Your digital consultant » web http://yourdigitalconsultant.edublogs.org it's easy but I'm not cheap Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:08:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Making a move http://yourdigitalconsultant.edublogs.org/2009/07/02/making-a-move/ http://yourdigitalconsultant.edublogs.org/2009/07/02/making-a-move/#comments Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:08:09 +0000 Simon Robinson http://yourdigitalconsultant.edublogs.org/2009/07/02/making-a-move/
Apologies to both of my readers who have been hanging out for posts. I haven’t been super happy with the Edublogs service for a while now. Poor performance, the introduction of advertising and uncompetitive pricing (to remove the advertising) has prompted a rethink. It goes like this…
“If I was going to pay for a hosting service I should be going for something that was going to perform consistently and deliver the goods.”
Maintenance outages and poor response times in a classroom setting (30 people hitting the site at the same time) have been issues for me in the past. On one occasion this year I had to re-plan 3 lessons on the fly when Edublogs was inaccessible for the whole school day. Fortunately I use an offline editor (Scribefire – it’s a Firefox extension check it out) so I created a Blogger account, reposted most of the stuff I needed and done “double book keeping” since.
So I moved to Squarespace. Not much difference in price, plenty more powerful and it’s where all the cool kids are at. It’s a bit of a pain moving everything over (still not done) but it’s worth it.
So visit me at the new site, add the feed to your RSS reader and sorry again “for an inconvenience caused.”
 ]]> http://yourdigitalconsultant.edublogs.org/2009/07/02/making-a-move/feed/ 0 A lesson for us all http://yourdigitalconsultant.edublogs.org/2009/02/02/a-lesson-for-us-all/ http://yourdigitalconsultant.edublogs.org/2009/02/02/a-lesson-for-us-all/#comments Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:06:36 +0000 Simon Robinson http://yourdigitalconsultant.edublogs.org/2009/02/02/a-lesson-for-us-all/ iWork ‘09 Torrent Carrying OS X Trojan [Updated] – Mac Rumors
A security alert posted this morning by antivirus vendor Intego reveals that the company has discovered a new Trojan horse that is being carried by pirated copies of iWork ‘09 circulating on a number of torrent sites.

Largest security vulnerability when using your computer regardless of operating system is user behaviour. In this case you could call it karma. If you’re using torrents to download stuff especially if it’s movies, music or pirated software you’re risk profile increases significantly. You better know what you’re doing (i.e. have a quarantine machine or similar.)

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