Category Archives: General

WordPress Testing And Setting Up A Test Environment

printDigg DiggToday I spoke to a friend with a WordPress site. They asked for help because they were testing a new test plugin on their main site. The plugin caused all kinds of issues which was not a good thing. I thought I would take some time and explain to people how you to set…

RobertBCairns.Com Is Pleased To Announce

Happy Wednesday everyone! RobertBCairns.com is pleased to announce that we have created a new web site called the Customer Service Hall Of Shame. As you know on RobertBCairns.com we have had a section for companies who preform bad customer service. I decided it is time to take back the customer service experience and take it…

Advice For Parents About There Kids Being On Social Media

This post is inspired by a great #socialchat on Twitter last night. We are talking about parenting and social media. Two subjects that are really close to my heart. The big question is how do you keep your kids safe on social media? How do you teach them to be safe? I thought I would…

This Week In Review Oct 10, 2011 – How Steve Jobs Changed The World And My Life

Things The Younger Generations Have Missed In Technology

These things the younger generation will never experience first hand:   Recording on A VHS tape. 8 tracks, cassettes and even Cds The Apple II+ and the Timex Sinclair. Life without cell phones. Life without instant access to the news. Do you remember carrying a boom box around? Good quality music. Music actually is not as good on an…

Update On Site Changes

I thought I would take some time on this Monday and update you the reader on where the site changes are with this site. The following is a bit of an update on what is going on: I have limited the number of social media icons I am displaying to the main social media sites…

How Do I Get Back To Blogging?

In the last 2 months I have managed to get away from blogging on a regular basis. There are a multitude of reasons why this has happened. The sad part is that I really enjoy blogging from both a personal standpoint as well as a business standpoint. Why have a managed to get away from…

Special Announcements

I have a special announcement:) The customer service hall of shame will be moving to it’s own domain in the next few weeks. I have secured the domain “CustomerServiceHallOfShame.info” as of tonight. I feel it is time to take this Hall of Shame to a new level and give it a site of it’s own….

More Changes Coming

I hope everyone is having a great week. I am still working on continuing to work on the great content here at RobertBCairns.com . Changes are still going on some behind the scenes and some in front of the scenes. I thought I would take a minute and talk about where we are at with…

What Most People Miss When Doing Backups

I know many people do backups. Is this really enough? It my opinion it is not. Why you might ask? Many people say I preach backups every day. I do but what good is a backup if you can not restore. Things I would do when keeping backups: Keep multiple daily and weekly backups. Sometimes…