Today is a very special day, at least to me. It’s my wife’s birthday! None of what you see on this site would be possible without her support and understanding, so if you appreciate what goes on here, you owe it to her to at least hope she has a happy birthday!
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Something in this post has been causing “An invalid character was found in text content. Error processing resource ‘https://www.mikemcbrideonline.com/blogger_rss.xml’. Line 23, Position 772 “. I have run out of ideas on what it might be, so I guess anyone reading in a aggregator is going to have to come to the site until that post…
Since she’s already gone off to bed, I’m making sure to be the first of us to blog about the great time we had meeting up with Andy and Kristen for dinner tonight! Thanks guys for making a meal with us part of your visit here, and thanks too for the great gifts from England!…
Courtesy of John Robb comes this article about Intel putting in some security measures in their new chips, due next year. John’s response: “Intel to include copy protection functionality in new chips. I personally won’t ever buy a chip with type of stuff on it. Unless there is an alternative, my aggressive upgrade cycle has…
So you’re a teenager and you steal a gun from a family friend and use it to shoot your teacher. His widow sues everyone in a wrongful death suit. The jury finds that the friend who’s gun you stole is 50% liable for the death. The school board is 45% liable for his death, and…
I knew someday that having the one person who works at the company that donates their internet connection to us and understood how it was setup, leave was going to cause problems. Turns out the reason we couldn’t connect to the email server is that they changed the internal IP address of the mail server…
We spent the weekend with Angela’s parents in Findlay. They’ve only recently moved up there, and this was the first time I’ve been up there with my laptop to use their nice wireless connection that my brother-in-law set-up for them. He’s a pro, so it’s secure. Of course, even if he hadn’t left the SSID…