Category Archives: Blogging

Cheap Vinyl Cutting

Running multiple businesses and being friends with similar people we all know how expensive it is to have any sort of signs made. We’re very much do-it-yourself kind of people, so we bought a vinyl cutter.
First off, this thing was cheap. We shopped around and found a cutter from US Cutters on eBay (don’t buy [...]

Turned Off Delicious Updates

The Delicious auto-blogging was getting annoying so I turned it off. If they ever add a “forblog” tag I would definitely turn it back on. However, right now I just bookmark a ton of stuff that I don’t want to have to question having on my blog!

Upgrade to 2.5.1

I upgraded WordPress to 2.5.1. I didn’t feel like doing it manually so I used the WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin.
The plugin gave me errors the entire time I was running it but I just kept hitting next and now WP isn’t bugging me to upgrade. Yay!

DreamHost is a Nightmare!

On March 5th I purchased an account with DreamHost. I’d heard good things about them and they’re a fairly large name in the world of web hosting. Unfortunately our relationship was not meant to be.
The last two months have been pretty frustrating as DreamHost was constantly having problems and my blog was extremely slow. Even [...]

Starting Your Own IT Company Podcast

The computing science department here at the U of A has a bi-monthly podcast. This week they has Ken Gordon, Boris Wertz and Daniel Boulet talk about the trials and tribulations of starting your own IT company.
It was an interesting listen and I heard a few familiar voices. Check it out here:
Starting Your Own [...]