Recently someone asked me if I had a favorite website statistics application.  After giving it some thought I think that Google Analytics is my favorite.  It’s free.  They give a lot of data.  The graphics are wonderful.  Visit their site and check out the product tour.

I wrote an earlier post about the safety of using Wi-Fi networks.  While using Wi-Fi hotspots is convenient unless you take precautions it’s not very safe.  What are the precautions to take you ask?  Check out OStatic’s article on the topic for some sage and thrifty advice.

We’ve talked about spoofing before.  Basically it’s when evil spammers send out emails using your email address.  There’s nothing that can be done to prevent spammers from doing this. However there is something that can help stop the spoofed emails from reaching their destination – the wonderful SPF record. SPF stands for Sender Policy Framework.  [...]

A few weeks ago one of my customers had a question about her website statistics program. “When I look at my website report page with the second highest number of page views is  ‘/’.  What page is that?” Excellent question. The “/”  in the stats program indicates the home page. However you’ll want to look [...]

This weekend I had some extra time and so I made the switch to WordPress 2.5.1. Note that I installed 2.5.1 and not 2.5. The folks at WordPress already found and fixed a few bugs. Overall the upgrade went very well. I only had two small problems. The first was with the WordPress Automatic Upgrade [...]

An interesting thing happened late last week.  As you may know, I work from home.  Last week we had some problems with the power coming into the house. The power line runs through a neighbor’s tree before it gets to our house.  The line had been resting against a branch. Over the years the wind [...]