Thanks to a pointer fro the Office Weblog, I found this interesting OS News article about using just freeware to get things done on a Windows PC. Most of that stuff is familiar to me, but some isn’t. That’ll give me some new things to think about. 🙂
Speaking of which, I need to update that list of “freeware I use” in the blog template. There’s some new stuff that I don’t have listed down there!
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I set a new personal record today. Actually, 4 people in out department set new personal records today. We all spent some of the day today working on a laptop, a laptop that was by far the worst case of virus/spyware infection that any of us have ever personally witnessed. Toward the end of the…
Blogger Stats has been unleashed on the world. Currently only available for BlogSpot Plus users, but they hope to have it available to others soon. I’d be interested to see how it works out for anyone using it! Sun announced this week that they are going to roll out a Linux desktop system. It seems…
Gee is Google, through Blogger, out to conquer the world? Seriously, I’ve got to think giving people the ability to use Blogger with their own language is only going to increase the number of people and veiwpoints being represented on the web and that’s got to be good, right? Now, what they need to do…
I’ve been busy, as you can probably tell from my not posting at all yesterday, but something that I’ve been thinking a lot about is the “mystery” of technology work. I’m reminded of something my driver’s education instructor told me many, many years ago. He said the goal of good driving was never to make…
Turns out we had no internet connection the entire time we were in Gatlinburg. Sorry for the lack of updates, but I’ll be sure to get up to speed quickly, I hope. We had a great time, and got some really beautiful pictures from our hike in the Smoky Mountains on Sunday. They will be…
My wife, after reading that last post, came to me last night and said “That was a little too Andy Rooney for my tastes, what happened to my husband?”. Ouch! OK, I admit it, I’ve been taking life a little too fucking seriously. Time to crank up a Too Much Joy CD and remember that…