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Webmaster Annoyances

Thursday, February 14th, 2013

I’ve had a website online for a long time, longer than most corporations, and for the last ten or so years it has been at Muschamp.ca hosted mostly by a company called DixieSys. There are a lot of crappy webhosts out there, the first cheap one I tried basically sold more bandwidth than he had purchased and decided to get out of business in the middle of the night, ever since I’ve been with DixieSys. It isn’t expensive web hosting, perhaps there are some features or programs or languages I can’t use that other web hosts provide, but overall I’m pretty happy…

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Superbowl hammers home superiority of Twitter

Monday, February 4th, 2013

I wasn’t the first to say it, but it is something I’ve noticed for a long time in my own social media usage, Twitter is #winning. Twitter has received a lot of credit for breaking news stories, for helping activists and rebels organize, and now it has become the favourite of marketers and sports fans…

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Facebook sharing is busted

Wednesday, January 16th, 2013

I’m not sure when it happened, but in the last few days Facebook sharing, the little buttons under each blog post has been broken, throwing a little red “error”…

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Finally Updated to Mac OS X Mountain Lion

Saturday, November 10th, 2012

After the fun that was upgrading to Mac OS X Lion and tired of battling ongoing issues with WiFi/Time Capsule/Time Machine and because Opera upgraded today and mentioned the benefits of being on Mountain Lion I decided to take the plunge, backup and upgrade over Ethernet…

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CD Cover Gallery PHP Code

Monday, October 29th, 2012

After finally getting my web mashup code into GitHub I spent a lot of time ensuring the code was easy to read and well commented. Now in 2019 a lot of methods no longer work because of changes to the APIs. I may be able to fix it, but I don’t have the time at the moment…

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