NetSwamp

I’m still reckoning with the notion of being a grandfather. Exciting on one-hand, makes-me-feel-old on the other. It’s good to see the next generation taking the reigns.

Recent pic’s of Corinne seem to show she’s “bearing-the-burden” well. It also sounds like she might be enjoying the “special” attention Blake has been bestowing. Keep your head about you Corinne! Or you’ll burn the poor guy out.

Blake: Chin-up-my-lad! Keep up the good work!!

Best Wishes to Both!! Enjoy the new house!!!

Odd place for a front door, don’t you think?

Anyone else growing weary of hearing Dick Cheney? Rush Limbaugh getting old? If not, I’ll count you as a Die-Hard Republican.

I’m not trying to insinuate that Barack Obama is right, wrong or otherwise. What I will say is; I’m tired of hearing the Republican rhetoric. I used to be one once. I had to drop my affiliation with your silly asses. Continue reading Republican Blow-Hards

Once again a religious nut strikes and kills! The story-line is repeated daily through-out the world. I grow so weary of listening to those purporting to be “Holier-Than-Thou”. The death and destruction, the wasted resources and lives. Continue reading Religious Zealot Loses Grip on Reality!

I love the innuendo in the name. In 2005 I grew very frustrated with Microsoft Windows. Basically I was pissed. I was paying $150-$200 per upgrade copy of Windows XP, plus MS Office, plus A/V, plus Anti-Spyware and I still had to fix problems with the OS “under the hood”. Why should I pay for the privilege of using MS Windows, still have to fix their problems and endure being a target of malice towards Microsoft. ENOUGH!

Enter Linux! I’ve been using it as my full-time desktop system at home and work since. Not that there haven’t been growing pains. But, I haven’t contributed a dime to the Microsoft economy since then either.

MicroSwamp is a repository of personal technical notes with a slant towards Desktop Linux advocacy.

Opened several months ago, technologybites.com is a site I’d like to see grow into a community, based upon the “pitfalls of technology”. The site currently sports;

• Ability for users contribute articles/posts.
• User comment articles/posts.
• User ranking of articles/posts.
• Forum/Bulletin Board.
• more …

Everyone can think of at least one incident where technology played a role in causing irritation, anguish or physical pain. Those would be Technology Bites!

The Data Recovery Resource Center is now located at dataswamp.com. A variation of this site has existed since 2003. It originally opened as howtorecoverdata.com, re-appeared as data-recovery-hub.com and closed in 2007 as iSwamp.com. This is the one I regret closing the most.

Hopefully the site topic is obvious. If not; It’s data recovery!

The popular Service Guide section will be rebuilt from scratch and provided on the site in the not too distant future.

Once upon a time, I offered a free web log (blog) hosting service for anyone and everyone at no charge. Back then it was webswamp.com. Reborn as BlogSwamp.com, I’m planning to be a bit more selective about the blogs I permit to exist. There where many junk blogs in the webswamp version. I’d rather cater personally to a few blog owners that write quality content, than have all the poor quality junk traffic. I think the blog owners will be happier too. Nonetheless, it’s still a free blog hosting service.

Those familar know I was layed-off from C.O.I. in April 2007. Around that time I connected with a friend in the data recovery business. He was interested in opening a second branch and I wasn’t exactly getting employment offers at the time. So, we hooked-up to do some data recovery business. Part of my agreement with him was to close iSwamp.com which was a competitor to his website.

All things considered, jumping into the new venture, I just closed my entire network of sites. Time didn’t really permit me to run them properly anyway and the sites didn’t generate huge numbers of visitors. But, I was getting in the neighborhood of 30,000 unique visitors each month over the entire network. Individually, no big deal. Not a “barn-burner”, bit collectively not too shabby.

Looking back, it was a bad decision (it’s not the first and won’t be the last I make). So for the past month or so, I’ve been rebuilding my little swamp network. You’ll see them listed here under “My Sites”. With any luck someone out there will find the stuff useful.

More on the details of each site in future posts.

After more than 2 years, lost in the back-water and darkness of the Internet, NetSwamp re-emerges.