Just checked to see if I qualify for DSL… low and behold, sure enough, I do… yet people who are closer to the central office than I cannot get DSL. Go figure! Lots of stuff to troubleshoot today. Can’t wait to break this message board thing… 🙂
Something I guess I intuitively knew, but never really considered is that online communities are exactly that… communities. Consider that these places have areas for interacting with other members. People do the usual thing like talk to each other. I think the key is the results of the conversation… they argue, aid other, seek info,…
Some interesting security articles… AIM Is Insecure (duh!?) and some details of the Microsoft October hack tell-all.
Due to some email server issues, my home page at this time is not available… Should be back some time this morning. Everything is cool now… *whew*! Here is maybe my new favorite site… Science Fiction and Fantasy World with a review of the start of the A Song of Fire and Ice series A Game of Thrones, A…
Hmmmmmmm… only 44 people short of having 500 visitors to my personal VSU web site. According to SiteMeter’s prediction based upon traffic over the last week I might be able to achieve 500 visitors in a little over a week. Not too shabby I guess. Guess I should respond more to email lists? Seems like a…
Ever want to know just who is linking to your web site? Well, these tools will tell you… Popularity by AddMe checks who links to you from Hotbot, AltaVista, and Google. The WebTrends Network: Site Popularity Check! compares your site to other sites on AltaVista. Of course there are lots of other sites that do…
Seems that one of the great weblog sites, Blogger might be closing it’s doors soon. Here is a note from the CEO. Hmmmmmmm… think I might enjoy taking classes or workshops on securing a web server. Think the ego and confidence it would give me could not hurt in the slightest.
Probably was just me, but could not get here yesteday afternoon. Have a new pic available…Â Pic of my new glasses… Found the buttons for the Netmind.com service. Like the thought of a service that check for updates for me. Maybe I am a slacker and should do my own checking, but a reminder email helps…
Updated my home page with a slightly newer look. Experimenting with an image mapped version. Will try slicing the image and doing some mouseovers later. UPDATED 24-MAR-2010: Removed the link to my old Valdosta State University personal web site. Since leaving, I’ve set a redirect which comes to this blog. 🙂