The Interwebs
Comparing 3 Open Source E-Commerce Website Scripts
Recently I have decided that I want to get into the e-commerce business once again so I set out to look for a good, free, and open source website script that would be easy to install, maintain, and administer. Apparently, this wasn’t going to be easily accomplished so I posted a message on the Digital [...]
Making the best of the Digital Point mess
For just over a year I have been a member of the Digital Point Forums,I must say I have very mixed feelings about the site. For those of you who don’t know what it’s about you should probably take a few minutes and browse the link above but, in short, it’s a webmaster forum. Actually, [...]
10 Questions With Stefan Berka of Operating-System.org
Stefan Berka is the owner/operator of operating-system.org. The goal of his site is to document and share as much information about operating systems as possible. I’ve recently had the chance to ask him a few questions and here they are with the answers. Enjoy! Q. Who are you and what do you do? A. My [...]
Switching To a New Web Host
I’m taking the plunge and I am going to switch to AN Hosting as my main provider of web hosting and related services. I am currently running eCSWare.org on one of their VPS servers (same account as Haikuware.com) and have had much success. I am not switching because of any problems I’ve had with Hostgator [...]
GoGrid.com Launches an Interesting Marketing Campaign
A reader who stumbled upon my blog article about cloud computing sent me a link to a site called NoHardware (nohardware.com). It appears to be an ad campaign for GoGrid.com which is a supplier of a sort of “cloud computing” server solution. What is neat about NoHardware is that it’s a video campaign akin to [...]
Why cloud computing may not be the next platform
With the all the hype and buzz surround the “cloud computing” concept one would think that it’s all but a given that’s the way things will go. I, for one, don’t really agree. There’s nothing I hate more than people saying that the operating system is going away and will be replaced with a web [...]
Yarmouth Trader Website Launched
That’s right. I’ve launched another website. This one is called Yarmouth Trader and is an online market place where folks can gather and trade good and services in the Yarmouuth, Nova Scotia area. There are already a few users signed up and people are starting to list their items. I’m very confident that this site [...]
How Plurk Saved The Day!
This is a short post on how Plurk (and one user in particular) saved the day for me yesterday. Last night I noticed that I was having problems with my internet connect. More specifically, the problems seemed to be related to name resolution. I was able to reach sites which I had very recently visited, [...]
Confessions of a Plurk Fanboy
For those of you who are either luddites or live under a rock there is a new phenomenon in the online social networking world called Plurk. What pre-tell, you ask, is Plurk? Well it’s along the same line as Twitter where you can post short “status” like updates that are 140 characters. Some people refer [...]
Market research, business plan, and other stuff I’ve been working on
I’ve been plugging away at my business plan over the past few days and have made some decent progress. I’ve been trying to write it as professionally as possible so it’s taking a some extra time to make sure I have all the wording all nice and pretty. The worst part about the whole thing [...]
