Category: Techy Stuff
Google Maps - see us on Street View
February 9th, 2010Google Street View Maps have arrived! Here is our place - oh wait - you can't see our place because we are up on the hill behind the trees. You can see our mailbox though - and if you spin it around you can see our lake. Oh and the neighbour walking… more »
Hello highspeed wireless Internet!!
January 19th, 2010The Seaside Communications installers were just here to install our wireless internet.
Buh bye Xplornet Satellite Internet! Now we'll have faster high speed for half the cost ($54 instead of $107 a month).
Here is the antenna:
And here… more »
It's a new year... time for a new look
January 17th, 2010I've updated the "skin" again to give the blog a new look. I've taken off two items that made the page load really slow - the radar and my book shelf. If you actually used either, let me know and I'll add them as a link. I upgraded the software runn… more »
Domain Name scams - 2 just this week!
March 11th, 2009Domain scams are still running rampant. Here are 2 that were pulled on me this week. I'm going to delete the actual domain names out of these emails so I don't tamper with their search engine results in the future.
#1. I received an email trying to… more »
Trying out MyFax
January 16th, 2009I often need a fax machine but I don't have one anymore and don't want to buy one and set up another phone number.
I also don't want to fax from work because I like to keep a real solid line between my day job and my other jobs.
Last night I decide… more »
My hard drive is dead
September 5th, 2008I was up until 2am getting the first draft of a website ready for a client to view today.
I only had a bit of work to get done last night, but then one thing after another. I had to rebuild apache on my webserver for an extension I needed. That too wa… more »
My New Cell Phone - Samsung R610
August 16th, 2008Thanks to Shawn at Virgin Mobile, my problems are *hopefully* (fingers crossed) fixed. Of course my cell phone is still dead because of it's "swim". So I have spent FAR too many hours trying to figure out what cellphone and what cellphone features I wa… more »
Server Outage
June 3rd, 2008So I promised I'd tell you why my websites were offline for a couple days.
My server is a leased server that lives in a data centre in Houston, Texas that is owned by The Planet. On Saturday evening there was an EXPLOSION in the underground conduit t… more »
One by one, squishing the bugs from the server move
May 6th, 2008Getting everything back up to speed!
The actual server migration itself went smoothly - just some big scares along the way!
First, why did I get a new server?
I've had this server for a few years. Everything needed upgrading, but I did only some t… more »
Comments aren't showing
May 4th, 2008I know, comments aren't showing below the posts right now. I've been trying to fix it, but I really need to sleep on it. All the comments still show up on the sidebar - Latest Comments. Something went wrong between upgrading b2evolution and my server upg… more »
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