Random Thoughts about life in general, living in the big city of Toronto
by Tricia
I love this video. I don’t have pet cats, never have and never will because I’m allergic to them, but I can still laugh at their silly antics. I think it’s just amazing how cats can crawl out from under things like a door gap that is so much tinier than they their body.
Some of the cats in this video should apply for the gymnastics team – If you watch the video you’ll see somersaults, rolls, amazing jumps and feats of strength.
Check it out.
by Tricia
If you run a business, an online business I mean, or if you are simply a private individual with either a lot of websites or some very successful and popular websites you might find that there will come a time when you start to think about hosting your sites on a dedicate server. In fact, if your sites traffic levels are very high that might be one of your only commercial hosting options.
If you are thinking about hosting your website on a dedicated server think about using DMG Dedicated Servers. DMG is a dedicated hosting service provider.
I’ve looked through their site and looked them up on the internet and I must say that they have a lot of customers that are happy with the reliable service and the support that they have received when they’ve need assistance. It’s always good to know that others are saying good things on the net about a company when you are thinking of placing your sites on their servers.
DMG says that their customers are their most valuable asset – and I believe that any company that wants to succeed in business must feel that way. Without customers, particularly happy satisfied customers a company won’t last or grow.
DMG operates their own datacenter, in fact they own their own datacenter. Check out their site if you are interested in hosting your website on a dedicated server.
by Tricia
Did anyone watch the new episode of House this past Tuesday night? I did a recap of it on my Watching House blog, and then earlier today I made a post about how I really feel about the episode.
I was happy that there finally was a new episode to watch and write about, but overall I just wasn’t all that impressed with the episode.
How did you feel about that episode? Leave a comment for me on the Watching House site.
by Tricia
Techinline has come out with a new program that they’ve called the Techinline Remote Desktop. This is a system that would allow a technical support business, IT personnel, or even a small office or home based computer and technical support company to view and diagnose technical problems on clients systems remotely.
The Techinline Remote Desktop system works with any windows OS, and is compatible with all browsers. It can be used to access and even control a clients desktop from anywhere in the world with just the use of a single browser. You can even allow clients to share your own desktop.
I can easily see this system being used by large technical support companies, however I can also see it being used by small home based support businesses and web designers. Think about how easy it would be to show a new design to a client or walk them through the steps of performing a routine computer task on their own with your remote help.
Even for someone like myself. I have a number of people that write to me and ask me “How do I do this?” “How do I do that?” each and every week. I could use a program like this to access their desktop and show them on their very own computer how to do many of the things that they ask me.
This Techinline remote Desktop system was not designed to access a computer where the client is not available on the other side at their computer. It’s not for controlling unattended PC’s.
As I said earlier the Remote Desktop application works with all OS systems including Windows Vista. It can make fast and secure connections in seconds. Remote desktops can be shared, as can local desktops. Techinline Remote Desktop has 128-Bit SSL encryption for a secure working environment and is Firewall/Proxy transparent.
For more information about the system and screenshots of the program please visit the techinline.com website.
Pricing for use of this program is reasonable as well. You may try it free for 15 days, or you can purchase the Techinline Remote Desktop service. An unlimited monthly plan costs as little as $19.95, or you can purchase the service by the number of sessions that you think you’ll need. Session packages start at 20 sessions for $40. Isn’t that a great price? You could be helping a client for as little as $2 per session – even less if you purchase the unlimited package of course. Visit Techinline for more information.
by Tricia
My friend Skeet just wrote a post Not quite Gilligan’s Isle and she picked five people that she thought she might be able to survive with on a desert island for a year.
I was one of the lucky people she thought she might be able to tolerate for that long. Of course, she enlisted me as the groups gardener in the hopes that I’d grow veggies and keep them all fed. I know she wrote her post late at night so I’ll forgive her for forgetting that I’m a nurse. I’m sure having a medical professional trapped on a desert island with you couldn’t be all that bad, now could it? I also make a mean lean-to if I do say so myself.
Now, if I were trapped on desert island with five other people I wonder who else I might most want to be trapped there with me?
I certainly think I’d like to have Mr. Fab on the island. I’m not really sure how good his survival skills might be, but I’m pretty sure he’d be able to cheer us up and keep us amused for the year. Once whatever survival related work was done each day we could just gather round him as if he were a television set and let him babble away about lemurs and other crazy things that pop into that wild mind of his and it would be entertaining.
Mrs. Lifecruiser would have to be there too. She’s a world traveler and has gathered knowledge from all the areas she’s been in. I’m sure she’d use her experiences to help us survive. Plus she’s becoming an experienced Ship’s Captain so she might be able build us a boat and help us navigate off the island before the year was through.
I think Brian would also be a good person to have along. He seems to be a bit of a philosopher and I think he’d end up being the realist of the group and help keep us on track.
Now, I don’t know Kahea as well as I probably should, especially since she comes here and leaves me nice comments ALL the time, however, she seems like she’s a very resourceful person and you always want someone like that along for the ride when you’re stuck on a island!
Heather, as in Heather from Beautiful BC and her dog Hugo would be the final person that I think I would pick, especially if I could only have five other people on the Island with me. Believe me, I’d pick more if I could! Heather and her pup Hugo love British Columbia, and since that’s an area of Canada that is quite rugged and full of outdoorsy people I’m pretty sure that Heather must have some survival skills up her sleeve.
Now that I’ve chosen my fellow stranded islanders I wonder who they might choose if they were stuck on an island for a year? Would they take me too? Or do they know other people who might help them survive for a whole year on a deserted island? Keep an eye on their sites, maybe they’ll tell us soon.