Category Archives: Technology

Yikes! Where am I?

Yes, I know this looks a little different than what we had before… WordPress, the software I use to manage this site had an excellent default theme called Kubrick that I had been using. I assume it was last night … Continue reading

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Wii Are Back!

UPS just dropped off our Nintendo Wii. Happy to say it appears fully functional once again – now where can I hid this thing so Xavier can’t get to it? addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Falynfamily.com%2Fwordpress%2F2008%2F03%2F04%2Fwii-are-back%2F’; addthis_title = ‘Wii+Are+Back%21′; addthis_pub = ”;

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Rackspace Keeping Tabs?

Yesterday I posted about an email I received from Rackspace regarding their $600 referral promotion. Surprisingly alynfamily.com had a real spike in traffic as a result. I guess they spend more time keeping up with their brand than they do … Continue reading

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Rackspace – Ha!

Rackspace, the less than fantastic, albeit fanatical, web hosting provider is trying to buy support. They have had an incredibly bad last few months. Recently a major datacenter outage in November took many customers offline. Additionally, very public technology failures … Continue reading

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Another Time Eating Website

In an effort to cache in on the latest and greatest Social Networking craze, sites are using weirder and weirder methods to get folks to use their tools. I stumbled onto this one from a Photojojo article today. The site … Continue reading

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So Long Wii… See You Soon

Two weeks ago Xavier decided that he could double his fun by inserting an extra disk into the Nintendo Wii – in effect doubling his fun right? Well, it turns out that the slot load drive isn’t a big fan … Continue reading

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OpenSocial is Getting Better

Some folks will recall back in November I wrote how OpenSocial was irrelevant as a platform for social networking applications. I’ve been working with it for the last three days on MySpace and have to say, over the last few … Continue reading

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It’s called LAMP Stack for a Reason

FAMP != LAMP, Use Linux! Continue reading

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Web Hosting Support Nightmare

What exactly is wrong? Continue reading

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NTIA Coupons Now Available

Happy New Year! Here we are, the dawn of a new year – the dawn of a new era. While most people I know have cable or that other dish thing the few choice folks who wish to watch TV … Continue reading

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