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I like a bit of change in my work every now and then. When I first started using Umbraco I had been working on a Java GWT application for almost a year, so I welcomed a new project with a new CMS to discover. I was lucky that Wrox had just published the first ever book on Umbraco when my project started, so I ordered a copy of Umbraco User's Guide  to read up on Umbraco.

Umbraco User's Guide is a good beginners guide to Umbraco for both developers and administrators. It covers the most important aspects of Umbraco in just 320...
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Since I started this website it has been doing pretty well in the Dutch search engines... or let me just say in Google Netherlands, because in the Netherlands all we use is Google. 95 percent of searches are performed via Google and the other 5 percent I don't even know. Probably some local Dutch search engine, like zoeken.nl.

In recent months however the number of visitors has declined. I saw quite a big decrease in februari 2011 and another one in october 2011. I must admit I hadn't created new content for almost a year then, so punishment had to come some day and it did. Google decided to rank my pages lower and to take away 1 point of my Pagerank. So I started reading and investigating.

I learned...
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The cursor of my beloved Dell Latitiude E6540 laptop has developed the annoying habit of randomly jumping to a different part of the screen. It happens at random time intervals and it has been doing this since a couple of days. When I am typing the cursor will all of a sudden jump to a different position in the text, causing me to mess up my own text.

I did some searches on Google and it seems the jumping cursor problem is not new and not limited to Dell laptops, although Dell laptops seem to be overrepresented. At least, I am not alone!

In this video you see me typing some text (in Dutch). You can see the cursor jumping to the top of...
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