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I know I bill myself as a techy blog but holy crap! The weather this summer has been horrible the entire summer. This is what we saw rolling over the island of Montreal yesterday!
It is starting to get a little tired with all the rain. At our cottage one of the local retailers was saying [...]

I was looking to add some RSS feeds to my sidebars for popular news sites that I view daily, or close to daily. I looked at using the RSS widget that is included in Wordpress but it is very limited and I wanted something more customizable, which I found on KB Advanced RSS Widget.
Adam R. [...]

Of course when you log into the dashboard for your Wordpress installation it will scream at you to update if you are not already at the newest version. After looking at that message for a few weeks, I thought it was time.
The easiest way to upgrade your installation is to follow their installation/upgrade instructions. They [...]

I have been poking around for some time looking for marketing tips for my blog while also trying to come up with my own ideas. I follow a ton of people and noticed a post on twitter the other day from Chris Brogan, 100 Personal Branding Tactics Using Social Media. Chris is definitely an expert [...]

I have wanted to try OSX for such a long time now. I remember seeing the first versions at a friends house when it was still not cool among my PC geek buddies to use a Mac. I was still intrigued with the interface. I am not sure what it was at the time but [...]

I am in the office, working on some computers. Of course I check twitter to see what’s doing. I land on a twit from Chris Pirillo linking to an artist by the name of Geoff Smith. First I don’t want to limit his talent to techy geeky stuff, he really is bigger than that. But [...]

Today is one of those days. We had a busy weekend. It was a great weekend and I am not complaining at all. But even though the cottage is a place of relaxation and peace, it still takes a lot of work to get it up and running. Saturday I woke up to the sound [...]

I have had a hard and fast rule about disconnecting when going to the cottage in the past. We are lucky enough to be able to go up when we like as my father-in-law doesn’t go up very often. It’s a summer place and we try to spend as many weekends up there and I [...]

Aaaackk, what a question! This one is a thinker folks. I was in the midst of computer anarchy; what with three systems on the repair list. Then there is my eternally incomplete computer which resides near to where the repairs take place. In this middle of all this I was thinking about how difficult it [...]

So I tried to set up Adsense a while back but didn’t have any luck. I didn’t give it a real chance because I was relying on a WordPress widget to try and install it. It turns out that the new version of WordPress had a “text” widget. This allows the blogger to create a [...]