Blogging

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    Promising new blog

    Ian Landsman tried to launch heldesktalk.com as a forum to discuss help desk issues, but when that proved to be too much of a challenge for the amount of time he had, he brought in his dad to turn it into a blog: The site will be original writing, but will also link to ongoings…

  • Google Reader

    On Kevin’s suggestion in the comments, I’m giving Google Reader another try. I tried the old version and really didn’t like it, but I decided to give it another shot after so many people talked it up so much after they upgraded. We’ll see how it goes. The one thing I’m not going to change…

  • Not quite great

    Yeah so the new blogger gives me new stuff, a comments feed and I can use labels to generate a page of posts with just that topic (i.e. Blogging, and yes there’s a way to get a feed of just those posts too, for example see the FriendsinTech feed.), but it also just doesn’t seem…

  • New Blogger

    So the new version of Blogger came out of Beta yesterday. Last night was the first chance I’ve been giving to make the switch, I had been kept away from the beta, I assume because of the size of this blog. In fact, the act of moving it was an overnight project, apparently. 🙂 Anyway,…

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    Hosting issues

    Long-time readers of this blog know that I’ve had my share of issues with hosting companies over the years. That’s why yesterday morning I got a somewhat pleasant surprise. My current provider was doing some network maintenance over night, and, apparently, ran into some problems with the upstream provider in the process. Now, this was…

  • Excuse the mess

    Pardon me while I make some small changes to the blog. This is what happens when you spend two days basically bed-ridden with the flu. Once you have even a little bit of energy you just have to do something! I thought it’d be cool to add Digg This and Add to delicious.com links to…