Author Archives: Brian Shaffer

About Brian Shaffer

Brian Shaffer started writing software back in the days of the Dialup BBS. In 1991 he turned this into TNL Systems and started selling this software. He made about $20 every 6 months. In 1994 he started with IBM Corporation. Around 1997 he founded TNL Total Solutions and was able to take advantage of the Dot.com boom which was only just beginning. During this time he worked for many fortune 500 companies and was involved in several dot com ventures. He was also owner of a web hosting company during this time and a short lived game hosting company. Presently Brian lives in Eugene, Oregon still operating TNL Total Solutions.

Top 10 Best Of 2010

Here is a short compilation of the top 10 favorite posts here.  These are based on a combined rating of the most shared posts here as well as my favorites: 20/20 Piece About Heavy Metal From The 80s. This is hilarious.  A real piece of investigative reporting from 20/20. Top 5 Flash Mobs A great… Read More »

Web Series: Arc

Television hasn’t been making my Sci-Fi fix lately, and being a fan of web series in general I was happy to stumble across Arc.  The last great sci-fi web series I stumbled across was Afterworld.  This is a few steps above. With a $50k budget, and some bigger names in it.  This really makes the… Read More »

Making iOS4 faster on your 3G

I’ve complained quite a bit, here on this blog as well as on all of the social networking sites, that if you have an iPhone 3G and performed the upgrade to iOS4, your living in a painfull life.  It can take 5+ seconds just to open your address book. This video offers a nice comparison… Read More »

Google Hardware in 1998

I remember in 1997 when someone first pointed me to http://google.stanford.edu a student project that was supposed to beat out WebCrawler as a search engine. I wasn’t too impressed at the time… It’s interesting to think how huge Google has become and how I don’t really use anything else to search the web. Let alone… Read More »