I still maintain a few static HTML web site for some commercial customers. They are simple to maintain, good for “look and read” web pages. They also run the quickest as nothing is built “on the fly” like a Content Management Systems (CMS) web site. All my personal websites are now running in CMS and are what is called “dynamic” web sites. They all require the use of a database server as well as the...
Continue reading...High Speed Cable At Last
I am using Time Warner Cable (TWC) as my Internet Service Provider (ISP). They are in the beginning stages of a network upgrade where I will soon have a 100 Mbps download and 10 Mbps upload connection speed. I presently have a 20/2 Mbps “Turbo” plan. For no additional cost I will soon have the 100/10 Mbps Ultimate 100 plan. What I have just done is a no cost exchange of my leased cable modem for a newer...
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I do a lot of writing and I also do a lot of photography. That’s two passions that create a lot of files. Now that the world is basically computerized, the text files are saved as digital information. Long gone are the rows and even rooms filled with filing cabinets and paper documents. Prints and negatives are all stored as digital information. I have gone through a long series of various forms of digital long...
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I have a small digital camera, the Sony NEX-5 which was one of the first in that NEX series of mirrorless exchangeable lens cameras. It is no longer the latest or greatest camera body but great pictures are made by the photographer, not the hardware. The only thing the tool (the camera) has to do is accurately capture the light for the image. The NEX-5 does that well. Would I upgrade the body of the...
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