Woohoo! Our goal tracking application for real estate agents and teams is almost ready to go out to the general public. It's currently in alpha, but we've got some "pioneer users" who are helping us make it as useful as possible.

Its home is http://goals.keepontop.net (you can go check out the login page for now). I'll have more information posted here as we get closer to launch.

And happy new year, everybody!

The Short Story

If a significant portion of your income is made by working on a computer, you should consider installing a redundant hard drive in your computer and making a RAID array. This will ensure that if one drive fails, the other can take over. And you can continue working during a disk failure, the most common hardware failure.

Copied over from the old blog:

If you’re going to use Gigabit ethernet, buy your patch cables pre-manufactured! Please!!

You may crimp your own cables, but only if either:

Copied over from the old blog:

I was surfing trademarks, and found some other Blue Circles that I found interesting. By the way, if you’re a geek like me, it’s fun to search TESS for some obscure dead trademarks and see if you can track them down. I’m re-reading that sentence, and I realize I need a life.

The Short Story

If you are an individual or small business, you should strongly consider an online backup service like Carbonite or LiveVault. Why?