Okay, if you’ve read Part One and Part Two, you know what the story is. Below are the technical details. (Warning: if your eyes glaze over at tech stuff, stop reading now…)

Upstream connection (from the church where the choir is singing): DSL about 722 kb/s (note for any newbies:  upload and download speeds are usually […]

Note: If you haven’t read Part One yet, you might check it out.
So, as schedules happened, I was in San Francisco during the event — which meant I wasn’t going to be in Brentwood to handle the encoding and/or troubleshoot any problems that might arise (and arise they did…). But it’s a Webcast, so my […]

I just finished helping out a nonprofit client of mine to broadcast live streaming video of a concert, and in the process am stumbling into some video expertise. Since it’s the season for sharing… here goes.
First, some background: Every year, The Angel City Chorale takes its holiday concert on the road — to homeless shelters, […]

As you may know, Microsoft recently released a major upgrade to Internet Explorer (version 7.0) and about the same time, the Mozilla Foundation came out with Firefox 2. Both are major upgrades, but IE in particular is significant, since it had been so long since the last major upgrade (and since about 80-90 percent […]

[This is a working draft document, which I’ll be editing occasionally as time permits and as technologies change; check back for changes.] PayPal’s basic ecommerce system allows vendors to sell online with very little setup, and with a decent fee schedule. Which raises the question: why would anyone use a traditional ecommerce system?
First, some background: […]

Two stories of note about the ownership of domain names — one recent and one in the past — both, thankfully, with happy endings. Each illustrates the need to maintain some control over your domain name (i.e. your URL, such as brianwold.com).
Note about Domain Names
A registered domain name is owned by the person (or persons) […]

When I recently switched this blog to WordPress, I made another switch as well, to a table-free layout. Yep, this page is now a CSS-only page. There are no tables, and all layout, images and positioning are located in the CSS stylesheet.
Why? Several reasons:

Pages are smaller, so they load faster. The stylesheet is bigger than […]

Happy 2006, everyone! I’ve just finished switching my blog’s underlying technology from Blogger to WordPress. It’s been an interesting challenge — one that’ll inspire a few posts in future days.
The reason for the switch? Blogger is a fine tool, and when I started this thing a couple of years ago, it was an easy way […]

I just helped a client of mine switch from their old Web hosting company to a new one. Not that the old host was bad, but… for a lot less money, here’s what they gained:

More everything: more bandwidth, more server space, and more e-mail accounts, more publishing options.
Better metrics: The new Web stats more accurately […]

‘Way back in the day, we lost the City of Minneapolis Web site when a hard disk crashed. “Not to worry,” sez the IT guys. “We’ll drop in a new hard disk and restore from the latest backup.” New disk goes in, fine. Backup tapes are located… no data. Yep, the night crew had been […]