10 years as a Mensan

I got a certificate this morning celebrating my 10 years as a member of Mensa.  I took the test as a lark on day (a former employer of mine had been bugging me to do it long before I actually did it) and a few weeks later found out that I qualified. The sad thing…

Zune 80 Thoughts

Just before the holidays I decided to try out a Zune 80.  The new Zunes are getting pretty good reviews, and I decided that I would try one out so I could get all my .wma music onto the system from my media center PC that died on me.  Yes, I know I can convert…

Dear Verizon, you suck.

Over the past month I’ve had two client sites have problems with Verizon service.  The number of hoops they make you jump through in order to try to solve a problem are incredible. In the most recent instance, the client called to say that no one there can get onto the Internet.  I walked them…

A nice simple Vista feature

There are frequent times when I need to get a full path and file name from Windows Explorer into something else. Fortunately Vista has a "hidden" feature built in to make that easier. For example, earlier today I had to point to a Virtual PC hard disk image that I had downloaded when setting up…