The Browser wars are back.

Remember the Netscape browser, well the remains have been resurrected as Mozilla Firefox and it is beginning to make a dent in Microsoft’s dominance. The new browser written mostly by freelance programmers and run as an open source project is taking away about...

Blogging is fun!

I started publishing to this blog over a week ago and I had it in test mode for a week before, so I thought I would take the time and describe the experience so far. Well, since I try and publish an article 6 days a week it can be a little hard, but I usually have a...

Are Tape backups a thing of the past?

Usually like all good technology consultants I try and sell backup solutions to our clients. As long as this is a network backup with a server involved this is not a big deal. On the other hand when it is just a bunch of computers hooked together we tend to run into...

Hosting prices drop, how do they make a living?

A year ago I was offered a free three year Internet hosting account at 1and1.com. This was a pretty good deal (Free!) and hard to pass up, so I took the plung and have been satisfied with them ever since. Technical support has about a 15 minute call on hold time,...

Will Skype take over the IM World

I was only a real fan of Instant Messenger when it first came out, it soon became apparent that I don’t have the mental capacity to handle the constant interruptions. I first used ICQ then moved on to AIM, lately I have since consolidated and rolled them all...