by Scott | Oct 18, 2006 | General interest, Local news
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Portland Advertising Federation. On November 16th, all the major local advertising talent will be on hand at this year’s Rosey Awards, celebrating the best campaigns of the year. Local band Dirty Martini will...
by Scott | Oct 9, 2006 | Computers - How to, General interest, Technology News
I found a code online that lets me add this feature to my Comcast remote. What I liked most about my Dish DVR was the ability to press a button and skip forward 30 seconds in a recorded program. This feature allowed me to skip commercials, which was the main benefit...
by Scott | Oct 9, 2006 | Computers - How to, Social Networking
Even though I’m online 12+ hours a day, what I DON’T know about the Myspace community is enough to fill hundreds of pages. Internet Consultant Mark Harris has written a book called My Space 4 Parents. In his downloadable Ebook, he includes six videos too,...
by Scott | Oct 6, 2006 | Web Hosting
That’s how long nearly 70 Portland web hosting servers were down this afternoon, and 5 of those web servers were mine. I had 170 affected customer domains, and what felt like that many phone calls! Ugh. Talk about frustrating! The problem ended up being a. IP...
by Scott | Oct 2, 2006 | Computers - How to
Someone sent me this illustrated RAID example that I just had to share… 😉 The RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) defintions below are from WikiPedia, and they’re pretty good… There are number of different RAID levels: Level 0 — Striped...
by Scott | Sep 29, 2006 | Local news, Web Design, Web Hosting
If you are a web hosting customer of ours, this is an urgent wake up call. By the end of 2006, your site may no longer function properly unless you act now. Microsoft has already discontinued Unix server support for Front Page, and Windows hosting support is likely...
by Scott | Sep 29, 2006 | Search Engines, SEO, Web Design
If you’re used to using http://validator.w3.org/ to try to validate your pages, then you’re going to absolutely FLIP if you haven’t seen this before – http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ Perhaps this tool has been around forever, and people who...
by Scott | Sep 29, 2006 | General interest
After hearing the Intel representative speak at the OCCA meeting in August, I finally shelled out the money and got an Intel Core 2 Duo PC, with a 250 gig Sata2 hard drive, and a Gig of RAM. Last Friday night I picked up the parts, (assembled and posting) and set out...
by Scott | Sep 29, 2006 | General interest, Google, Search Engines, SEO
Okay, I’m not ashamed to admit to being slightly star struck about an upcoming session at Webmaster World Pubcon Vegas. I mean… who wouldn’t be? Just because I consider myself an SEO expert doesn’t mean that I’m not impressed by this...
by Scott | Sep 29, 2006 | Computers - How to
You know how sometimes your computer gets all bogged down needs a reboot? I’m not talking about a spyware infested mess, I’m talking about a well maintained, virus free workstation, that just needs to be rebooted to “clear it’s throat”...
by Scott | Sep 26, 2006 | Local news
The Oregon Comuter Consultants Association (OCCA) is a vast pool of local knowledge. I sent this out to the group today – I am not a Firefox whiz, but for the past year, use it almost exclusively. Several months ago, a secure site stopped logging me in....
by Scott | Sep 21, 2006 | General interest
Updated July 27 2008 – We still want to move closer to our kids school, but summer is coming to an end, and we’re just about ready to give up. After coming down over $70,000, here’s our last pitch before we just stay where we are. We’re priced...