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

Yes!! Surface Pro for Me! :-)

Ok. After much complaining and whining, I finally got my Surface Pro. My purchase plan had to update a little, but everything seemed to work out nicely.  I had planned to get the whole package from Best Buy but, if you read my previous crazy rant. You know that didn’t work out. I ended up watching the Microsoft Store website like … Read more

No Surface Pro for me :-(

I’ve been looking at getting a Microsoft Surface  and was on the fence until they announced that there was a 128GB Pro version that was capable of running full desktop applications.  When I saw that, I had to have it! I’ve been waiting and watching for the release date of February 9th to come around.  This device in all it’s glory would only … Read more

Change your max file upload size in WordPress

Everybody may already know how to do this but, I didn’t and it was driving me crazy.  And, since I will have to make this change again sometime, I’m posting it here. Ever since I switched over to WordPress, I’ve been stuck with a two (2) meg file upload limit.  I thought this was a bit crazy because I self host this … Read more

A Picture A Day – Day 4

Day four.  Almost an entire work week keeping moving on the site.    We had some Coldfusion woes today at the office, and some Websphere woes, and some programmer woes, and… well people and technology can be difficult. Let’s leave it at that. But, if anyone out there has any suggestions for troubleshooting an “Axis fault: Connection refused: connect” error when … Read more

Create a Shortcut to open in your Alternate Browser

Here’s a quick and simple “How To” for you.  I had this question posed by a client the other day and it made me think.    This Client is a fan of FireFox.  It is his default browser and tries his best to NEVER use Internet Explorer.  But, as is the case with most things, the more you try to keep … Read more

Warranty Schmarranty

Here’s an interesting read about Apple’s wonderful customer service. Note my sarcasm?  🙂 Anyway, here’s a short clip of the article. The Apple Retail Store Hates You  – I recently visited the Apple store to exchange a defective power adapter which was still under warranty.  I still have the defective adapter, as it has now cost more time and effort … Read more