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    I feel a little dirty

    After years, and years of making my living supporting, and working with, Windows PC’s I ordered a Macbook Pro to replace my aging laptop this weekend. There’s no hope for me now, is there? I’m doomed to be a fanboy and have a Steve Jobs crush, aren’t I? 😉 OK seriously, one of the first…

  • Switching to the lesser of two evils

    Or, “How bad is the phone company that we have to switch to Time Warner Digital Phone?” Seriously, we have enough issues with our cable Internet connection dropping out for significant amounts of time, for no apparent reason, that when Time Warner introduced digital phone in our area, I practically laughed out loud at the…

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    ABA Techshow

    I had just started to see some mentions of the American Bar Association’s TechShow 2008 in Chicago in March this week, and on Thursday I found out that I was being sent there myself, which is pretty cool. I didn’t know how cool until I came across a partial listing of bloggers who will be…

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    My laptop may be dying

    I hope not, but my not quite 3 year old HP laptop, with Windows XP on it, is having difficulties. It only boots correctly every other attempt, or sometimes the third attempt. Sometimes in the off attempts, it hangs on the HP boot screen, other times it goes all the way to the login screen,…

  • So it’s 2008

    Wow, it’s 2008 already. Not that the new year coming was a surprise, Christmas was a week ago, so it’s not like we didn’t expect New Year’s to be right around the corner, you know? 🙂 On the other hand, I hardly felt like I ever got a grip on 2007. It was here, stuff…