October 6, 2009 – 1:12 pm
A little over a year ago, my desktop computer started acting a little… “funny.” It was sluggish, and was exhibiting some strange behavior.
I was… distracted. I should have reacted sooner to assure myself that all my important files were backed up. When I finally did, I did a really bonehead thing and wiped out my [...]
September 22, 2009 – 2:07 pm
Just a short Tuesday Tech this week, folks. Short, but fun!
A while back (a while being several years, I think) I heard about this internet service which would allow you to write an email to yourself to be delivered at some future date of your choice. I thought it sounded cool, but never checked it [...]
September 8, 2009 – 11:18 am
Take a long holiday weekend, combine it with being home with a preschooler and infant twins all weekend with a husband off working, and you have a recipe for several days of I-don’t-have-time-to-read-my-tech-blogs.
Mix in an insidious worm making its rounds and infecting self-hosted WordPress installations, and you’ve got me, right now, steaming mad at spammers, [...]
September 1, 2009 – 2:41 pm
Because of the nature of different responsibilities of my job, I deal with numerous logins and passwords daily. Clients supply me with logins to their domain registrations so I can update their DNS records, or perhaps they give me the password to their google account so I can set up Analytics or Feedburner for them. [...]
August 18, 2009 – 6:00 am
I consider myself a rather tech-savvy person. I first started learning to program (using BASIC) when I was ten on my father’s Osborne 1. My proudest accomplishment on that dinosaur was a randomizing fortune-telling program (”You will soon sprout yak horns!”… “Don’t look now, there is someone behind you!”… “I predict you will turn this [...]