ROBERT OWEN — Technology Leader & Musician
Technology leadership, music, and the space where they overlap

New site in progress: HornSpit dot com

Got a new site officially in progress now. This is a site that came about from one long night in the Opera Pit. As another horn player and I were talking, about internet needs none the less, HornSpit.com was born. This site is planned to be a repository of all things irreverent about the French Horn (or properly known as: … Read more

Post to multiple social networks at one time

If you are a web social butterfly with your facebook, plurk, twitter, friendfeed, brightkite, etc accounts then the ping.fm service is your you! Ping.fm is a simple and reliable service that makes updating your social networks a snap. You simply log in, set-up the services you want to update and you're done! Type your message and hit submit! All your … Read more

Happy July 4th!!!

I hope everyone has a Happy and SAFE 4th of July. Although it would be a tremendous honor, I would hate for anyone to be added to the Fireworks Hall of Fame this year!! [More]

While I'm sharing…

Heard about this little ditty from the June 20 edition of Windows Weekly. If you use FireFox you know you can type: about:config into the address bar and make some changes to the FireFox configuration. Well, If you type about:robots into the address bar of FireFox you will see a pretty funny little message. [More]

Online Backups: Mozy

I have to say that my initial impression of Mozy Backup was not that great. Besides the abundance of outgoing bandwidth at my server the initial backup was very slow. I was only sending up a little over 1.5 gig of data and, it took the better part of a day to complete. But, now that I think about it … Read more