Alot of people were talking after last year's timely visit from former U.S. Vice President Al Gore to the inaugural Green Living Show, about how we could top that. Well, I don't know if you can compare, but...
A lot of people ask me how I make sense of the river of information flowing from Twitter. I currently follow over 8000 people, yet I can usually pick out the nuggets of information that matter. I use it extensively to...

Quick way to gzip your CSS

The quickest and easiest way to speed up your website is to add mod_gzip to your pages. Basically what it does is takes any .html page on the server, and uses gzip compression to shrink the file before...
Those annoying telemarketing calls are almost a thing of the past! Canada has adopted a Do Not Call registry so that you can tell those companies that you don't appreciate recieving random calls everyday! The main registry You can add...

Joetek V3

Welcome to the new-look Joetek website! In addition to cutting over from Movable Type to Wordpress as the engine, this new site allows individual-post permalinks, category and monthly archives, and the return of comments! Enjoy, and let me know what you...
Between the close pass of the 2012 DA14 Asteroid this afternoon, and viral videos of a meteor exploding in the air in Moscow, we all need a distraction! How about this:

Live Stream

New Job!

As of today, I am the new Operations Manager at Exposoft Solutions Inc. Exposoft builds Event Registration and Management systems. It is a small, but quickly growing company with an enthusiastic and passionate team bent on customer...

Palm Reading

Palm is running into trouble. As soon as Microsoft updated WindowsCE with PocketPC, Palm should have taken the hint. PalmOS really hasn't changed in years, while PocketPC has moved forward with seamless syncronization and multimedia. It's time for...

Joetek Server Move

Hi Folks, Over the past few weeks we have been in the process of moving the system to a new offsite location to address the reliability issues. Suddenly, that process has been put into high gear. Lots of...

Moving Servers

The latest victim of the dot-bomb appears to be Datapeer Inc. They have announced that they have elected to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Normally, this would be just another yawner, but Datapeer happens to be the...

RIP Diskettes

Dell has put the nail in the coffin of the good old Floppy Disk. They will be removing disk drives from their higher end machines, and where Dell goes, others are soon to follow. The technology, whether you are...

Recent Posts