I hope everyone’s holidays are going fine and that you are not working overly hard this season. There are two things that holidays always bring to mind, (three if we are talking about this particular holiday season) and that is cooking and pictures.
I look forward to two basic chores each year. One taking pictures and ...

If you haven’t had the opportunity to watch someone who has never even thought about HTML or coding create a web site, I highly recommend it. Especially if you are a programmer, web designer, web host, customer service, well any job or hobby that has to do with web sites. The amount you can learn ...

There are a few cardinal rules when it comes to computer security. These rules are easy to follow and can prevent quite a lot of computer viruses and malware infections. The first rule of course is to use strong passwords. The second rule is to update your software. The third rule is to use some ...

Budget hosting or free? This is an age old question. I have seen successful movement upmarket in this dilemma (UK hosting firm 34SP.com discontinued free hosting products and even created a higher resource, higher priced product) and now I am seeing a return to the free hosting model from LimeLabs. Until now the idea of ...

Many readers of this blog know that I am against net neutrality. Many also know that I am pro-consumer and when there is an argument between consumers and corporations I will side with the consumer. So how can I be a consumer advocate and be anti net neutrality? Seems mind-boggling doesn’t? It may, but not ...

Reading the blogs from Sophos, I came upon a gem, Earn 43 cents every time you infect a Mac. What is even more spectacular about this is the fact that I just read (maybe a week or two ago) a news article that asks do Mac users really need to have anti-virus software?
When I first ...

Here is an assumption you can take to the bank, the percentage of SMBs that buy new IT equipment, both hardware and software, will be far less than their enterprise level equivalents. This is business class 101 and the assumption pretty much holds water 99% of the time. This assumption is so bullet proof in ...

I have a mental list of the 30 passwords I use on a daily basis. These passwords are never less than 8 characters and they include all manner of things from caps, to numbers, odd characters, and if I am allowed really crazed ASCII characters (which I am only rarely allowed). Not to toot my ...

We human like bold moves. How many of us have cheered out our favorite teams who put up the winning, homerun, touchdown, goal, basket, etc when there is no time on the clock and the air is thick with tension? Or how many of us have made a big change in life and thought, “I’m ...

I don’t often discuss topics like this on the blog, in fact I believe this is the first time, but an article I read made me think. The article in question is from TechNewsWorld entitled Is Sexism Rampant in FOSS? What I find funny about this title is that it almost connotates that sexism is ...