• Troubleshooting

    With the problems that YACCS has been having, I finally decided that enough was enough and switched Angela’s blog over to a local commenting system, hosted on my domain. Everything worked out fine except, for some reason, she’s not getting the automatic emails that are generated when someone leaves a comment. I have it setup…

  • RSS in My Yahoo!

    If you use My Yahoo! and want to use it as a news aggregator you can just click Add to My Yahoo! and start it up. It’s nowhere near as flexible as other aggregators but it requires no downloading or installation. Maybe it’s a step toward more wide-spread use of RSS? (link via Library Stuff)

  • Consumer Reports

    Related to the last post, I found a copy of the latest issue of Consumer Reports in the office and took a peek at their ratings. They rate a Gateway number 1, Toshiba 2nd, IBM 3rd and a Dell 4th, with the Dell being the “best buy” because it’s 400-600 dollars cheaper than the others….

  • Question for the day

    I was writing up some thoughts for a friend about laptop recommendations last night and a thought occurred to me. Why not have a semi-poll? So here’s the question. All things considered, (price, features, dependability, warranty, etc.) if you had to choose today to buy a laptop, what company would you but it from? Dell,…

  • Bad omen?

    With everything that needs to go on today, should I consider it a bad omen that while I was in a co-worker’s office working on a printer, part of the ceiling fell down? Granted it happend all the way across the office from where either of us were, but it was still odd. We both…

  • Home again

    Yeah we’re home again after spending the long weekend visiting the in-laws. We had a good time, spent some time relaxing, watched some college football, did some shopping and ate a lot! Tomorrow it’s back to work and it should be another day of physical labor. All that stuff we spent time packing and getting…