What draws people to a web site? Well if you ask anyone who’s found this site via their favorite search engine and they’ll tell you that obscure Simpsons references make a site worth visiting. People also like to research dog breeds and since Brianne’s our local expert, people end up checking out her rants.      Another good method to get people to come to your...

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     I knew this would happen. Remember my Linksys wireless router? Well I got an email telling me that I haven’t sent it back yet, because I still haven’t recieved my replacement version 4 router. So they were telling me to send them the tracking number otherwise they would be sending me a bill. Big companies don’t know their heads from their asses. I promptly emailed back and told the woman...

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     17 days until Christmas and all is well. Had a nice weekend of relaxation intertwined with my latest technological struggle. Over the past few months I’ve had many complaints about network connections dropping off while connecting to our server. The problem is that, dispite the 1 gigabit network card and switches to ensure that up to 10 clients on the network get a complete 100mb/s to the server at...

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     We just went out to get some Medical HYPOallergenic food for the Crickster from The Halton Peel Animal Hospital and on our way down Lower Baseline we saw a pair of deer crossing the road. Pretty cool stuff! I wonder if I could get government funding to set up a box with high-powered night-vision video camera in it with motion detection software to record digital video around the property here. That would...

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     Make your Hotmail or Yahoo account work for you! A lot of people have more than one email account and one of them is still a free hotmail or yahoo account. An easy way to phase out the use of those types of accounts without having to send out a million emails to everyone you know is to simply change the reply_to address of your email. That way when you send out any mail to anyone, you’re telling...

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