Category Archives: Administration

Go Daddy Bites the Hand that Feeds Them

Passing SOPA would be a web owners worst nightmare. Godaddy’s support of it is a stand against its customers,  SOPA and its sister bill, PROTECT IP Act, in the Senate is a bad idea that promises to censor and restrict the web as … Continue reading

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Nightmare on the Interwebs

Alexandra Petri isn’t the only one having nightmares: Last night I had a horrifying dream that a group of well-intentioned middle-aged people who could not distinguish between a domain name and an IP address were trying to regulate the Internet. … Continue reading

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A Wiki Boycott

Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia. is publically considering shutting down Wikipedia in protest of SOPA. The proposed shutdown has nothing to do with technical problems or money issues, and everything to do with the Stop Online Piracy Act, an … Continue reading

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I’m Back

Its been a busy time for me, and blogging has ground down to a stop.  some of the things keeping me busy has been updating the blog,  Building a wiki, and spending some much needed time on vacation.  All of … Continue reading

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Thoughts on Google Plus

Sometime at around the beginning of July, Google presented their new social network that they called Google+ .  to a limited group of Beta testers. They have controlled the growth of their new network by making the site by invitation only, … Continue reading

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Burning CDs

Like most people I have a CD/DVD burner on my computer.  I also have a stack of CDRs. I don’t believe many of use  CDs much anymore. We buy our computers with most of the software need already installed, and … Continue reading

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Google Plus; Pulling Out The Floodgates

Google Plus isn’t such an exlcusive club any more.  They have given users 150 Invites to hand over, and a link so people can click on it and get taken directly to the G+ signup pages.  If you would like … Continue reading

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The Nook

I was talking to my boss about how a Nook or Kindle would be a convenient to hold assorted huge manuals. He had one that he replaced with his Ipad, so he gave me his Nook. It works great, I have manuals … Continue reading

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Site Updates

Upgrading and doing some cleanup  of the site. System might be a little balky slow or even unresponsive  for a few moments. Goodness will be running PHP 5 and maybe a twitter feed.

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Over the Line

Wonkette, a comercial blog, used to be interesting funny and edgy, even if it leaned to leaned heavily to the left.   Most conservatives and libertarian types can handle a little good natured fun poking.  That was back in the … Continue reading

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