Computers

Well, I thought I had seen it all, but as I approach 40, I should know better than that. In my usual inundation of AOL CD’s that I’ve been saving up to send to these people, I received the following one. As if it’s not bad enough we get a boatload of these CD’s from […]

I’ve been around Microsoft Windows for a long time. Long enough to remember (not that it’s been THAT long, really) the days when there was no uninstall routines in Windows. I don’t remember when it happened (Win98, perhaps), Windows put in a centralized uninstall area. That’s generally been a good idea, I think. However, what […]

It would seem to me that crap like this should be stopped before it can get started. I mean, why the smeg am I paying $7 a month to my phone company for Caller ID when people can do shit like this? http://www.securityfocus.com/news/9822

First off, please don’t answer with “Have her not use Outlook Express”. That’s not an option. My question is this. At home I use Windows XP Home, and for quite awhile both my wife and I used Outlook Express. Tonight, I switched over to using Pegasus Mail for my home mail. I’m already using it […]

Does anyone know of a program for Windows XP that will handle a collection of addresses and can print envelopes and labels? I currently am using stamps.com to print envelopes, and it’s awesome for that, but I grow tired of the monthly fee for that software. I’d like to move to something else, but I’ve […]

In reading my daily dose of tech news, I ran across this story about Real Networks, and their recent reverse engineering of the Apple iPod. The short of it is that Real Networks (a company who I’ve believed to be technically irrelevant for some time now) decided that they were going to essentially reverse engineer […]

If you’re reading this, you’ve noticed my new blog look. This is something I worked up some time ago, but never actually launched, but today decided to go with it. I haven’t totally finished it, some of the sub pages still aren’t finished, but I’m still working on that. So if you see some broken […]

Six Apart issued v3.0 of their Movable Type blog software today. They’re charging now. Everyone freaks the hell out cuz they have to pay now. Oh Waaaah. A company releases software that got to be really REALLY popular. A community grows, and it becomes really popular. Then said company releases a new version and wants […]

Want to know that you’re thinking more and more about Linux? When you’re in a Microsoft Windows XP command prompt and you use “ls -l” without thinking about it instead of “dir”. ;)

There’s a new version of the Winamp media player out, and I really REALLY am into this new version – so much so that I wrote my history with Winamp, MusicMatch Jukebox, and how iTunes got me to go back to Winamp (sort of). :) When Winamp first came out, I really liked the program […]