What is a DOS attack and why should I care?

Twitter seems to be back on it’s feet after dealing with the wrath of the DOS (denial of service) attack that hit it last Thursday, causing several hours of outages and even more hours of slow service. The DOS attack was apparently aimed at a specific blogger and negatively impacted not only Twitter, but that…

What to do with Internet Explorer 6

Photo credit: John Martz | Click to view larger IE6 has taken a lot of heat (for good reason). Now the griping has gone to the next level, sites like Facebook, You Tube and Digg have either dropped browser support or warned about dropping support by suggesting new alternatives (Firefox, Chrome, Opera, even Internet Explorer…

But It’s Not Google (Bing)

BING = But It’s Not Google I have to admit, I snickered when I first read this clever little acronym for Bing!, given my penchant for all things Google. And does anyone else find the Bing TV commercials annoying? (“Moms who wear jeans to match their teen’s jeans”- ugh). However, now that the Yahoo-Microsoft search…

Getting Started with WordPress: Blog Video Training

This video tutorial focuses on the popular open source blogging platform, WordPress.  In this video, I show you the ropes of the WordPress platform: how to add and edit new posts, and some of the basic features of blogs.