Category — Technology

Great post on dealing with tech support folks.  I’ve been there, done that, got the bruises from beating my head against the nearest wall - mostly from the support guy side.

I’m trying out a new blogging tool to be used with Wordpress called Performancing for Firefox.  As the name implies, this is a Firefox browser plugin.  We’ll see how well it works…

FiOS is coming to my house! The order has been placed, and on October 4th our reasonably fast (128k/768k ADSL) line will be swapped out for a “quite snappy” FiOS line with 2000k upload and 15,000k download capability. I just have to get some power over to that side of the garage, and a Cat5 cable from there to the computer area.

Eat my dust, you cable-modem users…

The postXing software looks like it will work well with WordPress. 
I’m giving it a try now.  We’ll see.

Paint.net looks pretty good as a replacement for the basic (or not-so-basic) image editing user - and it’s free!

I’m posting this from the new version of w.Bloggar. Give it a try.

I replaced the old D-link wireless router due to it needing more and more resets. I just want my equipment to work. The replacement is a Netgear wireless router with 802.11g support. That will make my connection a bit quicker to the laptop from work. It seems to be working nicely (so far!)

I got called in to work at 4:00 pm on Sunday because of a series of problems. In the course of this event, I have rediscovered a few things:

• Patching (even if it’s required) can go wrong - be careful
• Backups might not have worked - double check
• tapes can be overwritten - turn on write-protect
• get input before you do something that commits you to a multi-day restore

I’m sure there will be more before this all settles down, but I’ve got to get back to it.

After a couple of months of fiddling around with Mambo Open Server, deciding on structure, and importing/creating content, it’s time to release the new web site for Tigard Christian Church to the public! I’ve shown it to a couple of groups (who were very supportive and helpful).
This update came about after absorbing about a year of Mean Dean’s HealYourChurchWebsite. I’ve tried to use many of the principles that he preaches there, but there is still room for improvement. Mainly, I wanted to set things up so that others could provide content - and give the site a general update.
Take a look at the new site here until the big change.