“All I did was try to download a Solitaire game from the Internet” Anyone who’s ever helped someone clean up a spyware infestation knows exactly what I’m talking about. One “innocent” little game came complete with 8 toolbars, 4 startup executables, 3 advertising generators, multiple registry entries, random processes and, ironically enough, an anti-spam program that…
I was trying to think of the best way to mark the 5 year anniversary of 9/11 today when I realized that my feelings about this particular day, and the need to remember the events of 5 years ago, haven’t changed since I posted about being at Ground Zero back in June. I took a brief moment…
It seems that this attempt at upgrading to Movable Type version 3.32 over at the child abuse site seems to have worked. I posted an entry and a test comment without running into the Pre-Save error I was getting the last time I tried to upgrade. I think uploading the whole package instead of trying…
Download Squad has a post about another tool that might help with cleaning up after a spyware or virus infection. Killbox is a tool that will let you kill anything running on your PC so you can delete the files related to it. I’ve used Unlocker before, which I think works pretty well, but it…
Naturally, a blog focused on nothing but add-ins for Windows Live Writer. I’ll be taking a closer look through some of these plugins very soon. (Hat tip to Mark Harrison) tags: WindowsLiveWriter, Plugins
My wife, ultimate PR person that she is, documented my attempt at feeding the lorikeets with her pictures. (Start here and continue in the photostream.) She, however, neglected to point out the worst part, the part that had complete strangers giving me pitiful looks and words of sympathy: Yeah that is what you think it…