Internet & Computers

By now, you should now about my hate/more hate relationship with hosting company globat.com.  As I got ready to change hosting companies, my yearly contract was about to run out on May 9, 2008.  However, on April 21, a full 19 ...

In case you’re not familiar with Joomla, it’s a PHP/MySQL based content management system (CMS) that you can use to create entire websites with.  I already had a godaddy.com account for another website so I decided to try to set ...

In case you missed my rants about Globat, it started here. After my email confirmation with Edward Gaa, their VP of Sales and Marketing, AND a conversation over the phone with their customer service rep, that they will no longer ...

Have you ever lost your cell phone and lost all your contact information?  This seems to happen to a lot of people. Verizon Wireless has an auto backup feature that is free.  No, they don’t go out of their way ...

As Ashley “Kristen” Dupre brings down NY Governer Spitzer, she’s also going the way of Devine Brown by using her 15 minutes to jump start her music career.  Reports are that her first single has been downloaded 3 million times, ...

After being charged for an upgrade that I didn’t want, I emailed globat and Edward to complain about it, and got the following email from globat: Dear Valued client, Thank you for contacting Globat.com. Sorry for the inconvenience. Please be advised ...

They finally did it. After complaints, emails, and calls telling this company that I want to be taken off their opt-out list, they finally automatically upgraded me to a hosting account that I don’t want or need, and charged my credit ...

According to gotoquiz.com, Cochinoman looks like a Democrat.  73% Hillary Clinton 71% Barack Obama 69% Rudy Giuliani 69% Chris Dodd 68% John Edwards 68% Bill Richardson 63% John McCain 62% Joe Biden 57% Mike Gravel 56% Dennis Kucinich 56% Mitt ...

Computer users don’t seem to be flocking to switch from Windows XP to Vista. There are a lot of reasons for this.  It’s slower.  It has none of the big promised new features.  It’s not compatible to some of the ...

Most people have seen these automated checkout machines at their local grocery store.  This one pictured is called “U-SCAN” and is at my local 24 hours Ralphs.  I love that it’s open 24 hours, and it’s also right next to ...