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Social Media

What to know when changing website hosts

by Brad Grier on December 3, 2008

in Blogging, Doing, How to, In the life, News, Photography, Review, Social Media, Web

A couple of weeks ago I found the following in an email from my webhost:
Your web hosting account for bradgrier.com has been deactivated (reason: site causing performance problems).
Although your web site has been disabled, your data may still be available for
up to 15 days, after which it will be deleted.
After a quick call to the [...]

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In Transition — as the page says

by Brad Grier on November 21, 2008

in Social Media, Technology

Due to a monumental FUBAR between my website host, server restrictions, and some resource-heavy wordpress plugins, Bradgrier.com is currently without a home.
All is not lost:

I have a backup of the site, content, posts, comments etc
I retain my domain names etc
I have a boat-load of work ahead of me as I research and rebuild

Lessons learned:

Backups are [...]

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Live election night coverage online (Canadian Election)

by Brad Grier on October 15, 2008

in Doing, How to, In the life, News, Social Media

Another Canadian election has come and gone. Programmed mainstream media coverage was again, less than inspiring. I found that to truly enjoy this national exercise, you have to watch it in the company of friends, as you would a Saturday afternoon hockey game.
I spent election night online. Using a variety of free sources, I was [...]

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3 Top Tools To Tame Twitter

by Brad Grier on September 18, 2008

in Doing, In the life, Social Media

 

photo credit: Thomas Hawk

As Twitter moves into its more mature phase, a number of Twitter utilities have emerged, some good, some not so good. I’m an early adopter and a daily Twitter user and have experimented with many Twitter tools over time. Please feel free to follow me but without further blather, here’s my top 3, must have, [...]

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A fast and fun way to mockup almost anything

by Brad Grier on August 12, 2008

in Blogging, Doing, Review, Social Media

Online Mockups…easy!
Part of the regular web development cycle is the user interface mockup. I’ve worked with many different tools including Google Sketchup and Adobe Photoshop to build representations for clients.
But nothing has been as quick, easy, and fun as Balsamiq Mockup, and online (and desktop/offline) user interface mockup tool for PC, Mac and Linux.
Desktop version [...]

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