8 Years of Free Blog Advice

If you are new around here, I’ll save you some time and reveal that I am NOT a big blogger. The purpose of this website is to have an easy place where new customers can find out about me and to have a test-site for customers who run WordPress – not a place where I churn out yearly/monthly/weekly/daily/hourly tidbits of advice and entertaining banter.

One of my pet peeves is old, out-of-date, now-incorrect information on the internet. So I was going to do some year-end clean up on the old posts. But as I went through them, I found than all my posts were still timely, relevant, and gosh darn it, good advice that I still type into emails to my customers. Let’s take a look back, shall we? In the sit-com writing biz, this is called ‘a clip show’:

Dec 2018: The Gift of Tech talks about things you should do when you get a new computer. Just used this exact language this week with a friend.

Nov 2018: Curiosity Killed The Cat talks about how scammers/hackers use your curiosity by sending you fake emails. What is this bill? I have a package? I won something?

May 2018: Nobody Likes To Get Tricked goes into the methods and scammers/hackers use to make themselves look like your bank, credit card company, a helpful friend or Microsoft with one goal in mind: trick you into calling, replying or revealing information.

Oct 2016 brought us Windows 10 Update 1607: A Test of Patience. It came as a shock to many that it sometimes takes hours to do a patch or upgrade. This one does have a little grey in it, because today we’re not surprised when our super-fast computers take so long to update that Microsoft themselves wrote in options to do it when you’re not using your computer.

Aug 2016 I typed Best Defense Against Ransomware: Backups. Yep, still true.

The blogs go back farther, covering topics that are still part of the daily life of using computers. You can use your mouse to go digging.

I guess the old adage is true: good advice never goes out of style.