Email conversation with Neff

    Email conversation with Neff

    Me: I have a Neff account on your site but I need to update the email address for it, which I don’t appear to be able to do. Can you change this for me?

    Neff: Unfortunately we are unable to amend those details due to not having access to your account. This is something that only you can do yourself.

    Me: Erm…

  • Why can’t I transfer my domain from 1&1?

    Why can’t I transfer my domain from 1&1?

    I’ve had an account with 1&1 for, oh, many years. Never for hosting but simply for domain handling – specifically artiss.co.uk.

    However, needing to install SSL on this domain, my host (Tsohost) can only do it if the domain is hosted with them and 1&1, well, they won’t give me SSL because I don’t have the domain hosted with them. So, the easiest solution was to move the domain to Tsohost.

    Sadly, 1&1 have made sure this process isn’t easy.

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  • Whatever you do, don’t trust Doros Kiriakoulis

    Whatever you do, don’t trust Doros Kiriakoulis

    Last year I wrote about how a single product, the GoKey, had made me give up on crowd funding websites. Badly delayed, something always seemed to come up when the deadline was imminent. However, it all appeared to be moving on and only a couple of weeks ago all the backers received an email so we could provide final confirmation details of our product requirements (for example, my phone connection has changed, twice,
    since originally backing the product, so I needed a different connector on the GoKey).

    This morning I had an email.

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  • James Altucher Interview with Matt Mullenweg

    James Altucher Interview with Matt Mullenweg

    James Altucher, a “investor, writer and entrepreneur” publishes regular podcasts and, for this latest, he interviewed Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic.

    You can listen to it below, or head to James’ website.

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