Steven Vore sent me this link about what Thomas Stromberg found on a computer that was sitting out for the trash after he took it home to see if he could salvage any parts from it. Buying a computer for your bustling property management company in 1998: $500 City of Roswell Garbage Pickup Cost: $22/mo…
Thanks to Andy, and others, for the suggestion of HTTrack, While it didn’t download the whole site cleanly, being able to see what it was doing helped me realize what problem I was running into. It seems that this particular site uses a 404 in place of any page that doesn’t exist, rather than redirecting…
Today was the first time I had tried to use Acrobat’s built-in web capture to capture a copy of an entire website. It didn’t go so well. I’ve heard that on smaller sites, it works really well, giving you a PDF version of all the pages it can spider on the site, but on this…
It’s available right now, I believe the newsletter is still available to non-members on the website, but I’m not sure how long that will remain true as they move past the introductory membership rate. There’s actually some really interesting stuff in there, including a good look at the Texas State Law pertaining to private investigators…
This post on Stop Blocking! about companies signing their people up for online workshops, then those employees having to go home to take the workshops because work blocked access to the multimedia hosting service made me laugh out loud last night. In fact, I read it to my wife. Then it occurred to me that…
I think the fact that we’ve had two people make plans to come to our house for dinner, shortly after we got the Wii sort of gave me the impression, but last night cinched it. It really is more fun to play with other people. For example, when my wife’s here, we will play together…
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