Author: Mike McBride

  • Unveiling

    It’s about time for the great unveiling of the new name of this blog. As you’ll recall I asked for suggestions and promised to give away a PC World subscription to the person who’s suggestion I used. Naturally, it turned out to be a bit more complicated than that. Two people sent in suggestions that…

  • One other experiment

    One other experiment I’ve had in mind recently is tied into something that’s not been working correctly anyway. I just sent this email to the folks who had been getting posts by email: As I’ve mentioned before, something seems to have gone terribly awrywith the topica list in terms of getting emails when I post…

  • Excuse the mess

    Making some changes around here. Adding the backlinks feature from Blogger, changing the archive format to enable post pages, etc. I’m thinking about switching to Blogger comments as well, but haven’t decided yet. Anyone have a suggestion either way? The new name and, hopefully, logo, are in the works. Patience… I’m also going to change…

  • Google to the rescue

    I thought I had broken my MP3 player. Actually, at first I thought there was something wrong with the battery charger. I charged the batteries, put a fresh one in the Muvo and turned it on. It shut right off. I tried another battery, nope. I grabbed a regular AAA instead of the rechargeables, still…

  • Funny holiday story

    So where I work, we allow attorneys to work from home on a pretty regular basis, we’ll even go ahead and set-up their machines for them to use a VPN connection to our network, and Remote Desktop to work directly from their office machine. We also require that they have a firewall installed if they…