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So, I had been excited about trying out the new release of Firefox, Bon Echo (as they’re calling it) but today was the first chance I had to install it. I was expecting a relatively simple install, typical of a Firefox update…and then it happened.

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As I was scanning the links over at Digg, I came across something that made me gasp. Leo Laporte apparently posted at TWiT that he wasn’t sure if TWiT’s netcast would continue after he comes back after a break. If you’re scratching your head about TWiT, or netcast, just know that it’s one of the best netcasts (podcasts for the late adopters) available. It hosts many of the personalities from the old TechTV crew. Meanwhile, someone has started a site to convince TWiT to stay alive.

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Businesses, for the most part, seem to have a fetish for blowing huge sums of money on office tools and products. One of the biggest expenditures always seems to be their technology related tools. With the most to gain from this is the leader in this area, Microsoft, peddling Windows XP and feeding an addiction to Microsoft Office; but more and more everyday I’m seeing emerging open source technologies that blow Microsoft’s offerings out of the water.

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Being online since 1996 means that I have seen my fair share of the hosting world. Since my first experience with “free” hosted pages on Homestead until a year ago, I had been on a crusade to find an operation that made me feel comfortable. Just before I made the switch I was hosting with I-Powerweb. I-Power was pretty typical of the mediocre, mysterious hosting providers and I had stayed with them out of pure laziness. Enter Dreamhost. So here are the top ten reasons why I love Dreamhost (in no particular order):

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After a snafu with an old site, multiple revisions and interspersed client projects, the new incarnation of weswillis.com is now online. Unfortunately, I never took the time to do mundane things like…backup my database so everything that once lived there has been lost.

So, here it is. And, yes, I’ve already scheduled routine backups.

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