Author: Mike McBride

  • Stupid!

    You know, spam is stupid, that’s one thing. It’s quite another to send me 160 copies of the same spam message, and it’s even stupider still when it’s an offer to refinance my mortgage and I don’t own a house! #$%@!&* Morons!

  • Morning coffee

    nf0 asks an interesting question in the forums. “What’s your favorite source for finding Windows Update news?”. Personally I don’t like the Windows Update function at all. I try to stay alert to online media sources, the Langa Letter, Lockergnome or even winguides.com for security updates. Let’s face it, most online sources love to tell…

  • In other news:

    Got everything ready to go for tomorrow, assuming no one comes up with a bizarre request at the last minute. (That never happens, does it? *L*) So, I’m looking at today’s news: As if my road trip craving wasn’t bad enough, Dane is pointing to Taken on the Road, a nice collection of pictures from…

  • Whole lotta work

    I’m looking at a pretty busy day. Tomorrow is our Annual Meeting so after I finish my normal Monday routine of grabbing all the email that came in over the weekend to our generic account, dealing with database change requests, formatting and uploading the database updates to the website database, reviewing and testing the backups,…

  • Whooo Hoo!!!!!!

    Congrats go out the the New York Islanders, who beat the Washington Capitals 5-4 last night to clinch their first playoff berth since 1994, when they were swept out of the first round by that “other” New York team. Bring on the NHL playoffs, there is seriously nothing like them!

  • Saturday ramblings

    Darran Evans was kind enough to take a moment and tell me about a site he works on called Help With PC’s. Looks like a pretty useful site, I added it to the permanent list of PC help resources. It reminded me that there a lot of clean up that needs to go on with…