You hear and use this one quite often. “Used to.” Have you ever really thought about it, and does it make any sense? Any readers that could explain the derivation of the phrase “used to” please fill me in and prove me wrong!

I was on the phone with a friend. He’s coming over with another friend. We’re going to play some songs and have a few beers. I asked, “What time you think you’ll end up here?” His reply: “See ya at seven on the dot!“. Of course he was kidding about the ‘on the dot’ part, [...]

All my life, and probably yours, the number 7 has been the lucky one. And the number 13 is always the unlucky one. Today I wonder why? Is it because 13 is a prime number? No, can’t be that. 7 is also a prime number.

I answer this question quite often, also, so hopefully this article will help to clarify what website hosting is. Website hosting (aka hosting) is much different than a domain name, though they’re very closely related.

RSS Feeds are a great way to have your website readers stay up to date on site content. It’s less intrusive to the reader compared to email newsletters, and feeds allow users to read fresh content at their discretion and at their convenience.

I just came across this new service called CushyCMS. Check out the demo video on the home page for a brief overview of how it works. Oh yeah, it’s also FREE! This system is very simple and could work very, very well for simple and small websites where the site owner needs administration capability over [...]

To find out which version of Apache you’re running on a *nix system, you can run the following command. This will only work if you have permission to run the script in the first place, so you should probably login as root or use sudo, if you can. If this isn’t possible, then you should [...]

I’m evaluating a collaboration/project management web application called Project Pier. So far I like it, but I got a weird upload error when I was testing file uploads. The error read: Failed to create folder: /var/…xxxx.xxx/httpdocs/uploads/

A domain name is simply a name ending with a TLD. TLD stands for Top Level Domain. Some examples: stevejamesson.com irs.gov google.com abtech.edu cakephp.org The TLD is the .com, .org, .net, etc. portion of the domain name.

I used to be a recording engineer, kinda. I never worked for a company doing this kinda work, but I did record a several bands, as well as my own and my own bands’ music. Back in the day I used an analog four track recorder. It used regular cassette tape to operate. It was [...]