It is just about that time again to renew the web site.  Of course this brings up all sorts of questions about whether I want to keep the current domain of paulmccord.net or change to something else.  It also makes me wonder whether or not to change my page to a static page or keep [...]

The social networking world was turned upside down yesterday when Twitter and Facebook were victims of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack making the service difficult to access yesterday.  This attack is nothing new as many sites have been attacked in this manner.  The buzz around technology related sites this morning is that the [...]

The last couple of days I have been removing contacts from my Twitter page because there was a lot of spam.  I went from 675 followers back down to 73.  I think I may have inadvertently deleted a few people that I did not intend on doing.  Since it took me several hours to go [...]

I have been one of the greatest advocates of using Twitter.  I use them every day  for two years and loving it.  Lately they have been getting on my nerves to a point that I am yelling at them.  One of the major attractions to using Twitter is the ability to update via short messaging [...]

I went ahead and re-opened my Facebook account as it gives me more control over the content unlike Friendfeed.  I left all the other social networking sites closed.  Of all  the sites that I really do love to use, I would say Flickr, Twitter, and Facebook.   The rain is moving back in today and I [...]

As many of you have found, Twitter has been having problems with instant messaging (IM), and paginations.  I have been frustrated with these issues myself but I hope they will be back up full time soon.  Their service has become so cool that there are literally thousands of new people signing up each day.  There [...]

As most of you know, I am an Internet junkie and love to play with social networks minus Myspace.  No matter how much I try, I just cannot get into Myspace.  I have grown to love Twitter because of its short messaging system (SMS) capability.  It is really nice to be mobile and get text [...]

This morning I woke up expecting to see ice all over the trees and power lines like we did in December but happy to see the temperature was above freezing and there were very few ice sickles. I was shocked to see rain dripping from the ceiling in four places in our den.  We just [...]

Back to work. # I bought the Skype Pro. # My Skype user name is k5glh_okc # Powered by Twitter Tools.

@chrismartintv Check the Twitter page and you will see they have revised their downtimes to midnight to 4 AM Sunday. # I get so tired of hearing the media say holiday instead of christmas. # Looks like the power trucks should make it to my dad’s house in the next few days. # Powered by [...]