One of the interesting sessions I went to at NorthernVoice was the Blogs are Dead; Long Live the Blogger session facilitated ably by Chris Lott. There’s a write-up on this wiki; as usual a lot of thought-provoking stuff was said, only some of which I’ve found recorded. I’ve noticed changes myself over the last few [...]
I’ve been trying to post a little more to Twitter, not that I’m brave enough to have a public feed despite the non-interesting tone of my twitters (yes, I know they’re meant to be called tweets, but twitters sounds more appropriate to me somehow). And then I noticed something trundling by on the public feed [...]
I had a problem with online banking; every time it got to the secondary password check on the login screen the whole browser froze. Completely. Leaving it to sort itself out didn’t help. And the bank had no idea; they just said “we’ve tested on Firefox on Windows XP, it works for us”. And it [...]
In the online and software world, there’s “support”, and then there’s support. I’ve discovered my hosting supplier for this blog, Canadian Web Hosting, offers the real type of support. And at a decent price, too.
I run two WordPress blogs, this one and a crafting blog, and had a problem that showed up on one [...]
I’ve written in this blog before about Facebook’s privacy issues, and the importance of making sure the privacy settings in your Facebook profile match what you want to have happen to your personal data. Brian posted on this same topic and has some good points and detailed instructions; the comments are also worth reading.
I went [...]
I’ve had Ubuntu on my laptop for a while, and it never hibernated. I’d do what looked like the right things, but it just didn’t work. So a couple of days ago I decided I should try to track down the problem. I was partially successful; hibernating a laptop properly seems to be difficult. Here’s [...]
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