As many of you know I lost both my father and his youngest brother in a period of 5 days. Both passed away after long health battles and the last month has been so stressful and trying on my family. The last month I have not done much besides help in my Dad's care in ...
I hope everyone is having a great week. As you may have noticed I have changed my blog around and the format a bit. I have some more features I will be adding and hopefully I will have time to do these this weekend. I wanted to let everyone know that I have not quit blogging. ...
A lot of people have asked me lately what I use when I blog and why do I choose to use certain blogging tools. I thought I would take some time and explain which tools I use to make my blog and site what it really is. The best blogging software is open source and free. ...
Many of you know that I run the Headway theme on my blog. When I tried to update to Version 1.6 I experiences many issues with my Wordpress Control Panel on both my personal blog and this blog; my professional site. I have attributed the issues to database corruption. I have backups of my database ...
I thought it was necessary to add a disclosure page to my blog. I do have financial or personal interest in several companies/organizations and do feel it is necessary to disclose these to be honest and upfront with my readers. I will never put any advertising on my web site for a company/organization which ...
First off I would like to apologize for the lack of articles I have written over the last month. As many of you may or may not know my Dad has had some health issues which included a week long hospital stay over Christmas. Things are somewhat better now and as a result I now ...
This past week I decided to make a bit of a change for me. Those of you who read my blogs will notice that I have moved my blog to my RobertBCairns.com domain. This decision was an easy one to make for many reasons. When I started blogging, I did it to help people out. Originally ...
Last week at my full time job, a respected colleague asked me a question which provided food for thought. His questions was "Why Do You Blog?". It was a thought provoking question which I actually had to think about. I do believe I have the answer which I will share but I also thought I ...
As of today I have switched the comment system on my blog to Disqus. I have managed to import all older comments from the Wordpress comment system but Disqus has dropped the avatar picture of everyone who had previously comment. My apologizes.
