I’ve been under the impression that my blog is flat and slow. I took a look at a few other blogs and found One blog to be 390KB, another was 184KB, and mine was 450KB. (To get these figures I added the web page, the images, and the JavaScript includes. I did not add the [...]

If you work from a home office - i.e. single employee, family business, independent consultant, small Internet business, farmer, new entrepreneur, etc. - you don’t have a big corporate IT department to support you. You *are* the IT department !
With today’s business, “data” has a value that belies it’s invisibility and the tiny physical space it occupies. [...]

The last piece of the Home Office IT upgrade arrived today and it’s been installed. Last week ended with the arrived of 2 750GB SATA drives. I started this week by replacing my very modern but overly faulty Linksys router with a middle of the road and very stable Netgear router. I paired it with [...]

I’ve gotten some comments (or complaints, depending on how you hear them) regarding the time it takes to load my blog. I’ve tracked it to the external JavaScript includes I have for making the maps of visitors. While I like seeing where in the world visitors reside, I don’t feel that is the purpose of [...]

I was talking to some people over the weekend that are still stricken with the dreaded “dial up”. It got me thinking about the performance of my blog again. I found a very helpful website for determining the bandwidth needed for a given web page - for instance my blog’s home page.
It turns out my [...]

I have settled on using Ubuntu as my primary operating system on both my personal laptop and my work machine(s). There were two three four driving forces behind the change.
First, I needed a non-Windows solution for my parents. Windows is just too susceptible to viruses, malware00% , spyware, adware, and Internet gunk. A Mac was [...]

Doing sufficient backups, building virtual machines, and storing my transient video collection “on-line” requires storage, storage, and more storage. With three computers now getting sufficient backups to give me moderate peace of mind, I needed more storage than my RAID1 NAS (network addressable storage) was ready to serve. I had 2 750GB drives but [...]