A long time ago, shortly after they first came out, Deb and I purchased a 20" iMac. We use it around the house, sometimes on my desk, sometimes on hers, and it’s always fun checking out how the other 3% lives. However, we need to box up the machine for a little while in order…
I have an HP Photosmart 7760 printer on my desk for the occasional color printout, or the even more occasional photo printout. Recently, it began printing very slowly. It was taking 15 minutes or more just to print out a test page. I spent quite a lot of time trying to troubleshoot this. I uninstalled…
Oh this is rich. Bungie (aka Microsoft) has just announced that Halo 2 will require Windows Vista (aka Godot) to run. While I can imagine that Microsoft wants to help drive sales of Vista, this isn’t going to be the way to do it. I can just see the discussion at the sales counter when…
Over the years, I’ve come up with a lot of ideas for products, both real world and software. Some of those would be: 1) Ear muffs with built in headphones 2) Surround sound headphones 3) A keyboard that works well for programmers, including instant macros, a billion shortcuts and more. #1 was brought out…
It seems that hard drive quality has gone downhill significantly. I just had a 250 meg WD2500 hard drive fail. The drive wasn’t even used that much. It was used periodically to create Ghost images, and today, when trying to Ghost my workstation, the drive wouldn’t spin up. I remember that I’d had problems with…
As many of you have noticed, many web pages have "in line" ads that try to look kind of like links, and are actually advertisements. Every now and then I notice a particularly stupid in line ad, which I thought was chuckle worthy. See the attached photo. I don’t believe it’s actually an eBay ad,…
Recently, Chevy has started an advertising campaign that features the fact that they have reduced the sticker prices on all of their cars. For more information, they say, go to Edmunds.com and click on Head 2 Head. Well, sure, why not. I like the Edmunds site, so let’s see what’s there. I go there…
I’m building myself a new computer since I have to give the old one to someone else. While installing all the software necessary to work and develop in these modern times, I got jumped by a popup window from a product called "PDF Complete". Apparently, this is one of the few products (seriously, with HP…
So, I listen to podcasts on the way to and from work, and let me tell you, nothing is more irritating that hearing some random Microsoft employee or intern start every sentence with "so". So, if I ask an MS employee if the sky is blue, the answer will probably come back as "So…….
A tip sheet on overcoming procrastination… http://www.onlineorganizing.com/ExpertAdviceToolboxTips.asp?tipsheet=20 I’ll probaby read it tomorrow…