Category Archives: Blog

Disclosure and Some More Plans

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 I [...]

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My Apologizes and Blog Plans For 2010

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 [...]

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Announcement

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 [...]

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How The-TechShop.com Was Created and Why I Blog

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 [...]

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Blog Change – Disqus is Now My Comment System

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.

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Why You Should Back Up Data Stored in The Cloud

The Cloud is becoming more and more used everyday. Their are companies starting up all the time and their are companies that close all the time. How many of us think to back up data we store in the cloud? My bet is not many of us. As far as I am concerned if you [...]

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Why Do I Blog

Last week a colleague of mine who I have worked at for a number of years was looking at this web site and asked me an interesting questions. His was why do you blog?
Originally when I started the idea for The-techshop it was a resource web site. It was a site where someone could go [...]

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Change to My Blog

I have changed my blog so that I will no longer have to approve comments before they are posted however I have turned on the spam filters so spammers do not spam my comments

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Web Categories

A special thanks goes out to my gf Kelli for taking the time to set up categories for my blog. I had been planning to do it for a long time but I have just not had a chance.
Thanks Again
Rob

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