• New and improved

    Movable Type version 3.14, in which SixApart try to lessen the server load caused by comment spam. Autoruns 6.1 Trillian 3.0, which I’ve been using for a couple of days and like, as always. If you’re running three different IM clients, you should think about trying it out. You’ll lose some of the more advanced…

  • Back to the grind

    We had a lovely weekend visiting and celebrating an early Christmas with Angela’s family. It almost even made me forget about all the work projects that I need to finish before the end of the year! It would have probably made me completely forget if I hadn’t spent part of the weekend setting up their…

  • Doppler

    Doppler 2.0 RC1 is out. I downloaded it this morning and checked for the bug that I had to work around in 1.1.1 involving using space savers by date, and sure enough it’s fixed. And that’s not even the best part about it. It also supports multi-threaded downloads, resume downloads, and comes with a light…

  • IT and the free lunch

    I know I promised you all over the weekend that I’d have more to say about some of the topics that came up in the Tech Chat over the weekend, but, obviously, this week has not gone as planned. So, here’s my attempt at making amends. First off, let me point out something about myself….

  • More good news

    Loaded up bloglines this morning to discover that my cable internet speed will be increasing come January, (Thanks to both Geek News Central and Chad for pointing to that.)and Movable Type has officially recognized the server load issue associated with comment spam and is working on correcting it. My replacement has been ordered and will…

  • Happy Ending

    After further review with that PC this afternoon, there is obviously a very serious problem, maybe even a hardware issue with the network card. The system restore actually made the intermittent problems it was haivng with print jobs and emails much more acute. You can download things from the internet, the work network, etc. just…