Tech

  • |

    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…

  • KBPublisher

    Saw this post over on Download Squad about an open-source knowledge base tool and thought, “wow, that would be an interesting tool for a small business or home business”. I think KBPublisher could have quite a few uses in that realm, don’t you? Unlimited Categories Glossary Terms Powerful WYSIWYG Instant Response Searching Add attachments Five different…

  • | |

    Random thoughts

    I haven’t had much motivation to put together any long posts about anything lately, but here are a few thoughts: The process of uploading pictures to Flickr has been interesting. On one hand I can certainly see where both the technology and my ability has improved from 2001-present day. Certainly, just in terms of tech,…

  • A simple upgrade

    Once again, I offered to do some simple work for a friend, upgrading them from an almost full 10GB laptop hard drive. Since I had a copy of Norton Ghost 9 that had been given to me as a gift awhile back, I figured this should be pretty simple. And, once again, it wasn’t that…

  • New version of AVG-Free

    Like I didn’t have enough to do after spending 5-days almost entirely disconnected from the Internet, and having work projects pile up on me while we were gone, when I finally did connect my laptop to the Internet this morning, I was prompted about version 7.5 of Grisoft’s free anti-virus tool, and informed that the…

  • Conflicting Reports

    On the new Google Reader, Jason Clarke says: “It also solves the biggest knock against Bloglines, which is that clicking on a feed doesn’t immediately mark every post in that feed as read – they’re only marked read as you scroll past them.” While Steve Matthews, in a post talking about the 5 things he…