There were times I thought I'd make it to 100 posts in the first two or three months of BloggingNotes' existence, but that didn't happen, unfortunately. The big blue room, and a bout of block got in the way, but now that we're back on a regular schedule, it's time to look back at some of my favourite posts in the first 10

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If you learn nothing else tonight, please learn this. If your contact email address for your domain is an address in your domain, you're going to be screwed if something goes wrong with your domain.

Read on, and you'll learn why you shouldn't make the same mistake that I made, and what you should do about it. Immediatel

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Getting back into a regular blogging routine can be a little tough once you get out of it, but like any habit, working at it makes it easier to get back into the rhythm.

Admittedly I've been away from the blog quite a bit lately, but have now written enough posts in advance to cover the next couple of weeks, so posts will b

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Finding out that a Wordpress theme creator has determined that you're going to run their ads on your site for them or you won't use their theme elicits just one respone from me:

Fine. I. Won't. Use. Your. Theme. Ever.

I understand that authors want to get a little back for your work, but if that's the case, sell

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The other day I posted a timetable for the release of Windows XP SP3, which goes live on April 29. I also mentioned that I'd be trying to find out what all was included in the release, with the promise of a new post on Monday morning.
And from what I've found, other than patches, there's not really a whole lot of new featu

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Whether you look forward to Microsoft service packs or not, it appears that you're not going to get much chance to decide on SP3 for Windows XP. Apparently it will be available for MSDN/TechNet subscribers on Monday, and available on Windows Update on April 29th.

It will get triggered for automatic update on June 10th, mea

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In this, our second post about cleaning up your PC, we go over using Ad-Aware in conjunction with Spybot to get rid of both spyware and malware from your Windows machine.

Using both of these apps can go a long way to resolving any XP issues or Vista issues that you might be having. Obviously, this isn't all that you need t

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To put it bluntly, writers block sucks. Especially if you work on a few blogs and all of that great content that seemed to flow out of you for months on end just *leaves*. Feels like it won't ever come back, sometimes.

This is why I've always recommended posting as far in advance as relevancy will allow, but there will p

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While I've generally been happy with the upgrade to Wordpress 2.5, I've come across a bit of a 'gotcha' that I'm going to offer up as a blogging tip.

Evidently the FireStats plug-in plays rough with the 2.5 interface, so far as to cause it to 'half-crash' (stop working properly, but not completely) and makes it pret

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While it might be simple enough to say that no one would fall for a phishing scam, that fact that it continues to happen tends to indicate that enough people fall for it to make it worth doing. Kind of the same reason spam exists - because there are actually people who buy stuff from it.

I go over a few simple ways to help

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Ever been talking with your regular computer geek and had him tell you that you need to upgrade to 802.11g wireless because 802.11b is so slow? That you'll get 54Mbps throughput with 'g'? Might be an idea to smack him upside the head, because he's feeding you a load of crap.

If you're like 95% of the world with broadb

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When I started VFF back in January, I had a simple idea - post about where to take the kids in Vancouver. Well, in a region of almost two million people, and no shortage of stuff to do, it's too much for just one blogger. So, we're looking for two or three associate editors to cover different regions of the Lower Mainland.

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You'd be surprised at how many people still fall for these "OMG! Worst Virus EVER!!!!1! Pass this on to ***EVERYONE***" types of emails. I still get them from people who have been online for many years, and yet they still pass them on to everyone in their address book. If you ever want to see how keywords really work, pu

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When Vista was first released, a lot of people did nothing but complain about it, saying that they'd wait for the first service pack. And as soon as that was released, a lot of people did nothing but complain about that as well.

If you're having Vista issues, or even if you're having XP issues and are thinking about upgr

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While there's no shortage of systems - and people - that seem to want to compromise your data, it's really not all that hard to protect yourself.

Whether you're having XP issues or Vista issues, getting into some simple habits can help make the difference between a machine that runs properly, and one that crawls along tha

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