I have seen a lot over the years that I have been involved with computers and more recently the Internet. From static pages hand coded in Notepad and uploaded via FTP to an overly expensive domain through to simple free one stop publishing on cheap domains I’ve seen and been involved in much of [...]

As I have mentioned a few times in the past the blog is not the only thing that WinExtra is the home to. Even before there was a blog installed and running here there has always been a set of community forums that has been the home to a really great bunch people. Before the [...]

Back in July I did a Discussion Point podcast that talked about how the OS War could be heading into the clouds as all the major players stake their claim on this new computing platform that has everyone running around like crazy. I followed that up with a full post on the cost and [...]

With only about a month and a half before I begin my third year blogging here at WinExtra I’ve been thinking about some of the illusions and preconceived notions that I came into this with. As well I’ve noticed over the past little while some of the newer bloggers that I keep an eye [...]

By now this whole Sitemeter crashing Internet Explorer when it tried to load sites using the Sitemeter service. Just about everyone and their brother has reported about it with many asking why Sitemeter hasn’t stepped in front of this with some kind of information on why it is happening. After all it’s not like [...]

One of the hottest terms out there these days appears to be cloud computing with everyone wanting to get in the act of setting up massive data centers to become the heart of these clouds. Right know probably the two biggest players in this rapidly emerging computing field has to be Google and Microsoft [...]

The last couple of days have seen a discussion going on about blog consolidation for both revenue and survival reasons. The discussion has primarily been centered around 2 video posts by Aaron Brazell, one by Duncan Riley, a post by Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins and finally a Discussion Point podcast by myself here on WinExtra. [...]

There seems to be this notion floating around that this whole Web 2.0 and Social Media movement is all sweetness and goodness. It is as if the moment you become involved that any hint of evil or people doing bad things has evaporated into the ever sunny sky while we all sing John Lennon [...]