by Rob Williams on January 14, 2012
You may have noticed there has been a lot of discussion from your friends on social networking sites such as Facebook, Google+, Twitter, and many others, as well as from search engines and web hosting services such as Google and BlueHost. So what is this SOPA (House bill) and Protect IP (Senate Bill)? Well, here is a short video explaining the problems it may well cause to both users and websites and web hosts. Call your Senator and Representative and tell them to vote no on this unnecessary legislation.
PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.
by Rob Williams on January 13, 2012
I’m asked a lot on where is a good source to both register a domain and host a website. It is real simple folks, BlueHost! They make it so easy. You can register a domain on their site and then setup hosting there too. Best of all if you have more than one website like I do (4 right now), they offer unlimited hosting as well as setting up personalized email accounts based on your domain. Best of all they have come out again SOPA. Their hosting makes it super easy to install a blog or whatever it is you want to do with your website using a variety of install tools available from their website. BlueHost can’t be beat IMHO!
by Rob Williams on December 20, 2011
So I have made a decision to make a full time commitment to Google+ effective the first of the year. What that means is my activity on Facebook will be reduced quite a bit. I will still maintain my account mostly to post photos of Savannah and to interact with my non-Google+ friends there.
I think 2012 is going to be the year of Google+, I see Google a lot of cool features to it to make it even more attractive. If you haven’t checked out Google+ you really should just for the benefit of Circles alone.
Finally, this will be my last blog post of the year so I thought I would share a Christmas photo of daddy and his daughter after we picked up the family Christmas tree. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!
by Rob Williams on November 18, 2011
I know it has been a while since I last wrote. Just a lot going on to sit down and write a good blog post. I have been keeping up with tech news and the stuff I find interesting, I am posting it to both my Facebook,Twitter, and Google+ profiles. I am also launching a Google+ Page for the blog side of things. Mostly as a way to keep the tech news on one side and everything else in my life on the profile side. Once everything is setup there the way I like it, I will post the official link.
I have started to read “Steve Jobs” by Walter Isaacson and I am 2 chapters in. I have so many ebooks to keep track of it is not even funny. Recently I got an Eye-Fi card for my digital camera but it has been giving me headaches in terms of uploading to the computer consistently. A new software update came out for Eye-Fi yesterday so hopefully that will help. We are taking the digital to a cabin in Dismals Canyon this weekend so I hope to have some great pictures. They say the place has limited to no cell phone range and the cabin has no WiFi. Real addicts call this withdrawal what I am about to go through with no internet access for 2 days. That will be a blog post in itself on how everything goes. I will be taking the Kindle with me though so I hope to knock out some reading at night. The cabin has a TV with satellite but I am going to try and avoid TV while there.
Other stuff going on, my mom had hip replacement surgery and she is doing great, she is already walking around better than before and she says she can’t wait to keep up with Savannah when she starts to walk. Mom has not taken up my offer to walk a 5K yet next year but who knows, maybe she will surprise us all and do one. Speaking of which, I need to work on getting back into shape. Ever since we had Savannah my workout routine got put on hold but that is mostly bad scheduling on my part than anything.
Well, I guess that is about it. I hope to get back into the habit of blogging on a routine basis again. See ya’!
by Rob Williams on October 6, 2011
