August 30, 2020 – nationwide global internet outage
We don’t have a lot of details yet, but CenturyLink is suffering a nationwide internet outage at the moment. Not all sites are down, some are fine, some are intermittently reachable, some not at all. Our local connections in Albuquerque are fine, but...
A Small Bit of Good News
You may notice your Internet service bill is smaller this month. The Internet Tax Freedom Act (ITFA) was first enacted in 1998. It directed states not charge sales tax for Internet access. There was a grandfather clause which allowed states which were already taxing...
Patch Tuesday Kills Outlook
On July 14th, 2020 Microsoft pushed their monthly bundle of operating system and application patches. Unfortunately, this one disabled Microsoft Outlook. Many users woke up today to find their Outlook won’t start. We have the fix!
Working from Home in the Age of Coronavirus
Fears of COVID-19 are already changing the way we work, act, and play. The need to keep safe social distances means that many people will be working from home at least for the near future. Fortunately, the internet makes it all possible. In order to help, Southwest...
Top 5 WordPress Gotchas
WordPress is one of the easiest content management systems out there, but like all software it does have warts. Here are six things that had me scratching my head for a while.
