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Is the server down or is it just me?

May 6th, 2008 · No Comments

I’m not sure because I can’t get to it.  Is it ME?  I get these questions often by phone in a panic.  The first thing I do is open a browser to the site.  More often than not the site is up.  To prevent some of the support calls you might make try a couple [...]

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Tags: Tech Support · Tools and Utilities · Websites

New Blog about Energy

May 5th, 2008 · No Comments

I’m working on a new blog that is tracking my family’s move from energy hogs to savers.  While we are not the saying the sky is falling we do notice our electric bill is growing.  This is because of a recent 10% rate increase.  However we are not doing all we can to conserve energy.
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Tags: Websites

Great Flashing Site

April 21st, 2008 · No Comments

No it’s not a pervert or a weatherproofing site but rather it allows you to build flash widgets in your browser. With these widgets you can put them on ANY web page. It takes minutes to do and small learning curve if you’re able to use a simple graphics program. While [...]

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Tags: Web Development · Websites

Theres a hole in the bucket!

April 4th, 2008 · No Comments

On the Internet there are about a dozen sites that I visit daily.   In that list are some that I use and need up and running (need may be a strong word).  GMail, Google Adsense, Twitter.   But what happens when they are down?  Today IWantSandy.com is down.  Not sure why but it is.

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Rewards for Survey’s

March 7th, 2008 · No Comments

We’ve all gotten the SPAM saying earn thousands by simply  filling out surveys.  Well I’ve not come across any that are an entire free lunch but I have one that does pay out legitimately for a little bit of work. 

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Vector Magic gone commercial

February 27th, 2008 · No Comments

Just an update to my post on Vector Magic was a free tool from Standford that created vector images from bitmaps.  (A bitmap image is basically made of data that says make this pixel red this one green, vector images have data that says draw a green line , make a red square).  Well to [...]

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Tags: Tools and Utilities · Web Development · Websites

Gmail Experiment - Delta Stage

February 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

Ok still using the Gmail for everything.  Still having a few issues and a few new insights.

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Tags: Tools and Utilities · Websites