october 2008

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If you’ve ever imported large quantities of URLs into a spreadsheet, or even copy/pasted just a few rows, one of the things that you’ve probably disliked is the fact that those URLs are not “live”. In fact, in order to actually visit those URLs as needed, you have to copy/paste each one of them into the [...]

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I’m looking forward to next Tuesday nights meeting of the Oregon Computer Consultants Association.  The subject is going to be using open source software on your desktop as a replacement for Windows, whether personal use, business use or both. I’m so fed up with computer problems that I’ve actually considered buying a Mac, but I have [...]

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I thought it only fitting that I use my 500th blog post to say goodbye to Microsoft as they begin their slide into obscurity. As innovative as Microsoft has been, and as influential as they were bringing a computer to nearly every desk in the world, I’ve long thought their days were numbered. I won’t go into [...]

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Next week’s SEMpdx presentation gets very specific regarding the local search ranking algorithm. SEMpdx is fortunate to have a new board member join us for 2009 who’s recently moved here from San Fransisco. His name is David Mihm, he’s an expert in local search, and he’s agreed to give a similar presentation to the one he [...]

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Does your business send e-mail to your customers? How about emailing invoices or monthly statements? Do you ever communicate with them to let them know about issues with their orders, or changes to their account? Do you ever send them a newsletter, even one that they may have double-verified with an “opt in” on your end? If [...]

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If you’re one of our 900 hosting customers having sporadic trouble with email for the past 36 hours, here’s the deal, and we’re pretty sure it’s totally unrelated to my public criticism of Linux Magic. At approximately 7:45AM Pacific, one of the PDXTC shared mail servers (mail2.pdxtc.com) was determined to be in a critical state by [...]

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Next week is an SEM Hotseat event geared towards beginners. Have you come to search marketing events before and been overwhelmed?  Do you have some SEO questions that you think are too basic?  This is your chance to get that added level of detail and attention you may have been craving at other events. Since [...]