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Helpful hints for calling tech support

site admin — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:47:13 +0000

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.

Performancing for Firefox

Mark — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 23:59:29 +0000

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…

Things could be getting faster around here

Mark — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 00:25:32 +0000

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…

A New Posting Tool

site admin — Sat, 12 Feb 2005 05:15:26 +0000

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

Interesting image editing app

Mark — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 22:08:50 +0000

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

Just a test

Mark — Sat, 08 Jan 2005 01:26:07 +0000

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

New Wireless Router

Mark — Sun, 05 Sep 2004 06:31:05 +0000

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!)

Lessons learned

Mark — Tue, 27 Jul 2004 21:14:20 +0000

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.

TCC Web update

Mark — Sat, 24 Jul 2004 01:00:41 +0000

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.