My birthday has passed, temperatures are going down slowly and I’m back from a 2 weeks’ vacation period. Summer is coming to an end.
Soon, as Canadian weather goes to hell, I will get back to the workbench and play around my little projects — one of them being the new skin I’ve silently pushed on [...]

It’s really important to know which websites to trust when you make transactions online. It’s even more critical to know you can’t fully trust anybody.
You do have to let it go at some point though: just like one chooses to trust your Mom & Pop’s local merchants won’t duplicate your credit card while scanning them [...]

I’m going through older press releases and I was wondering if an event I needed to talk about had already started. Because I trust Google to anything for me, I searched for “Portland, Oregon time” and got this :

Totally awesome.
Now, I know I could be posting this news because there’s still 2 hours left before [...]

When installing Windows on my iMac using BootCamp, I deleted my whole Mac hard drive ending up with XP taking up 100% of my computer without even noticing.
I had the preconceived notion that BootCamp would spoof Microsoft’s installer into thinking there is only one hard-drive using up the manually allocated space. I also expected BootCamp [...]

That’s what I call an ergonomic chair. Thanks Sofia!

I nearly lost the rights to The Music Tank’s domain name. I tried to transfer the dot com from Domain Registry of Canada to Go Daddy but I got caught with very bad timing and my subscription had ended before the transfer was completed.
Fortunately, DROC’s customer server service allowed me to renew the dot com [...]

A friend working for Cornerstone Promotion sent me this clip a few days back, check it out it’s disturbingly funny :

Not often in my web life have I been happy with my hosting provider. I think I’ve tried a different one every year since I began playing around HTML.
The more I dig into the services offered by my shared MediaTemple box, the more I’m happy to pay the 20$ a month.
For example, I’ve been looking [...]

I think the worst part of the whole host transfer deal was the relatively old age of my last MySQL backup. I always keep updated versions of my PHP files close by, may it only be because I am always working on something new, so at least all the programming logic has migrated successfully.
However, all [...]

I have just switched my hosting plan from Abnormis’s to MediaTemple’s. Four days of downtime (therefore breaking the 99-plus % guaranteed uptime period) was too long for my hard-earned dollars.
I intend to describe how great Media Temple’s service is, how it’s the best shared-hosting package I have experienced yet, and how happy I am with [...]