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.

Dead Server Dead Back

I was on a temporary internet hiatus while my back got a bit better, looks like during that time the hard drive on my server was slowly losing data due to a failing hard drive. Working on getting everything back up on different hardware, several sites here on top of the moving of my sites… Read More »

Moving to WordPress

I’ve had a blog for years and years now.  Technology keeps changing the it’s never a fun process to try to move to a new platform.  This time, I’m moving my blog from Xoops to WordPress. Once again, I can’t find any easy way to migrate all of my old posts over without writing a… Read More »

Awesome Web Series Afterworld

Gotten through about 10 of these, animated yet a very compelling and well done story. Well over 100 episodes this looks worth watching all of. AFTERWORLD is about a man – Russell Shoemaker – who awakens to discover that more than 99.9% of the population has disappeared, and that all technology has mysteriously shut down.… Read More »