Robert Owen — Technology Leader & Musician
Technology leadership, music, and the space where they overlap
Last week I forgot to post a Friday Funny. In fact, last week I didn’t post much at all. I nearly forgot Friday Funny again this week until I ran across this little ditty on Youtube. Hope you enjoy… Hope it helps you remember to do something you didn’t realize you had forgotten. Too bad I didn’t see this last … Read more
I just followed a tweet over to Mashable and read another article about the latest Apple security flaw. This time affecting the iPhone. Cybersecurity researchers, Charlie Miller and Collin Mulliner, have identified a vulnerability in the iPhone OS that will allow an attacker to take control of the Phone via a SMS message. They have, supposedly, notified Apple more than … Read more
Ok guys, here is my make-up funny for missing last week. I hope you find it of sufficient quality to make up for my lapse. Enjoy: A woman and a man are involved in a car accident – it’s a bad one. Both of their cars are totally demolished but amazingly neither of them are hurt. After they crawl out … Read more
Looking for a Funny for today I realized I didn’t post one for last week. Although, you had a “two-for” recently, that’s no excuse to skip a day. So, today I’ll give you two again. It may take me a minute or two to find a second of sufficient quality but, I will ! #1 – Excerpt from … DIARY … Read more
Did you know you can configure the Microsoft IIS 6 web server to automatically insert an HTML-formatted file to the bottom of every web page sent out by your Web Server? Well, you can. For example, you host several sites and want to add a link back to your company for advertisement. You could create a simple HTML file that … Read more
Had a dandy today. A client called saying that their computer would no longer boot. When I asked them if there was any kind of error message, they read me the following: Win_root\System32\Hal.dll missing or corrupt: Please re-install a copy of the above file. Sounds serious, huh? It is. When I arrived at the office there was an ominous “clicking” … Read more
Ninety-nine percent of the time I work on websites for myself and others from the comfort of my home office. I can kick back relax and generally get a lot of work done. Sometimes, however, I need a “Change of local”… The office gets a little confining. Instead of copying the site (or sites) I’m working on from desktop to … Read more