Are Cell Phones Wiping Out Bees? No…
I am getting tired of the periodic pseudo-scientific "cellphones cause <catastrophe of your choice>" claptrap that gets picked up by the media. The latest one was brought to my attention…
Black holes, LHC, Star Wars, quantum uncertainty… if it is of general geek interest, but doesn’t fit into one of the other categories, it lands here.
I survived!
I am fortunate to have an employer who was able to allow me to work from home while Irene recovered from her second hip replacement. It made things much less…
Posting Youtube content on WordPress…
Some folks might have noticed my posting of a Youtube "video" (actually, it's mostly an "audio", but that's being picky) here a couple of days ago. The really observant probably noted that it…
My Cubicle…
I work in cubicle-land (when I'm not working from home), so I can find a lot to laugh about in the following song... I sit here in the...nude :)
File sharing: a terrorist plot, and think of the Children!
I believe in the importance of copyright. I also firmly believe in "fair use": that is, if I pay for the right to use your content, I have the right…
Dumbest…spammer…ever
Someone has been submitting about five "Viagra!" news items to one of my websites every day now for about six months. Such news items are moderated, and never appear on…
Cable nirvana…
I mentioned a couple of days ago that I'm cleaning up my office. Stage 2 was supposed to be "re-do the wiring", but that became "stage 3" when I decided…
Proving I’m kinda stupid…
On Thursday I decided to install some driver updates for Vista. ATI has a new video driver, version 7.2. I had this crazy idea that this might solve my problem with putting the computer in standby mode. The rest of what happened is proof that, despite having a moderately high intelligence, I’m often rather stupid…
One more Vexing Vista Problem “solved”
Vista has a fancy utility program to help manage photographs and videos called "Windows Photo Gallery". It has a bunch of nice features like the ability to tag images, and…
The continuing Vista saga
I keep making headway regarding outstanding problems with my migration to Vista. It appears that I've overcome the problem with EQ2Map Updater. Apparently, some of the files in the map…